Series, franchises, and companies that don't have good plotting or writing

I'll start with Bioware.

Starting the thread with dubs is an excellent choice. As someone who avoided the 360 like a furry at an anime con, what actually drummed up the hype for the original mass effect? Was there actual substance that diminished over the sequels, or was it like skyrim and plebians were suckered in by effective marketing?

As for actually contributing, I'll go with capcom:

Pretty much. The world had a lot of potential and the first game was happy to flesh out the universe with little details where later games just shit the bed. It also really doesn't hurt that the writer changed just before 3, the writing for 1 & 2 wasn't amazing, but 3 absolutely shat the bed.

One of the core problems of the writing going to complete shit was how ME1 had only Drew Karpyshyn doing the writing, then the ME2 it was a cooperative effort between him and Mac Walters and that was also where suddenly bits and pieces of the established lore started being retconned or just dropped entirely. Then ME3 just had Mac Walters and it all came tumbling down.

Not that writing was the only core issue with the Mass Effect games, but the trilogy probably would've turned out a lot different if Drew Karpyshyn was the only writer for the whole way through, the sort of consistency that would create may have gone a long way.

I've always wondered why companies are so keen to give head writers the boot when fan reaction makes it abundantly clear they like that author's voice. 3 sticks out in my mind because it shows how far a fan base will go in cucking itself–nearly every fan of ME I knew tried to damage control the three snow cones ending, and one faggot actually sent bioware a cake as a thank you for such a great game.

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I don't get it. Do you mean the slavery sells her to the man she wanted or makes him watch others fuck her?

Have you not seen the movie?

Hardly.