User blog comment:The Milkman/Madness and Genius/@comment-2076032-20121209105806/@comment-2076032-20121209190030

I didn't say your perspective was wrong, I said a more complete perspective requires a more complete experience. I didn't start an argument with you, I've been trying to explain my point. There is a difference between a "unique perspective" and a "complete perspective", however, and it's not really my problem if you don't get it, but I have been as clear and concise as I can, with you dismissing my analogies as "bad" simply because they disagree with you, but you still haven't made a specific case as to why it was a bad analogy.

I'm not going to start debating semantics of the storyline, either. But having a basic knowledge of the background behind each conflict means how it is resolved will have a much stronger meaning. People who are just coming into Mass Effect 3 as their first game of the ME experience may not initially care if the geth or the quarians get wiped out, but those who have played from the beginning will.

And then the ending comes, and you seem to think that how the conflict between the quarians and the geth played out has no impact on your final decision? What about all the work you went through to unite them, only to find out that by destroying the Reapers, you are destroying the Geth as well? In fact, ALL those missions have a direct impact on the ending by having a direct impact on how the player decides what ending to choose. I could, right now, go and find dozens of fora on which players have expressed their sentiments on their initial ending choice based on things that had happened through the game that influenced their choice. Many different players chose different endings BASED ON THE EVENTS OF A GAME THAT THEY WERE ALL PLAYING.

If you can't see how the events of the game might influence the player's final choice, then it is your failure alone and just because you can't see how it ties together does not mean that it doesn't tie together.

I am through with this discussion, though. Clearly you have made up your mind about what you think perspective means. When you understand why that is only your limited perspective, you will understand why you can yet broaden it.