Looks like they're going to develop some content to address some fan concerns.
http://blog.bioware.com/2012/03/21/4108/
http://blog.bioware.com/2012/03/21/4108/
I'd prefer not needing DLC to get complete endings, although if the DLC is worthwhile I'll still buy it.
Hudson should leave the fan addresses to Muzyka, because he sounded like nothing so much as hot air in his own response to ME3 criticism.
You know, I'm feeling charitable to BioWare. They tried something new, and I think that they didn't manage to get it to work out right. I can see what they were going for, and it failed.
And, hey, if they can re-write it, it'd be interesting.
I don't get it.
Next thing you know they'll be using controversy to promote their games . . .It really wouldn't surprise me if EA forced the game to come out before it was ready. Hell, the idea of fixing the ending later with a DLC could of also been their idea. It seems like the type of thing EA would do.
Look, Hepler said in 06 that she dislikes 'playing games'. She dislikes the combat sections, and likes just picking options. There's a name for a game with only talking, a interactive movie. They bombed - back in the seventies and eighties when they were tried. You simply cannot remove parts of the core gameplay and expect people to treat it like a RPG.
If you have a female employee that logs in to her 15 minute old twitter account and find hundreds of messages calling her a "fat cunt" I'm not going to take those critics very seriously, and I'll applaud her collegues that call those gamers moronic twats.
Ever heard of Heavy Rain? That did pretty well, and was a superb game to boot.
You are not the core fanbase for Bioware games. Said core fanbase likes combat.I for one was quite pleased about the 'skip combat' idea, since I suck hard at shooters (arthritis in fingers = poor reflexes) And as Zoombie says, it's just an option.
And Mass Effect 3 had combat....You are not the core fanbase for Bioware games. Said core fanbase likes combat.
I do really like Fable's way of handling it. It works well for that style of game. Though one time when it faded back in, there was a group of villagers in the bedroom cheering.I've never heard of this Hepler woman before yesterday, and I don't particularly care about the PR issues surrounding her.
I will note however that I do find ME sex scenes (and Bioware sex scenes in general) awkward.
Not bad, perhaps kind of tasteful, but I think it would be better to go without them.
Tali's "sex scene" in ME2 is more like what I wish they were all like: it's obvious they're going to have sex, but there's no need for us to see anything. If they absolutely have to titillate us, then they could just do what Fable did--cut to black with sex noises.
Which ME?The only Bioware sex scene that I thought was handled decently, was female Shepard and Liara.