No wonder Casey Hudson left. This game is missing them sc-fi feels.

Snowflake Numero Uno. Everyone has their shit criticized. It's how you deal with it and move on. Stephen King is an author I love, but holy crap does he have haters. He's written several books that I love and some I never got past Chapter 1. Not everything is going to be a hit, but if you treat the art with respect and love and allow some kind of oversight when it's an amalgamation of music, video, scripting, controls and writing, it's going to be fine. Somewhere along the line, the game was stopped to continue the production of another title. The time for production came to an end and unfortunately, Hudson quit. 

This right here. ^

Honestly, people should be past the Mass Effect 3 ending by now. I was just as lost and confused as anyone else when I first saw it too, yes it was not an ideal ending or even one that made any sense but it is over. The community lost that battle a long time ago. Roasting Hudson further here serves literally no purpose. The guy played his part and muscled through it like a champ to the bitter end. I can respect that, even if if I disagree with the artistic direction. I personally enjoyed the journey from the original Mass Effect up to the third and even enjoy / enjoyed Andromeda. 

Now let us put the dead horse back in the grave, yeah?

You are ignoring what dreman999 said.

The director of a game (Hudson) is (like) the director of a movie. There is the screenplaywriter, he writes the story and what happens when and gives it to the director, the director approves or rejects it. Upon rejection, a new screenplay have to be written. It is not uncommon a screenplay is rejected many times and when it happens way too often, the leadwriter is replaced.

Hudson must NOT "write" it, but he has to approve what the writer(s) give him. It does not matter what a great job Hudson accomplished with ME and ME2 or a great scifi fan he is. He approved the story for ME3 and therefore he failed BIG... and yes the writer himself also failed, but that is a different story.

Look at some of the great holywood directors, SO many have fallen from grace... like P. Verhoeven, belowed after RoboCop and Starship Troopers and then bam Showgirls, maybe he thought he could make the movie work, well, nope. Or R. Scott... all this hype when we learned he is going to direct Prometheus, the Alien franchise was going nowhere after 3 and 4 and then Scott returned and gave us Prometheus... bam. Cameron... though I donot remember why he has fallen, he redeemed himself with Avatar.

So no matter how you look at it, Hudson had the final say and he is THE ONLY person responsible for the ME3 dissaster. He could have redeemed himself with MEA, but he rather left the sinking? ship.

Booyah. He chose to puss out instead of manning up. But... so did the rest of the old Bioware and I know some left because of EA's commercial production process or because they knew they had become irrelevant under the new direction EA wanted and has gotten.

MEA has significantly more "sci-fi feels" than ME2.

It's also not as depressignly cynical as ME3.

I'll always love CH for KotOR and ME1, nothing will tarnish how good both those games were.

But MEA is a damn good game and better than the last two installments in this franchise.

You say that as if EA has got all the time in the world to delay & polish their games further. Because last I checked, ME3 had the shortest dev time in the series, and it was even shorter on the onset.

Yup. Even in this thread we have moved onto the walking (well static around the ship) codex entries of ME1 being marvellous nuanced characters.

Only a matter of time before the starchild is raised up to the pantheon.

So you waiting the day Andromeda gets raised to the pantheon?

It just occurred to me: does the title suggest that Casey left because it lacks scifi feels, or does it lack scifi feels because Casey left? If it's the former, why didn't he stay to feel it up?

And? As if movies and tv shows had no deadlines, and they manage too, other games as well. Besides, while I do not agree with some things in ME3, it was the ending that crushed it. 10 minutes ruined 3 games. Please do not tell me they would have needed 1 or 2 years to pull off another ending! Do you know this MEHEM? I did not until it was mentioned in this thread, watched it, amazing what few modders accomplished. WIth recut and rearragned ingame cutscenes and audio. It would not take BioWare longer to do the ending like this, then creating this starchild and then the extended cut to improve it a little bit. The leadwriter screwed up, but Hudson?? He was there from the very beginning, he pretty damn know what he was doing, or should have, that ending, seriously? After ME ME and all the DLCs and even ME3? And he even have the gall to call this garbage "art"... my ass, art... there are people pressing dye up their asses and farting it out towards a white wall and call this shit art, yah, that is pretty much the same. I wonder if he know what "bittersweet" actualy mean. Do you? If you want a to learn something about it, I suggest reading "Legend" by David Gemmel.

Spoiler about the ending of the book


But what did we got?
Control: defeat (yah we control the evil, that is realy a win, not)
Synthesis: defeat (yah this merge of organic and synthetic life, sure, we cease to exist as we are, so basicaly, the reapers win)
Destruction: defeat (yah it kills the geth and edi in the process and who knows who else, this does not sound like a victory to me)
and on top of that like 80% of the galaxy population dead by reapers, many characters dead, inclusive Shepard (yah sure with best scenario possible we see the chest graspin for air once, now that is very reassuring), and everything destroyed, inclusive the me relay network
this is no victory, there is nothing sweet in all three endings, it is just bitter and not worth all what was there before (ME/ME2)

Please, do yourself a favor and stop defending Hudson. This whiteknighting for him isnt helping anyone. And this has nothing to do with opinion. If someone tells you 1+2=7 then it is wrong in our universe and not a subject of opinion. He screwed, by any standard and definition, and while you may disagree, it changes nothing. If something is black, it does not turn out to be red just because you say so. It is still black. And if you do not believe me, go check on the responsibilities of a director and the definition of bittersweet.

Oh and one sidenote, with all we went through in ME and ME2, an ending like ME3 is like being f... in the ass and then it is called art. I do not play games to "not win". There is already enough loosing and misery in RL.

All subjective and my opinion but ME3 was utter crap. It was a streamlined gears of war clone playing off most of the great plots and characters of the first two games. As a stand alone game without including the ending, it was terrible.

The reviews for Andromeda are certainly more polarizing but I would say MEA is much better game than ME3 overall.

I'm saying before BioWare got bought by EA, the politics at BioWare were different because BioWare was a private company headed by two cool doctors. ie. These days EA pushed the impossible on BioWare with Andromeda and it shows. All because EA is chasing those juicy open world numbers others are enjoying. It's all statistics to EA, no soul.

And lets stop hating on Hudson because of just one thing that nobody even knows the real story to. Instead remember he was a key figure in what made sci-fi epics like KotoR, ME1 and ME2 great.