Mass Effect 3

[Blue Monkey]

from what I've pieced together during the last weeks it seemed it was planned to give the game a proper ending but at some point a few key figures in the staff had their way with it and apparently even parts which were in development never made it into the final game.
Looks like a rush job to me - EA probably didn't give them the necessary time and budget to polish the game and implement a proper finale, thus the choose your favorite color ending, plot holes and a game below many people's expectations.

Edit:

BTW I hope they fire the guy who came up with that briliant idea.

Yeah, makes sense to me. And I agree, the douchemaster who came up with that idea should never be allowed to work on the videogame industry ever again.

[muck]

You know what's extremely funny? A few reviewers, both gamers and critics, take more offence at Gayshep than at the ending.

[Sousuke]

http://www.gamesthirst.com/2012/03/2...-casey-hudson/

I think I posted this text before, but this pretty much confirms it. The lead writer took it up to himself to make "the perfect" ending.

Good job.

[muck]

Doesn't that say it all pretty well? When even the writers' crew tried to revolt against the ending?

[Blue Monkey]

You kinda know that **** in Bioware is really bad when their writers start to speak out on their own.



Watch the last 10 minutes.

[Redox]

You kinda know that **** in Bioware is really bad when their writers start to speak out on their own.



Watch the last 10 minutes.

Who is this guy? A writer for Bioware? cant imagine that.

Also, suddenly ME2 is the greatest game and a piece of art? I thought it was this over commercialized, watered down pos without a story.

[Mikhael]

Maybe finally people will see through this **** which are big review sites.

Who is this guy? A writer for Bioware? cant imagine that.

Nope this is some random guy but a Bioware writer posted on penny arcade forums that the cluster-**** of an ending was Casey Hudson doing.

[kalerab]

That BioWare writer post on reddit was hoax.

[Mikhael]

That BioWare writer post on reddit was hoax.

Jesus man ... Im talking about Penny Arcade post made by a bioware writer which is not a hoax.

[kalerab]

Could you link me that post?

[Mikhael]

Could you link me that post?

Cant because it was deleted by penny because the author Takyris (which people knew for years that he was a writer for Bio ) had second thoughts and was scared ****less he will loose his job.

Look up Sousuke link on this page.

[Kvakva]

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[Xaito]

Also, suddenly ME2 is the greatest game and a piece of art? I thought it was this over commercialized, watered down pos without a story.

For me ME2 was one of the best games I've ever played.
Interesting plot twist with Shep getting killed and come back from death and build up a strike force with the help of the bad guys (Cerberus)
Locations had good atmosphere, dialogues were fun and the diverse crew was pretty much a nod to the successful Dragon Age Origins game which also had a crew of different characters.
Apart from the scanning planets thing it also streamlined the whole gaming experience. By removing the driving missions and copy & paste bases on lifeless planets with boring side missions which play exactly the same every time, they've made space for side missions which you get from actual NPC, not only through your mail system.

[JCR]

For me ME2 was one of the best games I've ever played.
Interesting plot twist with Shep getting killed and come back from death and build up a strike force with the help of the bad guys (Cerberus)
Locations had good atmosphere, dialogues were fun and the diverse crew was pretty much a nod to the successful Dragon Age Origins game which also had a crew of different characters.
Apart from the scanning planets thing it also streamlined the whole gaming experience. By removing the driving missions and copy & paste bases on lifeless planets with boring side missions which play exactly the same every time, they've made space for side missions which you get from actual NPC, not only through your mail system.

I liked the driving missions.
Also the side quests were boring as they always revolved around Daddy issues.

For a Space Opera setting, Mass Effect originally was quite bland and closer to real SciFi than to star wars/trek.
ME2 changed that to a more comic style colourful style comparable to Star Wars, with some japanese/manga elements added.
Stylistically ME3 is closer to Part 1 but from gameplay closer to 2.

As far as I'm concerned, Manga elements should stay in Manga.
Thane was a classic japanese style character.
Not to mention Katana(!) wielding baddies with long flowing black hair in ME3.

I always assumed the creators of ME1 were fans of "hard" SciFi and wanted to create a space opera universe with half believable physics and technology.
For example the small detail that the Normandy is blueshifted from the front and redshifted from the rear in FTL.
ME2 threw that concept out of the window and filled the blanks with what their potential target audience understood:
****s, Ninjas and Daddy Issues.

[kalerab]

Cant because it was deleted by penny because the author Takyris (which people knew for years that he was a writer for Bio ) had second thoughts and was scared ****less he will loose his job.

Look up Sousuke link on this page.

That is the same post that was on reddit and Chris Presley on BSN said that he asked Patrick Weekes wether he wrote it and he said no. So I dunno if it´s legit or not.