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[Uezurii]

Hamziz Vakarian wrote...

JeffZero wrote...
As I understand it, Dietz himself rather slaughtered Halo with his novelization of the game's events. This seems a recurring venture to him. Twice now at the least he's gotten past numerous people and been allowed to do this.

That's my whole point, really: Mass Effect is now HALO to EA, and they are going to treat it as such.  Take Jesse Houston - one of the main producers decided to leave on his own terms before the game even hits shelves rather than be let go when the game fails to live up to sales expectations.

I guess what I'm saying is that the horribleness of this book would be funny if it wasn't symptomatic of deeper problems in the company.  I assume that being on these forums means that people in this thread care about the series, so I just wanted to point that out.

Dude him leaving has nothing to do with Mass Effect 3. :/

[didymos1120]

Dude, you're attributing motives to Houston you have no evidence for. And again: can we not derail the thread into a discussion of how much EA sucks? Don't we have enough of that already in threads more appropriate to the subject?

Modifié par didymos1120, 25 janvier 2012 - 03:54 .

[Hathur]

JeffZero wrote...

As I understand it, Dietz himself rather slaughtered Halo with his novelization of the game's events. This seems a recurring venture to him. Twice now at the least he's gotten past numerous people and been allowed to do this.

I've only read one novel by Dietz (Starcraft Heaven's Devils) and it was a decently written and enjoyable book and remained true to the spirit of the characters and story of Starcraft... seeing this excerpt for this current book it's hard to fathom it is the same author.

Then again, Heaven's Devils may have had far better editors and oversight 

Modifié par Hathur, 25 janvier 2012 - 04:00 .

[Wulfram]

The reviews for his Resistance books I've found don't sound all that bad. I also found this interview which includes

I had read a while back that you’re actually a gamer, yourself. Is that true? What do you enjoy playing?
I am a gamer and I love HALO, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty to name a few.

Modifié par Wulfram, 25 janvier 2012 - 04:02 .

[AVPen]

Wulfram wrote...

The reviews for his Resistance books I've found don't sound all that bad. I also found this interview which includes

I had read a while back that you’re actually a gamer, yourself. Is that true? What do you enjoy playing?
I am a gamer and I love HALO, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty to name a few.

Lies, lies bathed in deceit and falsehood. 

[Hathur]

Wulfram wrote...

The reviews for his Resistance books I've found don't sound all that bad. I also found this interview which includes

I had read a while back that you’re actually a gamer, yourself. Is that true? What do you enjoy playing?
I am a gamer and I love HALO, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty to name a few.

I'm calling some degree of pandering on that statement of his... I despise fan fiction but I've glanced at some here and there and sadly those are often more accurate in terms of detail to the setting of Mass Effect than what I read in the excerpt... there's no way someone who played ME1 and ME2 would write some of the absurdity / lore errors that he wrote in his current novel.

[izmirtheastarach]

Wulfram wrote...

The reviews for his Resistance books I've found don't sound all that bad. I also found this interview which includes

I had read a while back that you’re actually a gamer, yourself. Is that true? What do you enjoy playing?
I am a gamer and I love HALO, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty to name a few.

What? He's played Mass Effect? Does he have no memory then? Did he somehow forget even the basics of that universe?

[Hamziz Vakarian]

Fair enough, dudes. Just remember in a month or so that I warned you. The suck coming off of Deception can be smelled a mile away, and where there's smoke, there's fire.

[andy6915]

That cereal scene was like-

"I'm such an evil badass. I mean, I'm eating Anderson's cereal... Without permission! I'm such a renegade!"

*eats Anderson's cereal*

★ renegade +50

Modifié par andy69156915, 25 janvier 2012 - 04:11 .

[Vapaa]

Hamziz Vakarian wrote...

That's my whole point, really: Mass Effect is now HALO to EA

So ME3 is going to be the best game in the franchise, since Halo reach is the best Halo ? (yeah, I said that )

[Eski.Moe]

He probably chugged down all of Anderson's milk after finishing that bowl of cereal. That Leng ( ;] ), such a scallywag!

