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[DoNotIngest]

Shepard died and was dead for two years. Doing something besides following the tracking chip hidden in Shepard's last ass cheek all that time is fine by me.

Better be a damn good reason my oldest friends & LI left me again, when I was perfectly alive and attending a trial, to scatter themselves across the universe. Shepard sending them all on a mission while he's tied up in court and maybe prison (not that that would last) is the only reasonable thing I can think of.



Nevertheless, if there's more companion & LI interaction than in ME2, I'll haz a happeh

Bogsnot1 wrote...

@Tamahome: Given my track record of being very much anti-piracy in the tech support forums, it can be taken as an indication of displeasure if it turns out ME2 was just a money churning time waster should I have to go through the same motions again. It would pretty much have to be universally panned on forums and gaming sites before I would stoop to that level though.

Or an indication of hypocrisy, you nasty little thief.

[ramnozack]

Massadonious1 wrote...

You spent 90% of the time not fighting an Archdemon in the middle of a Blight, so you should feel right at home.

That made sense though you can't engage this colossal force without a massive army at your back.....o wait

[alperez]

Practically every single me2 character has a genuine reason why they wouldn't be at the trial at the beginning and i'm fine with that. Once things kick off and we start re-recruiting people is where the problem may lie imo.

It makes sense that some characters may not come back from me2 but with others the reasoning becomes that much more clouded add in the confirmed members and you create another problem.

Why Ash and not Miranda or why Garrus and not Grunt the problem as i see it is so far we've been overloaded with me1 crew returns (yes tali and garrus return but they were also me1 crewmates) and with no me2 specific crew returns. If we don't get some of these characters back as full squadmates then me2 becomes pointless and people will be pissed.

Casey's words can be construed either way but for me the most worrying aspect was that we'd be getting even more new crewmates, Why? Whats the point?

So far in both game the we've had a pot of 18 squadmates, we get a new one in Vega making it 19, surely there was enough choice and disparity already. To introduce any more new characters at this point is redundant and makes a mockery of the 2 games so far.

For example we get random new squaddie no.2 who doesn't know shepard or have any reason to be more invested than someone shepard knows and works with from me2 but is unavailable because of stupid random reason number 135.

If any lesson should have been learned from me2 it should have been the almost universal objection to sidelined characters (Vs. Liara) if it hasn't been then bioware are on a very slippery slope and the reaction to me3 could be doomed before its even got here.

[SkittlesKat96]

DAR7H_S7EWIE wrote...

Isn't it possible that new new character is just cannon fodder (ala Jenkins) that will be blown away to add dramatic impact, and pave the way for an unexpected and very welcome recruitment of an old favorite.

Thats what i hope anyways, because i cant really see myself caring about him.

I don't see why everyone wants every single squad mate in ME 3 to be from the previous games, I wouldn't mind if it was like 6 out of eight or 9 at best but it'd be cool to have at least two new squad mates from the Alliance or something.

[Fdingo]

By now I know that I'm in the minority here, but the characters, Shepard's realtionships with said characters and their personal stories are what keep me coming back to this series. Yeah, ME1 was more plot driven but even back then the main story was by no means high art.

[AlanC9]

Fdingo wrote...

By now I know that I'm in the minority here, but the characters, Shepard's realtionships with said characters and their personal stories are what keep me coming back to this series. Yeah, ME1 was more plot driven but even back then the main story was by no means high art.

Who says you're in the minority?

[alperez]

SkittlesKat96 wrote...



I don't see why everyone wants every single squad mate in ME 3 to be from the previous games, I wouldn't mind if it was like 6 out of eight or 9 at best but it'd be cool to have at least two new squad mates from the Alliance or something.

I think its because it looks like we're getting new characters at the expense of older ones that actually mean something to shepard and to us the players.

We've had 15 characters so far introduced in both games, now we're getting at least one possibly more and we know we're getting a smaller squad than me2's 12, so if you take the 4 confirmed returns (liara,vs,garrus,tali) add in Vega and one other new character that gives us 6 which doesn't leave room for many more.

Even if we get 9 or 10 in our squad in me3 (best possible scenario) that means there are like 6 or 7 characters from me2 being reduced in role which is not really what a lot of people want. Thats even if we get a best case scenario we could get a worst one where we get the confirmed 5 characters plus one new one leaving no room for me2 returns at all.

So people are undeniably frustrated by the intro of these new characters when there were already enough characters to fill whatever spaces a squad would need. Not to mention the simple fact of why would Vega or any new character have more of a reason to be in my squad than anyone from me2?

You also have character attachment,loyalty and liking of particular characters and again why should i feel any to someone like Vega (however great he may turm out to be) when i already had characters i was loyal to.

Whatever reasoning is used as to why a new character is on my squad has to be lined up against the reason why an old one isn't and since we're in a fight to the death save all or die situation there really aren't many good reasons that work. So we get shoehorned a new character and an old one is deemed not to have a place on our squad, for me this makes new characters already unlikeable from the get go, for others not so much.

Modifié par alperez, 12 juin 2011 - 01:56 .

[SilentNukee]

I loved ME2, don't get me wrong...But as a sequel in a trilogy, it didn't have anything of relation to Shepard's character, thus failed as a sequel in the series. (In that context, anyway.) I think ME3 will pick up that slack from ME2.

[shepskisaac]

TheTWF wrote...
You've already confirmed that most of the squaddies aren't returning as permanent squad mates..

Where was it confirmed?

[UltraBoy360]

There are clearly logical reasons the me2 squad wouldn't necessarily be coming to Earth. I always kinda thought the first thing my Shepard would do post suicide mission was hold a press conference and present the galaxy with Reaper evidence (not super badass, but makes sense to me). The events of Arrival put pay to that idea, but presenting evidence at a trial on Earth will probably be the next best thing.

Given the varied status of the ME2 crew, it would make more sense to scatter most of them if you were Shepard. Pure speculation, but Miranda and Jacob could be re-infiltrating Cerberus (and would 100% face arrest if they came to Earth), Tali and Legion rallying their people against the Reapers. As influencial members of their own societies Samara and Mordin may be better off at home influencing their governments. Jail again for Jack and Thane if they came to Earth - Kasumi and Zaeed also.

I can't wait to see the varied circumstances I meet them again.

[Srast]

Flashlegend wrote...

My concerns are not with new or existing characters but with character recruitment derailing the main plot, as was the case throughout all of Mass Effect 2. I can't imagine this happenning again though.(will be extremely pissed off if it does.)

But... I thought the main aspect of ME's plot WAS gathering up a team to go on the suicide mission. So I think character recruitment was actually not derailing the plot, but an integral aspect of it. That was the point. If it didn't work for you, that's fine. But it's not a derailing of the plot.

[Trakarg]

Montezuma IV wrote...

Not really....if your talkin' about my post....because my idea is actually pretty creative.

I'd like to point out that "creative" and "good" aren't synonyms.

Your idea is bad.