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Dreogan

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 Multiplayer Optional LOL posted a fantastic assortment of quotes from the Mass Effect developers which was (largely) documented. As the original thread was posted shortly before the ME3 launch and is now DING DONG BANNU I'd like to share this insightful list with the community again, now that we have a bit more perspective. 
Unlike the old list, I've given medals to the quotes that deserve special recognition. Feel free to add your own quotes, with source. I'll update a few times per day until this thread also mysteriously disappears.


Platinum Prize:
[quote]"Certainly it’s a very polished experience. In the story it starts at a time with a very singular focus and purpose in the galaxy. You could say the previous games were just a preamble to this moment. Everything has been building to this. It’s like the Superbowl. Who cares what happened in the regular season? Now’s the one that matters.“Fans want a definitive end. They’ll be the judge of that ultimately when they play it and see how we do that. Certainly, what this game absolutely does represent is the culmination of almost a decade’s worth of work for the studio and for Casey [Hudson] and his team in terms of exactly what we’re trying to do with the game we kicked off almost ten years ago. “They’re working really hard to make it a real proper conclusion, something that’s fitting to what they’ve worked on for so long, and what the fans are telling us they’re dying to see. - Aaron Flynnhttp://www.vg247.com/2011/11/01/bioware-previous-mass-effect-games-were-just-a-preamble-to-mass-effect-3/[/quote]Gold Prize[quote]We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can’t say any more than that…" - Mike Gamblehttp://www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/mass-effect-3-boasts-many-different-endings
[/quote][quote]"I think the exciting thing in the final chapter of the series is going to be just seeing where everything goes that we started" Casey Hudson CES 2010[/quote][quote]
 "We have to be hyper-aware of events in each individual's previous game," says Walters. "We had a paragraph written on what would happen in ME3 when finishing up ME1; the story was straightforward, in a sense. But still, this game took months of planning to get a handle on every different permutation." 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/03/mass-effect-three [/quote]
[quote]"As Mass Effect 3 is the end of the planned trilogy, the developers are not constrained by the necessity of allowing the story to diverge, yet also continue into the next chapter. This will result in a story that diverges into wildly different conclusions based on the player's actions in the first two chapters." - Casey Hudson[/quote][quote]"We have a really talented team of writers. We go through iteration after iteration, making it the best and most satisfying we can," he said.
"It's going to make some people extremely happy. It's going to make some people angry. But that's part of it, right? To invoke the emotion putting some of these stories to bed will naturally bring up.
He added: "I honestly think the player base is going to be really happy with the way we've done it. You had a part in it. Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens. "Whether you're happy or angry at the ending, know this: it is an ending. BioWare will not do a "Lost" and leave fans with more questions than answers after finishing the game, Gamble promised.[/quote]
Silver Prize
[quote]"BioWare has confirmed that Mass Effect 3's storyline may change in response to fan feedback. Following a mistakenly-released beta that led to leaked story files, co-founder Greg Zeschuk says that the development team is actively paying attention to fans' input.
"We listen to our fans all of the time," Muzyka said. "We listen to them on the forums, their feedback from stories. We're reading it all. If we can get ideas out of it that will make the game better, sure. We're not adverse to taking feedback. That's part of our core values, is humility [Hi Stanley!]. Any time we get a good idea from fans... they're our audience. They keep us in business."[/quote][quote]"You have to be open and take feedback…We've made our games better largely on press feedback. If you have humility it means you don't get indignant [about negative feedback]."
Greg Zeschuk Develop 2010 [/quote][quote]Yeah but even that is kind of open as to exactly what happened there. Obviously, Mass Effect 3 will reveal all; that's the point of Mass Effect 3, we tie up a lot of those loose ends. But I think it's safe to say The Illusive Man is still very much "himself" throughout the course of what people have been playing. We wouldn't ever want you to feel like "oh this guy I worked for was really an enemy all along." But that doesn't mean there weren't influences in his life.
http://www.newsarama...iew-110726.html [/quote]
Bronze Prize[/quote][quote]"This [ME3] is really the best place to start playing the Mass Effect series, this is the beginning, middle and end of the whole galactic war," - Casey Hudson[/quote][quote]We're making Mass effect 3 to be the best game we've ever made. That would make it one of the best games ever, and we're hoping to see sales that reflect that.
http://www.computera...ing-out/?page=3[/quote][quote]Mass Effect 3 to be more "lighthearted"http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/articles/138202-mass-effect-3-to-be-more-lighthearted[/quote][quote]"If players achieved a love interest in both Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, then both previous love interests will be vying for Shepard's attention in Mass Effect 3."[/quote]

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"We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can’t say any more than that…" - Mike Gamblehttp://www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/mass-effect-3-boasts-many-different-ending"

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Modifié par ramdog7, 10 mars 2012 - 07:40 .


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some of those quotes make me want to punch a baby

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I've learned never to trust PR so I really just ignored these. But looking back at them I can't help but make a sly smile.

