A plea to Casey Hudson.

Never said it was going to happen, I said that's who I would want back.

It was like any other night...It was almost midnight and the end of one terrible day and the beginning of yet another. It'd been like this as far back as he could remember...

How long had it been now? Three years? Five? It all seemed to just blur into one long stream of booze, multi-colored cupcakes, and internet comments bemoaning what should have been his greatest moment.

Instead it had been his undoing. So many years of sweat, blood, and tears poured into crafting the ultimate fantasy roleplaying experience...all the script drafts, PR bullshit Q&As, the 3am crisis meeting the day before going gold trying to decide what face to use for Tali before Eric the intern found that damned stock photo...all of that in hopes that one day his genius would be recognized...so that one day he would hear those sweet precious five little words...

"It's better than The Witcher"

But no...in a single decision it all came crumbling down.

Why did he do it? Was it hubris? Had he been watching too much Battle Star Galactica or playing too much Deus Ex?

He would try to piece it all together but the speculation became too much.

He would try to call Super Mac, but he wouldn't ever return his calls.

He'd become a piraha... a persona non grata.

He shambled his way through the dark hallway of his flat towards his computer.

He was going to do it again. Like returning to the scene of the crime he clicked his top bookmark "Unofficial BSN"

Why did he keep doing this to himself, he never understood. He knew the heavy risk and knew there would be no priiize.

It would be the same night...like every night befo...

Wait, something was different.

He rubbed his sore eyes, they must have been betraying them. He focused as hard as he could and waited for the room to stop spinning. This...this had to be some joke or troll thread.

"A Plea to Casey Hudson"

His heart began beating faster, dare he click? Dare he hope perchance to dream once more? He nervously hovered his finger over the mouse unable to move forward...Finally the weight of holding his finger became too much and he fell upon his mouse with great strength.

In an instant the thread came to life...and so did he...

"Come back" they said...they praised his genius...they saw that he WAS Mass Effect...Without him it was comparatively a Cleveland Steamer...or as they say in Canada a Toronto Boiler.

But...oh no! The desperation...they cried out in horror for his return and had convinced themselves this was their last shot. Oh if they only knew how long he had waited for his children to call to him, to summon him once more to glory. He knew what he had to do...

He stood up and walked to the kitchen sink with determination, the kind he hadn't felt in oh so long...he unscrewed the cap to bottle of Jack he had been nursing all day and began to pour into the sink. He wouldn't let it control him, or destroy him...he refused.

In that moment he looked up to see his own reflection in the kitchen window...where once there was a hollow broken shell of a man, there now stood game developer.

He inhaled deeply and nodded as he slowly let out the first new breath only a man reborn could feel.

"Don't worry," he whispered softly "I'm coming goishen"

I guess the lesson from this thread is you can go from being a hero to a villain...and then the people will beg you to return.

And as long as you are talking about pointless wish fulfilment give us Weekes back

I wouldn't really have a problem with this, while I didn't like the ME3 endings I didn't hate them either. Just found them underwhelming, although as others have mentioned it would be better if they brought Drew back.

I dunno. But I would like to be the FBI's bug on Aaryn Flynn's line when Casey Hudson calls and bitches him out. If it hasn't already happened,

EDIT :  I mean, most likely, there have been no phone calls between the two individuals.  But I like to think that there have been.

To be fair, people talk about a lot of terrible things years after they happen, even in literature/writing.  Twilight, 50 Shades of Gray, etc.  That's doesn't mean those are examples of good writing just because they were so bad that people still are talking about them years later.

Your Alien movie example is a little stretched as well.  They keep making Fast and Furious movies, and those are assuredly not examples of good writing.  Just good money producers.  

Now, I don't agree that then endings were bad anyway.  I only played after the EC was added, but I rather liked all the choices.  I didn't see what all the hate was about, and wouldn't really have cared if they had chosen a canon ending to continue the story with ME4, or even an alternative ending (like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided).  

At any rate, I don't see a problem with Andromeda.  I loved Casey's vision for KOTOR and the OT, and I enjoy Andromeda.  I understand what they are trying to do with this game by giving less world-shaping decisions.  Those decisions that could alter the state of the in-game universe (killing/saving Rachni queen, who survives the suicide mission, etc) made it so that to make the third game cohesive they had to either put random stand-in characters in or would have needed another several years and millions of dollars to create what would probably amount to being about 3-4 different games worth of story.  So here they are taking a much more toned down approach.  They also have less of a threat in the Kett.  I mean, what's going to beat the Reapers in terms of scope of threat?  And the point was to have a smaller scope of threat so the PC could feel more "allowed" to explore the new "open" world and not feel so pressured by their mission of saving the galaxy.  So there is less of an epic battle against a larger-than-life foe, and more of the story of the beginnings of a hero.

There is also the scope of the world in MEA, which means the story must be watered down a bit.  I don't disagree that it would be nice for the story to be tighter, like in the OT, and be of more consequence, but I think the story they have written for MEA is a very good one and kept me wanting to figure more and more out about the Kett, the Remnant, and the Benefactor.  

All in all, if Casey decided to come back I would be pretty happy.  But he probably will not, and that fact doesn't upset me.  I think they have a solid foundation for some epic stories to explore.  

Again?
AGAIN?
Why just another ME3 Ranting thread?
ME3 IS DONE.
GET OVER IT.


If you can't:
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BTW:
At last notice...

No, what I'm saying is that LiS is a character driven story.  ME:A, for all its faults, it's an unknown story.  It doesn't know what it wants to be.  Sometimes it follows SAM, sometimes it follows Ryder, (although, more often SAM), sometimes you can't tell who in the hell it's following.


EDIT :   Add to this the 12 yo (written by, not for) fan fiction.  It's just dense.   I don't mean that in a complimentary sense.