A plea to Casey Hudson.

Meh...I just remember a lot of folks calling for his head and saying ME3 was thee worst ending eva....now that folks are finding Andromeda to be mediocre on some level ( I haven't finished the game yet, so idk) they want this guy back as if these same people are somehow forgetting the backlash this guy received.


I've stated a million times that I thought the ending to the overall story was lacking and that the story touched upon theories in which pointed towards powerful entities responsible for all of creation, but the ending for me wasn't as bad as some made it. There was some potential and opportunity lost, but eh...I thought ME3 had a sense of urgency, dread, desperation and hopelessness all in one package and for folks to dismiss all of that for the endings is a bit ridiculous.

The damn fanbase ran him off in the first place but yeah I wish he was still running the show.

You expect too much.

I'm all for Hudson coming back, but I think this is the wrong reason to ask about.

Deus Ex 1 did it better too.

Casey Hudson needs to stop sipping on fancy wine and do the job he was meant to do. BTW MEA is still a masterpiece. I think things would be better with him around. 

Mac might want to look into getting a restraining order.

I think they've outright admitted in the past that they didn't know where the trilogy was going but I'll have to see if I can find a quote to be sure. Requires a bit digging. Did find this article for anyone interested in reading about story ideas that were dropped like Shepard turning out to secretly have been an alien:

www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-19-ex-bioware-writer-discusses-dropped-ideas-for-mass-effect-trilogy-ending

I know it's just your verdict, but I can't even say that. I didn't even think ME3 was a "masterpiece" ending aside. I have seen and experienced much better - I just wanted more of ME2 with more of ME1. Instead I got less of ME2 and less of ME1 in a weird way.

I don't believe in human perfection to begin with there is no such thing as a perfectly made game, (or movie, novel, comic, song, toy, government, person building, law, and so forth) never was and never will be. That is what happened to BioWare they got a reputation of being a company that made "perfect games" (and it can be argued to hell freezes over if any of their games are that great) that it set them so high up so that when they fell they fell they would fall hard and boy did they! It's what happening with Marvel Comics/Movies/TV Shows right now and I guarantee all of you it will happen with everybody new favorite developer CCPR in the future. The public view of games like The Witcher 3 being a "perfect game" that everyone has to try to copy it's success is only setting CCPR up for a major fall down somewhere the road. It may take years maybe even decades but one day it will happen. Don't say I didn't warn you.
 
IMHO even if ME:A was as flawless as a game could be (which for the record it isn't) and was better than TW3 and FO4 in every conceivable way I still think the same critics and the so-called hardcore gamers/trolls would have still find several reasons to hate it because right now it's really cool to bash BioWare, their staff, their games, and their fans right now.

Yes it is rather unfortunate that the series was handed to Mac Walters... Likely the worst hands it could be in. Gotta love nepotism huh.

But I do agree yes, at one point if you make a game that is so close to perfect as it can be, you will likely never again achieve those heights. You will only begin to fall, or stay at a certain level, and some of your "fan(atic)s" will not like it. They will expect more of the same from you, which is nigh impossible to achieve. And then they will lament how at one time there was this certain game that was like "so good", "best of the series" etc and future instalments can not touch its height. Ive gone through that with Final Fantasy Series and Final Fantasy 6. That game was so good, no other game in the series can even touch its execution.

But at least the recent ME games arent a betrayal to me, at least not yet. Like FF13 was, *shivers*... that game.... and that piece of shit got 2 fucking sequels, which just got worse, I mean what the fuck? No instalment in that series has intrested me since number 10. It is dead to me, until they get their shit together, if ever. Since the company merged with Enix, ive not bought a single one of their games, save from Dragon Quest 8, which was actually pretty good.