“Knowing that there seems to be like NO canon Mass Effect stuff to the...”
That's kind of the point of the games because there's so many choices you can make that affect the game's outcome. It doesn't invalidate anyone's playthrough by making things canon.
but Star Wars KOTOR, KOTOR 2 have canon stories while allowing you still to do what you want WHILE admitting to having a canon story that players CAN do if they wished. You just gotta go and look it up.
Fallout 1, 2, 3 have canon endings, as well as allowing you to do whatever the fuck you want without invalidating anyone’s play through, but there is still a “hey if you wanted to do a canon story- here is what it is.”
RPG games can have a CANON story and not invalidate playing a different story, like the two are not mutually exclusive, just tell me what the fucking canon is because I want to play games to play and play the CANON story, I want to see the creators image for the story, I wanna see if it holds up the way THEY thought of it going, not how I picked it to go
THAT ACTUALLY BUGS ME when I dunno what the creators WANTED the story to be in terms of what choices to make. I start being plagued with tons of second guessing and doubt and when playing video games I play to ESCAPE that kinda shit.
when I find out there is no canonical story in an RPG story I play...it drives me up a wall because EVERY choice I made/make suddenly feels shallow, like “...is that what the creators WANTED me to decide? Is this the actual choice this CHARACTER would pick.” even down to character design, I prefer making the character that was SUPPOSED To be if it was’t a “create character” because cool I can play as me, but if I know there is a “hey this is what they MEANT to look like” I’ll take that option.
like knowing that ME has no canon makes me REALLY never wanna play them. which blows because I’m told they’re a great story...but in my mind I hear “...there is no STORY it’s great because its one you made, there for it’s great because you enjoyed it.” cool that’s great for you but I wouldn’t enjoy that, it’d be boring and predictable-
I’d do the right thing, save the day and be snarky/sarcastic....wooo that’s soooo deep, original and creative...oh wait thats’ my day to day life (minus saving the day)
