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Post by Mister Buch on Feb 4, 2014 13:23:20 GMT 1
Yes, exactly. I might try that too. I have a feeling the story would be pretty miserable and lack closure, but it would be very interesting to see.
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Post by Rascarin on Feb 4, 2014 13:30:31 GMT 1
I'm hoping for a more bittersweet feel to it. For me, the problem with the ending was that Shepard was unbeatable until then. It didn't fit that Shepard had to die, because Shepard always won.
Imagining a playthrough where all the decisions are hard ones, and you're always sacrificing something seems like it would make the ending fit better. That's just me, though.
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Post by salty on Feb 4, 2014 14:29:12 GMT 1
There will always be sacrifice in war that's a given, the first ME that choice Ashley or Kaiden one or the other the council choice, a few in ME2 kept it (bitter sweet)
I think that's what I liked most the bitter sweet choices that impacted on the story as a whole.
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Post by Mister Buch on Feb 4, 2014 16:40:27 GMT 1
I'm hoping for a more bittersweet feel to it. For me, the problem with the ending was that Shepard was unbeatable until then. It didn't fit that Shepard had to die, because Shepard always won. Imagining a playthrough where all the decisions are hard ones, and you're always sacrificing something seems like it would make the ending fit better. That's just me, though. I hear you. I think the thing that I especially like about ME3 is that this time Shepard doesn't always win. I love that, all the way through. One of my favourite bits in any game is after Thessia, when Anderson and Joker are really worried about Shepard cracking up, and all these people you helped get over their issues are now trying to help you. But I love a martyr. And I love a bit of self-pity!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Feb 4, 2014 17:12:22 GMT 1
Like your mum.
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Post by Rascarin on Feb 4, 2014 17:39:51 GMT 1
Yeah, I felt that too, I just also felt that those bits (Thessia, the ending) jarred with everything else you'd done. Cure the Genophage? Easy. End a 300 year war? Sorted. Wiping that pathetic Cerberus from the face of the galaxy? Resume the bombardment (wait, wrong universe).
Shepard was an unstoppable juggernaut of ass-kicking, odds-surviving, problem-solving awesome. Dying just seemed so... out of character. But I can really see it working in a playthrough where you are constantly having to lose a little somewhere.
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Post by Mister Buch on Feb 4, 2014 17:51:09 GMT 1
That makes a lot of sense. I have to figure out why I disagree with that!
You too, Rascarin.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on Feb 4, 2014 18:15:31 GMT 1
Yeah I've done that before . It was painful to watch.
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Post by jklinders on Feb 4, 2014 21:49:53 GMT 1
I think that Shepard being nigh on unstoppable in Me 1 and 2 set up the fact that there was even a chance at all in the third one of winning. But it did seem like you won more often than lost in the third game which made it VERY jarring in the end for a lot of people. If there were more Thessias (minus plot armoured cyber ninjas and cutscene idiocy) in the lead up the ending might not have brought quite so many hackles up.
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Post by Rascarin on Feb 4, 2014 22:51:49 GMT 1
That's pretty much it, yeah. To me, they didn't convey how desperate the situation was, how much of a losing proposition it was. Thessia just took the piss a little - there's no way Kai Leng would have won that fight. Even on Insanity I could kick his sorry ass from one end of the citadel to the other. Losing there gave you that feeling of dread to an extent, but the prevailing feeling was one that I'd just been bullshitted.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Feb 4, 2014 23:37:58 GMT 1
Not killing Kai Leng the first time I fought him was an insult beyond all insults. How the HELL does a cereal-obsessed whinging little shit like him survive a full-on ass beating from Shepard?
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Post by salty on Feb 4, 2014 23:49:43 GMT 1
With luck of the ninja
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Post by Mister Buch on Feb 5, 2014 3:11:34 GMT 1
He's a man with expert timing.
Just like when he's kung-fu fighting.
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Post by Rascarin on Feb 5, 2014 11:42:52 GMT 1
On an unrelated note, because I can't be bothered making another new thread - does everybody else find when designing an M-Shep that no matter how long you spend on his face (over an hour last night), as soon as the gameplay starts he turns into some kind of foot/potato hybrid?
I don't have that problem with FemSheps, usually because I just use the same preset face every time.
Also, ALL of the MShep eyes are weird. All of them.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Feb 5, 2014 14:05:38 GMT 1
He's a man with expert timing. Just like when he's kung-fu fighting. But was he as fast as lightning though?
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