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[David7204]

MassivelyEffective0730 wrote...

It's depressing to imagine how sorry your life must be if you dedicate such copious amounts of time belittling and insulting people on the internet who don't agree with you.

Hardly. I have no illusions. I know what the BSN is, and I spend time here anyway.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

David7204 wrote...

MassivelyEffective0730 wrote...

It's depressing to imagine how sorry your life must be if you dedicate such copious amounts of time belittling and insulting people on the internet who don't agree with you.

Hardly. I have no illusions. I know what the BSN is, and I spend time here anyway.

Well if this isn't the ironic post for the day. You spend time on a forum where you attack every person this way and that and show almost no social ability whatsoever, holding yourself and your ideas on a pedestal, absolutely convinced that your ideas are inherently correct, even if you theoretically accept that some ideas are better than yours, you deflate and attack others in some idea that your values and judgements are genuinely something to be considered and that your own tastes and preferences are inherently better. 

Yeah, I guess you are the epitome of 'what the BSN is'. 

You have all the negative traits rolled into one.

[ElitePinecone]

MegaIllusiveMan wrote...

Hm... OT now...

OP or anyone, did you catch that last twitter from N7 Day? The one that they were modeling the Chars and areas?

I'm too lazy to search for it...

They're all here, the tweets and images:

http://storify.com/BioWare/n7-day-2013

[ElitePinecone]

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Casey Hudson ‏@CaseyDHudson
Exciting times around the studio. Playable internal builds of the next Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and new IP. My task today: play 'em all!

[AresKeith]

StreetMagic wrote...

I'm glad Hudson is still involved. He's my favorite creator/contributor to Mass Effect.

People said the same about George Lucas in Star Wars 

[dreamgazer]

AresKeith wrote...

StreetMagic wrote...

I'm glad Hudson is still involved. He's my favorite creator/contributor to Mass Effect.

People said the same about George Lucas in Star Wars 

... who gradually improved with each flick following his derailment in The Phantom Menace, leading to the rather decent, almost up-to-quality Revenge of the Sith (to me, the Star Wars franchise consists of 3, 4, 5, and 6).  He's more of a testament against post-release revisionism after the works are said and done.

[SlottsMachine]

AresKeith wrote...

StreetMagic wrote...

I'm glad Hudson is still involved. He's my favorite creator/contributor to Mass Effect.

People said the same about George Lucas in Star Wars 

LOL. Yeah, I can't say Hudson involvment means much to me. 

Modifié par General Slotts, 20 décembre 2013 - 05:56 .

[AresKeith]

dreamgazer wrote...

AresKeith wrote...

StreetMagic wrote...

I'm glad Hudson is still involved. He's my favorite creator/contributor to Mass Effect.

People said the same about George Lucas in Star Wars 

... who gradually improved with each flick following his derailment in The Phantom Menace, leading to the rather decent, almost up-to-quality Revenge of the Sith (to me, the Star Wars franchise consists of 3, 4, 5, and 6).  He's more of a testament against post-release revisionism after the works are said and done.

I have one powerful thing to counter that: Star Wars Kinect lol 

I'm just saying, I have to question the judgement of someone who said Mass Effect Deception was a good book and Deception Kai Leng was badass

[MassivelyEffective0730]

dreamgazer wrote...

AresKeith wrote...

StreetMagic wrote...

I'm glad Hudson is still involved. He's my favorite creator/contributor to Mass Effect.

People said the same about George Lucas in Star Wars 

... who gradually improved with each flick following his derailment in The Phantom Menace, leading to the rather decent, almost up-to-quality Revenge of the Sith (to me, the Star Wars franchise consists of 3, 4, 5, and 6).  He's more of a testament against post-release revisionism after the works are said and done.

Eh, I'm sorry, but I just can't get behind this. As a long-time fan of SW, I will say that George really was his own worst enemy in SW. He's a good creative machine and idea maker, but he's really subpar at translating that into actual works. III is good, but not for what George wanted it to be good for. IV, he really did have a great idea with, though you can easily tell his style of personal filmmaking compared to V and VI. 

Let's put it this way: George is a better technical director. He was pretty much director in everything but name for VI, with the only things he didn't direct being the interactions between the main characters. All the big battle scenes were him. He excels with special effects, and his overall plots are good, but when it comes down to the details, such as character development and advancing the plot, he needs to stay the **** away.

Modifié par MassivelyEffective0730, 20 décembre 2013 - 06:15 .

[ElitePinecone]

AresKeith wrote...

I'm just saying, I have to question the judgement of someone who said Mass Effect Deception was a good book and Deception Kai Leng was badass

That's marketing. Do you seriously expect someone in charge of a game franchise to ever ridicule it or talk it down, especially before it launched? Whatever Casey thought of Deception, nobody in a position like his would ever do anything but shower it with praise, because that's their job. His real feelings about the novel are nowhere near as important as the need to market Deception to the people who are most likely to buy it. It might seem dishonest, but why would a business ever cast doubt on their own products voluntarily?

