Recent content by Francis Budden-Hinds

The reason North Korea got up in arms over the Interview becomes a lot more obvious when you realize a bunch of their leadership was due to be reported to the international criminal court about now. Basically North Korea had two choices, it could be in the news because a bunch of its leaders had...

It won't. Unless they make actual major changes, which is not what they're saying, everyone is still going to hate it and the rage will boil on for years. Rightfully.

Because EA isn't an earthquake or a Bear. It's not some kind of uncontrolled natural phenomena, it's a company made up of people. Thus we can assign moral character to it's actions and assess them with adjectives like "good" or "bad". Okay so EA will ban you for modding their games. Fine...

No but they can and should if they want to remain profitable. As I said a page ago people do this all the time. The fact is that with the DLC model of game production you can in fact modify stuff mid performance to work better. Arrival changed the ending of Mass Effect 2. Fall Out 3 already...

Yes. Extensively re-cutting highlander 2 the quickening to remove the alien subplot and please fans did indeed destroy film making as an art form. I for one am glad that radio plays and flower arranging still exist as pure creative art. That aside, I have to laugh when people talk about how...

While I'm sure that many people now won't buy say, DLC, or have returned the game I think this thread's OP kinda misses the point. The fact is that despite it's manifold flaws we like mass effect. We'd like it to have a good ending. Thus seeking to get a good ending seems far more effective than...

The message that you should uh... write better endings? I'm seeing a lot of people saying one of two things in this thread. Either variations of "It's silly to ask for a new ending!" Or "If we bioware gives in than where will it end?!" I don't really see either of those. To answer the...

In Crysis 1, before it got patched, there was a bug in which a North Korean soldier would try to walk across a bridge which wasn't their and fall to his death. I'm not a professional programmer. That doesn't mean I can't tell that's a bug. Similarly, people can tell an ending is crap and...

Okay so we've agreed the ending is bad, now let's get to the meat of this. I think any argument that relies on X is inherently Y needs to be examined more closely. Why exactly is it silly? It's not technically impossible like it would be for a movie or a book. Indeed Bioware declared right...

Sounds like you don't understand what I just said. No, we don't "own" the game, just you know, fund it, and supply the only reason for it's existence. Bioware has absolutely no obligation to change things just because everyone thinks they made an ending which is utterly retarded. But...

No. That's not how this works at all. Nobody is sending commandos around to bioware's building to kidnap them and force them at gunpoint to redo the ending of ME3. Nobody is lobbying governments to pass laws which force them to rewrite the ending of mass effect. Nobody is starting class...