BioWare Apologizes for Mass Effect: Deception Errors [Comic: Chapter 16 - Complete]

Everything wrong about this author's style and non-caring attitude right here. I might address it in the comic but it really is a good summation of what's wrong with Dietz tackling a Mass Effect book:

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- Namedrops random gun manufacturers
- Has no idea how Mass Effect weapons work
 
Dresden said:
to be fair, neither does Bioware.
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With the heat sinks introduced in Mass Effect 2, I actually give Bioware props there. They had a change in heart for the gameplay element of shooting to need ammunition to be more fun (that's opinion obviously). Instead of retconning the weapons to have ammo, they came up with advanced weaponry needing disposable heat sinks. It's not a perfect solution and raises some timeline issues, but they tried and demonstrated that they gave a damn instead of just saying "yeah whatever, new weapons need ammo boxes now, deal with it."
 
LumpOfCole said:
With the heat sinks introduced in Mass Effect 2, I actually give Bioware props there. They had a change in heart for the gameplay element of shooting to need ammunition to be more fun (that's opinion obviously). Instead of retconning the weapons to have ammo, they came up with advanced weaponry needing disposable heat sinks. It's not a perfect solution and raises some timeline issues, but they tried and demonstrated that they gave a damn instead of just saying "yeah whatever, new weapons need ammo boxes now, deal with it."
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I wish they kept overheating in ME2 and made heatsinks a rare commodity that you could use in combat to keep your firing rate up. But nope, I think they basically handwaved it away that every weapon since ME1 was converted to the new system and couldn't be cooled off or something weird like that.
 
Man, that Hobar panel has had me crying with laughter. LumpofCole, your comics are comedic gold. Hobar makes me think of the word hobo which makes me think Dietz named him after that word.
 
Jipan said:
Man, that Hobar panel has had me crying with laughter. LumpofCole, your comics are comedic gold. Hobar makes me think of the word hobo which makes me think Dietz named him after that word.
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I really did think the same about the name Hobar, and I looked it up in the wiki just to make sure Dietz made it up. It sounded so hackish and bad that I didn't want to believe it, but it definitely looks like another Dietz invention.
 
Man, I'm loving these comics. LumpOfCole, you've done a great job of summarizing the plot and the errors while keeping the comedy intact. Excellent work. The stuff with Nick in the past few chapters has been hilarious.
 
RoboPlato said:
Man, I'm loving these comics. LumpOfCole, you've done a great job of summarizing the plot and the errors while keeping the comedy intact. Excellent work. The stuff with Nick in the past few chapters has been hilarious.
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Thank you :)

To be fair, I only add a couple things like the burger king crown or pawn stars in place of an old pawn shop guy. 90% of the humor is really Dietz's unintended brand right there in the book.
 
EatChildren said:
But yes, this should never have happened in the first place. I blame Dietz for being a talentless hack and half arsing the entire thing, and I blame BioWare for neglecting to pick up on his mistakes and showing a poor appreciation for their own universe.
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I have a better solution.

Don't release novelizations or novels based on video games. Don't release cartoons based on video games. Don't release animes based on video games. Don't release Facebook spinoffs. Get out of the business of creating "dynamic emergent best-of-breed paradigm-shifting compelling visceral intellectual property" and just focus on making good games. :p
 
Stumpokapow said:
I have a better solution.

Don't release novelizations or novels based on video games. Don't release cartoons based on video games. Don't release animes based on video games. Don't release Facebook spinoffs. Get out of the business of creating "dynamic emergent best-of-breed paradigm-shifting compelling visceral intellectual property" and just focus on making good games. :p
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Are you saying you'd prefer a universe where these comics wouldn't exist?
 
Stumpokapow said:
I have a better solution.

Don't release novelizations or novels based on video games. Don't release cartoons based on video games. Don't release animes based on video games. Don't release Facebook spinoffs. Get out of the business of creating "dynamic emergent best-of-breed paradigm-shifting compelling visceral intellectual property" and just focus on making good games. :p
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Whooooooooa now, there's been some awesome cartoons based on video games. And I've thoroughly enjoyed all the Halo books I've read.

I have no problem with expanding the fiction of a games universe through other mediums, in fact I embrace it. I love getting more information about the worlds of the games I enjoy. It just needs to be handled well and by people who actually give a fuck. Which basically means not people like Dietz.
 
Stumpokapow said:
I have a better solution.

Don't release novelizations or novels based on video games. Don't release cartoons based on video games. Don't release animes based on video games. Don't release Facebook spinoffs. Get out of the business of creating "dynamic emergent best-of-breed paradigm-shifting compelling visceral intellectual property" and just focus on making good games. :p
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What, and spend my money on useful things? Fuck that.
 
