Arcian wrote...
MrBoomba wrote...
I'm curious as to why you view ME2 Tali as such Arcian
Personal preferences, definitely.
Mainly, I think it was pretty OOC for her to admit having had a crush on Shepard since the events in ME1 when there was no evidence to support this in the first game. I.e, it was poorly handled. Of course, this was just BioWare trying to shut the fans up.
In my opinion, the best "romantic" relationships play like opposite-gender BFF-friendships that take years to develop. First of all, Tali and Shepard haven't really known each other that long. Maybe, what, one month in ME1? And another month in ME2? Not uncommon in fiction, but then again, there aren't very many fictive relationships that are impressive. The best I've seen was perhaps Adama-Roslin in BSG. Now that was a good and believable romance, and it took 4 seasons = 3 in-universe years to come to fruitition.
And secondly, Tali jumped from romantically oblivious to a crazy-eager, lovesick fool in the space of one timeskip, during which Shepard was inconveniently dead - barring any kind of friendship development between them until the next time they met. It seems a little bit jarring - but then again, BioWare just decided to pander to your demands and didn't care about the details.
It also pisses me off that you treat her solely like a romance character when the only reason she is, is because you b*tched and moaned about it for the 2 years ME2 was in development. Everything you do here is discuss romance, or how juicy her hips are, or post the same frakking pics over and over again.
Take fanfics as another example; how many fics are there where Tali isn't romantically linked to someone and having said romance as the prime focus? Next to none. Originality tends to be a little thin after the Nth fic, too.
This is all just madness. If you're so gorram lovesick, go out and meet somebody and stop defiling Tali's character.
TL;DR - Talimancers like the romance and therefore they suck.
OK, you'reanother one of the minority who absolutely cant stand Tali either becuase you've never liked her or whatever reason a silly thread like this offends you somehow, ok great for you.
Tell me, did we come into your threads and ****** in your cornflakes or something? Find it creepy that some people here have a scary obsession with Tali? What is it?
IMO, I always liked Tali, from the moment I recruited her I always liked her, I romanced Liara because Ashley is 12 kinds of ugly (thats my opinion) and was always nice to Tali, then I get ME2 and I go browsing some forums and lo and behold theres the news, "Tali is a romance option for a male Shepard", I was immeadiately intrigued and gave it some thought, but in the end I romanced her and I have to say, I thought it was the best romance in the game for a male Shepard, Jack's was a very close second and Miranda is uh...one night stand, thats pretty much it.
You're also getting some facts wrong, if you give it some thought, though it dosnt seem like it, ME1's story probably was the span of several months, not one month as you claim, in addition if you talk with Tali and you actually pay attention, there is a subtle undertone of Tali having feelings for Shepard, culminating in Shepard giving the Geth data to Tali, and the joy and happiness in her voice definitely implies she has feelings for Shepard.
Also you're forgetting to factor in how long it has been BEFORE Shepard's death at the beginning of ME2, it could easily have been several more months before his death and during that time, he could have grown closer to Tali friendship wise, so that easily gives an explanation of how Shepard and Tali could have become very close friends and during that whole time, Tali's feelings for Shepard continued to grow culminating in her becoming a romance option.
Hell if you LISTEN to her romance in ME2, she STATES CLEARLY that she has been watching Shepard for a very long time and was too nervous to admit it until then, so that little arguement of your goes out the window as well.
In the end, get over it, the people here like Tali, the same as people like Garrus and Mordin and Miranda and other ME2 characters, it just so happens to be that Tali is quite possibly one of the most popular characters IN Mass Effect, if you're gonna get butthurt over it, that's your problem but don't come on here spouting mindless drivel without getting your damn facts straight.