Mass Effect 3: Retake This

[Char-Nobyl]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

 

[Seventh Actuality]

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.

 

[Yopaz]

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.

I see lots of reasons to get fed up, because all entertainment seems to be directed at the few outspoken ragers, ignoring the #1 policy of the internet, don't feed the damn trolls.

I'm somewhat confused at how some people think the comic is clever.

The way I read it, it's trolling people who'll assume the message is that they're crybabies, when it's about the mocking of the fans, with focus on the mocking itself. Right?

Either way, I don't think it's clever at all, just another reminder of how the sweeping generalizations that bloggers, journalists, vidmakers and comic artists/writers made up and overhyped, to the benefit of all companies who can now screw over all their fans in the name or artistic integrity and their fans being overentitled kids anyway.

It's not like I fell for it, I stated it in the very first sentence of my post, I get it, or at least I hope I do. I just really don't think it's funny at all, it's beating a dead horse and a lot of us aren't really happy about how the whole situation has been handled.

If there's an even deeper meaning, please explain it. I know I didn't describe it very well.

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.

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.

 

[Sparrow]

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.

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.

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.

 

[Knight Templar]

Subtle, I like it.

By subtle I mean obvious.

 

[I.Muir]

EA could make a lot of money if they made a shirt with marauder shields never forget

 

[knight4light]

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

 

[shadowmagus]

Brilliant.

The "mad" is palpable.

 

[Fasckira]

Corey and Grey make the Escapist for me. Comic gods incarnate.

 

[Deadyawn]

I...I want to be angry but...my sarcasm meter is off the charts. I do not understand.

My brain hurts.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Slightly annoyed at the content posters on this site. I have yet to get to the ending yet but god damn if it's as bad as everyone's making it out to be I'm going to be upset.

 

[Random berk]

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.

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.

 

[JediMB]

Well, that was anticlimactic.

Kind of like the game's ending.

(Ba-dum-tish, or something.)

 

[Something Amyss]

Not mad. Just sad.

More disheartened, myself.

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

It's a dangerous undertaking. Four interns died in the process.

 

[Erttheking]

How do I put this lightly...why the Hell is there a bear?

 

[Qitz]

It's a dangerous undertaking. Four interns died in the process.

So what I'm hearing is, there's four intern positions open? Awesome.

 

[Mortuorum]

I can't imageine there's anyone who's completed Mass Effect 3 who thinks the ending was satisfying, given the story and themes leading up to it. Certainly, if you've played through all three games -- a time investment of potentially hundreds of hours -- the end was just plain horrible. Much like the boss fights in Deus Ex: Human Revolution that engendered similar rage (although on a lesser scale), it seemed cut from a completely different (inferior) game.

Am I disappointed? Yes. Did it ruin the game for me? No, although it did leave a bitter taste. Do I feel I'm in some way entitled to dictate to BioWare that they need to change the ending because of some Bizarro-World logic that says I'm an equal partner in the creative process? Well, that's just stupid.

Dispite some missteps (ME1's item management, ME2's planet scanning, DLC that should have been included in the core game, etc.), the Mass Effect trilogy was fun, with good writing, interesting combat and more than a few moments that forced you to stop and consider the potential consequences of your actions. And I'm having a blast with the multiplayer, even though I'm not really that good at it. I really can't say I feel like I've been cheated. If you feel that way, I honestly think that says more about you than it does about BioWare.

 

[Blind Sight]

Very classy. Glad to see your parody of the 'Retake ME3' group continues to be very high-brow and full of substance. Oh no wait, it's just inane trolling.

 

[Cheeseman Muncher]

This is why I love the internet. =3 I might borrow the crybaby wuss picture and whap it out in future arguments.

 

[Vivi22]

Wait wait wait wait wait wait...

Why the fuck are people taking this strip seriously? They're obviously poking fun at the whole situation, not just the fans' supposed "entitlement".

Lighten the fuck up, people.

Yeah, I'm not getting it either. The strip was clearly not making fun of fans but making a joke about the possibility of taking advantage of their rage to make more money. I'm not sure why anyone is taking the apparent poke at fans seriously when it's obviously only there to set up the last panel.

I also can't believe I have to explain this because some people don't get it. You can thank me for ruining the joke guys.