Mass Effect 3 and Art Envy: Reaping What They Sow

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UPDATE: EA has finally relinquished their claim on this video.

This is an examination of the mindset behind sophomoric decisions.

The issues surrounding ME3 are so numerous that many were not mentioned in this video. I used less than a quarter of the footage I've gathered. I may upload some more of it in the future.




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• Category

  Gaming

[Arcanon792]

ME1 has the best story, plot and villain, ME2 has NO PLOT, the Collectors are the worst villain, but the characters are beyond awesome. ME3 has Tuchanka and Rannoch...and then bleeeeah :(((

[ChristianHarper]

Oh, and Colin Moriarty. Ignorant, arrogant, hipster douche. IGN is the biggest joke of all of the so called "gaming journalists".  Bought and paid for, isn't that right Chobot?

[Pax00Imperium]

It's interesting that these large companies forget about the artistic ability of the customers themselves. They want to tell their customers what is 'Art', rather than allow the customers to share and extend to the company their own creative ideas. Bioware failed to allow the customers creativity. This is their biggest failure.

[KaitonWLOC]

My views exactly, not everything in any medium is art. I do, however, believe in artistic integrity for game development teams, but only if they can prove that they have a vision. Bioware undermined itself with the ending of Mass Effect 3. They didn't originally have that ending in mind, but it was "too difficult" to do what they wanted. So, they gave up.

[Barneebunchkilla]

That's why I'm subscribed to Angry Joe. He's not like those IGN whores.

[PolishNomad95]

Some films can be artistic, some can be for pure entertainment. The same goes for film, books, and even music. I don't think every game should be defended as art, but we should also reward artful games like we do for other media.

[eyeofthebeholder12]

Why do I get the sense that Casey is talking out of his A**?

[plyinglemon]

Because while every single one will deny it to the death, they are usually getting money from the sides they are on.

[TheGraveyarder]

why are these people who call themselves gaming journalists biased as fuck, defending, and taking sides?

what the fuck

[zeratulsoulB]

It's funny that no matter what you chose in Mass Effect 3 you will still get the same basic ending.

But Bioshock: Infinite did the same thing and pulled it off perfectly. Because it was intentional, because it added to the narrative and theme.

[Frederick II]

you were originally trying to appeal to.

In depth story telling?

Well written characters?

Quality romances?

Exploration?

Fuck that noise! What this series needs is sex appeal, GOW style combat, and mind numbing linearity!

EA: Who's a good company? YOU ARE!!

(throws fidoware a bone).

Bioware has successfully hung itself with barbwire.

It's corpse is just too dumb to realize that it's dead.

[Frederick II]

ME2 turned the series away from its valiant attempts to be a Star Trek-style RPG, and remade it into a blandard (bland/standard) TPS, with (in the words of the average biodrone) ''BETTUR KOMBATZ!!

Sure bioware: Give me a linear hallway shooter devoid of anything even remotely appealing and call its lackluster conclusion ''art''.

Better yet: don't even attempt to build on its predecessor an any meaningful way: just give the COD kiddies what they want, and exclude the demographic-

---> con