No seriously, I have absolutely no regrets about the spoilers I've read. None of them have been so specific that it left me without anything to look forward to. I don't handle suspense well at -all- -- but I do want a few surprises along the way. The spoilers, for me, have been a blissful medium: I got enough of an inkling of possibilities/direction Bioware is taking to take the edge off anxiety and can still look forward to how it all comes together in the full game.
@AlphaDormante: Sweetness. ^^ Particularly your analysis that actions are far easier for Garrus to immerse himself, where he's not tripped up by over-thinking the rest. I most certainly concur!
@PalAvian: You've definitely got a good point in terms of a deliberate ambiguity to the romance. I think - if I remember correctly? - that his is also compounded by the fact that Garrus was apparently supposed to be recruited much later in the game. Something they switched well after the fact, which made his dialogue seem even more scant given the great stretches where... he calibrates... again... and again... again... *eye twitch*
To me, though, it's posstible there's more to it than just trying to deliver a character/romance that people could 'headcanon' however they liked:
Total speculation time: I think it's highly likely that BW just wasn't quite sure what to 'show' -- Garrus is definitely far more 'alien' in his appearance than the other romanceable non-humans. And look how awkward human-human pairings can come out looking in a video game. In that sense I'm actually kind of happy they didn't try to show us something that, perhaps, the graphics engine or whatnot (I'm just throwing words here, I know absolutely nothing about how you make a video game. XD) wouldn't portray well. I sincerely hope - and the spoilers seem to indicate - that they've surmounted this hurdle in ME3, but we'll see.
Less technical though, I think BW was also... testing the waters. They didn't anticipate Garrus being so widely well received/adored. I really, really don't think they anticipated the droves of us who wanted him as an LI. I really wouldn't be surprised if this played a part in building the Garrus romance. They were game to give it a go and please the fans, but probably not precisely sure how it would be received in the end.
This supposition is helped in part by what I've read of the spoilers: The amount of apparent (and dear god I hope it's there in the end!) growth and just MORE that we're (hopefully!) getting in ME3 is a sign, to me, that they went from the tentative testing the waters, to full immersion.
And if you think about it? If I'm right (and I could be entirely off my gourd, stranger things have happened!) and my above ramblings are true: It kind of nicely echoes what I like most about the Garrus/Shep romance in general. It grows. It have -room- for growth. It wasn't stymied by being squeezed into one game of 'they meet, they fall madly in love, they declare themselves, they have the best sex evar and all is glorious' --> the romance with the Human and the Turian is a little more real than that (kinda ironic) and I think that is at lest in part due to BW approaching it as something just as new and 'potential-for-things-goings-wrongs' as the characters themselves.
And just because I'm on a roll and doing that thing where I post before I've fully diluted the blood in my caffeine-stream...
I've always felt that the awkwardness in the romance wouldn't have been quite so jarring to many if BW had given us the option to occasionally play Shepard as less of a 'big-goddamned-hero'. I love femShep. I definitely think that, so far as video game protagonists go, she's definitely more humanized than many. But there's so much they go through that is just taken in stride that feels... jarring. I like my femShep as a strong woman: But the strongest of people are still human. The romance scenes were best, honestly, (imo!) when Shepard shows a bit of insecurity (Am I making you uncomfortable?) and simple compassion (touching his scars, reassuring him) rather than trying to ham up flirtation/innuendo/etc.
That all said, apparently BW really felt strongly about exploring Sheps 'humanity' in ME3 and the bits of dialogue I've read seem to support that. Which pleases me to no. end. Especially in regards to the Garrus romance: To me it levels the playing fields. It's not one uncertain Turian and SuperWoman. It's to sentient, caring beings, neither of them having all the answers, neither of them knowing precisely how to move forward -- both of them just knowing they want move forward together.
....this ends ShyGravels ALL MY FEELS, brought to you by the good people at I totally stayed up too late reading and then my wonderful little boys woke me up when the sun was barely up and kids are cute as a defense mechanism because otherwise beleaguered parents might eat them. And coffee.
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