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Mac Walters is a longtime BioWare veteran who left the studio earlier this year

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

+5 Renegade

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately he was also the one responsible for the plot hole filled "artistic" ending of ME3.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

And that's fine. Plenty of authors are great at writing the journey and terrible at writing endings. And from what we've gotten so far at least he now knows what not to do when writing an ending.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The problem wasn't the lack of creativity, but the fact that it was rushed.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago

Oh... I had a tiny bit of hope before reading this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Over the years I've seen a lot of articles about former Bioware devs leaving to form their own studios but nothing has ever really come of it. Whatever magic they had in the 00's just seems to be lost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Stray gods came out back in August and is currently sitting at very positive on steam, it's by David Gaider's new studio, he was former lead writer on dragon age.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case for the Blizzard people that left and formed FrostGiant. I want modern, snappy RTS!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or as some of us affectionately call him, Hack Walters. Guy can write characters fantastically, but I don't think he has it in him to write consistent narrative. Well, not unless he has improved over the last few years. (x to doubt).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nice, maybe the next Mass Effect game won't have any cut scenes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, mister "more bigger"