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LOL, some developer eh

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I see a ban incoming OP. might want to check the rules... Just a friendly warning.


-Polite

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John Locke N7

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and fallout 3 had over 200 endings, and the fable games dont suck

developers dont even know what their game is untill its out....... they have no way of knowing.

dont judge them for what they said then

Modifié par John Locke N7, 10 mars 2012 - 07:43 .


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ramdog7 wrote...

"We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can’t say any more than that…" - Mike Gamblehttp://www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/mass-effect-3-boasts-many-different-ending"

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It's so perfect.

By the way, the fixed version of your link is www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/mass-effect-3-boasts-many-different-endings

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Well there were wildly different conclusions. Tali commits suicide in one game, and the entire Quarian people die. In another, you can gain an alliance between the Geth and Quarian and nobody else has to die. That's wildly different in my opinion. Just because the VERY end didn't "wildly" differ doesn't mean the game as a whole didn't. Plus, in my opinion, the different endings all are VERY different, the only thing is that it is left open-ended for us to imagine the consequences. That's not a bad thing in my book, but apparently my book differs from most of the people on the BSN's books.

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So sad they didn't keep a word they said

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John Locke N7 wrote...

and fallout 3 had over 200 endings, and the fable games dont suck

developers dont even know what their game is untill its out....... they have no way of knowing.

dont judge them for what they said then

Agreed, PR's tend to talk about the concepts that the game developers plan on doing but the final product will always be different.

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I see TIM is very much himself and hasn't been an enemy all along. By the way, what is all that huskification corruption all over your face, Mr. Illusive?

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Dreogan wrote...


"As Mass Effect 3 is the end of the planned trilogy, the developers are not constrained by the necessity of allowing the story to diverge, yet also continue into the next chapter. This will result in a story that diverges into wildly different conclusions based on the player's actions in the first two chapters." - Casey Hudson


This one is my favorite.

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Indeed, what we achieved in our games meant jack and squat. This is why it's made so many people angry: not because of the plot holes, we've forgiven those across all three games, not because of the three button choice, it's because we were promised resolution, we were promised to see what our choices would do in the end. Instead we get three flavors of 'destroy galactic civilization' and the only one you survive in is so monstrously...guh.

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PoliteAssasin wrote...

I see a ban incoming OP. might want to check the rules... Just a friendly warning.


-Polite


I did double-check the list, just to be safe, but the closest I could get was "harassing" people. 

Of course Bioware can ban anyone for any reason they like, but I am not saying "Bob Bobby is an idiot." I am simply including names for the purposes of doccumentation. If I do end up with a ban, it's because Bioware doesn't want to own up to its own words. Pointing out someone and saying "he said this" is nowhere near "Hamburger Hepler" or "Stanrey Roo". Though I refuse to ever give up DING DONG BANNU, just because it sounds funny.

Modifié par Dreogan, 10 mars 2012 - 07:49 .


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Feel like cheated

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TheMadBlimper wrote...

Dreogan wrote...


"As Mass Effect 3 is the end of the planned trilogy, the developers are not constrained by the necessity of allowing the story to diverge, yet also continue into the next chapter. This will result in a story that diverges into wildly different conclusions based on the player's actions in the first two chapters." - Casey Hudson


This one is my favorite.


Yeah, I really enjoyed my femshep being able to side with TIM in the Mars mission where she  wasn't railroaded into blubbering "hurr durr gunna destroy the reapers meng"................oh wait.

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Dracotamer wrote...

So sad they didn't keep a word they said


Oh, they did keep plenty of words they said. But if I posted those words, this list would be laughly long and not nearly as entertaining.

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ramdog7 wrote...

"We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can’t say any more than that…" - Mike Gamblehttp://www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/mass-effect-3-boasts-many-different-ending"

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I hate the last few minutes as much as anyone. But if you consider all of ME3 the ending what Mike Gamble and some of the others said was technically true.

Sure the last few minutes means everything else you did in the rest of the games is utterly pointless... still. Technically.

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This would be funny if the ending wasn't so bad.... =(

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"We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can’t say any more than that…" - Mike Gamble

this must get a platinum prize.
i platinum quote this.

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To be frank, if you didn't see this coming from what Bioware had said about ME2 and DA2 during development than I don't know what to say.

It was essentially a case of "We can't possibly figure out how to make an actual viable set of endings that appeal to multiple sections of fans so, let's just hand wave and throw a contrived 45 second low resolution video in it's place.."

Those quotes worked though, they've got their money now.. even from me, even though I was extremely pessimistic about how this game would turn out, and although I was insanely surprised by it's quality through 90% of it, that last 5 minutes was just a big middle finger in the form of laziness..

Pure, unfiltered, straight from the tap laziness.. mmm, tastes so slothy.. mmm

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"We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can’t say any more than that…" - Mike Gamblehttp://www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/mass-effect-3-boasts-many-different-ending"

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This with a cherry on top.