So, here are a few of my random thoughts for the dossiers... all of which seem to be "pre-suicide mission" looks into each character.
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1. Zaeed: A fav character of mine. I LOVED his storytelling with Kelly. Great story, and it just added (toungue in cheek) to the fact that Zaeed "talks to you", he doesn't "talk with you". He talks with no one... he just tells stories. And it was a middle finger to the people that complained about his lack of conversation trees. TOO BAD! You get his stories in his dossier also. So badassed.
2. Garrus: I am not as big of a fan as some on here, but the entire email with family regarding his mom was touching. He is a very good guy, but like many in a position of risk and privlidge (think special forces or secret service), they must often look like an ass, or a bum, to do the right thing.
3. Miranda: Her dossier added a lot to her character if you ask me, even if it is a side of her that her fans may not
like. Not being able to have kids, and "sleeping around" (even if for business, not pleasure) really tests the fanbase of Miranda. Those seeking a "wholesome" "traditional virginal romantic love" with a "dog and kids" ending with Miranda will have their loyalty put to the test. (but aren't those people all Tali fans anyway? They are trying to figure out how shemp and Tali can have kids as we speak...)
Also very ironic is the fact that she was cloned from her father... and to have kids, Miranda will have to do the same. Well written. Will she do it given the resentment she has about what her dad did to her?
In the end the Dossier for Miranda adds a lot to the character because it reinforces the changes Shep can have on her personality if you pursue a LI with her. It also highlights how sad her existence is otherwise (although improved with the loyalty mission). This makes her character more endearing in my eyes.
4. Tali: I was a little surprised that there was not more in this one given the temptation for writers to cater to her rabid fanbase. The horny virgin. Face it... that is what the writers reinforced with Tali. (creepy that it will add to her popularity across all age demographics). I really saw it as a tongue and cheek poke of irony at "stereotypical" "young gamer falls in love with game character" fans. Tali meets shep... falls in love in a young, romantic, idealized, "butterflies and bees", unblemished, virginal kind of way. She reads up about humans... obsesses about them, and has lots of "neurostimulation" in the process. I am sure there are some gamers that read that, and after swapping "human" for "Quarian" (or maybe Asari), and realized that they just looked at themselves in the mirror.
Things get interesting for me only when your shep is Female. Get your mind out of the gutter (Tali shuts down Femsheps), but that leads us to another human male on the ship... Jacob? Joker? Zaeed? (kidding on the last one)
5. Kasumi - building on her interest in Jacob. I love this tongue-in-cheek reference by the writers to the low popularity of Jacob . Added to that is the film of Jacob doing situps... and you get GOLD.
6. Grunt - this is great because it reinforces that he is still a kid. Porno mags, sharks, and Dinosaurs (which is funny, because when people would complain about "loss of immersion in ME2" I would say... "but what about the talking Space Dinosaurs walking around shooting lazers?")
7. Samara - Like Garrus... shows what she sacraficed with her family to "do the right thing".
8. Jacob - not much here. ONe would think that they might take this as an opportunity to salvage his lack of popularity with some "Garrus dossier" type heartbreaker... but no... they leave him in the cold. Which is awesome. Even the writers have given up and just use him as an inside Joke. Part of me sees him as the underdog now. I kind of wish they redeem him in ME3 (I predict a heart wrenching sacrafice of his life mid-game).
EDIT: Somone reminded me that the Shadow Broker dossier says that Jacob is a stabilizing personality for the crew. WOW! Hold on folks... that means that Jacob is none other than...futurama Jerry Seinfeld. He is the straight guy that stabalizes the other personalities. GOLD!!! Mordin is Kramer. Miranda is Elaine. Biotic God is George. Harbinger is Neuman. TIM is Steinbrenner. It all makesso much sense now!
(and by request... the dossiers I forgot...)
9. Legion - I like this one for the ability of the writers to make fun of themselves and gamers. Just like the Salarian in the gaming store on the Citadel... this is a poke at all of us gamers, by gamers, in a game. Very "Deadpool", very "4th wall." The cherry on top for me was the bans that he recieved, and seemed to dodge (I wonder how he did that...). Again a reference to real life bans that people get in games for hacking stats or using special controllers.
10. Mordin - Less memorable for me, but I have never been huge on Mordin. However the "cloaca" bit was a hilarious use of appropriate zoological anatomy.
11. Thane - I admit to not romancing Thane so the content that I got was pretty bland. The love letter adds to Samara and Garrus as being more serious dossiers to balance the humerous and silly ones. Like Miranda's dossier, it really (and more directly) shows how much you change him in a LI. It also reinforces Thane's position as a man of chivalry. It is not about sex or whatever... just caring about someone. Caring for someone so much that it makes you want to change yourself, value yourself. THAT is romantic. THAT is love. Femsheps, if you have not romanced Thane... jump on it while you can... THAT is a PRIZE!!! Sheploos... take notes to learn the ways that get the lays.
12. Jack - I struggle to remember the details of this one... so that tells me that this may not be a good sign regarding what I thought about it. I guess it means that I neither loved or hated it (a bad thing.. think Jacob). Now that I am forced to think about it... I like it a lot. I knew this lesbian that was big on poetry, and she had a website that she started and edited that was composed of user-submitted poetry. I remember her saying that she got piles of some of the worst crap you could ever read... total written diarrhea, to the point that it would challange her love of poetry, and sanity. And it was usually the "dark" stuff. She often had to reject submissions. It hurt her because she knew that to the writer it ment a lot... but to her it was drivil. This made me think of Jack. I like her dossier now.
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Hopefully Bioware have left the dossiers open to further content updates, as I find them to be very enjoyable... and a much better alternative to "emails to shep" to tie up small plotlines from previous games. Intel on a character just sounds more realistic than an email to shep... and it allows for more varried style to "Dear Shep..."
Modifié par Throw_this_away, 21 septembre 2010 - 01:17 .
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