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[Fapmaster5000]

Well, gratz to Patrick. Dude apparently wrote the most amazing parts of the game. (And they truly were amazing. Never had a video game make me want to cry before.)

Damn shame about the ending, though. It made me want to cry for a completely different reason.

[CroGamer002]

Damn it, he just deleted it.

[lasertank]

Stories told by Patrick is much more thrilling and touching. We need that kind of story in the end!

[Mr. Big Pimpin]

I think I've already posted a few times in this thread how he's easily the best writer on the team, but I feel like I should do so again. For teh emphasis.

[Bigdoser]

Yeah..... he deleted it oh well.

[lasertank]

OMG. He deleted his article.

[darkiddd]

Whybother wrote...

darkiddd wrote...

It must be devastating to know that all this good work product of your effort means nothing with that "ending" just like the effort we put when we played the three games...

I think Patrick knows that he did excellent work and is proud of it.

I'm not questioning he did a good job. He definitely did. All I'm saying is that his work has lost value because the ending sucks.

For example: Imagine that in motor racing a pilot does an incredible race, the best you've seen in yout life, and in the last lap his motor breaks and he loses it. You still admire his work and you will probably respect him more from now on but somehow his effort loses the value it would have had if he had won the race even if he lost it for circumstances beyond his capabilities he couldn't have predicted or stopped.

Same here.

[Nollan]

Salyut wrote...

Patrick Weekes, please save our franchise

On a more serious note, has he actually said anything about the endings? Like a tweet or a blog post? Cause maybe he's fine with the endings as they are now.

His twitter is private for those who don't follow him and I don't have a twitter.

[martiancake]

Wow, PTSD Asari was fantastic, especially if you follow up with the spectre requisitions and a chat with Joker. Really touching and sad bit that a lot of people might miss because it's a random overheard conversation.

[ABCoLD]

Transcript (What follows is a capture from Google cache.  I tried to remain true to the formatting.  The only thing I changed was I underlined something that had no special emphasis in the original.  I thought it deserved notice._

Mass Effect 3 As it's easier to write this once and then link it when necessary, here's what I wrote for Mass Effect 3.



Missions
(I wrote most or all of the content on these, although other writers did voice passes on followers they owned)

Grissom Academy (Edit: John Dombrow, awesome writer of Overlord, wrote the Overlord call-out here)
Geth Dreadnought
Rannoch: Reaper Base
Illusive Man's Base (but only first line of actual talk with IM, after which Lead Mac Walters took over)
Eden Prime (with heavy consulting with John Dombrow, who wrote Javik)
Citadel Hub (it was a huge team effort with lots of folks doing plots and  everyone writing their follower moments, but I was the writer ultimately responsible for managing content there)

Characters
(I did a voice pass on these people whenever they showed up and handled any Normandy or Citadel talks)

Tali
Joker
Traynor
Mordin
(John handled the Genophage campaign, and he and I mapped out major Mordin conversations together; we are both responsible for the Shroud tower scene, but John did everything else in that mission, with me just touching Mordin's voice up a bit)

Bits
(small things I wrote)
A bunch of the emails, especially those from imports
The damn journals
PFCs Westmoreland and Campbell
Most Spectre terminal text
Citadel Plots: Hanar Diplomat, Batarian Sabotage, Medigel Sabotage, Krogan Poet, Matriarch Aethyta, Informant Assassination
Citadel Fetch Quests: About half of the ones you can solve by finding things on missions, all or mostly all the ones you solve by scanning planets (including the bestest one ever, the Fossilized Kakliosaur)
Citadel Ambient Bits: Several of the "pick a side" ambient moments, 1/3 to 1/2 of the pure flavor bits (with the awesome Ann and Sylvia picking up my slack): my personal pride ones are the PTSD Asari, the marines in Purgatory, and the incredibly unpleasant cheating spouse in the Commons.  Oh, and Blasto.
Citadel Background Noise: The news articles, the background stuff that doesn't have subtitles, and the extremely complex and richly rewarding voices that talk on the elevator and in stores


So anyway, there you have it. It's been a long and wild ride, and it's amazing and humbling to see so many people emotionally engaging with the game. Thanks, everybody.

EDIT: To be clear and avoid future misunderstandings, feel free to offer commentary, positive or negative, about what I wrote, or ask questions about the same. If you wish to raise concerns about something I didn't write, you would be better
served by going to the BSN or the wonderful Mass Effect LJ community.

Modifié par ABCoLD, 18 mars 2012 - 07:49 .

[Nollan]

Oh, he deleted his article because of my thread.

I feel bad now. ._.

[marshkoala]

Thank you Patrick Weekes! I loved Mordin! And Tali

Please volunteer to add/enlarge the ending!

[Action Bawstard]

 

[Brahlis]

Weekes wrote Tali?

I love this guy.

[Dominus]

Damn it, he just deleted it.

Likely for the better - We don't really need a "Make this guy the head of the company instead of this guy" topic, it didn't work out well for Dragon Age 2 either. Having said that, I'm also in great appreciation of Weekes' work over the time span of the mass effect series.

[Salyut]

Nollan wrote...

Salyut wrote...

Patrick Weekes, please save our franchise

On a more serious note, has he actually said anything about the endings? Like a tweet or a blog post? Cause maybe he's fine with the endings as they are now.

His twitter is private for those who don't follow him and I don't have a twitter.

Shame. Don't have a twitter either. Anyone here who follows him?

[Balmung31]

Knowing that he's responsible for all the good Tali romance dialogue, I have no doubt he could write an ending where Shep and she reunite after the battle.

PLEASE, Mr. Weekes.

[ediskrad327]

ok someone build a time machine and make him lead writer pronto!

[Midarenkov]

PTSD Asari was disturbing (in a good way). Very well written flavor piece.

[Welsh Inferno]

Always been my favorite writer on mass effect. Pat is a legend. WEEKES FOR LEAD WRITER

[Empiro3]

ABCoLD wrote...

Ambient Bits: Several of the "pick a side" ambient moments, 1/3 to 1/2
of the pure flavor bits (with the awesome Ann and Sylvia picking up my
slack): my personal pride ones are the PTSD Asari, the marines in
Purgatory, and the incredibly unpleasant cheating spouse in the Commons.

The PTSD Asari was by far the best mini story in the game. And the tie-in to Joker's sister both both brilliant and dasdardly.

[Bigdoser]

Yeah he should get a nice car for the awesome parts he has written GJ Patrick.

[Whybother]

He deleted it for a reason and we should respect that, IMHO.

Patrick, if you are reading this, best wishes.

[Grumpy-Mcfart]

Nollan wrote...

Mr. Big Pimpin wrote...

He's definitely my favourite ME writer by far.

If they make new endings, he should be in charge.

I would have liked if it was him in charge instead of Mac.

Also, he wrote Tali who was my LI. So +1 for that.

[Silmane]

To be honest, with the backlash of the endings, what did he think was gonna happen when he posted that?

Great job, Pat, but way too soon with a post like that. Should've waited a few months, maybe years.