Tasha vas Nar Rayya wrote...
Honestly? I agree with Nod. People who say they won't buy the game if blah-de-blah isn't a squadmate are just over reacting. Of course I will still buy the game right away if team dextro aren't squaddies! I'm not along on the Mass Effect ride just for the characters, there is so much more to the series than them (although they do make it extra awesome!)
Besides, if Tali isn't a squaddie, she may still have an epic role. (Like Wrex did in ME2.)
Honestly I play it only for the charakters.
Or maybe you could say because the universe is awesome and I enjoy reading every bit of text about it. But why that, because of the charakters that specify each species are well designed and interesting.
Now imagine ME3 ..:Shepard is not the char you play, all squaddies are just shown in one brief sequenze, and the whole game would be about you being some soldier on earth defending against the reapers in the last line. Waiting for Shepard and the help to arrive.Ok Bioware is not retared I have trust in them, so they will not do that.
But imagine it, it still could be a great game, there could be great charakters engaded, he collects people on the streets for a team to do...whateva.. even if the game was great and the charakters also... I would say....wtf .. where are my mates, and would most likely ignore it, or at least I would be angry about it.
Because to be honest, the gameplay of Masseffect besides the charakters and talk is....medicore...in fact it got way worse in ME2 ...stupid shining ammunition clips running the atmo, our wepons got better so now we have to reaload (lol?), no new dresses for the crew expect for expensive download content, less roleplay elements, no inventory (the rest of the hud got better though). Still I consider it a better game, because of the Charakters and their Interaction (and the way better sidequests, rushing the same bunker 5000 times in ME 1 was....jeah...)
But thats ok, because thats what I love in Bioware games, everything since BG1...the story, and the charakters so dropping the best charakters of a series for me would be terrible. Still I think Bioware is not stupid and since they produced almost only great games, I have trust.....