Capeo wrote...
I wouldn't say I'm being pessimistic, just realistic. Liara is a good example. They never would have made LotSB if Liara was a member of your squad and could die in ME2. You simply cannot invest that amount of money in development for something that people may not ever see. You also can't write important plot points around someone who can die in 2. Luckily Liara can't so I hope that means we see a lot of her in ME3 (as a squadmate would be awsome). ME3 has to be self contained in the sense of the main plot and your past decisions are only going to able to effect them so much.
Totally agree that they can only go so far. If there is a 50/50 choice then you're not going to put extraordinary development into both choices. Hence, we will get more emails.
The crew is a little different.
First, for most players, most crew will live. I bet 80-90% of player will have any one crewmate alive.
Second, default settings will probably have certain crew members alive, allowing more players to see them, raising that percentage.
Third, in both ME1 and ME2, they developed crew that you never had to recruit. They developed dialogue trees that many people never followed. Most players played maleshep but ladyshep still had 3 LIs. Once the engine and models are done, I don't think scripting the dialogue and recording some extra lines is all that expensive. Still, much of what Bioware develops is for replay value or to offer something to people that wouldn't otherwise play. They will certainly develop content that 20% of their fans might not see in a playthrough.
Actually, you make an excellent point about LotSB. Developing a squadmate with the dialogue tree and some banter is likely cheaper than buidling a cameo around a surrounding character. If I have a crewmate in ME1 dead and he/she would return in ME3 then I'm not missing out on any missions. If that character returns in the center of a cameo mision then there is either a placeholder (Wreave) or I miss out on the mission. Since building so many placeholders would be unrealistic, it would mean most of the cameos are trivial, which Bioware KNOWS would outrage their fans for most characters. They said as much with LotSB.
So maybe its a combo. Potential LIs come back as squadies (we would want significant time with them), others have a cameo with a placeholder, and maybe some are dead/trivial (Mordin might be too old to venture out anymore).
Yeah, more speculation. My rambling is only meant to highlight that there is as much of an argument to supposing they will return in a significant fashion than to assume they won't.
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