Mass Effect 3: Retake This
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I'll tell you why, because the internet and the Retake movement are both "srs bsns"Vivi22 said:
He's actually a character from WAAAAAAAAAY back in the earlier times of Critical Miss. A lot of the characters in the final frame haven't been seen in a while, actually.erttheking said:
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That is all. Interpret it how you will.
Haha, brilliant, I see what you did there. 
....wait, how do some of you people not get this? And why are you mad, (whether you get this or not)? :/
....wait, how do some of you people not get this? And why are you mad, (whether you get this or not)? :/
What's the bottom button saying? "something something MAD" The fist two words look like SOI EH, I don't get it.
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Ah, Thanks.trollpwner said:
I love seeing so many people getting trolled by this.
BECAUSE WEBCOMICS R SRS BSNS. Also, because pretty much no one is getting the punchline.
On a side note, why did you draw Penny's eyes staring into my soul? ;_;
BECAUSE WEBCOMICS R SRS BSNS. Also, because pretty much no one is getting the punchline.
On a side note, why did you draw Penny's eyes staring into my soul? ;_;
So you're saying that the me that is the me I see inside myself isn't the me that other people see but I shouldn't care about that me because the only me that really matters is the me that I see myself as? Seriously, my thoughts on the end to Evangelion are if you needed therapy before seeing the end: you won't any more. If you didn't need therapy before seeing the end: you most certainly will afterwords.Smilomaniac said:
Anyways, joking aside and back to the point: I'm not begrudging people for being extremely passionate about the game. I consider myself pretty passionate about it as well. However you cannot allow that passion to blind you to the facts. The facts remain that Bioware made a product. The consumers bought that product. The consumers didn't like the ending, but there's nothing that says Bioware HAS to make an ending everyone would like, just that they're expected to try their best to do so.
Well they failed miserably.
To use your motorcycle example, it would be like you demanding that Harley Davidson (don't know if that's what you ride, just using it as a name) give you a snow mobile every winter because you don't like the fact that you can't ride. It'd be absurd for them to do so because a snow mobile isn't the product they sold you, they sold you a motorcycle.
So too is ME 3 the product they sold us. We were all willing to pay for it and experience it. Again, it REALLY sucks that the ending was so god-awful, but them's the breaks. I could be wrong but I don't remember Evangelion fans absolutely blasting the creators of the series, making petitions, involving charities, and sending them 400 gundam action figures in order to get the ending changed. I believe the creators saw all the negative reviews and decided "You know what? We CAN do better!" and so they took it upon themselves to change it (again, I could be COMPLETELY wrong at this and won't hesitate to admit it if you have evidence that this is wrong).
In my eyes, the ideal situation would be for everyone to just have written negative reviews of ME 3, blasting the ending as chopped up BS and that it's a damn shame that Bioware managed to royally fuck up the ending to their epic saga. Now this has already happened - obviously - but the Retake ME movement went further and started harassing the developer, DEMANDING that they give us a new ending. It would have been better if Bioware had taken a look at all the negative feedback and decided "You know what? They're right. We could have done WAY better than what we did. Let's give them something they'll enjoy."
And that's actually kinda what I was talking about above: the fans CAN and SHOULD say what they want about Bioware. Bioware gets to swim in allllllll the negativity that their failure of an ending brings their way. We can blast them. We can flame them. We can say they're the biggest choke artists since the Fat Guy Strangler in Family Guy. And from that feedback, Bioware can either say "screw it" and move on or say, as I mentioned above, "The fans are right, we can do better than this. You know what? Let's give the ending another shot."Random berk said:
They just shouldn't be - in the worst cases - actually threatened into changing the ending. It should be a decision they come to naturally, not something they're coerced into doing.
But yeah, pretty sure EVERYONE would be satisfied without a new ending so long as we all get to kick Casey Hudson in the balls.
Have a hint = Everyone in the merchandise warehouse in the last panel work at the game reviewing site that Erin works for.Reet72 said:
Great comic. Always laughed how people treat this issue like its the civil rights movement or something.
Uhhh....No? They're pretty much saying that anyone who is saying that they need to change the ending is being an entitled little shit.Fawxy said:
But y'know? After paying over a hundred dollars to continue the game where one of the major selling points is how the world can be defined and altered in a zillion little ways, and screwing over the consumer base by simply giving you THREE endings which all do the same fucking thing no matter what you choose, I think I've earned a right to say "This blows, and if you want to prove that your games are going to be worth purchasing in the future, you better fucking fix it."
Unfortunately, it's not likely a decision an Electronic Arts-owned entity is going to come to without some form of coercion. (That is, threats to their public image and resignation of customer loyalty.)RJ 17 said:
Hell, we don't even have any way of knowing what the duo supposedly responsible for the ending (Casey Hudson and Mac Walters) think about it, since they've effectively been gagged since March 17.
It's kinda hard to rewrite the ending to a book - with a game so loaded with DLC it wouldn't have been that hard to alter the ending... with the state of affairs, given that the ending is absolutly attrocious, a "proper ending" should have come naturally and free.RJ 17 said:
I'm happy that I didn't buy ME3 in the first place after I lost interest halfway through ME2 and had a gigantic WTF moment at it's end.
ME3-extended cut is the absolut lowest form of scumbaggery that I ever thought possible and makes me think that executives at EA have lost any semblance of sanity. Next step: DLC quest, retail price edition : buy the game for 49.99, then add 10 bucks for the hud, 10 bucks for save/load functions and 10 bucks every half hour of gameplay +10 bucks extra for the ending.
No thank you - too many other companies have better games then these.
On topic: Monetizing the anger of fans over monetizing the exitment of fans over a fictional character...
I think we need to go deeper on this one and examine how companies like the escapist profit from artists that discuss these topics...
While it could just be mocking how easy it would be to monopolize on the rage surrounding mass effect 3, instead of being an overly aggressive piece of flamebait, given how most of the big names on the Escapist have been treating the retake movement (yes there are obviously problems with it, but nothing is simply a binary good/bad thing) and especially the text that went along with the last comic, it is hard to not default to assuming the latter option. I sincerely hope it is the former though.
