Why Mass Effect Andromeda is Well written.

It didn't, it was a double down on a twisted notion of "doing something different" and they weren't happy at the numbers of folk that hated their idea. How the refuse ending plays out shows it was a big "f you" towards that audience.

My own analysis:

MEA would probably have been a better game if it didn't have "Mass Effect" in the title. It's ostensibly a sequel, but jettisons so much of that old setting in the name of "artistic integrity"

The characters are also, sadly, pretty one-dimensional for a Bioware game. A pity since the backstories for the characters hold such promise, but they all seem to fixate on just one thing in their lives: Cora with the asari commandos she worked with, Peebee and her "Remtech", etc. Their fixations were, frankly, unnatural.

Story itself is...eh. Not bad. Could have been a lot better. Could have been much MUCH worse, as ME3 showed us. But I still hold that SAM was the "real" protagonist for MEA. Ryder was just the taxi service.

I sugest you stop taking things so personaly. Refuse was just a fancy game over sequence, or did you trully expect the citadel fleets to actually defeat the Reapers?

EC fixed the huge lore break that it was the Relays exploding (as we saw in Arrival DLC) and also provided information on the state of the galaxy and the characters involved in the fight and the Normandy's fate. You may not like it how they changed the endings but don't lie saying nothing was fixed.

And how is unilaterally stating "EC really did fix the endings" accepting different opinions?

I'm referring to you laughing at his opinion. He stated his you laughed.

i said: the ec really did fix the endings

I did not say: the ec really fixed the endings and if you disagree you're an idiot.

sure but you posted that laughing gif which has traditionally been used to Belittle the opinions of others.

An objective truth was given as retort to a subjective opinion attempting to pass as fact. Where does "personally" come into it?

I said nothing of the fleets or how to defeat anything, I commented on the writing and it's underlying meaning towards the audience. Hudson and Mac were pissed so many rejected their acid trip inspired ending. They purposely put in more dialogue for the build-up to emphasise the crucible was the only possible means to victory, I.E. "you follow our original ending path, or take the highway." Those that didn't want to play ball, got the f you ending with the added insult of the next gens "winning" by using the crucible and hologram kid. If thousands of your fans go out their way to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for a kids charity as a way to tell you that you designed a bad ending, then you made a bad ending. If your office receive hundreds of colour coded cupcakes to make the point all your endings are the same and rubbish, then you made a bad ending. Bethesda rightly get flak for their low bug testing quality, but at least they saw the light when they got the responses in to the Fallout 3 ending. (Much smaller outcry compared to the one ME3 generated.) They swallowed their pride and made a big change to keep folk happy.



Pity it didn't fix the actual huge lore break, as in virtually all the entire ending sequence. If you really think it works, watching Smudboy's Youtube video on the EC puts it over in a video better than I possibly can on here so I direct you over to that. Put it this way, if it was that good and brilliant, we wouldn't had to literally flee an entire galaxy, and go to Andromeda for the next set of Mass Effect stories. Good writing and good stories find a reasonable and creative to get around these issues. Plenty of games with multiple endings had direct squeals carrying on with things. Mass Effect didn't need to move so far away, but I guess it's a reflection of the modern day Bioware. Creative risk taking sadly now comes 2nd to trying to turn over some safe numbers in the profit column of the spreadsheet. If you can't believe that, then ask yourself why they released Andromeda the state it was in for latch March. That's right, to make it on time for the end of the financial year!

that is also something i did not do.

Yes, you did!  The post is literally one page back so you can check

"EC really did fix the endings"



*sigh*  I'm out.  I don't feel like bashing my head against this particular wall right now.

You actually do that all the time - with me, my posts are clearly my opinions, I don't pretend to play them off as facts for everyone because that would be ridiculous.

You have a way of writing your posts where you present your ideas as 100% factual truth - that's largely why people have a tendency to call you out in particular.

the extended cut left some questions unanswered