Mass Effect 3: Retake This

[The Wooster]

Mass Effect 3: Retake This

The Idiot Trap

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[MatsVS]

Not mad. Just sad.

 

[deathbydeath]

Hey Cory and Grey, how much did EA and Bioware pay you to write this?

Now where did I write down my Twitter password...

 

[Qitz]

I R AGREY! SUPER SERIAL!

Butthurt is assuming direct control.

How'd.....How'd you get the shirt on the bear?

 

[WanderingFool]

Heh... geuss thats on par...


Wait! Whats the girl with the crush on Nathan Fillion doing with her fingers outside the comic box!?

OH GOD!!!

*In fetal position*

THE FORTH WALL WILL PROTECT ME!THE FORTH WALL WILL PROTECT ME!THE FORTH WALL WILL PROTECT ME!

Captcha: step over. NOT FUNNY!

 

[Dr Jones]

Eh eh eh.. I like that one.. But the discription is even better <.<

 

[RJ 17]

>.> there's a vgcats comic that I wanna post here...but is it right to post another webcomic in the comment section for someone's webcomic? :3

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

BUY ALL THE SHIRTS!

Oh and buttons....I like buttons

 

[Patrick Anderson]

Fans point out plot holes and inconsistencies with the ending and how it doesn't fit in the story

Game journalists and their websites that are plauged with EA ads call us entitled

Real journalists from Forbes, BBC News, CNN, NY Times, NY Daily news, etc... say the fans have a point and point out all the quotes Bioware said about the ending and how it ended up being lies.

Yeah, and you wonder why no one takes game journalists seriously anymore. I bet most of you game journalists cringe seeing more credible sources like Forbes rip you apart while you have nothing but petty comments to respond with.

 

[Pandora92]

Very clever, very clever indeed.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Grey, you've been reading books on Pavlovian conditioning, haven't you?

 

[Yopaz]

I get that it's a joke on the mocking of fans being butthurt, but I'm starting to get fed up.

I didn't support the movement, hold the line, send cupcakes or anything but I sure didn't like the ending. Now everywhere I go on the net I'm reminded that I'm apparently an entitled crybaby and I should suck up spending +100 hours and spending +150? for an ending that couldn't be bothered to even tell me what happened being nowhere near what people deserved. (Artistic integrity or not, it's just bad.)

I was never angry, just dissapointed. After reading a bunch of articles, watching vids and now comics, I'm starting to get there. Thanks for telling me what a crybaby I am.

Whatever the point of the comic is supposed to be, I don't care.
Even the damn captcha is trying to be funny, it wants me to type in "get over it"...

And in that case this isn't directed towards you. This is directed to all those who got mad, started whining and did all of the other things. No reason to get fed up.

 

[OniaPL]

I hope you realize that even though you listed instructions below the comic, people still won't get it / will lash out at you out of principle.

Funny though.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Spoiler

I smell a shitstorm on the horizon. Ew.

 

[unacomn]

Take back Mass Effect? Now? I've been outraged since Mass Effect 2. Everyone else is a poser.

 

[Qitz]

>.> there's a vgcats comic that I wanna post here...but is it right to post another webcomic in the comment section for someone's webcomic? :3

hehe.

Spoiler: I know the exact one you mean

 

[RJ 17]

Whilst this was funny, i think that ironically you guys seem kind of mad at the legitimate points brought up by many on last week's comments. Retake Mass Effect may be a little... extreme but at the heart of it they have a legitimate point; The ending sucked. The ending sucked really really really hard. It disregarded the choices the game put so much weight on throughout 3 games, its kind of like Bioware was going "Now all these choices you make are super important and carry over though 3 games- lol jk it didn't mean shit!"

The major selling point of the mass effect series was the customizable personal story you could craft with tour choices. No amount of pundit dismissing will diminish the ending being a bit of a kick in the balls.

Jim seems able to grasp this, why is everyone else effectively dodging the issue and trolling?

I don't think that people are dodging the fact that ME 3's ending was terrible, equivalent to a slap in the face, and in the worst case: an outright lie.

"The ending won't be take your pick of A, B, and C" (paraphrased) - Casey Hudson.

Well actually Casey, it turned out to be exactly that.

Here's the point that the anti-Retake ME people have: you bought the game. You paid for it. It's yours. You don't like the ending? Alright, you don't like the ending. Sucks, but....get over it.

When you pay for a movie and don't like the ending, you don't demand that the ending be rewritten. You write up a critique and say "Well the movie was good but the ending sucked."

When you pay for a book and don't like the ending, you don't demand that the ending be rewritten. You write up a critique and say "Well the book was good but the ending sucked."

That's why people are calling the Retake ME movement "entitled crybabies." Does it absolutely suck that the ending to ME 3 sucks so much? Yes, yes it certainly does. Does Hudson deserve to be kicked in the balls by every ME fan? Yes, yes he most certainly does...with steel-toed boots.

But the fact of the matter remains that there have been bad endings to all sorts of stories throughout history, this isn't the first time this has happened. When you encounter a bad ending, you curse those responsible for creating it, but you move on with your life. You don't start a protest movement.

 

[Aroddo]

didn't like the ending, didn't demand a new one.
bioware fucked it up epically, end of story.
now they respond to fan outrage with a more elaborate ending ... losers, but i understand.

what i don't stand is the attitude that made someone do this comic ... like, "Hey, target audience, did I ever tell you that I fucking despise you stupid fanboy nerds? Toodles!"

 

[RJ 17]

>.> there's a vgcats comic that I wanna post here...but is it right to post another webcomic in the comment section for someone's webcomic? :3

hehe.

Spoiler: I know the exact one you mean

xD yep, that would be the one!

 

[Mike Fang]

Yeah, when I heard people were petition for a chance to ME3's ending, I just had to roll my eyes. You don't like ME3's ending? Perfectly fine, everybody's entitled to an opinion. You say the ending was bad? Again, perfectly fine and you may very well be right (never got into Mass Effect so I wouldn't know how well or poorly it brings a conclusion to the storyline). Telling the makers to rewrite the ending to satisfy you? That's just stupid. It's the same attitude that has multiplayer game developers constantly nerfing new weapons a week or so after they come out; selfish people who aren't content to just voice their displeasure and then move on, they've got to demand gratification.

Now it's not just gameplay people are demanding be smoothed out so it doesn't give people any sort of challenge; they don't want to be challenged by the storyline either. ME3 may very well have a crappy ending, but sometimes you have to learn to speak your peace, then accept things turned out badly and move on. The next logical step would be people don't like a perfectly valid ending because it didn't happen to be the one they wanted, so they demand a rewrite. It makes me think of the scenario of Stephen King's "Misery," a rabid fan refusing to accept an unexpected turn of events and forcing the writer to change things to their own liking.