brain_damage wrote...
Is it me, or are the characters in ME2 too over the top? The ones in Mass Effect were more...normal, more realistic, more down to earth and IMO they were deeper. The ones in ME2 are a ragtag bunch of misfits - they're more like a traveling circus. For example - once, a developer from Obsidian Ent. said that in Alpha Protocol they used a Kill Bill test - If a character fits in Kill Bill, that's probably too over-the-top. Ashley can pass, Jack and Mordin certainly can't.
What I'm trying to say is that I liked the characters and character interaction in ME1 better - communicating with the characters was certainly easier and they were more believeable. Why is everything so different in ME2?
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Peeks head into the thread of no return(!) and hopes the thread hasn't been locked by the time he posts this*
An interesting point of view. Something I would like to reiterate, however, from things other posters have said previously on these forums is that things have changed drastically for ol' Shepard in Mass Effect 2. In Mass Effect he/she is part of the mainstream, as it were. He/she is part of the Alliance and a Council Spectre who has been given full backing in their quest to hunt down Saren, and we thus have a tangible enemy who it seems is within our reach. It also doesn't seem that said mission will likely cost the lives of everyone on the squad in order to achieve their goal. Knowledge of the Reapers is thin on the ground to say the least until our first encounter with Sovereign, but he is the vanguard
of your destruction, not the entire Reaper fleet. Knowledge of an entire fleet of them only comes at the end of the first game.
Contrasting this to Mass Effect 2, we have an enemy almost beyond our comprehension that we are aware from the beginning intend to wipe out all galactic life. We're working for Cerberus - a shady organisation that is actively condemned by the Council, because the leading politicians of the galaxy are trying very hard to forget about the nightmare Shepard probably has every night. We are recruiting a team to go into the Omega-4 relay - where no sapient being hath set foot and returned to tell of their exploits. Who would want to go on such a mission? Not many, given the probability of death. You are thus likely to gather a squad with either nothing left to lose, a death-wish or are one of the very few aware of the severity of the Reaper/Collector threat. Thus, your team is much more likely to be composed of misfits - those not part of the political mainstream, eccentrics, mercenaries etc. And this is what the team is.
That aside, I pretty much like all the characters from Mass Effect 1 and 2. My favourites, some of whom are my favourites from any game, are from both - Tali, Garrus, Legion, Mordin, Wrex, Jack and Thane - and I personally think the accusations of discontinuity between the two games are over-exaggerated. The existential debates I had with Legion, Mordin and Thane were brilliant for me, but may not have been to other's tastes. Ultimately, it all boils down to what you think, and I thought the characters of Mass Effect 2 were great, just as I enjoyed the characters of the first Mass Effect.
Edit: I started typing this about an hour ago, so this post will have not taken into account more recent posts. Time to catch-up, methinks...
Modifié par Halmiriliath, 12 avril 2010 - 11:41 .
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That's why I don;t think heor a few others were developed well. There was so much more they could have done with his character. Same with Liara in her cameo. Another favorite, beloved character turned so many off because she was poorly developed in ME2. Just because her character gets a role in a comic book doesn't mean that they get to skimp her cameo like that.
