Well, from an outsider perspective, and as a guy who has read Drew's books and Mac's comics, I'd say Drew is more focused on trying to tell a plot of events. And he sometimes does a good job (Revelation and Ascension). And sometimes he doesn't (Retribution). Which is why ME1 felt like it had a more focused story. But is main weakness is characters. He doesn't know how to write cool characters, or barely pulls off good to average characters. And when he is doing a good job, he dumps them or screws them up later. Example, he wrote Liara in ME1, and honestly, despite being a Liara fan, I never was happy with ME1 Liara. From the moment you pick her up, majority of her character development is her trying to romance you. She could've helped kill her mother, but instead she's more focused on describing Asari sex. His bad guys are typically evil, and his good guys are typically good. And a lot of ME1's choices were very "This is the good guy choice" and "This is the bad guy choice".
While Mac on the other hand is more focused on characters then plot. Out of all the comics he's written himself, the plots a very basic. They're nothing special, and more of just devices to setup events. And if you look at ME3, majority of that story is following ME1 plot points. You go from picking up a Prothean something being stolen from a rogue group, to going to the Citadel to talk to the Council, then going all over the Galaxy to find a missing Prothean piece. Then discover another beacon, which holds the final piece. But then bad guy shows up, and gets away with it. Said bad guy is also studying indoctrination. A prothean VI tells you the Citadel is important. You get to it by running to a Conduit. Then meet bad guy inside, and convince him to blow his brains out.
But what Mac does excel at is focusing on the characters then the story and developing them. ME3 had Shepard do the most emoting, and going through the most personal stuff. It's the one with the most emotional scenes. It's the one where the characters are put in the most harms way, and you care more about them. Or feel a lost from their sacrifice. He also created and develop the more popular characters, like Garrus, Wrex, Liara, Hackett, Aria, TIM, and Anderson. And ME the series had more focus on grey choices instead of simply good or bad choices. Where any choice could backfire. And a lot more darker things happened. Like Shepard sacrificing an entire system in Arrival.
So you can make an argument that Mass Effect would've been better if they both were Lead Writers instead of separate writers. Because it seems they complete each other, and fill in their weaknesses.
Modifié par TMA LIVE, 22 juillet 2012 - 02:54 .
Ce sujet est fermé
Retour en haut
