A plea to Casey Hudson.

That's why you shoot him in the end with the pistol.

No, thanks. Casey Hudson can stay retired with those atrocious ME3 endings on his own.

Look, I get it, you think the game is a shit smear in the toilet infested with fly larva. You won't stop ranting about how terrible it is in every thread you can, using every hyperbolic phrase you can think of to describe it's awfulness . But Casey Hudson? don't make me laugh, I never want to see him associated with this franchise ever again. The fact you think blatantly lying to people about your product is acceptable frankly disgusts me. Also, real classy taking a shot at Weekes, who was objectively one of this franchises better writers, simply because you think he is a moron because he has different opinions about things than you.You frankly seem like a sad, pathetic hateful individual who demands everything be bent to your individual views and tastes, I'm sorry but that's not how the world works.You won't put up a poll because you know you won't like the result because it won't be an echo chamber of the opinion you hold so dearly, so instead you'll pretend anyone who remotely likes the game is a mindless simpleton with no higher brain function while you hold yourself up in the clouds with you're clearly "superior" intellect and you're belief in your own righteous indignation. Of course, you'll accuse me of being a "BioDrone" because I'm not just sitting around shitting all over a product 24 hours a day that you yourself could not possibly make any better, regardless of you're possible belief to the contrary.

You realize the disastrous ending to ME3 was written by Casey Hudson, yes? In fact, a fair portion of the more contentious story arcs were also handled and/or approved by him. While the original trilogy pulled off some amazing feats, let's not pretend it or its creator were perfect.

Speaking for myself it wasn't just the last 20 mins of the game.  ME3 started to take a nose dive right after the Tuchanka story which had more to do with that dastardly ninja. The cheesiest  villain that we've all grown to love... Kai Leng. Every scene with that guy was in is cringe worthy. I was ready to forgive the games short comings, but that ending wouldn't let me. A better approach to the ending would of been would of been with Shepard and Anderson best seats in the house scene that took accumulated  EMS into account and would of gave you an ending based on your total war assets.

Is this that bad that you want the man responsible for the one of the most glorious fuckups in gaming history to be back in here?

I think Andromeda desperately needed someone like Casey Hudson. Someone with experience who knows how to make a coherent, somewhat consistent work of art/game. He would never be okay with that uninspired soundtrack and no music in the game. All the games he worked on had focus, whether you like the games or not, but I know what Kotor, ME1, ME2 and ME3 are about.
I have no idea what Andromeda is suppose to be, what it wants to be, what it wants the player to do and feel.
ME 2 had big missions to get the crew ready, ME3 had big missions to get your potential allies ready, Andromeda...?
You can argue getting the habitats ready to support outposts, but the missions/quests are to short and without real effort (granted they come in huge quantity) to see a real focus there. The same goes for the main story which was obviously cut short for sequels.
Those are pacing and focus issues that I don't think would be there if Casey Hudson was in charge.
An experienced director would have said: Look we are trying to many things, we need to cut some things. Whether it is the many boring pointless buswork quests in favor for more substantial sidequests or the open world elements in favour of a longer mainstory.

A few weeks ago you were in another thread telling us you were done with Bioware and Mass Effect, and now you are here whining like a little kid. It is ironic how most of you consider us Bioware fans to be precious snowflakes, yet we are the ones that have to tell you to get over it. So here i am saying - Get over it! Casey left a long time ago, for what reasons we'll probably never know and he is not coming back.

I don't hold any grudge towards Hudson or Walters over the ending. EA took Drew away to work on Swtor, and Mass Effect 3's development was shafted by EA aswell. 18 months for the biggest game in the franchise was not enough. So here we are with what we got. I see Andromeda as a spin off on the original trilogy, it doesn't hurt it by existing and it is something new for many people that wanted more, but different. 

I think Ian Frazier the lead designer for Andromeda, could do a good job as project director. He seems to know Mass Effect, and is always very dedicated in his work. It would make sense to promote from in house anyway. I want Walters back as a character writer, he is pretty decent at that, no matter how much people hate on him.

It's alright we've got BIG MAC.

Someone here wants more of
 *Artistic Fucktegrity*

While Casey Hudson has indeed added good stuff to the series, he is also the one who allowed such cockblocking ending for Mass Effect 3, that prevented Mass Effect 4 from happening.
No wonder, they had to pull off contingency plan called Mass Effect: Andromeda to get the franchise out of stasis...