DarthCaine wrote...
Shepard's personality was greatly improved in ME2.
In ME1 he was an emotionless character that barely spoke. He had little to no personality in ME1.
In ME2 by speaking more often, he gained much more personality. He even showed emotion is some scenes unlike ME1. The epic speeches, the badass lines and much more are why Shepard's character is much improved in ME2.
Not really... I see where the developers made efforts to improve the character's expression and facial animations (if you avoid looking at the rape-face), but he's less defined in ME2 as a character. At least ME1 actually had conversations that helped you to define who your character was: whether he/she is religious, xenophobic/elitist, dwells on past failures, etc... it was all there for your to define.
In ME2, you can either be rude or polite, and you're meant to define Shepard's personality this way... there are very few conversations where the focus of the conversation is on Shepard's character. There were even some great opportunities to give Shepard dialog that would help define him/her: for example, if you had the sole survivor background and you rescued Corporal Toombs from the Cerberus facility in ME1, you would know that Cerberus was to blame for your squad's destruction on Akuze. This is NEVER brought up in your conversations with the Illusive Man in ME2. The game overlooks this variable (which, really, is a HUGE deal considering it would really complicate Shepard's relationship with the Illusive Man), and makes one of the major connections to the first game meaningless, as well as trivializes a major point in Shepard's past.
Plenty of those oversights in ME2, and it bothers a lot of people because it makes Shepard seem... less relatable to the characters and more of a blank slate for the player to ride through the story on. Of course, you CAN determine whether Shepard agrees with the genophage or not, whether he supports the Quarians going to war with the Geth, but you never really see Shepard get personal.
This would be fixed if ME3 contained more conversations where Shepard could be defined as a character (eg. the convos with Ashley where you can determine Shep's religious viewpoint and even his interest in poetry, or Shep's views on other races, etc.). You know, actual evidential admissions of personal preferrence.By the way, I think the dialog in ME2 was fantastic and on-par with the dialog in ME1; maybe even better. I just think that ME1 did several things right that ME2 should have done the same way.
Modifié par Mr. MannlyMan, 10 novembre 2010 - 09:44 .
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