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[plfranke]

This was Jessica Merizan's response to me when asked why Harbinger was silent in mass effect 3. What does everyone think about this?

Edit: The full conversation was this
Plfranke: Can you give an answer to why Harbinger never spoke in me3?
Jessica Merizan: we know that's what you hoped to see, but sometimes we have other ideas we want to explore - never get too attached to a plot.

Some people completely missed the point of this thread, I was not trying to make Jessica's response out to be insulting. My purpose was to discuss the implications that such a philosophy has when writing a story. When one has no loyalty to established plot lines and themes, the end result is very bad, which is why many people are unsatisfied with mass effect 3. This conversation may serve as some clarification to why things went the way they did and while I would never say her response was insulting, it was mind boggling and has left me disgusted with the writers of mass effect 3 if this was indeed the perspective they took to the Harbinger plot (and I can assume there were other plotlines that received the same treatment).

Modifié par plfranke, 20 août 2012 - 07:38 .

[Jessica Merizan]

I just want to clarify something and then I'm locking this thread for turning from a healthy discussion into something unproductive.

When I said "sometimes we have other ideas we want to explore - never get too attached to a plot." via Twitter, I was referring to writers and their "word babies" as they like to call them, many of which get cut or unused. They have to stay relatively objective otherwise they can't explore amazing ideas brought up by people on the team. The writers can't get too attached to anything. That's not to say they don't have emotional connections to their writing and love the things they create - they don't call them "babies" for nothing 

Now, totally different - YOU shouldn't listen to anyone who tells you how to play your game. That was never my intention to say anything otherwise. I'm incredibly attached to certain plots/characters/concepts, and I can be because I'm not a writer. And of course I'm sad when plots don't happen the way I thought they would, and that's totally OK for me as a consumer, but ultimately I'm not the writer and I think they oftentimes delight and surprise me in ways I couldn't have imagined. 

Sorry it took me so long to clarify this - hadn't seen how prolific this was until now.

Modifié par Jessica Merizan, 06 novembre 2012 - 04:40 .