Casey Hudson returns to BioWare

Haha!! You found it. Fantastic. lmao.

Tweet it. Somebody tweet it to Casey and them..whoever them is.

Wouldn't have to be that convoluted. Treat the Reaper demise more like how a real-life military force is dismantled before a single battle is fought: wear them down. We know that the Reapers hibernate in dark space in order to conserve energy, and that their mechanisms for jumping to the Milky Way (far more energy-efficient than traditional FTL) are destroyed in ME1 and ME2.

ME1: Shepard & Friends eliminate Sovereign, vanguard of the Reapers, and stop the Citadel Relay from being activated. The Reapers lose their primary mechanism for reaching the Milky Way, and are forced to exhaust some energy and use the less attractive method of entering via the Alpha Relay.

ME2: The Collectors are defeated before they can inflict serious harm, and the Citadel races gain valuable insight from Collector and Reaper technology. The destruction of the Alpha Relay means that Reaper Plan B is a failure - now the Reapers must use their energy reserves to cross dark space without the aid of a relay jump.


Then in ME3, change the narrative to something along these lines: 


Shepard & Friends uncover the truth about the Reapers: the Reapers are on the verge of dying; the previous setbacks have exhausted their energy reserves. Although their invasion of Khar'shan was a success, it does not provide them with enough ground forces and energy reserves to instantly make up for the massive amounts of energy expended to get to Batarian space. The Reapers are launching a multi-pronged attack and an all-in invasion of Earth in a desperate effort to crush resistance so that they can regain their strength. If their initial offensive is delayed for too long, many of the lesser Reaper vessels will simply expire, leaving the capital ships in an extremely vulnerable state.

The Reapers, already seriously weakened by the travel to the galaxy, find their ships and forces ill-equipped to deal with a properly organized galactic resistance and many of the lesser vessels are destroyed outright. Now with no other option, the Reapers move the Citadel to Earth to consolidate around what little they have left. With Reaper capital ships in a tight formation around a relatively small area, they intend to draw the allies into a trap by holding Earth hostage.

The allies know that an assault against a staunch Reaper defense will be costly, but is the only way to save Earth's populace.


Then that takes us to the endgame, which is of course a different matter altogether.

I don't expect you to "make my arguments for me".  Thank you though.

As far as conflating, my opinion is different than yours.  If you think I am, fine.  I do not.

And as for the bottom line, apply the same.  I think it does, if you don't, that's fine too.  

Think what you will, I don't care, nor am I try to persuade you.

Then what the hell was the point behind your original post in the first place?

A great many people took (and continue to take) issue with a great many things to do with that awful ending and were/are absolutely justified in doing so.

Drew is not a sole creator of ME universe.

Casey Hudson, Mac Walters and Drew Karpyshyn are the trio that created Mass Effect universe.

Good to see another person who don't buy that crap about Drew.

People created mythology around Drew being one of the greatest video game writers, which was caused by him leaving ME2 and any shortcoming of that game were explained by Drew's departure.

Yet people forget ME novels he wrote were pretty mediocre, as well there was lack of respect of ME lore between games and books. As well when he returned to BioWare to write for SW:TOR, people really didn't like his work despite initial hype.

Reality is, Drew is an alright writer that had a great ideas about Mass Effect. But those ideas wouldn't happen without Casey Hudson, person who actually pitched the idea originally, and Mac Walters.

Didn't he write Revan?

Don't remind me.

It's an interesting and informative video.

I'm only in doubt to how much Flynn in actually responsible when it comes to Mass Effect. I don't know if his name even appear on the credits. He certainly wasn't an important figure in its development. In Andromeda in comparison he is the first name. 

Flynn was GM and he was the overseer of all BioWare products. While Flynn took all the heat after Andromeda's release, I don't think he had direct intervention until Edmonton stepped in (my speculation) to get it back on track. Walters also took over development per the Kotaku article after it was just under two years out from Q4 2016. There's a narrative that EA still had five months beyond March or Q1 2017. That extension was exhausted and no evidence except a horribly, vague quote that alludes to another narrative. Either way, I'm glad Hudson is back and he knows (like the entire world) that he has baggage. Flynn, I really hope, gets time away and finds his happy source again and that he is back with BioWare instead of pumping his talents to another studio.