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[suprhomre]

 Ok all of you who have played ME1 knows what I'm talking about just wondering. How many of you would mind to purchase the continuum of the story? 

[RideUrLightning]

I was hoping it would maybe tie into Mass Effect 3 somehow.

[DutchClark]

I sure hope so. My Shepard has a thermal clip with Balak's name on it.

[Bad King]

I've seen this discussed before. Someone ended up saying that in order to make the proposed Bring down the sky continuum dlc available to those who killed Balak in ME1, Bioware would end up having to introduce.....







.....Zombie Balak!

Modifié par Bad King, 08 novembre 2010 - 08:48 .

[Kronner]

I killed the guy..

but I certainly wouldn't mind killing some more batarians

[AdmiralCheez]

Personally, I'd like to see the occasional non-scumbag batarian. There has to be at least ONE out there who's not a pirate, slaver, mercenary, or terrorist, right?



But yeah. More Batarian Hegemony vs. Human Alliance shenanigans.

[Nerevar-as]

scyphozoa wrote...

Yup, finishing up with the Batarians is guaranteed to happen sometime in the future of ME franchise. I would specifically like to see how handling Balak affects your relations with Batarians. But yeah, I owe Balak a bullet.

Considering Balak was about to do the equivalent of nuking a city on a civil target in a cold war situation (in the batarian - Alliance status) they shouldn´t protest too much. But the fact that the only nice batarians you find are mostly in Omega speaks for itself of the batarian society.
How were they allowed in Council Space when slavery is legal, anyway?

[DutchClark]

Story-wise whether or not someone killed Balak or not would be easy enough to account for. If you saved the hostage and let him live, Balak is after Shepard as revenge for foiling his plans. If Shepard killed Balak, then Balak's brother is after Shepard as revenge for killing his brother. Aside from dialogue to establish motivation, everything else cold be the same.

[Mudzr]

I'm all for this, expecially if we're introduced to a potential batarian squadmate and some actual friendly/ civilian batarians.

[spacehamsterZH]

Oh yeah, I believe I have some "unfinished business" with this "fine gentleman" myself, if you catch my drift...



I don't see it happening as DLC, though, it would only make sense for people who a) have played ME1, have played BDTS and c) have chosen that particular ending.



I'd love to see more than a passing reference in a news report to it, though, at least if the batarians play a more prominent role in ME3. Bring Down the Sky is popular, and with good reason, so it's kind of a shame it doesn't matter much now.

[casedawgz]

I shot him and left him to bleed out. Good times.

[Destroy Raiden_]

I'd rather it be factored into 3 if you got the DLC dailouge changes and also you have a harder time with badguy ( Balak I think his name was?) if you didn't play the DLC then he's just started terrorizing people and never went to Kate's world to blow it up?

[FuturePasTimeCE]

yeah, bring down the space stations and starships... good idea... a mass effect 2 2.0 opener.

[KenLyns]

The only flag carried from the ME1 save file is "DLC: humans rescued". If you chose to fight Balak, it's the same as never playing Bring Down the Sky at all; ME2 cannot tell the difference.

[Manic Sheep]

Well my shep shot balak up and then sent him off to the alliance for interrogation and persecution so don't think I will be seeing him again.
If they were going to have a DLC built around balak and the events of BDTS it probably wouldn’t work to well since it would require people to have played ME1, BDTS and chosen to let balak go.
However he did say he was part of an organisation and something about batarian rebellions so they could make a DLC around that. Perhaps with references to BDTS and minor changes depending on if you played it and what you did. If thats the case I wouldn't mind buying it if it looks good.

Modifié par Manic Sheep, 09 novembre 2010 - 05:08 .

[Sinapus]

So long as if you run into Balak again, we Paragon types can do the smart thing and scout ahead to make sure he doesn't have hostages with bombs on them... and if he does maybe use ME2's options to have other squad members do something else to detail someone to defuse those bombs/save the hostages/etc.



Balak: Hah! Once again I'm one step ahe- *bag full of detonators is thrown at his feet*

Shep: Oops.

[Burningwolf]

Guys...remember the *cannon shep is neutral/renegage in demeanor.

(Load a new character and see what the default choices are...they make you bash your head into the keyboard)



Actually got one of my buddies at work to buy a copy of me1 just for that purpose...he wound up falling in love with it,maxing out a 60 and importing to me2 and restarting that.

[Praetor Knight]

Also, Balak could be done like Wrex and Wreav where there could be a Batarian who is more or less crazy than Balak.

