“Professional” only means they are being paid for their crap. Look at how many terrible, awful movies and games exist. They were made by professionals.

@Background Pony
 
>implying that “professionals” wrote Mass Effect 3.
 
I’ve read MLP fanfiction that was better written than that shit. People like to complain that Magical Mystery Cure is an example of bad writing (like CronoM, even though they don’t know what they’re talking about), but trust me when I say that MMC is way better written than ME3.
 
If you want to know why ME3 is bad, then look up smudboy, or if you just want to know why the ending thereof is bad, then look up MrBtongue

If they wanted just three endings that had a lot of impact, why not do what Jade Empire did? That game had three endings and they were each wildly different from each other.
 
Also, did anyone laugh at the improved Synthesis ending when the Husks turned friendly?

@Princess♠Molestia  
I, uh, I actually liked that movie. :I

@Psychopomf  
i go with the theory that makanidotdot came up with here: tali photoshopped that pic to make herself look better XD

People who use the “but they’re professionals” argument to defend garbage should be shot.
 
I haven’t even played the Mass Effect games but it’s hard not to notice that one side is stating specific problems with the ending and their opposition is just using generic shit defenses like “professional writers” and “gamer entitlement” while never actually giving any reasons why the ending was a good thing.
 
But the best part about this comic is the implication that “professionals” are above these kinds of fan-pandering crossovers and yet they’ve now done exactly that with Dead Space 3.

@Psychopomf  
They’re only ‘genetically similar’ in that both turians and quarians are levo.  
Humans aren’t genetically similar to, say, krogan, but they’re both dextro.

Well they did redo the ending and it became a little less “Fuck you it’s the end buy our DLC” altho it did keep the kid.
 
I’s like they fucking needed an exposition fairy right in the end explaining EVERYTHING (and still leaving a ton of questions because why not).
 
Sigh…. and i still liked the Indoctrination theory the most (hell even after the “fix” only the red ending hints on Sheppy surviving).

Also they totally stole the ‘Central Pillars of Communication and Travel explode, Dark Age happens’ thing from the original Deus Ex.
 
I’m still more miffed about the cutting corners when they spent so much on advertising.
 

 
Why couldn’t she not be a stock photo and be more alieny! I mean they are genetically similar to Turians so… why not close to that appearance? Then there could be Shepard cringing, his innate romantic love and xenophilic lust fighting over his brain saying “But she looks WEIRD!”
 
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…No?
 
Just me?
 
Uh…
 
IGNORE ME!

Totally. That ending was crap. Just exposition and no gameplay, it just explained everything all at once! And none of my choices mattered. Don’t they realize that I want to play the game multiple times to see the alternate endings? Even if it takes me day after day of effort for only a few seconds of difference? Worst writing ever.
 
Yeah, they really need to change the ending of Bioshock Infinite.
 
… That’s what we were talking about, right?
 
(This was a sarcastic response, by the way.)

While I appreciate that the ME3 ending was dark and fatalistic for the main character…
 
It was also complete utter shite, executed as one long-ass boring cutscene with token gameplay, and a hilariously “this is so bad I can’t actually believe it” child explaining everything ending. If the whole point of your story depends on such lazy, in-your-face exposition, you are bad at storytelling.  
_{And I never gave a single fuck about that dead kid, jesus.}

Mass Effect 3’s overall execution and endings is easily the reason I ultimately went with a Batmare crossover instead of a Mass effect one.
 
And don’t get me started on all of the corporate brown nosing and consumer contempt from game reviewers on this.

@441TheSecond  
Lies! Professional writers can do no wro-
 

 
Nevermind.

That’s actually better than the actual ending of Mass Effect 3.  
Seriously people, they may be professional writers, but they’re still human, you don’t become an ethereal being incapable of doing wrong if you become a professional.

I really didn’t mind the endings in of themselves, but that might just be I was too exasperated with all the other shoddy writing in ME3
 
It had some good moments but that’s all they were. 2 or 3 moments.
 
Don’t even get me started on Diana Allers.

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LOOKS GOOD TO ME!