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[polynomials]

With all the recent buzz about ME3, I've recently downloaded the old ME on Steam, and am playing through it again. Also, my Xbox RROD'd me. I'm playing through it as a Ruthless Colonist Renegade FemShep, which in my opinion is the only way to do it. But I am enjoying the opportunity to mull over some of the decisions I made. The most interesting one, I always thought, was the one to save Ashley/Kaidan.

When it came time to choose her or Kaidan, I chose her for two reasons. 1) I have found that the Shepard I always play actually makes more sense to me if she starts out a little bit racist (especially with Batarians killing off her whole family on Mindoir), but then as she progresses, she starts to release her prejudices.  My Shepard sees a lot of her younger self in Ashley- young, skilled, all full of ****** and vinegar, ready to fight for humanity, thinking humanity is on their own, but immature, in need of guidance. 2) Because of that immaturity, he had just killed Wrex due to at least some racism, and I did not trust her to guard the bomb, which was the most important part of the mission.

It will be interesting to see if any of my internal thoughts about their relationship will get to be developed because I kind of saved her thinking of her as a daughter, in a loving way, but also in a scolding way. Like, I think of someone I need to protect, but at the same time protecting her/cleaning up her mess cost the lives of two people under my command, and two of my friends. So in ME2 when you meet up with her again, there is the Cerberus issue, but there is also that tension and resentment underlying it.

What are you guys' thoughts on why you chose who you did, and where you think it will go in ME3?

Modifié par polynomials, 12 avril 2011 - 07:47 .

[Da Mecca]

I chose Ash not because I thought Kaidan was boring, I actually liked Kaidan.

I just don't like seeing women get killed.

It's a thing.

[Eradyn]

Saved Ash because she was my sister-in-arms, she developed and grew as a character over ME1, and it ended any possible Kaidan ninjamance. She was a pretty well-developed character, imo.

[RTalon235]

Kaiden always struck me as someone that whined a lot. *shrug* I don't recall him ever having anything positive to say, and the voice just grated on my nerves.

[BadgerladDK]

I disliked Ashley, and normally would let her live. A character I dislike is better than one I feel absolutely nothing for or against, so Kaidan learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

[VolusNamedBob]

I saved Kaidan because Ashley bored me to tears. And she thinks talking to her automatically means you two are in a relationship.

[Rurik_Niall]

I chose Ashley because Evil Dead is awesome and I always wanted to nuke Carth.

[Thompson family]

I chose to save Kaiden for the simple but cold-blooded reason that, although Ash is a good soldier, good soldiers are not as rare as biotics. Kaiden is a biotic who has the more powerful L2 biotic implants at that.

Yes, that was callous. But a choice had to be made.

[ME_Fan]

I don't know, who should I chose for my ME3 import?

[CrybabyXD]

I always save ash on male shep and kaidan on female because of romances. Altho i never liked ash looks til i her me3 appearance but her attudie is the man driving force.

Modifié par Aurkia, 12 avril 2011 - 07:59 .

[nelly21]

Despite liking Kaiden (not as much as Ash, but I did like him) it pretty much felt wrong to let him live in my playthroughs.

Being the techy guy in ME 1, it just made more sense to me for him to set up the bomb. Then when the decision comes. It makes no sense to me to run towards the bomb after Kaiden sets it to detonate early.

I liked the guy, I did. But I like to roleplay my Sheps and the one time I let Kaiden live, it felt forced.

[Bims110]

I saved Ashley because Kaidan was bland and annoying. Sorry dude, you were sacrificed for lack of personality... it had to be done

[CroGamer002]

Mario Shepard: Ashley, romance
Maria Shepard: Kaidan, romance
Bruce Shepard: Ashley, ex-girlfriend
Mei Shepard: Kaidan, romance
Tom Shepard: Kaidan, broz before hoes
Venus Shepard: Ashley, girl power!
Johnson Shepard: Ashley, romance
John Shepard: Kaidan, downloaded save
Natascha Shepard: Ashley, lesbian
Ubel Shepard: Ashley, default ME2 new game
Elizabeth Shepard: Kaidan, romance
Gareth Shepard: Ashley, romance

Modifié par Mesina2, 12 avril 2011 - 08:02 .

[ME_Fan]

^christ 0_0

[Drake_Hound]

Saved Ashley cause Kaiden gone trough too much already .
In the end am a bit like Doctor Chakawa , if people lead a long and fruitfull life .
They deserve less then the people who haven´t even learned to live yet.

[IrishSpectre257]

Saved Kaidan on my Man Shep and Ashley on my FemShep.

[CroGamer002]

ME_Fan wrote...

^christ 0_0

What?

Modifié par Mesina2, 12 avril 2011 - 08:03 .

[Reaper Bob]

I saved Ashley, I thought the Salarians would do a good job getting Kaidan home, turns out Salarians are crap at fighting. Only played ME once, as I enjoy 2 more.

[Fdingo]

In my canon femshep playthrough I saved Ashley because I got to know her better (sisters, the grandfather, her struggle to clear the Williams name, her inital prejudice against aliens etc). Overall, it also feels like her character arc has more potantial.
All I know about Kaidan is that he is a biotic who had a difficult childhood...not enough there.

[Jigero]

Saved Kaiden because Ashley is an annoying space republican

[Pscyon]

While Ashley is a cranky bitch that is nauseatingly pro-Humanz-foreverz!!11!1, she is at least useful. Unlike Kaidan. Sentinel is seriously the worst class in ME; has stuff from both Adepts and Engineers, just not any of the good stuff! So he ends up dying on account of not serving any purpose, not having a spot on the team. Also, when you hear the news article thingie about him in no.2, it seems his death actually did something good for other people unlike Ash who just gets some medals.

Modifié par Pscyon, 12 avril 2011 - 08:20 .

[Fredvdp]

I saved Kaidan because he's a higher ranking officer en he's emotionally more stable.

[drinkurmilk]

Chose Kaidan, reasons for which seem slightly less conventional than those aforementioned. I play a driven male Renegade and I found my plot choices in ME1 eventually producing cynicism towards Kaidan whenever he were to question or over-think Shepard's judgement.

Also, I find that a number of the in-game cues indicate that Kaidan is a better equipped asset to the team (I feel that this is likely due to Ash being most of ME gamer's obvious preference, therefore Bio wanted to throw in a variable that made the decision harder) - and Kaidan presented more of a test to my Shepard's authority, and therefore had to go!

For the record, my Shep has no romantic involvement with Ash.

Modifié par chrisutd, 12 avril 2011 - 08:24 .

[Gill Kaiser]

I saved Ashley because I thought it fitted Kaidan's character arc more to be the one to sacrifice himself heroically.

[ADLegend21]

I have saves with both of them. I try to even out how many they eac h have, I wish you could sacrafice a different squadmate though. =/