Mass Effect 3: Retake This
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And game reviews. No one takes those seriously either.Patrick Anderson said:
The writer should check out zero punctuation and the 'webcomics' episode.
I'm trying to find a way that this is funny or clever. Is it saying that the outrage over Mass Effect is basically just free marketing? Or...
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No. No it's just not really funny.
"LOLLOOLOLU U SO MAD THAT Y IT FUNNY CUZ U MAD LOLOULOULOULELOULOUL."
That argument is absurd and leads to Uwe Boll movies. It is entirely possible to try to be fail for the sake of humor, and then fail at it. Unless there's some really, really deep meaning to this that I'm still not getting, I'm calling it.
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No. No it's just not really funny.
"LOLLOOLOLU U SO MAD THAT Y IT FUNNY CUZ U MAD LOLOULOULOULELOULOUL."
That argument is absurd and leads to Uwe Boll movies. It is entirely possible to try to be fail for the sake of humor, and then fail at it. Unless there's some really, really deep meaning to this that I'm still not getting, I'm calling it.
I think that such idiocy is hilarious, actually. It shows what a joke humanity really is, you know?Unsilenced said:
Show me in the contract where the authors agreed to be deep and meaningful.
Cephei Mordred said:
They made marketing statements that lead me to believe that the comic would be deep and meaningful. We were deceived.
Retake Critical Miss. Demand a better punchline.
Nonsense. You are just dismissing our claims because you can't argue against them. You obviously just aren't a big enough fan of Critical Miss to understand how we feel. I spent hundreds of seconds reading that comic and posting about it here. I am entitled to a better joke. I'm sure real journalists will support me by making statements about things that are completely outside their fields.Cephei Mordred said:Since that punchline involves Penny actually reappearing, I will have to decline.
Brb. Bumming for cupcake money.
While those arguements are certianly valid enough, and apply themselves to the vast majority of games, I think a large ammount of the reason for the ending backlash, and why they don't quite apply here is what made the ME series unique in the first place - the ability to import your choices from a previous game into the sequels and see how they effected the game. The result being a situation where you could have three different fans playing three different and entirely unique versions of Shepard, and given that ammount of choice and creative freedom it's kinda hard not to think that the story is partly yours.RJ 17 said:
And thats where the 'if you watched a film/read a book you didn't like the ending of you don't demand the ending be re-written' kinda falls apart, because outside of maybe a choose-your-own adventure book (and I'm not even sure if those really count since there's generally only one or a small handful of 'correct' paths to follow) there's no way that you, the viewer/reader has any influence over what happens. Your interaction with the media in question is completely passive - you observe someone else's work. It may evoke emotions in you, it may resonate with you, it may bore you to tears, but you have no way of shaping the narrative. Even the average video game follows this. You may have a bit more control over bits of it, but the narrative is generally fixed (via cut scenes, dialogue, etc) with very little freedom of choice.
The closest thing I can think of to how a film would work like that would be like the special feature they included on the DVD release of 'Final Destination 3', where you had the option of trying to 'defy fate' each time a death scene turned up and if you pulled it off you got an alternative scene. Ultimately this just ended up making most of the death scenes shorter, save for one bit where one of the characters actually survived, only to be shown getting arrsted for something later in the film. It was pretty crap to be honest, and its only a DVD feature, but its the closest I can think of as to how an audience can actually make choices that would affect a film's narrative.
People crap on George Lucas for the Star Wars prequels and his obsessive tinkering with the original trilogy. We all know the depths of Star Wars fanboy obsessive rage (I'm guilty of it myself at times).
Now imagine what that would be like if we'd gone through the prequel trilogy being able to choose if, say Qui-Gonn gambled with Watto for Anakin's freedom and the parts he needed, or if he'd just threatened him with the business end of a lightsabre and intimidated him into giving them away, or if, say Anakin went on his bloody spree of vengeance in the Sand People camp after his mother's death, or if he swallowed his hate and tried to be a good Jedi, or whatever. And then at the end of the film Lucas went 'no, you're not allowed to make choices anymore', introduced Darth Sidious' (and Maul's & Tyranus') unrevealled hidden master who pulled some bullshit explanation for the plot out of his arse, made Obi-Wan and Anakin fight 'because I say so', and then ended the whole thing with an advert for Star Wars merch.
The fan explosion from that'd make the retake movement look like a toddler's temper tantrum
That older strip: yes, it is making fun of the movement.Teresa Lass said:
This current strip? No. Not even close. It maybe using the "current affairs" of ME3, but it is not even close to making fun of the movement.
For a comic strip which has so many sudden topic-switching single-use-strips and very, very few arcs (Steam, the accident, etc), you sure like to connect them all together.
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Or are you still believing that every single Critical Miss we've read so far is about crumpets? You know, since the first one mentioned crumpets...
Its a double whammy actually, now that I think about it:chiefohara said:
a) It generates traffic for the Escapist primarily by hooking onto the trolling that has been going on with ME3, the retake movement, etc. What's not to love about yet another online gaming site calling all of us ME3 playing folk entitled babies???
b) At the same time, it lampoons everything about point (a) and everybody involved in "gaming journalism", showing us how low some editors can go just for traffic-generating content... including this very site.
Including this very comic strip, just one issue earlier.
* am chucking more now thanks to fridge-logic, and is applauding Grey Carter for a job well done *
Really? My other strips are fine but the last one was "low?" It's funny how the movement's sense of humour seems to evaporate when they're the butt of the joke.noobartist1 said:
As if ANYONE is any different? Few people LIKE being the butt of someones joke. I personally, have became calaus to it over the years. I've been the butt of a great MANY jokes in my lifetime. Being extreamly clumsy, AND a geek too the 3rd power (comic, videogames, sci fi/fantasy) brings with it alot of ribbing. *shrug*Grey Carter said:
I'm not sure what your were going for with the comic strip. I don't know if you have a deeper meaning behind it or not. In my mind, if your joke is too complacated and you need to explain it or have it explained, it failed. So, yeah. nice pretty picutres at least i guess. *shrug*
