Mass Effect 3: Retake This
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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.Scrumpmonkey said:
"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.
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!"
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!"
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.
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.
Fun, isn't it? It's baffling how quickly "Retake Mass Effect" became a group label for anyone who thought ME3's ending sucked. If you were dissatisfied with any number of things that composed the ending, Moviebob's screeching at you about how you're trying to rape Bioware's 'artistic integrity,' Yahtzee gives rambling theories about what he thinks Mass Effect was about and why it makes the ending awesome, and now Critical Miss's crew is cutting out the middle-man and just flat-out calling everyone a crybaby.Smilomaniac said:
So...it's directed at everyone who was dissatisfied with the ending, then? Because the basic idea of "Retake Mass Effect" is that the ending sucked and Bioware is capable of much, much better. If I recall, there was one person who filed an FTC complaint, but from the look of the comic, everyone who didn't like the ME3 ending ran weeping to the FTC.Yopaz said:
It's the world turned upside-down, mate. Jim is the voice of reason. Moviebob is howling about vague concepts like 'artistic integrity,' and Yahtzee is white-knighting about in Extra Punctuation to try and convince us that the story of Mass Effect somehow makes the ending of ME3 awesome, and we were just somehow mistaken.Scrumpmonkey said:
Let me say that one more time: Yahtzee is white-knighting for a game developer. I haven't seen such a switch in mindset since Nathan Bedford Forrest joined the NAACP.
You must know that this is still going to be too subtle for most of your readers.
And using it to directly follow a strip where you unironically did say something retarded about the ME3 controversy is probably not the best timing. Unless that was intentional. But I doubt it.
Huh.
And using it to directly follow a strip where you unironically did say something retarded about the ME3 controversy is probably not the best timing. Unless that was intentional. But I doubt it.
Huh.
No, this does not violate the rule of not feeding the trolls. This pretty much is trolling those who weren't satisfied, bu saying you're fed up you pretty much did feed the troll yourself.Smilomaniac said:
Yes, this comic is made to make fun of all those who just can't accept that the Mass Effect ending was terrible. Saying that they are crybabies is in fact fairly accurate. When someone says that they wont ever forgive Bioware for this and they feel personally insulted by it then they acctually deserve to be made fun of.
You say that this is a sweeping generalization, I think it's directed to that disturbingly large crowd who would in fact buy t-shirts or buttons because they are unhappy with it. If you're part of that crowd I can understand that you get fed up. If you're not a part of it then I would assume you'd be as annoyed with all those tedious threads about Mass Effect 3 and its ending like the rest of us.
Gotta' agree with this. Sarcasm or not, this strip reminded me that gaming journalists have handled this horribly. Instead of "let's look at both sides of this" it's devolved into "well, I didn't see anything wrong with the ending so you guys are just entitled asswipes." On the other hand, a shitload of non-gaming journalists have handled this with the tact expected of them. They looked into the technical details, identified how the situation could be "fixed", if it should be fixed or not and so on.Patrick Anderson said:
So, yeah. Not bothered about gamers being entitled or not, I'm more bothered about the piss poor excuses we have for gaming journalists nowadays. Oh, and Escapist, I'm talking about you too.
you know. even when the after ending dlc comes out. all those crying wusses would still cry cuz they arnt changing the three choices. just adding epilouge. and honestly.. thats great. i didnt mind the ending. just that it seemed to cut short. and epilouge is what is needed! but yeah. great strip 
This would be an acceptable trade-off for what the fans frankly are entitled to do in my opinion- because don't give me that artistic integrity bullshit, it'd be one thing if the ending was hopelessly bleak, or enigmatic yet well written, but artistic integrity should not extend to allowing the artist to sell a product that he didn't bother to finish- but unless they actually allow this to happen, or unless the new DLC actually fixes the mess (at this stage, it won't) then the fans can say what they want about Bioware.RJ 17 said:
