{"id":17640,"date":"2012-10-26T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17640"},"modified":"2012-10-26T21:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:56:55","slug":"mass-effect-3-ep26-finish-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17640","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 EP26: Finish the Fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCs7FHiLUdg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dCs7FHiLUdg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>What happened to the artists at BioWare? I can&#8217;t believe this is the same company that brought us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kVpl4eKn3aY\" title=\"Jade Empire Trailer - YouTube\">Jade Empire<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/theabyssgazes.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html\" title=\"Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness\">orange and cyan<\/a> metal base motif is way overdone in this game. This has been a long time in coming, and I know Mass Effect 3 isn&#8217;t <a href=\"?p=16538\" title=\"Star Wars The Old Republic: Artless in Alderaan\">the ugliest game they&#8217;ve ever made<\/a>, but it&#8217;s a pretty big step down from where they were a decade ago. <\/p>\n<p>You could argue that this <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> the same company that made Jade Empire. A lot of the old staff is gone, and the ones that remain are vastly outnumbered by the people hired since the EA acquisition. <\/p>\n<p>The art here goes against everything the game needs to be doing right now:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Keep the color palette fresh.\n<\/li>\n<li>Show (as opposed to tell) us about the Quarian civilization and culture, particularly what it might have been like before the Geth kicked them out.\n<\/li>\n<li>Make us care about Rannoch, and show us why they&#8217;re willing to risk their entire species to reclaim this place.\n<\/li>\n<li>Give us a glimpse of the vibrant, life-bearing galaxy we&#8217;re trying to save from the Reapers.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s really mystifying that they elected to make Rannoch a blue and orange rocky wasteland. Remember that we were already on a rocky wasteland when we visited the Turians earlier in the game, and the previous mission had us fighting Geth in a dark, blue and orange metallic area. I&#8217;m not insisting that Rannoch should look any particular way. I&#8217;m just saying it would have been better as almost anything besides what they gave us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) What happened to the artists at BioWare? I can&#8217;t believe this is the same company that brought us Jade Empire. The orange and cyan metal base motif is way overdone in this game. This has been a long time in coming, and I know Mass Effect 3 isn&#8217;t the ugliest game they&#8217;ve ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[250,208],"class_list":["post-17640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-mass-effect-3","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}