Ce sujet est fermé
Guest_slimgrin_*
Modifié par slimgrin, 09 juillet 2010 - 03:18 .
Guest_slimgrin_*
Siansonea II wrote...
My only issue with ME2's story is that you can't gun down Tali at the beginning of the game.
I am compelled to disagree. It expands the scope. The [REDACTED] aren't lumbering down a single path towards the Galactic Payphone; they're always working, plotting, laying contingencies. The [REDACTED] aren't their only servants left behind, watching the Galactic Payphone and waiting to connect to the Outside Line; they've had others out there for as long as civilization has been, gathering information on organic life, running tests. Preparing.Potential criticism arises when you consider the collectors seem like an unnecessary diversion; now we have two antagonists to deal with. This weakens the focus of the plot.
slimgrin wrote...
Siansonea II wrote...
My only issue with ME2's story is that you can't gun down Tali at the beginning of the game.
Wrong flame war.
Guest_slimgrin_*
Christmas Ape wrote...
I am compelled to disagree. It expands the scope. The [REDACTED] aren't lumbering down a single path towards the Galactic Payphone; they're always working, plotting, laying contingencies. The [REDACTED] aren't their only servants left behind, watching the Galactic Payphone and waiting to connect to the Outside Line; they've had others out there for as long as civilization has been, gathering information on organic life, running tests. Preparing.Potential criticism arises when you consider the collectors seem like an unnecessary diversion; now we have two antagonists to deal with. This weakens the focus of the plot.
The Collectors as the chapter's antagonists only weakens the overall plot if you wanted it to end with Shepard punching a [REDACTED] back into dark space. The first one was arrogant and a little desperate and moved so far forward it exposed itself to harm. Now they're hanging back, moving pawns into your path, watching your counter-moves.
And bear in mind your first counter-move when they brought out this new pawn was to [REDACTED but you played the intro, right?].
Modifié par slimgrin, 09 juillet 2010 - 04:04 .
I won't dispute that the overall focus of Mass Effect 2 was the crew & ground team of the Normandy, and that as it happens I enjoy that interlude from what is in the bulk of gameplay a fairly tidy and enjoyable cover-based TPS with powers and some great dialog. But I feel - and some might accuse me of being charitable here - that the relatively reduced screen time of the Collectors again does good for the story.slimgrin wrote...
If I had spent more time addressing this threat that the Collectors posed, I' be inclined to agree with your point about the main antagonist laying contingencies. ME2 was more concerned with showcasing your squadmates, so the end, for me, lacked punch. I say 'for me' (this time) because some people were clearly happy spending more time with the personalities of the game than with the plot, a valid approach in literature.
Guest_slimgrin_*
Christmas Ape wrote...
I won't dispute that the overall focus of Mass Effect 2 was the crew & ground team of the Normandy, and that as it happens I enjoy that interlude from what is in the bulk of gameplay a fairly tidy and enjoyable cover-based TPS with powers and some great dialog. But I feel - and some might accuse me of being charitable here - that the relatively reduced screen time of the Collectors again does good for the story.slimgrin wrote...
If I had spent more time addressing this threat that the Collectors posed, I' be inclined to agree with your point about the main antagonist laying contingencies. ME2 was more concerned with showcasing your squadmates, so the end, for me, lacked punch. I say 'for me' (this time) because some people were clearly happy spending more time with the personalities of the game than with the plot, a valid approach in literature.
Who are you primarily shooting at in Mass Effect? Geth, geth everywhere, and not a drop to...wait, wrong line. Anyway, it's geth, acting on behalf of [REDACTED], occupying planets and engaging in their dirty robot deeds. You come after them, you hit them hard, you fly off to the next batch of geth. You know how to find them.
Who are you primarily shooting at in Mass Effect 2? Blood Pack, Blue Suns, Eclipse - mercenaries, the three big companies in the Terminus Systems. They're everywhere, hands in many soups, basically being organized crime in a failed state - but in space. You can't even go to abandoned places and not run into mercenaries.
The Collectors, by contrast, are a foe who emerge from their hidden home only to strike in furtherance of their plans. No sideline businesses to mess up, no stumbling across them on the way to something else - pure agenda. No interaction with the galaxy at large they don't initiate. Until you find out where that home base is, you fight them on their timetable, not yours. They pick the fights, keeping you on the defensive until they push so hard you've got nowhere to go but through them. They dictate the shape this war is going to take, with the exception of a little luck on and one hell of a crew on Shepard's part - and even then you might have to take a Pyrrhic victory.
Retour en haut