I think super hard core fans also make a mistake when they assume that the franchise creators are as invested and nitpicky as they are - yes, Casey is involved in many aspects of the series, but there were a hundred things more important during the developmnt of ME3 than checking whether Deception was a good book. People on the BSN really, *really* care that Deception was a mess - to the Mass Effect team it was, I would guess, a tiny side-project aimed at a tiny hardcore audience that was completely lost in the maelstrom of developing a videogame that made hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. 

There's a separate issue about whether Bioware should've had better processes in place for checking the novels, but saying that Casey should've singlehandedly fixed Deception both underestimates how much his opinion is shaped by PR/marketing, and overestimates how much time and attention he would have, or want, to give it. I think, frankly, fans obsess about things that the developers just don't care about - especially at the higher levels, when Deception is just the novel that someone decided needed to be written to fit the brand development strategy, or something. 

[Nerevar-as]

David7204 wrote...

It's depressing to imagine how sorry your life must be if you dedicate such copious amounts of time to something you have such low expectations of.

Actually I usually lurk in OT and DA:I, taking less than half an hour a month to see how things are going with ME is a strange definition of copious time - my "sorry" life is because of issues that are actually important.

And as we are with SW comparisons (liked PT though, QGJ is my favorite character), RotJ didn´t end with the Emperor giving Luke 3 choices that undid all he stood for.

[Nerevar-as]

MassivelyEffective0730 wrote...

dreamgazer wrote...

AresKeith wrote...

StreetMagic wrote...

I'm glad Hudson is still involved. He's my favorite creator/contributor to Mass Effect.

People said the same about George Lucas in Star Wars 

... who gradually improved with each flick following his derailment in The Phantom Menace, leading to the rather decent, almost up-to-quality Revenge of the Sith (to me, the Star Wars franchise consists of 3, 4, 5, and 6).  He's more of a testament against post-release revisionism after the works are said and done.

Eh, I'm sorry, but I just can't get behind this. As a long-time fan of SW, I will say that George really was his own worst enemy in SW. He's a good creative machine and idea maker, but he's really subpar at translating that into actual works. III is good, but not for what George wanted it to be good for. IV, he really did have a great idea with, though you can easily tell his style of personal filmmaking compared to V and VI. 

Let's put it this way: George is a better technical director. He was pretty much director in everything but name for VI, with the only things he didn't direct being the interactions between the main characters. All the big battle scenes were him. He excels with special effects, and his overall plots are good, but when it comes down to the details, such as character development and advancing the plot, he needs to stay the **** away.

I think he more or less admited it himself in some of the "making of" DVD features. But those issues are not that new, ESB plot time line for instance is a headache (and won´t forgive giving R2 the most stupid moment of the 6 movies).

[Lady Sif]

Jay Watamaniuk@JayWatamaniuk: A few space-related things to ponder this holiday season. #Space!

[BioWareAre****s]

Casey Hudson
@CaseyDHudson
"Exciting times around the studio. Playable internal builds of the next Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and new IP. My task today: play 'em all!"

I'm doing a happy dance!

[Sion1138]

FluffyCannibal wrote...

@CaseyDHudson

I wonder what the "D" stands for.

[Shermos]

Didn't someone say there was going to be a teaser of some sort around Christmas time? We better keep our eyes peeled.

[ElitePinecone]

I didn't hear that, last we heard they'd be talking about the next ME more in 2014.

[Soultaker08]

ElitePinecone wrote...

I didn't hear that, last we heard they'd be talking about the next ME more in 2014.

Pax East is a sure bet i guess...

[Malanek]

There was a hint of it...
@User: @AarynFlynn Christmas is the best time for sharing the latest ME news hint hint

Aaryn Flynn@AarynFlynn: @User We'll see what I can do when I get to the studio

But at the same time we have also been told we wouldn't hear more before 2014 so don't read too much into it.

[Shermos]

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume we might get some more screenshots.

[Nitrocuban]

Shermos wrote...

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume we might get some more screenshots.

Ain't nobody got time for that weird double negativ, but I have no reason to not agree with you.

[N7 Shadow 90]

I was thinking that the picture of the 'Bioware' logo might have been what Aaryn was refering to, but you never know!

[CannotCompute]

Malanek999 wrote...

There was a hint of it...
@User: @AarynFlynn Christmas is the best time for sharing the latest ME news hint hint

Aaryn Flynn@AarynFlynn: @User We'll see what I can do when I get to the studio

But at the same time we have also been told we wouldn't hear more before 2014 so don't read too much into it.

I remember Bioware releasing a pic of Shepard with the Renegade Christmas lights in his eyes back in 2010. So let's hope we'll get a nice gift this year as well.