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[Sobkou]

 Hack walters is responsible for pretty much all the Cerberus nonsense that overtly dominated the series as it went on, just because he wrote The Illusive Man and had a permanent chubby for the organization. They went from actually being cool and believable to being God-modding, overpowered, over-funded "badasses" that are better at every other race at everything for no logical reason despite supposedly being a human splinter-cell group that's only a couple of decades old. Not to mention pretty much sidelining The Reapers as the main enemy by the end of the trilogy. Compare how the organization was portrayed in Drew's books and ME1 to ME2, ME3 and Mac's comics and it's pretty damn clear where the fault lies.It doesn't really matter any more. Mass Effect is a dead series... as is BioWare as a company. They can't make RPGs any more, and clearly don't want to. They don't care about player agency, player choice and gameplay depth. They just want to make story-driven action games and tell their stories in the most linear, hands-off way possible. I'd say they want to create interactive movies, but even the term "Interactive" seems to be diminishing with each game they release.

[Sobkou]

As i see it all they need to do is fire this guy and get someone with skills to write their next game. Mac Walters has no clue whatsoever about how to stick to themes in a story and get a point across. The ending to Mass Effect 3 just shows that neither this guy nor Casey Hudson can see just how thematically inconsistent it is with the rest, because all they ever excused in interviews was that "players needed more closure" or "the ending was maybe too sad for players"
I think they know, but this guy is just incredibly lazy.

[Sobkou]

I take that back Casey Hudson is fine as a project director but he doesn't have skill or experience in writing. Mac just seems to be incompetent. Drew created the universe, he developed it, expanded on it. Suddenly when he leaves Mac thinks "oh this is my universe" and then comes space magic. He is a rude egocentric moron who single handedly destroyed one of the best universes in gaming. Well done Mac.

[Sobkou]

I'm sick of Mac Walters. He's a hack, and he takes all the credit for the writing of the games, hell, he even said he was "the lead writer" for Mass Effect 1, once. What a ego-centric ****. I don't feel like playing Mass Effect 4 when he's the lead writer, because i know the story will be terrible, even if there are shimmers of good writing here and there. He's not a consistently good writer, and that doesn't work in a game that is about story.

[YouKnowMyName]

Actually, Mac can be a competent writer; He wrote one of my favourite characters:

Wrex; Urdnot Wrex! Yes, Mac was the one who wrote Wrex in ME1. He was also the writer of ME1 Garrus, so I don't agree he is completely talentless.

Modifié par YouKnowMyName, 03 juillet 2013 - 11:00 .

[Paul E Dangerously]

Not that I want to put much effort into a thread that's obviously going to get the hammer, but I don't think a main writer switch in the middle of a trilogy has ever gone well - for books, movies, and so on as well as gaming.

[Sobkou]

YouKnowMyName wrote...

Actually, Mac can be a competent writer; He wrote one of my favourite characters:

Wrex; Urdnot Wrex! Yes, Mac was the one who wrote Wrex in ME1. He was also the writer of ME1 Garrus, so I don't agree he is completely talentless.

Garrus was boring and dull in ME1 and Wrex is Canderous Ordo Clone.No only that he wrote the most forgettable character(James Stupid ass Vega) and all the ****ty parts of the game. Why am I not surprised? Your lead writer, everyone.

[xNYROx]

Sobkou wrote...

YouKnowMyName wrote...

Actually, Mac can be a competent writer; He wrote one of my favourite characters:

Wrex; Urdnot Wrex! Yes, Mac was the one who wrote Wrex in ME1. He was also the writer of ME1 Garrus, so I don't agree he is completely talentless.

Garrus was boring and dull in ME1 and Wrex is Canderous Ordo Clone.No only that he wrote the most forgettable character(James Stupid ass Vega) and all the ****ty parts of the game. Why am I not surprised? Your lead writer, everyone.

http://www.drewkarpyshyn.com/

Write him about your complaints. I guarantee Drew would be absolutely embarassed about someone who supports him saying this type of filth on these forums about a buddy of his. Drew is a very real guy and he answers emails pretty fast. We were emailing back and forth about his new series and when he was going to do a book signing near me so I could get some stuff signed and a picture and he answered in under a week. Maybe he can cheer you up or set you straight either way I think you would benefit from his wisdom.

Modifié par xNYROx, 03 juillet 2013 - 07:56 .

[Paul E Dangerously]

Sobkou wrote...
Garrus was boring and dull in ME1 and Wrex is Canderous Ordo Clone.No only that he wrote the most forgettable character(James Stupid ass Vega) and all the ****ty parts of the game. Why am I not surprised? Your lead writer, everyone.

For what it's worth, I actually liked James "Slab Bulkhead" Vega, even if I despised the idea of a new party member this late in the series.

Hell, what irritated me far more than that was how out of character some of your old unplayable ME1 party members were in ME2, that come crawling back in ME3 as playable because they're fan favorites.

[Sobkou]

Sopa de Gato wrote...

Sobkou wrote...
Garrus was boring and dull in ME1 and Wrex is Canderous Ordo Clone.No only that he wrote the most forgettable character(James Stupid ass Vega) and all the ****ty parts of the game. Why am I not surprised? Your lead writer, everyone.

For what it's worth, I actually liked James "Slab Bulkhead" Vega, even if I despised the idea of a new party member this late in the series.

