The Mass Effect 3/BioWare Thread

Looks too bitchy not to be pure butthurt in my experience.

 

Biotard catching a ME3 balloon?

 

Because studios like this are designing their games around lots of writing. You have to sit through tons of it to play. Bad writing is fine--some of my favourite games have absolutely atrocious writing, but the focus of those games is the combat, the exploration, the character systems, etc. But if writing is the selling point and your writing sucks, you need to shape the fuck up. I'm not going to sit through 20 hours of derivative, uninspired schlock.

 

Military officer censor female reporter by punching her while she tries to work.
- BioWare says: ART. Deep emotional engagement, with great dialog. Be a Renegade Hero on the most important sci-fi universe of this generation.

Some people making fun of someone on the internet.
- BioWare says: Crossing the line, you idiots!

 

Something tells me if Hamburger Helper really put in the effort and tried to play Arcanum she'd never reach Shrouded Hills.

 

Wasn't Georg Zeller a veteran of Interplay/Black Isle? He was at Obsidian for a while, I know he worked on NWN2 before he moved to Bioware. I sorta got the impression he had been in the industry for a while.

 

subtle?

 

Guys, he's just being EXTREME.

 

I'm kind of surprised by how poor the company's control over its social media image is. I always assumed that videogame companies are some of the most attuned to the internet and would have basic guidelines for conduct in place over these things. I can't support the flaming, but talking about your sex organs and telling customers to go fuck themselves over Twitter is grounds for suspension at the very least the places I've worked. It's just hard to imagine.

Does Bioware have a social media PR person? Why haven't they shut their employees going nuts down?

 

True, dat. But Gabe runs a tight ship. Valve, has, what, 150 employees? Valve vets like Chet Failzizikzifrgk have Twitter accounts but they don't go out and try to stir up shit like Gaider and Derpler.

 

Every retort they make only causes more trolling, don't know why they bother.

 

I am not an expert on social media but since their usual reaction to anything they don't like is END OF RHINE-DING DONG BANNU,I guess they have hard time enforcing that on social media so they aren't really into that

 

Someone check Stanley Woo's twitter feed. It's probably 10,000 replies of "END OF LINE."

 

Maybe it's because Bioware hires tards and Valve hires bros. Oh, Valve.

 

The Borderhouse: Gamers Launch Harassment Campaign Against BioWare Writer

Randomly accuse anyone and anything of misogyny for no clear reason and see if anything sticks. Standard operating procedure.

I wish I could be involved in the making of cinematic, emotionally engaging AAA titles like DA2 and ME3.

The article makes no mention of what people think about Hepler's artistic abilities.

Here's a cool story from the comments:

I'm glad RPGs are now defined by some fujoshis who don't even like video games.

 

Don't care for her writing or Bioware in general, but all those guys are going after the wrong person. If they're that upset about the way Bio has gone, they'd go after the ones who are in charge of their games, who hire the crappy writers/designers and greenlight their shit, the company's insultingly bad customer service, and their tendency to rush games out the door unfinished and nickel-and-dime with half-assed dlc.

Instead, they waste time on a glorified fanfic writer who really doesn't have much, if any, say in how Bio makes and markets their games. The ones really responsible get a free scapegoat and can carry on ripping everyone off.

 

Those guys don't give a fuck about Bioware.

What generated all this hatred towards Hepler is her unfortunate commentary on how she dislikes games, how games should be interactive movies without gameplay and her miserable "i'm a vagina that wokrs on gaem industry, envy me!" comment.

 

Quite hard on the patience to see this Hepler story unfold to become the feed for blog sites desperate for something to write about. Goodness knows no one is approaching the issue from any other perspective than that of blown-up outrage, and the issue certainly exists for a good reason, if persisting for all the wrong ones. Makes me a wee bit sad at times that so many perspectives are never represented or brought forth on any blog or news site with a large readership. Especially the general perspectives of the codex which seem largely concerned with creative casuistry (the good kind) of the industry.

Sure some shallow-brained jackass may decide, or run on reactionary forces in his flesh, to give racofer shit for being of noble intention and honest language, but I'll take the perspective of a flying penis(?) to the drivel these blogs pump out on the subject.

Not for the faint of rage.

edit: though the PA Report seems promising.

 

They do.

 

All those problems aside from writing has essentially become industry standard, unfortunately. While writers have no say in what transpires in their shitty games, they do have control of bringing out in depth (least they try). The writer's job is about taking shit ideas from the project director and trying to polish them, which I'll give credit to BW's writers they were capable of making half-decent attempts with certain plots.

The problem is that the writers aren't even trying anymore, they're given shit ideas and do nothing with it. Dragon Age 2 being filled with waifus and other such shit can be attributed to the writers, which seems to be the direction which people seem to be furious at. Hepler might not be solely responsible but she's surely the most visible (lol) target due to her interview from 2006, something which pretty much fits into the definition of "Story" mode.

They're proud of their shit because gay people and those who don't even want to play the game can taste it, they're not proud of it because it's good.