Comments on: Mass Effect 3 Backlash: Are We Happy Now?

By: Greg Morrow

Greg Morrow — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:35:00 +0000

The fact that they Tried to foist some incoherent mess of an ending on us in the last 20 minutes of a game series I spent some more then 200 dollars (1 regular edition, 2 special editions and almost all of the ME2 DLC) and hundreads of hours on was downright insulting.

And if the doctors quit over this, then I’m fine with it. They’ve made countless excellent, award winning games and if they to quit because of backlash over the single most important thing in an RPG (writing) then that tells me that they don’t belong in the buisness.

By: Adamantius

Adamantius — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:23:00 +0000

I still have not gotten around to playing ME3, and am hesitant to do so due to the massive amounts of negative feedback regarding the ending of the game trilogy. After playing ME and ME2 however I had a lot of expectations for ME3, as I am sure many other players of these games did. From what I have heard about the ending to the trilogy it leaves a lot to be desired and is very disappointing, a trend that seems to come more and more often with games, books, and movies alike. To sit by and just silently accept such things is what keeps developers and writers and movie companies making the same mistakes.

To suggest we should be thankful for and support a crappy ending is just ridiculous. If you buy a burger from a place like BK or Mc Ds, and it tastes like crap do you just accept it and continue to buy their food? No, you complain and or stop eating there and go elsewhere. The same sort of principle applies to video games. Elsewhere I read an article suggesting that we as consumers/fans should not demand a better ending because it is the developer’s story. While this might be true of a book or even a movie, the same does not apply to a video game, certainly not one like the ME series which gave you so many options to shape the storyline.

The funny thing is, had people known the game was going to be crap before it came out the sales would have suffered greatly and these same two people that quit over the negative fan feedback would have been more than likely fired for putting out a game that did not sell. In an industry like the video game one you have to deliver what the fans want to be competitive ME3 clearly did not do this for the majority of fans and thus the negative feedback.

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:52:00 +0000

Good story telling : people happy.

Bad story telling : people unhappy.

This is a little basic, but that’s what it all comes down to. And from my perspective, it wasn’t only the ending that was bad story telling.

Bioware can create what they want. They have the right. But we don’t have to like it. This is our right.

By: James Lee Carmichael

James Lee Carmichael — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:57:00 +0000

In all fairness other peoples opinions on this matter don’t even concern me. I know how I felt when i completed the game.I felt cheated out of my money, I felt lied to out of the fact that my choices didn’t matter and I felt confused at how they were happy releasing a game like that in its condition. I hate it when other people tell me how I should feel about this. I have every right as a consumer to be angry at this.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:42:00 +0000

they quit because EA told them to make me4 into 5 seperate parts, sell the first as main game and the other 4 as dlcs for 60dollars each

By: JustKnowz

JustKnowz — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:08:00 +0000

As far as I am concerned… good riddance to them both… fire Casey Hudson while you’re at it.

Dispicable… locking yourself up in a saferoom excluding the other writers for the end… dumb. Lets see who’s gonna pre order the next ME game… NOT ME!!! Im not even buying the DLC… they better make a new ending for ME3… FREE OF CHARGE… the extended cut–> GARBAGE

By: AceVentura

AceVentura — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:03:00 +0000

The geekiness on this thread is pretty funny. But, you all probably need to get some exercise. Did anybody beat it with an over 5000 galactic readiness rating? Did anyone think of the whole process of indoctrination happening to Shepard throughout ME3? If you wanted a fairytale ending go watch a Disney film. There are plenty of good ones available. Maybe, Bioware should’ve given you a couple of dead ends and cheap endings like in those Choose Your Own Adventure books. Wait, go pick one up! That’s what you’ve been looking for. Lastly, all you whiny nerds remind of Kathy Bates in Misery.

By: Josh H

Josh H — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:10:00 +0000

BS!

It’s not our fault. It’s not their faults. It’s EA and to an extent, Hudson’s.

Ray and Greg put so much into their company and I think they, just like the fans, know how big and corporatized their game company has gotten under EA’s ownership. That’s why they left. NOT because the fans hurt their feelings.

A failed Mass Effect 3 and a dependency on Mass Effect (hence, the announcement of a new one) as a money making franchise is example of EA’s hand into this. BioWare is developing in the way EA wants them to develop.

It’s ironic, because this semblance/dependency towards the rEApers is what the Mass Effect games argue against in the first place. Everything Mass Effect stands for is negated not only by the ending but also through the business practices of EA.

THAT is why Ray and Greg left.

By: josh

josh — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:46:00 +0000

to whoever wrote this, i couldn’t finish reading it. a rag-tag list of accomplishments, and a statement that we should eat the shit served to us because other meals were good. but i guess everyone is entitled to their opinions, even if they are objectively wrong.

By: anonymon

anonymon — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 04:59:00 +0000

Bioware lied publicly about the endings, we were told our decisions would dictate the endings, we were told that the endings wouldn’t be A B, or C, but in the end that is what we got, if this were a toaster or a TV or a family portrait that didn’t have everything promised we would be entitled to an exchange or refund, but because its a game people call us whiners and say bioware has artistic integrity, well they lied to me, so where is the integrity in that?