Hell, what irritated me far more than that was how out of character some of your old unplayable ME1 party members were in ME2, that come crawling back in ME3 as playable because they're fan favorites.

Thats because they changed writers for the character.

[Sobkou]

xNYROx wrote...

Sobkou wrote...

YouKnowMyName wrote...

Actually, Mac can be a competent writer; He wrote one of my favourite characters:

Wrex; Urdnot Wrex! Yes, Mac was the one who wrote Wrex in ME1. He was also the writer of ME1 Garrus, so I don't agree he is completely talentless.

Garrus was boring and dull in ME1 and Wrex is Canderous Ordo Clone.No only that he wrote the most forgettable character(James Stupid ass Vega) and all the ****ty parts of the game. Why am I not surprised? Your lead writer, everyone.

http://www.drewkarpyshyn.com/

Write him about your complaints. I guarantee Drew would be absolutely embarassed about someone who supports him saying this type of filth on these forums about a buddy of his. Drew is a very real guy and he answers emails pretty fast. We were emailing back and forth about his new series and when he was going to do a book signing near me so I could get some stuff signed and a picture and he answered in under a week. Maybe he can cheer you up or set you straight either way I think you would benefit from his wisdom.

His buddy just ruined his entire franchise(which could have toped halo) that he created and recreating into his own image.

[xNYROx]

Sobkou wrote...

xNYROx wrote...

Sobkou wrote...

YouKnowMyName wrote...

Actually, Mac can be a competent writer; He wrote one of my favourite characters:

Wrex; Urdnot Wrex! Yes, Mac was the one who wrote Wrex in ME1. He was also the writer of ME1 Garrus, so I don't agree he is completely talentless.

Garrus was boring and dull in ME1 and Wrex is Canderous Ordo Clone.No only that he wrote the most forgettable character(James Stupid ass Vega) and all the ****ty parts of the game. Why am I not surprised? Your lead writer, everyone.

http://www.drewkarpyshyn.com/

Write him about your complaints. I guarantee Drew would be absolutely embarassed about someone who supports him saying this type of filth on these forums about a buddy of his. Drew is a very real guy and he answers emails pretty fast. We were emailing back and forth about his new series and when he was going to do a book signing near me so I could get some stuff signed and a picture and he answered in under a week. Maybe he can cheer you up or set you straight either way I think you would benefit from his wisdom.

His buddy just ruined his entire franchise(which could have toped halo) that he created and recreating into his own image.

Well, tell him about it. Maybe you have the power to bring him back. Although I highly doubt it he really wants to work on his own novels.

[Tonymac]

YouKnowMyName wrote...

Actually, Mac can be a competent writer; He wrote one of my favourite characters:

Wrex; Urdnot Wrex! Yes, Mac was the one who wrote Wrex in ME1. He was also the writer of ME1 Garrus, so I don't agree he is completely talentless.

Mac can be a competent writer, though.  His comic stuff (which is very similar to storyboarding) can be seriously impressive.

Switching lead writers at any time in a game series or movies or whatever have you can be bad.  Each one has their own style, ideas, views and portrayals.  This will cause an incongruity - unless Mac did his best to mimic Drew's work.  At least Mac stood up and painted it how he saw it a and stood by his own work.

We don't know that the lead writer was not told what to do or told to make endings be a certain way.  We only see the end product - which was the result of many peoples work, both above his pay/grade and below it.  When the man who signs your check tells you to do it *THIS* way, you do it.  The decision to 'scorched earth' the whole series may not have come from him.  It also may have - I do not know for sure.

What we can do is show Bioware our views, what we liked, and what we didn't like.  Hopefully they will grow as a company, and listen to the fans.  Trashing their writers is likely not the way.  Voicing your opinion on the ending should work, though.  Just try to keep it classy - or at least decent. 

[Angrywolves]

I am really suprised they didn't end this thread.
Insulting the writer isn't the way. You'll be accused of trolling a developer and banned. hahah.
The problems with ME3 were trying to do it as an action rpg when it should be more like ME1, a true rpg, other issues involving decisions in previous games and the end which is still reviled to this day.

Bioware is advertising for a new lead writer. Probably has to do with their new IP, but you never know. shrugs.

[BoredZero]

The problem with the entire game is if you put it under any amount of scrutiny, the whole thing falls apart. What the hell was humanity doing during the years leading up to the discovery of the Archives? Why didn't humanity learn about the Reapers from the archive then?

More importantly, why did humanity forget all of its science fiction history and remember that the whole artificial intelligence issue has already been heavily debated previously in Earth history? What happened to all the things we started to or planned to develop based on things in science fiction?

The fault of this game's writing is far beyond any one writer's faults. There's so much they failed to take into account, the entire galaxy comes across as moronic when held to any degree of intellectual standard.

[Sobkou]

Interestingly, Walters revealed he doesn’t think the majority of Mass Effect fans had an issue with Mass Effect 3′s ending and that it was just a very vocal minority.

Modifié par Sobkou, 05 juillet 2013 - 03:48 .

[Sobkou]

Angrywolves wrote...

I am really suprised they didn't end this thread.
Insulting the writer isn't the way. You'll be accused of trolling a developer and banned. hahah.
The problems with ME3 were trying to do it as an action rpg when it should be more like ME1, a true rpg, other issues involving decisions in previous games and the end which is still reviled to this day.

Bioware is advertising for a new lead writer. Probably has to do with their new IP, but you never know. shrugs.

Hack Walters is making the next mass effect game.