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[Cheesy Blue]

felipejiraya wrote...

I will not judge the entire book from this little exerpt but it's clear to me Dietz is a HUGE downgrade from Karphshyn...their styles are different and the atmosphere of this book is not the same from the last three.

My fanboyism will force me to read the book (I really want to know the end of the Kahlee Sanders saga) but it will be hard.

I can't do it. I just can't bring myself to do it. Not when the writing is this bad. It's like seeing a childhood pet being beaten to death by a menacing stranger. I refuse to see all the characters geting ruined for all of eternity.

[izmirtheastarach]

Lord Aesir wrote...
It has been awhile but I enjoyed them as much as the ME novels.  The writing is as good but starts out a little worse and gets better as he goes on.  The latest, Asunder, is his best yet in terms of both storyline and writing quality, I'd say it was better than any of the Me novels.

Maybe I'll just go read that instead. blah.

[izmirtheastarach]

Cheesy Blue wrote...

I can't do it. I just can't bring myself to do it. Not when the writing is this bad. It's like seeing a childhood pet being beaten to death by a menacing stranger. I refuse to see all the characters geting ruined for all of eternity.

Kahlee did very important things for the Alliance, which helped a lot, and Gillian never came back and lived with the Quarians happily ever after. And everything was great.

The end.

[Cheesy Blue]

Seriously, I want an apology from whoever allowed this POS to be published.

[Heimdall]

Like I said, I'll try and listen to it as an audio book, that should make it easier for me to ignore the actual writing or at least make it less of an effort to get through.

[Cheesy Blue]

izmirtheastarach wrote...

Cheesy Blue wrote...

I can't do it. I just can't bring myself to do it. Not when the writing is this bad. It's like seeing a childhood pet being beaten to death by a menacing stranger. I refuse to see all the characters geting ruined for all of eternity.

Kahlee did very important things for the Alliance, which helped a lot, and Gillian never came back and lived with the Quarians happily ever after. And everything was great.

The end.

That *snivles* feels a little bit better.

[izmirtheastarach]

Cheesy Blue wrote...

That *snivles* feels a little bit better.

And if any of this is referenced at all in ME3, at least the exposition and dialogue explaining it won't be written by William C. Dietz.

Modifié par izmirtheastarach, 24 janvier 2012 - 03:54 .

[Yuoaman]

I'm not going to say that the other ME books are the greatest things ever, but they're enjoyable books while this is just...

Well you all saw what I said.

[didymos1120]

Oh, yeah, BTW, here is hands down the most egregious error of fact in the excerpt:

As Anderson led the others aboard a public shuttle he was reminded of the fact that the Reapers had created the Citadel as bait for a high-­tech trap. One that had been sprung so successfully that now, two years later, some of the damage the sentient machines had caused was still being repaired.

The entire premise of the first game was that you PREVENTED that trap from being sprung. It FAILED, and did so spectacularly.  Dietz is also apparently unaware that there was only one Reaper involved.

ETA: Oh, and I just noticed he screwed the timeline up again: it was two years prior to the beginning of ME2.  We're well past that point now.

Modifié par didymos1120, 24 janvier 2012 - 04:04 .

[DiebytheSword]

didymos1120 wrote...

Oh, yeah, BTW, here is hands down the most egregious error of fact in the excerpt:

As Anderson led the others aboard a public shuttle he was reminded of the fact that the Reapers had created the Citadel as bait for a high-­tech trap. One that had been sprung so successfully that now, two years later, some of the damage the sentient machines had caused was still being repaired.

The entire premise of the first game was that you PREVENTED that trap from being sprung. It FAILED, and did so spectacularly.  Dietz is also apparently unaware that there was only one Reaper involved.

Oh wow, too many indians indeed.  This is why I argue that adding writers and time wouldn't neccesarily make the game better, just more prone to contradicting itself.

[izmirtheastarach]

didymos1120 wrote...

Oh, yeah, BTW, here is hands down the most egregious error of fact in the excerpt:

As Anderson led the others aboard a public shuttle he was reminded of the fact that the Reapers had created the Citadel as bait for a high-­tech trap. One that had been sprung so successfully that now, two years later, some of the damage the sentient machines had caused was still being repaired.

The entire premise of the first game was that you PREVENTED that trap from being sprung. It FAILED, and did so spectacularly.  Dietz is also apparently unaware that there was only one Reaper involved.

I guess Sovereign attacking the Citadel and then being blown to bits as some kind of diabolical trap we just don't understand yet.

[didymos1120]

DiebytheSword wrote...

Oh wow, too many indians indeed.  This is why I argue that adding writers and time wouldn't neccesarily make the game better, just more prone to contradicting itself.

This is the work of one writer, dude. One bad writer.

[DiebytheSword]

didymos1120 wrote...

DiebytheSword wrote...

Oh wow, too many indians indeed.  This is why I argue that adding writers and time wouldn't neccesarily make the game better, just more prone to contradicting itself.

This is the work of one writer, dude. One bad writer.

Who is writing off of the works of a dozen others, although I suspect the editors in the ME team would keep him in check, lol.

[Cheesy Blue]

Seriously it's like reading a ****ty fan fiction. Wait I take it back. Even FF writers don't contradict already existing material and they at least know the lore.

[TMA LIVE]

Having the Council have a holographic display of themselves in the Council chambers I always found questionable since ME1. Mainly because the first book had them. Yet the actual game did not.

Well, maybe they'll be added in ME3.

[izmirtheastarach]

Cheesy Blue wrote...

Seriously it's like reading a ****ty fan fiction. Wait I take it back. Even FF writers don't contradict already existing material and they at least know the lore.

Hah! Nice one.

Yeah, they might have actually read the books they were writing a sequal to? What an odd thing to do.

Modifié par izmirtheastarach, 24 janvier 2012 - 04:14 .

[thedistortedchild]

That's bad fanfic grade writing. I'm not wasting my money on that book.

[Cheesy Blue]

My reaction to this exerpt.

[Razorsedge820]

Wow that was just.....wow, I did not enjoy reading that one bit. Good thing I read this preview because I was dead set on getting this novel next Tuesday, instead i'm just going to save my money and put it towards the art book coming out next month.

[izmirtheastarach]

Razorsedge820 wrote...

Wow that was just.....wow, I did not enjoy reading that one bit. Good thing I read this preview because I was dead set on getting this novel next Tuesday, instead i'm just going to save my money and put it towards the art book coming out next month.

This is the most bizzare thing about this. This is a marketing ploy by the publisher? This would be like taking the worst movie ever and screening it for every critic in America. Is that going to help the box office reciepts somehow?

[Cheesy Blue]

Funny thing is, if I didn't read this excerpt I would have bought this novel.

Modifié par Cheesy Blue, 24 janvier 2012 - 04:30 .

[izmirtheastarach]

Cheesy Blue wrote...

Funny thing is, if I didn't read this excerpt I would have bought this novel.

Exactly.

Modifié par izmirtheastarach, 24 janvier 2012 - 04:32 .

[Razorsedge820]

Seriously this author makes Mac Walters look like William Shakespeare.

[Cheesy Blue]

Razorsedge820 wrote...

Seriously this author makes Mac Walters look like William Shakespeare.

True dat yo.

[didymos1120]

Another bit of dubious lore:

The next object was a vial of tears that had been shed by a turian saint.

Since when do turians have saints? Codex certainly doesn't give that impression:

http://masseffect.wi...rians:_Religion

Modifié par didymos1120, 24 janvier 2012 - 04:36 .