Re: Maybe this should be fixed?

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@deefleece wrote:

The deceased's names on the crew deck...most of them I haven't heard of...some of them I have. All from actual, in game characters in the series?

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Twenty of the names on the wall are crewmembers of the original Normandy. You don't interact with them, but you can collect their dogtags at the Normandy crash site in Mass Effect 2.

I was a bit disappointed that in my last playthrough Zaeed wasn't on the wall. He wasn't loyal in my last ME2 run bu he did survive. Then he died in his sidemission in ME3. But I'm a bit sensitive about Zaeed because I liked his voice actor (Robin Sachs), who died shortly after recording the Citadel DLC. He was a BioWare veteran (Saul in Knights of the Old Republic, Mayor of Redcliffe Dragon Age, Zaeed in Mass Effect 2)

Mordin was indeed a different voice actor. Michael Beattie was Mordin in ME2, William Salyers (from The Regular Show) played him in ME3. I think Salyers is great, but it still annoys me that his voice is slightly different. But I got used of it after a few missions.

I liked his final scene a lot. The people in this video surely responded to it emotionally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJpQOjcu3Xk&list=PLGxCL8JAojAMyvOeu_TN6nHov1Xf98hcp&index=42

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@Fred_vdp wrote:

Mordin was indeed a different voice actor. Michael Beattie was Mordin in ME2, William Salyers (from The Regular Show) played him in ME3. I think Salyers is great, but it still annoys me that his voice is slightly different. But I got used of it after a few missions.

I liked his final scene a lot. The people in this video surely responded to it emotionally:

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With Mordin, I was meaning that after his final mission, your crew is pretty indifferent about him...sort of all "meh". He's actually one of my favourite characters in the series...if Ashley died, I'd be all like "meh". Why did it have to be Mordin?

When other main characters died in ME3, the crew were really respectful and sorry to see them go...not really the case with Mordin.

However, Mordin's actual death was handled well in the game. Like I said, it bugged me having the comedy of Garrus and Joker in the cockpit after that mission.

I did have a dry run with choosing Legion's side on Tali's home planet mission, without using Paragon/Renegade options...that was even more moving, the way that Tali died there. But good thing that I remembered Tali's mission being tough in ME2, re conversation options required a lot of P/R points to get good outcomes...I left Tali's mission in ME3 to near the end, so could get the optimal outcome.

Back to Mordin...in ME2 he mentioned someone on your crew having sex with a varren...which put me off bagging Chambers in that (not that I could anyway, as Fem Shep, I think)...I thought she might have been the one! Or maybe Grunt. My main suspects!

Why was Beattie dropped as the voice of Mordin? I really didn't notice in any case.

I am curious...if I'd kept Kaidan alive in ME1, would he be as annoying/cold as Ashley in later games?

P.S. you buy off Origin? Do they have DRM?

They never revealed why Michael Beattie wasn't in ME3. Before the release of ME3 I noticed Mordin had a different voice in the gameplay demo, so I sent Beattie an email to ask if he was in the game. He said he wasn't and couldn't reveal why, by my guess is he wanted to be paid more. Beattie was praised a lot for his performance in ME2 and he knew about it, so it makes sense that he wanted a raise.

Kaidan is a nice guy in ME3. He's not the most colorful character of the bunch, but I usually let Ashley die because her Marksman ability in ME3 is bugged.

I bought the physical collector's edition. No matter where you buy, you have to activate through Origin, which is a form of DRM. There was a massive outcry when it was announced a single player game would require you to play through the Origin client, especially because at the time Origin used to datamine your hard drive for marketing purposes. (This is no longer the case.)

People then suggested using "sandbox" software, which allows software to only read and write files within the sandbox and nowhere else. Back then, simply mentioning the word "sandbox" would get you permanently banned from the BioWare forums. This was back when Chris Priestly was the community manager, and he used to ban people for even the most minor offenses, or even things that weren't offenses at all. He once banned a forum moderator who made a post about how he didn't receive his pre-order bonuses from the Origin store. Chris Priestly no longer woks for BioWare or EA, however, and has since moved on to CD Projekt Red.

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@Fred_vdp wrote:

They never revealed why Michael Beattie wasn't in ME3. Before the release of ME3 I noticed Mordin had a different voice in the gameplay demo, so I sent Beattie an email to ask if he was in the game. He said he wasn't and couldn't reveal why

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As in Michael had some sort of non-disclosure contract with Bioware (or whoever)? Not sure how I feel about him not getting the job because of supposed pay demands...Fem Shep seems to get praised as being voiced better than the dude-bro Mas Shep. I thought she was quite good too. Did she get paid more?

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@Fred_vdp wrote:

Kaidan is a nice guy in ME3. He's not the most colorful character of the bunch, but I usually let Ashley die because her Marksman ability in ME3 is bugged.

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Since I played ME2 first on PS3 (gee, thanks, Bioware)...I always wondered what I had done to irk Ashley when I first met here on...wherever I met her first...Horizon? Having played the first game when it was released, it seems that the answer is "Nothing". She's just like that! I did wonder if Kaidan was similarly narky when you first meet him in ME2. I THINK that Ashley's Marksman ability seems to be working fine for me, although I don't really use it much. Did try it to see if it worked and it seemed too, but I had  changed her default sniper rifle. It worked on the Leviathan mission using that large capacity and fire  rate sniper rifle, it seemed to me.

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@Fred_vdp wrote:

There was a massive outcry when it was announced a single player game would require you to play through the Origin client, especially because at the time Origin used to datamine your hard drive for marketing purposes. (This is no longer the case.)...

Chris Priestly no longer woks for BioWare or EA, however, and has since moved on to CD Projekt Red.

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Wow. Nasty. It's that kind of stuff that makes me wary about signing up with Steam. Do you know when Origin stopped data mining accounts here? I REALLY hope GOG's system takes off...but now that Priestly is associated with them? Isn't he? Hopefully he's not bringing them "the benefit of his experience" in the areas that you mentioned!

Putting this reply of yours up against your reply to my thread re buying at Origin...it's a different answer! You pretty much have to hope and pray that Origin won't revert to type, don't you? Not sure I'd want to take the risk with a company which cares so little for your security and privacy.