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Mass Effect 3, the little things that I liked! SPOILERS!
13 years ago
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You have been warned!
So I finished ME3 last Monday... and I am still reeling from the massive disappointment over the endings(just finished another playthrough to see a "different" ending). The game was great up until the last 10 minutes that completely ruined all of the games for me.
But here are some things I did like about the games. They are not major things, or even about the game mechanics, just little nice details from the game that I liked.
1: Samantha Traynor and Steven Cortez. Why? Because they are Bioware's first completely homosexual characters (as far as I know). They are not bisexual like their usual homo-romancable options tend to be, so they are completely unique. I love them both, Cortez is beyond sweet and Traynor is beyond cool. So I quite love both of them.
2: Garrus and Shep's bromance. Doesn't matter if you play fem Shep or male Shep, their friendship is awesome. Garrus is one of those characters that you care about no matter if you romance him or not. He is one of those characters that I think Shep wouldn't be able to live without. A true friend, dearest ally and companion. I truly felt that my MShep saw Garrus as just as important as his LI.
3: Vega and Cortez, latino people, a bit of colour on the Normandy is always great, and it is likeable characters as well! Sure, you had the token black guy in ME2, but I didn't much like Jacob. His motives were always shady to me so I could never find myself to like either him nor Miranda. Cerberus isn't my fave organisation, and the cheerleader and ex-boyfriend wasn't my fave persons.
4: EDI's new body. Well, what can I say, she's hot. And I loooove hers and Joker's blooming relationship. The story with EDI and Legion and the other AIs of the game always made me happy. I love stories about artificial life being in question of their existence. Asking the big questions not only about their life but of all life. EDI say it best "Organics live to reproduce copies of themselves, so what is the purpose of synthetic life?" sure, one can argue that that is the purpose of life, but then what is the point of intellect? Her finding out and Legion's quest for acceptance is extremely touching to me.
5: Javik. I love that they went with the fact that he isn't the benevolent creatures everyone thought the Protheans were. He is completely the opposite. He often is there to remind Shep of what to have in mind, reminding him/her that even the mighty will fall and that war isn't pretty. Especially this war. I love how he frustrates Liara and yet… care about the rest, in a way. I love him and his very to the point view on life.
You have been warned!
So I finished ME3 last Monday... and I am still reeling from the massive disappointment over the endings(just finished another playthrough to see a "different" ending). The game was great up until the last 10 minutes that completely ruined all of the games for me.
But here are some things I did like about the games. They are not major things, or even about the game mechanics, just little nice details from the game that I liked.
1: Samantha Traynor and Steven Cortez. Why? Because they are Bioware's first completely homosexual characters (as far as I know). They are not bisexual like their usual homo-romancable options tend to be, so they are completely unique. I love them both, Cortez is beyond sweet and Traynor is beyond cool. So I quite love both of them.
2: Garrus and Shep's bromance. Doesn't matter if you play fem Shep or male Shep, their friendship is awesome. Garrus is one of those characters that you care about no matter if you romance him or not. He is one of those characters that I think Shep wouldn't be able to live without. A true friend, dearest ally and companion. I truly felt that my MShep saw Garrus as just as important as his LI.
3: Vega and Cortez, latino people, a bit of colour on the Normandy is always great, and it is likeable characters as well! Sure, you had the token black guy in ME2, but I didn't much like Jacob. His motives were always shady to me so I could never find myself to like either him nor Miranda. Cerberus isn't my fave organisation, and the cheerleader and ex-boyfriend wasn't my fave persons.
4: EDI's new body. Well, what can I say, she's hot. And I loooove hers and Joker's blooming relationship. The story with EDI and Legion and the other AIs of the game always made me happy. I love stories about artificial life being in question of their existence. Asking the big questions not only about their life but of all life. EDI say it best "Organics live to reproduce copies of themselves, so what is the purpose of synthetic life?" sure, one can argue that that is the purpose of life, but then what is the point of intellect? Her finding out and Legion's quest for acceptance is extremely touching to me.
5: Javik. I love that they went with the fact that he isn't the benevolent creatures everyone thought the Protheans were. He is completely the opposite. He often is there to remind Shep of what to have in mind, reminding him/her that even the mighty will fall and that war isn't pretty. Especially this war. I love how he frustrates Liara and yet… care about the rest, in a way. I love him and his very to the point view on life.
I also cried when Thane died.
Best bit? When Garrus & joker were making in-jokes about the characters in the game. That was epic.
I also loved how they really nailed down the panic of universal war for the refugees. The docking bay on the citadel is amazing.
But the ending? Man, that sucks. I put 45+ hours in it, played paragon, then I recently found out I got one of the shittiest renegade endings possible. GRRRRRR. And the theories shepard was indoctrinated from the start? Rofl.
But on the ending, I find the paragon / renegade ending confusing. One one side, I put life back in the stone age. But I stopped the reapers from ever returning, but controlling them? Who knows if they could be back. Intresting. Theres andother ending too aparently. But that third ending was the reaper's plan if you think about it.
I havent had much time to play since I work most all week
My reaction exactly.