Drachasor wrote...
I'd say not saving the Council is pretty naive.
If not naive, careless and idiotic.
The fate of the galaxy is at stake RIGHT THIS MOMENT, not 2-3 years later. Your foe: a giantic AI dreadnaught with insane defensive and offensive capabilities. His imminent goal: you bring in thousands more super dreadnaughts. Do we pour everything into stopping this thing RIGHT NOW, or do we waste some resources on an asari dreadnaught that is, for all intents and purposes, out of THIS FIGHT (this fight in which the very galaxy is at stake) because 3 replacable individuals are onboard? That is the way the choice is presented.
In 3 out of 6 of my Shepards I save the Council. I actually prefer it that way, but in real life I don't have the hindsight to know that I can have my cake and eat it too. For all Shepard knows those resources wasted on saving the Destiny Ascension could be the difference between victory and total destruction. It is naive, given the situation to worry about politics, look to tommorrow and hope everything turns out wel because there may be no tommorrow. Yet the paragon decison's careless idiocy seems to make citadel space overall stronger and more unitied with no obvious downside whatsoever, Sorry, but that's messed up. This isn't a Walt Disney movie.
Regarding the Rachni, I can see that being up in the air, and honestly it still is -- they could be easily confused by the Reapers. Saving or not saving them isn't particularly naive.
We don't have a krogan army anymore. If the newer rachni generation or the Queen herself decide to go back on her promise and opt for revenge you will have effectively doomed everyone to death or rachni enslavement. I know the choices are stupid: kill or let go, but the smartest choice is to eliminate the threat. If Shepard is going to make a choice that can DECIDE THE FATE OF EVERY GALACTIC CITIZEN your only rational choice is the one that can't possibly end in the destruction of civilization as we know it. Am I really going to endanger the entire galaxy over some personal moral objection? How selfish and utterly irresponsible. Again, in real life I'd haved turned her over to the council and a team of asari matriarchs could have mind boned her, had some incredible orgasms. had a few unique daughters, learned about what happened during the war and found out her true motives. But such an ultra rational option was unavailable.
Does killing Wrex if you can avoid it EVER make sense? I think not.
It makes since outside a world in which you can sweet talk your way out of anything. Within the confines of the game's mechanics it makes no sense. There is a matter of trust. In real life, would I expect to just be able to say "trust me" and have a guy toss out all his hopes and dreams come true for his dying people? Doubtful. No heirloom armor or minute of sweet talk is going to sway a person that quickly on an issue of that magnitude. And even if you convince him, will he change his mind while in the facility? Can you risk leaving him on the ship? Maybe he'll take over the Normandy and prevent the bomb drop off? Should I take that chance given what is at stake?
I had played ME1 several times and never even knew Wrex could die for the longest time. It wasn't until I came to the forums did I find out and even then I figured you had to make a conscious effort to kill him. I was truly surprised that there were people who unintentional got him killed. For me, in 2 out of 6 Shepards he dies, but on purpose for story variation. I prefer paragon choices as much as anyone, but I also know that outside of fiction, paragon Shepard would fail.. HARD.
Regarding the Collector base...seriously? Cerberus is known to have killed alliance military and attacked colonies for its experiments. Their "pro-humanity" slogan wears a bit thin. There's absolutely no reason to trust them as the same guy has been in charge all along. They clearly brought you back just to use you for their own ends. Worse, they don't really seem to care when they lose people and they aren't very careful around Reaper technology (no precuations about indoctrination when studying that Reaper vessel). On what planet does it make sense to trust a shadowy organization that has unclear motives with that kind of technology?
It's not about trusting Cerberus or TIM. It's about the survival of all species. I'd rather have a Cerberus, and by extension humanity, dominated galaxy than no galaxy at all. There is no option to give the IFF to the Alliance or Council and have them study the base. Your choices: Destroy it and all its secrets (which would logically include detailed technical data on the reapers) and possibly damning all advanced life in the galaxy (with no foreseeable plan B against the reapers).
OR give that potential knowledge to a questionable organization who, despite their faults, make for a better alternative than total destruction. Again, what other option is there if you blow the base to bits? Just hope for the best? Pray to a myriad of gods to save us and hope one answers? Or as Shepard would say, "I'll take em down..
somehow". Somehow? That's not very reassuring. We're going to need more than irrational hope and a holier than thou moral fiber to stop the reapers,
Renegade choices make far more sense given the limited choices you have and the galactic situation at hand. But, naivity shouldn't be punished 100% either. Sometimes gambling pays off. I hope there is an upside and downside to decisions as in the examples I mentioned earlier. It would really water down the story if reckless optimism and virtuosity always prevailed while caution and pragmatism always bite you in the ass.
Modifié par Darkhour, 14 mai 2011 - 09:33 .
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My speculation on the Collector Base is this- since we're fighting Cerberus in ME3, we may have the opportunity to seize back the base for ourselves. Regardless of whether I'm right or not, we simply don't have the info to jump to conclusions yet.
