Mass Effect writer Mac Walters leaves BioWare after nearly two decades

I wish him well, he put up with alot of crap over the years.

Is this the writer who wrote most of ME3? If so ME3 is my favorite game in this series and yet another old BioWare vet leaves the company.

*dances in joy*

With him gone, I would be curious if someone were to ask him what he meant by the ending could have been better what his answer would be. He said that in an interview in late spring/early summer of 2016.

Can you find the source? I can ask him but I need a link to refresh his memory. 

No. I have kicked myself many times for not keeping the link when I saw the interview. All I can say is the question was asked around the time I mentioned in my post.  

And it was that sort of disregard for lore and internal logic that was likely one the the driving factors behind L'Etoille leaving.

Mac Walters might have excelled at little character moments but placing that mentality of 'rule of cool' above all else drove out the few remaining science fiction writers that were left on the team.

Perfect example is how Legion, and the Geth, are depicted in ME 2 with Chris L'Etoille's writing behind them compared to how Mac Walters wrote them in ME 3.

In the span of one game they go from a collective swarm intelligence, one looking to build their own future outside Reaper influence, and an intelligent synthetic race in their own right. To Pinocchio bots gladly stuffing themselves full of Reaper code because they weren't "really alive" before they became exactly like everyone else.

If the departure of Walters means less of the later and more of the former I'm all for it.

I can't decide which version I prefer. On the one hand I remember that sense of elation at seeing Legion for the first time, wearing N7 armor, my mind immediately speculating on why an AI would do that. On the other hand, I like how Chris L'Etoille had spent a lot of time and effort on analysing the various forms of AI and decided that they must be different based on how they came to be, and I can recognise now the trope of the real boy and it's nice that he tried to downplay it as much as he could.