Edit: So I don't double post...

KenLyns wrote...

The only flag carried from the ME1 save file is "DLC: humans rescued". If you chose to fight Balak, it's the same as never playing Bring Down the Sky at all; ME2 cannot tell the difference.

Hopefully, this is all Bioware needs to develop that storyline for ME3?

Modifié par Praetor Shepard, 09 novembre 2010 - 06:12 .

[IBPROFEN]

Well, i thought Balak was a real "badguy", meaning if he was let go he would try something like this again. So, I killed him.

But, I did let the first ones I talked to go(don't remember his name). He even said, "that Balak went to far". maybe could pick it up from there and he could become an allied in ME3. or DLC. Cause, I think we are going to need everyone in the end.

[KenLyns]

Praetor Shepard wrote...
Also, Balak could be done like Wrex and Wreav where there could be a Batarian who is more or less crazy than Balak.

Have you seen the movie Munich? In terrorist organizations, removal of the leader usually causes a more ruthless extremist to take his place.

Hopefully, this is all Bioware needs to develop that storyline for ME3? 

Balak was a bataryan supremicist who blamed humans for his people's woes. A lot of devastating stories can be developed based on real-life history. Maybe we ought to see a bataryan slave raid first-hand, then see how many paragon players can stand to let the slavers go.
 

Modifié par KenLyns, 10 novembre 2010 - 01:52 .

[Praetor Knight]

KenLyns wrote...

Praetor Shepard wrote...
Also, Balak could be done like Wrex and Wreav where there could be a Batarian who is more or less crazy than Balak.

Have you seen the movie Munich? In terrorist organizations, removal of the leader usually causes a more ruthless extremist to take his place.

Hopefully, this is all Bioware needs to develop that storyline for ME3? 

Balak was a bataryan supremicist who blamed humans for his people's woes. A lot of devastating stories can be developed based on real-life history. Maybe we ought to see a bataryan slave raid first-hand, then see how many paragon players can stand to let the slavers go.
 

So it seems that we are on the same page then with what could happen in the aftermath

My comment was on including a scenario: be it a mission, assignment or what have you for ME3, where the save flag you mentioned is the trigger for either story path with Balak or without Balak.

I tried to use Wrex and Wreav as the comparison for carrying this through to ME3, but I was too vague.

I should have clarified this before.

[tallon1982]

Burningwolf wrote...

Guys...remember the *cannon shep is neutral/renegage in demeanor.
(Load a new character and see what the default choices are...they make you bash your head into the keyboard)

Actually got one of my buddies at work to buy a copy of me1 just for that purpose...he wound up falling in love with it,maxing out a 60 and importing to me2 and restarting that.

That's not really cannon shep at all (there is no cannon anyway lol). It was lack of preparing or not being able to add in the options to make shep how you wanted without having to resort to playing ME1 all over again. This is why the PS3 is getting an interactive comic that addresses major choices in ME1 to transfer into ME2. There is a possibilty that this will be released to PC and 360 users in the future but for the moment it will be exclusive to the PS3.

Back to the topic I wouldn't mind if there was a means to continue this storyline. I owe the dude a bullet to the legs, arms and head...Yes I like to kill those that escape me very slowly or if I'm being lazy one sniper shot from a distance.

[Zaxares]

AdmiralCheez wrote...

Personally, I'd like to see the occasional non-scumbag batarian. There has to be at least ONE out there who's not a pirate, slaver, mercenary, or terrorist, right?

In ME2, you do get to meet one civilian batarian who, admittedly, is rather rude to you at first, but it's possible to prove to him through your actions that humans are not the aggressive, greedy villains they're painted out to be by the Batarian Hegemony, and so change his tune.

[Praetor Knight]

Zaxares wrote...

AdmiralCheez wrote...

Personally, I'd like to see the occasional non-scumbag batarian. There has to be at least ONE out there who's not a pirate, slaver, mercenary, or terrorist, right?

In ME2, you do get to meet one civilian batarian who, admittedly, is rather rude to you at first, but it's possible to prove to him through your actions that humans are not the aggressive, greedy villains they're painted out to be by the Batarian Hegemony, and so change his tune.

I find perspective and empathy to be very fascinating and important to a great story.

For RP reasons, with a Colonial War Hero Shep, I've tended to play a character that is not able to communicate with Batarians outside of passing them along to superiors to deal with,

but I hope that there could be more touched upon (in a DLC or in ME3) to experience what a batarian goes through regardless of where they fall on a political spectrum or how they view slavery.