I kid you not, these comics have influenced me to start finishing up ME2 (after two years) and preorder ME3.
 
IPoopStandingUp said:
I kid you not, these comics have influenced me to start finishing up ME2 (after two years) and preorder ME3.
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That's amazing :)

Doing these comics actually made me go through the DLC on my first ME2 playthrough, because that's the one I want to take into ME3. Yes, Jack died because I was an idiot and had her lead the B-Team (my thought process was that I wanted to turn her into an adult with responsibilities, so I gave her the 'responsibility' of leading a B-team.. oops!). Of course my second playthrough was more thought out with every decision, and no one died of course. But I think it'll be much more fun to bring my organic first playthrough into ME3 - it's much better to take the human mistakes and live with them.
 
randomlyrossy said:
Whooooooooa now, there's been some awesome cartoons based on video games.
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There have?

I'm not an old biddy like stump so I don't inherently hate the idea of anything with the slightest whiff of crossover/transmedia/wtfever, but games have got to be the single least successful medium in terms of successful translation/expansion into other media -- probably because there's usually so little solid narrative base to begin with. I expect you could comfortably erase the sum total of videogame spinoff novels, comics, cartoons, films, and operatic song cycles from existence and lose nothing of particular value.
 
charlequin said:
There have?

I'm not an old biddy like stump so I don't inherently hate the idea of anything with the slightest whiff of crossover/transmedia/wtfever, but games have got to be the single least successful medium in terms of successful translation/expansion into other media -- probably because there's usually so little solid narrative base to begin with. I expect you could comfortably erase the sum total of videogame spinoff novels, comics, cartoons, films, and operatic song cycles from existence and lose nothing of particular value.
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Ironically I think the most successful spinning off of a video game franchise to other media is Sonic the fucking Hedgehog.
 
LumpOfCole said:
With the heat sinks introduced in Mass Effect 2, I actually give Bioware props there. They had a change in heart for the gameplay element of shooting to need ammunition to be more fun (that's opinion obviously). Instead of retconning the weapons to have ammo, they came up with advanced weaponry needing disposable heat sinks. It's not a perfect solution and raises some timeline issues, but they tried and demonstrated that they gave a damn instead of just saying "yeah whatever, new weapons need ammo boxes now, deal with it."
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In 3 they're calling it ammo. Lol
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
Resident Evil movies have been extremely successful, and stuff like the Halo books were also big hits. Note I'm speaking commercially, not necessarily in terms of quality.
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There was also Biohazard novella's that novelized the games up to Code Veronica with some liberties (for instance, Claire simply blowing through the wall to the Chief's office to cut out some backtracking to do that) and were pretty good even with the liberal amount of cursing in them.
 
Dietzeption really should have been the comics title.
 
It will be disappointing when we meet Kai in ME3 where he is all serious and shit and hates cereal and has no mustache. :(
 
Kudos to LumpOfCoal for these comics. They've kept me entertained at work. :)

Sober said:
I wish they kept overheating in ME2 and made heatsinks a rare commodity that you could use in combat to keep your firing rate up. But nope, I think they basically handwaved it away that every weapon since ME1 was converted to the new system and couldn't be cooled off or something weird like that.
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I loved the overheating aspect. One, because it made the combat more tactical, and two, because halfway through the game you've got enough mods on your assault rifles to make them never overheat at all whilst spitting out hot death. In my last ME playthrough I ran through the entire end sequence never taking my finger off the trigger. It made the entire sequence ever more awesome.

I hated the new "clip" system. It was the cherry ontop of the "extremlining" that made the game have a grand total of only 2-3 ARs. And every weapon in that game felt as powerful as a leaky super soaker.
 
Oh my god that last chapter is killing me. Haha!

These are awesome LumpOfCole. Thank you for letting me experience the book without having to actually bear the burden of reading it.
 
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LOL
this is great ! X)


I wonder how much the author of the book was paid .... not much I guess
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So, I just finished the book and found this thread. The rage comics are brilliantly hilarious, yet an accurate synopsis of the plot. Well done, Sir!
 
LumpOfCole said:
ME3's Kai Leng will probably be the second last boss in the game or something too, the way he's getting set up.
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you confuse him by throwing cereal at him and then shoot point-blank in the face. Two second "fight" for a worthless character, as far as your comic show thus far.

I really do not care about any extended universe from games, but this 'book' sure is the icing on the ca.. cereal.

But then I wasn't a fan of ME2's story changes either.
 
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