NEWS
by Mark Barley
Casey Hudson Thinks The ME3 Ending Is Fine, Promises Single-Player DLC
BioWare's Casey Hudson is standing by the controversial ending to Mass Effect 3 and even promised that the game would be getting some single-player DLC in the future.
In a recent interview with Digital Trends Hudson stated that the plan was for Mass Effect 3's ending to be controversial from the start, so he's rather tickled that fans are in an uproar over it.
“I didn’t want the game to be forgettable, and even right down to the sort of polarizing reaction that the ends have had with people–debating what the endings mean and what’s going to happen next, and what situation are the characters left in,” he said.
“That to me is part of what’s exciting about this story. There has always been a little bit of mystery there and a little bit of interpretation, and it’s a story that people can talk about after the fact.”
Some fans are so upset over the game's ending they're gaining momentum for a petition to get the ending changed (either via update or DLC). They're movement is so strong that they've raised over $11,000 for charity for the cause. Hudson stated that there will be no change to the ending as it is and that he's "very proud" of the ending and that BioWare prides themselves on fan feedback. “That to me is part of what’s exciting about this story. There has always been a little bit of mystery there and a little bit of interpretation, and it’s a story that people can talk about after the fact.”
“It’s very important to us and we will always listen to feedback, interpret it and try and do the right thing by our fans. That’s why if you look at Mass Effect 2 we knew that people wanted to spend more time with a character like Liara, and so we created an ongoing storyline with her as part of the comics and then built it into the DLC stuff, and we’re always listening to fans,” he said.
“We have some really great multiplayer content and some really great single-player content coming over the air, and their feedback will become part of how we design that.”
Hudson pointed to the inclusion of Tali and Garrus in the game as love interests as an example of fan feedback. “We have some really great multiplayer content and some really great single-player content coming over the air, and their feedback will become part of how we design that.”
“From the outset, we didn’t envision them as characters that people would want to have a romance with,” he said.
“And yet they were successful as characters, and so popular amongst a lot of people that people really wanted to develop a relationship with them, so we integrated that from Mass Effect 2 and it’s become a big part of the series.”
Mass Effect 3 is out now for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. “And yet they were successful as characters, and so popular amongst a lot of people that people really wanted to develop a relationship with them, so we integrated that from Mass Effect 2 and it’s become a big part of the series.”
Via GameFront