Batten down the hatches. Hudson speaks on ME3 ending.

[Knight Templar]

Didn't they also call Dragon Age 2 "polarizing?"

From memory they thought it was a good quality for a character to have, but I do not recall them saying it was good for the game to be like that.

 

[Elfgore]

Well they did say they will construct Single Player DLC according to fan feedback. And the only single player DLC fans will be willing to buy is the one that fixes their shitty ending. Seriously, who'd want to buy any other kind of DLC? It is pointless to replay this game, and any other Mass Effect game if the ending remains the same.

We should not have to pay 10 or 15 bucks for something that should have just been there. It should be free DLC and optional as well. Cause some people liked the ending.

 

[I.Muir]

It's an unacceptable kick in the teeth and therefore they don't get my money. So here's what I'm going to do. I will wait for my cheap thieving bastard friend to inevitably pirate the game and then play through to just about the end. Then ill uninstall the game and watch the end of gurren lagann and leave it at that.

 

[I.Muir]

Tbh, i'd be more critical of whoever conducted that interview. Softest questions ever.

The problem with giving harsh questions to someone during an interview is they'd likely not come back for a subsequent one. Getting traffic is important for these sites and not pissing off major famous developers is a good way to get it.

I would have thought the best thing to do is ask the hard questions, then if they don't come back just pander to the overwhelming hatred so that the company in question is obliged to come back or continue being ridiculed. People have to stop pretending they can do unbiased, that's not what I read articles for.

 

[Scabadus]

Ugh. If they don't change the ending, I'm seriously contemplating putting my Mass Effect 3 discs through a shredder and mailing one to Casey Hudson and one to Ray Muzyka.

I may or may not shit in Hudson's box.

You've given me a fantastic idea: buy a yard of the finest, smoothest Belgian chocolate, mark which end to start eating it from, then take a shit in the other end. I think that's a fair representation of what Mass Effect was for me.

 

[Emiscary]

I'm dead serious here: I can no longer abide snide industry reps lying directly to my face. If they'd told me that I got the ending I got because they didn't have the resources or time to make the game they promised, I could've accepted that. I could've accepted that executive meddling, or writing changes, or meteor strikes or ANYTHING as a reason for why I got the ending I got. But being told simultaneously that our opinions are valued and play a part in the making of the product we're getting AND that they planned all along to make a product we're not satisfied with? Tell me how that fucking works. Someone.

 

[Emiscary]

And therein lies the absolute joke that is "videogame journalism". If sites are afraid to piss off the people they are reporting on, then they are just another branch of game companies' marketing.

Amen to that brother. If saying nice things about people that pay you to do so makes you a journalist than literally every sex trade worker on the planet is qualified for the job. (And I mean that primarily as an insult to the credibility of video game journalists, not a value judgement on scrupulous journalists or efficient prostitutes minding their own buisiness. Y'know, to be clear.)

 

[Aircross]

Its an attempt to stir controvercy, and it worked

And an attempt to sell DCL and iOS apps, and it will work too.

 

[Thoric485]

It's the company that still harps on about how DA2 was "innovative" and a "success".

They'll never admit they've done wrong.

 

[The Wykydtron]

[sub]Jesus Christ[/sub]

Does anyone remember the rest of the game? Y'know the super awesome epic 34 hours and 45 minutes of it? No? You're just gonna denounce an entire company because of one game's ending...

That makes perfect fucking sense. Go Team Rational Thinking.

Now who else wants to see that Aria vs TIM DLC? Oh boy! That's exciting right chaps?!

 

[spectrenihlus]

[sub]Jesus Christ[/sub]

Does anyone remember the rest of the game? Y'know the super awesome epic 34 hours and 45 minutes of it? No? You're just gonna denounce an entire company because of one game's ending...

That makes perfect fucking sense. Go Team Rational Thinking.

Now who else wants to see that Aria vs TIM DLC? Oh boy! That's exciting right chaps?!

I'll let this joke explain what is going on

A Scottish old timer in Scotland, in a bar, talking to a young man.

The Old Man says, "Lad, look out there to the field. Do ya see that fence? Look how well it's built. I built that fence stone by stone with me own two hands. I piled it for months."

"But do they call me McGreggor-the-Fence-Builder? Nooo..."

Then the old man gestured at the bar. "Look here at the bar. Do ya see how smooth and just it is? I planed that surface down by me own achin' back. I carved that wood with me own hard labour, for eight days."

"But do they call me McGreggor-the-Bar-builder? Nooo..."

