Terror_K wrote...
I still think that you guys wasted too much potential for the series to be a true trilogy by making it cater too much towards newcomers to the series with ME2 and again with ME3 (especially with comments like, "ME3 is the BEST place to jump in" which just makes it sound like those who have already jumped in are missing out on something) and by styling the entire trilogy as three stand-alone titles instead of a proper trilogy consisting of three parts. Each title being stand-alone I think has isolated them a bit too much and lost a good deal of flow and consistency from the overall story and even style. ME2 felt so damn removed from ME1 story-wise and made it seem like far too much that was supposed to be important was either pushed into the background, swept under the rug or just made nowhere near as important as it seemed via some cop-outs and minimal focus on the subjects.
Star Wars keeps being brought up, but the original Star Wars films didn't get created as stand-alone movies where they were designed for anybody to just jump-in: they were designed as a proper trilogy where the viewer was somewhat expected to have seen the previous movie. Empire and Jedi were very much dependent on the prior films for proper clarity and followed on from each other directly, and were never stand-alone entries. They didn't have a whole bunch of pipe or recaps for newcomers and they didn't change the story so much so that it only had the tiniest links to the previous one(s) so that it could begin a whole new arc. Same goes for the Lord of the Rings movies. Even the Harry Potter ones (I saw Dealthy Hallows: Part I earlier this year, and the only other films I'd seen were the first two. It confused the hell out of me.). When it came to the flow and narrative, jumping from Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect 2 felt less like going from A New Hope to Empire and more like going from Phantom Menace to A New Hope.
Mass Effect really had great potential to be a proper trilogy that was truly one big story dependent on the other titles to function properly, but it wasted it by this "stand alone game" approach, IMO.
This, I think, sums up the perfect argument towards the topic.
While both Me 1 & 2 are both fantastic games, their connection to each other is pretty thin. If ME3 can pull them both together and intgrate both story arc's seamlessly to a proper conclusion (Other than Must.Stop.Reapers), that would be fantastic. I do, however, feel that the final entry will take as much of a departure from the previous installment as it did with ME1.
Of course, this is probably a major learning curve for BioWare themselves, seeing as though they've made absolutely fantastic games over the years, but have a spotty track record concerning sequels (i.e Baldurs Gate is the only other game they've made to recieve a follow up, and that was a decade ago).
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On the aliens count. But not that there's more humans than aliens. 9 humans. 10 aliens. 9 aliens excluding Morinth. In no case there's more humans than aliens. And you shouldn't be even including Shepard in that list, since you don't talk to yourself lol.
