To be honest, the first I heard of Mass Effect was the "ZOMG lesbian sex" expose on Fox News. Naturally, I looked up the wiki on ME, and I was thought to myself "How the hell did I miss this game? This looks awesome."
Then I saw it was XBox only, and realized exactly why I missed the game.
So ME comes out for the PC, and I deploy. I take it with me and was absolutely blown away. I loved the universe they built, and really thought the whole concept of the Asari race was unique and well thought out. It wasn't "let's have hot blue alien babes for the sake of having hot blue alien babes." I was really looking forward to seeing what they would do with a LI character from such a race.
So then I run into Tali on the Citadel for the first time. Now, keep in mind, Quarians were a footnote on the Mass Effect wiki at the time I read it. All I got was "race of smart engineers," and "Tali is to ME what Mission was to KOTOR." I was fully prepared to just sort of have her as a side-character.
What I should have remembered was that
I freaking loved Mission. And Tali is, at least, Mission squared. Maybe cubed. Tali absolutely blew me away from her introduction on the citadel. It was a testament to Sroka's voice acting that even her codex entry-type dialogue made me want to hang on every word. I was just a little sad that she didn't have a bigger role in the game.
Then I met Liara.
Not to draw the flames of the Liara fans, I really wasn't impressed. Sure, I liked her, but Bioware has created some awesome and compelling love interests before, and Liara just didn't measure up in my opinion. Hell, the consort and Shiala were more interesting, and they had a mere fraction of the lines Liara did. I liked Ashley too, but really, it was just a choice between meh, and meh.
So in my original game (paragon vanguard), I romanced Liara, and figured they'd probably develop more of the character as the series went on (boy was I in for a surprise). The more I played, though, the more I realized that I liked Tali's tiny amount of character development far more than the entire conversation chain you have with either Liara or Ash. When I played through on my renegade FemShep soldier, I had a hard time denying Tali the Geth data, even though I was trying to be as evil as I possibly could.
Then I found out while I was deployed this year that Tali would be romancable in the new game.
Holy. #*$&balls.
Needless to say, I replayed all of ME1 with no romance option (paragon soldier), and I never looked back. ME2 was as epic as I expected, and the Tali romance was handled in the best manner that I could envision the writers handling it. They didn't go for anything cheap, or contrived. They took her character, gave her a believable crush on Shepard (starting from the first game), and carried it through realistically. There wasn't suddenly a miraculous way for Quarians to be out of their suits. There wasn't a massive change in Tali's character either. Instead, it was a couple overcoming some very difficult obstacles and there was a smooth evolution from what you saw in ME1 to the start of a romance in ME2.
It didn't hurt that Tali's loyalty mission was, in my opinion, the best written of all of them. After making the paragon choices, it's no wonder she falls in love with you.
Now I have to say, Jack was a hell of a compelling character. Had Tali not been in this game, I would have chosen her as my "canon" LI. I'll probably use my original (now paragade) vanguard for that. But... for my main character (spacer/war hero soldier), I just can't see him choosing anyone other than Tali.
Miranda, as much as I found her backstory interesting, was just too much of a cliche for me. Yes, she has sex appeal, but if you play on the paragon side, could you ever see your Shep getting together with someone who not only belonged to Cerberus, but fully supported what they were doing?
Modifié par Orion1836, 04 mai 2010 - 08:29 .
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At least he can *headbump*