[OmegaBlue0231]

andy69156915 wrote...

That cereal scene was like-

"I'm such an evil badass. I mean, I'm eating Anderson's cereal... Without permission! I'm such a renegade!"

*eats Anderson's cereal*

★ renegade +50

Sooooo evil!

[didymos1120]

I'm surprised it wasn't "krogan corn flakes" or something, given that we've been told about "asari stir-fry" and "salarian curry".

[Eski.Moe]

Nah, everyone knows Krogan are most renowned for their baklavas.

[didymos1120]

Posted this in the Twitter thread:

didymos1120 wrote...

https://twitter.com/...211220924010496

You can read 50 new pages from the latest Mass Effect novel! Let me know what you think. scr.bi/zRv8JE

Yes. TELL HIM.

[Kidd]

didymos1120 wrote...

Oh, BTW, you know what's the stupidest thing about this novel? The plot, such as it is, is all about Gillian's quest to kill TIM....who we already know survives just fine. We've even seen in-game footage of him, in which he's no worse for wear. What is the damn point then?

Well, you go in to Romeo & Juliet knowing it will end badly, but it's still good. Heck, it's probably better just because you know it will end badly.

I just compared Dietz to Shakespeare. Somebody shoot me, please.

[izmirtheastarach]

didymos1120 wrote...

Posted this in the Twitter thread:

didymos1120 wrote...

https://twitter.com/...211220924010496

You can read 50 new pages from the latest Mass Effect novel! Let me know what you think. scr.bi/zRv8JE

Yes. TELL HIM.

Everyone who has joined in the discussion here should go post your thoughts to him. He asked, let's tell him.

[jcraft]

izmirtheastarach wrote...

Wulfram wrote...

The reviews for his Resistance books I've found don't sound all that bad. I also found this interview which includes

I had read a while back that you’re actually a gamer, yourself. Is that true? What do you enjoy playing?
I am a gamer and I love HALO, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty to name a few.

What? He's played Mass Effect? Does he have no memory then? Did he somehow forget even the basics of that universe?

Bah, he obviously played it only for explosions, pew pew & sex scenes.

[ananna21]

Since all parts with Kai leng show how unlikeable he is it very likely he will have his own theme that will also be the death theme song at this rate.

[didymos1120]

izmirtheastarach wrote...

Everyone who has joined in the discussion here should go post your thoughts to him. He asked, let's tell him.

Some lady on there thinks it's peachy.  Especially Gillian.  She's a great character!

[Eski.Moe]

The only issues are timeline related!!!!!1

[izmirtheastarach]

didymos1120 wrote...

izmirtheastarach wrote...

Everyone who has joined in the discussion here should go post your thoughts to him. He asked, let's tell him.

Some lady on there thinks it's peachy.  Especially Gillian.  She's a great character!

Apparently you and I have a negative attitude. 

[didymos1120]

izmirtheastarach wrote...

Apparently you and I have a negative attitude. 

As you know, it's customary to be positive about stuff you think is of exceedingly low quality.

[izmirtheastarach]

didymos1120 wrote...

As you know, it's customary to be positive about stuff you think is of exceedingly low quality.

That's the real problem here. If there is one thing I will absolutely not accept a lack of quality in, it's a book. I've played crappy games and enjoyed them. I've watched crappy movies and had a good time. But if a book is not well written, I don't know any way to enjoy it.

As you know, this is because of my negative attitude.

[CroGamer002]

jcraft wrote...

izmirtheastarach wrote...

Wulfram wrote...

The reviews for his Resistance books I've found don't sound all that bad. I also found this interview which includes

I had read a while back that you’re actually a gamer, yourself. Is that true? What do you enjoy playing?
I am a gamer and I love HALO, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty to name a few.

What? He's played Mass Effect? Does he have no memory then? Did he somehow forget even the basics of that universe?

Bah, he obviously played it only for explosions, pew pew & sex scenes.

I think he would still notice that Salarian's eyes don't glow and that Soverign failed with his trap,