Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

As soon as I saw that this video was two hours I said nope.

None of this was any importance to begin with.

He kept the two hours.That's a win in my book.

It was true for Anthem, wasn't it? Like, it shipped and nobody had played the finished game.

I watched about 2 minutes of the video and that enough for me.

There are valid criticism of Mass Effect 3 and the Trilogy for that matter. Because they're are a lot of inconsistencies of storytelling, and a lot of plotholes that doesn't add up to anything. That's why the Trilogy needs a remake to fix those problems and the ending.

Or for them to improve their writing.

Then how are they going to move Mass Effect series forward if the writing is inconsistent and flawed to begin with?

I think that's very fair. Inconsistent writing, logical fallacies, plotholes etc. that all lead to wildly different outcomes, from what would be logically expected should not be commended, nor tolerated. It breaks immersion, suspension of disbelief and, most importantly, the setting itself. The crucible itself, as it is portrayed in the final discussions with the Starkid, is lore breaking. Especially with its ability to create synthesis between organics and synthetics.

If Starkid is such a supreme intelligence, why couldn't it think of the Crucible itself? Since the Crucible can create Synthesis, there is no reason to perform the culling of the cycle. If it isn't as smart, then it undermines the "beyond your comprehension" line, or outright contradicts it, since a mere organic could come up with a better, bloodless solution, to the cycle. If the Starkid doesn't care about Synthesis, hence why it never bothered developing it, then it is malevolent and should be destroyed, rendering the very choice of anything other than Destroy pointless. But if it is malevolent, then it has no reason to be truthful to you, about the operation of the Crucible. Meaning that it can't be trusted if it speaks to you, but it has even less reason to speak to you at all. Considering how the Reapers are winning the battle outside, neither does it have any incentive to talk to you, unless to fuck you over. The Starkid, under mere superficial examination, makes no sense as a being and even less so as an intelligence. It is contradictory to its own existence, as portrayed.

If this were a movie or, worse, a book, it would have been picked apart so bad, the writer involved would have spent the rest of their life flipping burgers for Wendy's. For example, Bioware's last book, before ME3, Deception, was recalled and would be re-released with corrections, because it was so inconsistent, with so many jarring fallacies. Why would ME3 get a pass, because it's a video game? Because it's expensive? Furthermore, in spite of Bioware promising the book would be rewritten, with corrections, it has yet to be released in a correct form. Bioware are still not being held accountable.

I'm not saying this to be mean. I'm simply saying they'd be kicked out of the industry they wanted to get into, writing books and with no other specialized skills, they'd be relegated to manual labour. Nothing wrong with it. I've done it. I've worked fields, shoveled shit, joined the military, you name it. I know how hard work it is and I did it from straight out of school, to my mid-late twenties. It's far harder than writing a book and it pays less. Ideally, as a writer, you don't want flipping burgers at Wendy's to be a career choice for life. Things could have gone far better, if you simply hadn't fucked up.