Then the old man points out the window. "Eh, Laddy, look out to sea...Do ya see that pier that stretches out as far as the eye can see? I built that pier with the sweat off me back. I nailed it board by board."

"But do they call me McGreggor-the-Pier-Builder? Nooo..."

Then the old man looks around nervously, trying to make sure no one is paying attention.

"But ya fuck one goat..."

 

[The Wykydtron]

[sub]Jesus Christ[/sub]

Does anyone remember the rest of the game? Y'know the super awesome epic 34 hours and 45 minutes of it? No? You're just gonna denounce an entire company because of one game's ending...

That makes perfect fucking sense. Go Team Rational Thinking.

Now who else wants to see that Aria vs TIM DLC? Oh boy! That's exciting right chaps?!

I'll let this joke explain what is going on

Ha, that's a good one. But uh, I don't think Bioware fucked any goats... Don't you dare say "they might as well have!"

It's just my sense of perspective kicking in, 34 hours of awesome (plus several other well renowned Bioware games) vs 15 minutes of Dafaq?! Well fuck! Time to boycott everything guys! I'll bring the matches you bring the Bioware/EA logos! Yeehaw!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It's just my sense of perspective kicking in, 34 hours of awesome (plus several other well renowned Bioware games) vs 15 minutes of Dafaq?! Well fuck! Time to boycott everything guys! I'll bring the matches you bring the Bioware/EA logos! Yeehaw!

The problem lies with the fact that the fuck up happened at the most crucial 5 minutes in the entire half decade of Mass Effect games.

 

[spectrenihlus]

[sub]Jesus Christ[/sub]

Does anyone remember the rest of the game? Y'know the super awesome epic 34 hours and 45 minutes of it? No? You're just gonna denounce an entire company because of one game's ending...

That makes perfect fucking sense. Go Team Rational Thinking.

Now who else wants to see that Aria vs TIM DLC? Oh boy! That's exciting right chaps?!

I'll let this joke explain what is going on

Ha, that's a good one. But uh, I don't think Bioware fucked any goats... Don't you dare say "they might as well have!"

It's just my sense of perspective kicking in, 34 hours of awesome (plus several other well renowned Bioware games) vs 15 minutes of Dafaq?! Well fuck! Time to boycott everything guys! I'll bring the matches you bring the Bioware/EA logos! Yeehaw!

We are the goats.

 

[Lucem712]

Ooh man; it's like Bioware's PR team is drunk behind the wheel, or something.

1. Make bad ending to beloved series
2. Ignore fans while saying you are acknowledging fan's input
3. Release DLC not pertaining to bad ending
4. ???
5. Profit!

 

[spectrenihlus]

Ooh man; it's like Bioware's PR team is drunk behind the wheel, or something.

1. Make bad ending to beloved series
2. Ignore fans while saying you are acknowledging fan's input
3. Release DLC not pertaining to bad ending
4. ???
5. Profit!

There is no profit there is only

Step 5.Bankruptcy

 

[StarCecil]

[sub]Jesus Christ[/sub]

Does anyone remember the rest of the game? Y'know the super awesome epic 34 hours and 45 minutes of it? No? You're just gonna denounce an entire company because of one game's ending...

That makes perfect fucking sense. Go Team Rational Thinking.

Now who else wants to see that Aria vs TIM DLC? Oh boy! That's exciting right chaps?!

I'll let this joke explain what is going on

Ha, that's a good one. But uh, I don't think Bioware fucked any goats... Don't you dare say "they might as well have!"

It's just my sense of perspective kicking in, 34 hours of awesome (plus several other well renowned Bioware games) vs 15 minutes of Dafaq?! Well fuck! Time to boycott everything guys! I'll bring the matches you bring the Bioware/EA logos! Yeehaw!

I'm reminded of a similar situation, namely KOTOR2. At the end, you find out everything this particular character has told you about the first game, Revan, yourself and your comrades and the nature of the force was just entirely false and used to support their own agenda. And since this character was the primary source of exposition, it leaves in doubt everything that occurred during the course of the game. And the ending itself was so abrupt that a lot was left hanging and there wasn't a whole lot of clarity as to exactly what the ending meant and what that meant for the setting as a whole.

Essentially, the ending turns the experience of the rest of the game on its head - it completely alters the perception and not in a good way. It leaves the player feeling like they got shafted because the story they experienced was not at all what they were led to believe it was. The player is deceived and from this deception comes nothing but a disappointment.