YOUTUBE MASS EFFECT 3 ENDINGS UPDATE

YOUTUBE MASS EFFECT 3 ENDINGS UPDATE

Importantly, the developers reveal that the team crunched hard to make this update happen - a prolonged period of extreme difficulty that bled into the making of BioWare's next game, Dragon Age Inquisition.īioWare is a studio that has been plagued by crunch over the years. The developers also talk about how they felt about the decision to quickly turn around a free update that fleshed out the original endings with new cutscenes and added a fourth ending to choose from. The developers speaking to People Make Games reveal the human impact of the backlash that followed, including harassment and death threats. It presented players with three choices - each resulting in a different end state for the galaxy - but in gameplay terms there was little difference between them.

Mass Effect 3 contained one of the most controversial endings in video game history. The video below, from People Make Games, includes a raft of interviews with former BioWare developers who discuss the events leading up to the release of Mass Effect 3 in March 2012, the backlash to its ending, and the decision to update the game to address the complaints.

A new video has shed light on what it was like inside BioWare during the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy.

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