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So, We all know that Walters was bad. Really, really bad - and that he pretty much -blam!-ed up the plot of ME3. But the thing is, people immediately start to praise Karpshayn for simply not writing ME3, while conveniently forgetting how much he -blam!-ed up ME2, and how much that shittiness would leak into ME3.
I mean, take his wonderful writing about the T-800 at the end of the suicide mission. "Human Biotics are special and building a giant terminator out of them will stop the end of the galaxy because reasons", or his wonderful decision too kill Shepard at the beginning solely to get anti-cerberus players to work with them.
Then, you have the whole dark energy plot. Honestly, this would of actually been worse than what we got (Hard to imagine, isn't it?). I mean, at least RGB was somewhat thematically consistent, DE would just through all that out of the water. Then, one of the key themes of the franchise was the different species working together as equals. This just throws that away with "LELELE HOOMINS R SPECIAL AND CAN SEAVE DA UOONIVASVE BECUZ RASINS". Or how the damn thing was only hinted at in a handful of lines in -blam!-ING SIDE MISSIONS. SIDE MISSIONS. And he hinted at this shit without actually getting it approved as the final ending.
Basically, You think Walters is bad? It could of been so much worse...
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Whatevs, as far as I'm concerned Mass Effect 2 is still the greatest science-fiction video game ever made.
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I wish Drew would have just stuck through the whole thing. Yeah, 2 wasn't perfect. But having the third written by him would have at least been more consistent than what we got because it would have been written by the same one person, Drew.
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What exactly was the point of them making a Human Reaper? They already had a whole armada.
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dark energy ending in a nutshell: "FOUR CHOICES THAT CONNECT THEMSELVES TO THE LORE WITH ONLY ONE UNDERLYING THEME THROUGH THE STORY IS STUPID." ... "I KNOW! LET'S HAVE [i]TWO[/i] ENDINGS THAT CONNECT THEMSELVES TO THE LORE WITH [i]SIDE MISSIONS![/i]"
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Bioware really should have just planned out the main story arc from the beginning, and worked on the details of events with each game. They were planned to be a series from the beginning, anyway, so.
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Mass Effect should've just stopped after the first. The writers were way in over their heads