Honestly I think some people have rose coloured glasses when it comes to the original trilogy.
ME1 - side missions - just another bunker that looked like every other bunker in the game. Silence driving around in the mako save for its own sounds, the crew never spoke. Side mission after side mission of clicking a datapadd or console at the end for some text on the screen. Only a very select few were voiced.
ME2. Scanning. Scanning. More scanning. Oh and probe launching. Again side missions with no voicing. The suicide mission however was one of the best.
Thane - LI completely forgotten to even be an LI in ME3 had to be fixed via dlc.
Cheating Jacob and lets not forget that creepy * loyalty mission of his.
Miranda - treated like a * throughout the game just because she wore sexy clothing.
Diana Allers.
Jokers extremely inappropriate jokes and inappropriate times. (As much as I liked the char he also annoyed me at times.)
Sexbot Edi. Who was apparently the only date a disabled person could get (flawed writing at its finest, disabled guy couldn't even get a real person)
The ending.
I could continue but it's safe to say every game has it's flaws. Or more to the point things people don't like based on personal tastes, which is also different for each individual.
@Nykara360 wrote:Honestly I think some people have rose coloured glasses when it comes to the original trilogy.
ME1 - side missions - just another bunker that looked like every other bunker in the game. Silence driving around in the mako save for its own sounds, the crew never spoke. Side mission after side mission of clicking a datapadd or console at the end for some text on the screen. Only a very select few were voiced.
ME2. Scanning. Scanning. More scanning. Oh and probe launching. Again side missions with no voicing. The suicide mission however was one of the best.
Thane - LI completely forgotten to even be an LI in ME3 had to be fixed via dlc.
Cheating Jacob and lets not forget that creepy * loyalty mission of his.
Miranda - treated like a * throughout the game just because she wore sexy clothing.
Diana Allers.
Jokers extremely inappropriate jokes and inappropriate times. (As much as I liked the char he also annoyed me at times.)
Sexbot Edi. Who was apparently the only date a disabled person could get (flawed writing at its finest, disabled guy couldn't even get a real person)
The ending.
I could continue but it's safe to say every game has it's flaws. Or more to the point things people don't like based on personal tastes, which is also different for each individual.
One thing that is different, and that I like, is I'll feel like I earned it in the future and it's personal. Pathfinder bootcamp.
Shep's speechiness about making hard choices rang a little hollow. They were easy choices for me AND there were ways to avoid making any enemies at all with them. Here that's not happening. I'm earning it, good or bad, instead of it being given to me with a rank and a title at the beginning of the game. If I turn into a violent, angry, bitter pathfinder because I resent the galaxy, or any parts of it, that would make sense - instead of just laughing and saying "MAN can Shep be an *" If I become a paragon I *am* a paragon... and will have turned the other cheek many times and let a lot of things go. Tali got to grow like that in the first series; I wonder if I can too.
The Roekkar were going to hate me regardess - but now it is personal and I understand why... and hate them a little too. I will feel so full of myself when I give Morda the snarky interrupt in her version of the Daltross argument - instead of just saying "that's what a renegade Shep would do". Instead of just shaking my head and wondering aloud for a line if I'm maybe a VI I actually wonder if I am half AI now - crew reassurance would be welcome, but wouldn't put it to rest.
So much potential here if they use it as character development instead of a fully told tale.
