Mass Effect

https://kotaku.com/playstation-plus-mass-effect-legendary-biomutant-leaks-1847556405

You're welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC2ib_efdRs

https://kotaku.com/mass-effect-teaser-n7-day-andromeda-1850999958

Gonna have to play the original trilogy (for the first time) this winter.

Looking forward to you finding out that the people fueling the ME3 ending controversy were screaming babies.

I played ME3 not having played any previous entries so my response to the ending was entirely "???".

I thought the whole deal with the series is that each one builds on the previous, and your decisions matter? Funny you started with ME3.

Don't know anything about a controversial ME3 ending, except that people don't like "Andromeda."

The non spoiler summary of the controversy is that you get presented with the same set of choices at the end no matter what character and story routes you took in all the preceding gameplay, and supposedly contradicted the "choices matter" ethos of the series. As someone who doesn't believe in free will, I didn't much mind.

An illusion of choice is an apt summation of countless video games. It's an aspect of their novelty, that they can produce compelling gameplay even when the typical conclusion (survival! victory!) is preordained.