Casey Hudson returns to BioWare

Not worried about the performance...but can they stick the landing?  Dismounting from the rings and landing on your face WILL make people forget whatever amazing skills you showed off on the rings...

A team of writers dreamed up the ME3 ending.

Casey was responsible for ME1 through ME3, and they didn't spend all that time going around in circles trying out different things. They had a set plan and they didn't completely scrap everything like MEA team did once or twice.

The original plan was scrapped but the only two writers bit is unconfirmed rumors, based in an old post by an account that may have been Patrick Weekes.

Emphasis on may.

Well i didn't go through the 1st 15 pages of this, so i will say even tho Casey was responsible for the ME3 endings ( yeah they could have been better, but i wasn't calling for this guy's head) I felt that ME3 from start to finish was an intense journey filled with dread/desperation and hopelessness....That game was a better overall experience than the lackluster story Andromeda tried to tell.

Early in my Andromeda experience i actually fell asleep while playing it. That's how boring parts of it was. If he can bring back some of that magic from the trilogy, Andromeda 2 will be a game that i will look forward to....and the story doesn't have to be another galaxy wide/universal threat....you can make interesting stories and characters without it having to be so drastic or on such a wide scope.


I could play ME3 ten times over compared to Andromeda with those endings everybody complained about....hopefully the next game will be more linear and contained in terms of fetch quests (get rid of those) and tell a more cohesive story.

Casey is a Bioware veteran. He has been with the team since Baldurs Gate 2 and all the way through the Mass Effect trilogy, whatever your feelings are on the ending of Mass Effect, it is good to have him back in a leadership position. Sad news however is that Aaryn is stepping down. Can't have been easy to fill the shoes of the doctors, and under EA leadership aswell, it must have been tough. We'll see what the future holds.

Well mixed opinion on this. Hudson did create KoTOR and Mass Effect, both of which I loved. However he also burnt Mass Effect to the ground, so less enthused on that. I also find it somewhat amusing the two parties responsible for the debacle at the end have been promoted.

If he makes KoTOR 3 however I may forgive him.


Regarding the "rumors" about Hudson and Walters writing the ending, the account the posts were made with was an account on the Penny Arcade forums that had previously been confirmed to be Patrick Weekes. They also weren't entirely disparaging, noting that Hudson was very smart, just maybe a bit too intellectual.

There is also an awful lot of weirdness surrounding the issue, from the poster stating he thought it would get political, to then deleting their account entirely. Chris Priestly stating on BSN-Prime that it was false, and then subsequently deleting his own posts. Chris Priestly by the by even said months down the road when he was promoted that part of his old job as community manager had been to lie to fans.

That combined with the "Speculation from Everyone" leads me to believe that they had no idea what they were doing, or that they believed their own hype enough that they thought they were making the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, the founders of Bioware. They were medical doctors who gave it up in favor of video games, then gave up Bioware in favor of craft brewing.

www.polygon.com/2013/1/28/3924078/bioware-greg-zeschuk-beer-diaries

BTW, "Mass Effect" is a medical term that describes when you see the displacement of organs due to the presence of a mass on a radiograph but can't quite make out the margins of the mass itself. It also refers to the secondary effects of a mass displacing/compressing organs from which one can infer the presence of a mass.

Thanks, Akraba and Shinobu. I've loved Bioware since KOTOR, but only really started paying attention to forums, development, and other gaming "news" since about 1 year after ME3.

They retired shortly after ME3 came out (the backlash to the ending may have affected their decision somewhat), so you probably wouldn't have heard of them.

Roll the dice. See what happens.

🤢 You did not just.... *throws up even more.*