Is it just me or does anyone else feel really annoyed with how so many
NPC's in ME2 sort of impune Commander Shepard's character?!
If you were a devout Paragon player in Mass Effect 1 and 2. Like I was my first playthrough.In ME2, there are like three or four characters who speak as if Shepard's conduct is no better than there's.Yet they failto give an example of this.
Jacob Taylor and Miranda Lawson both say something like:
I recall that you did some "questionable" things while you were hunting down Saren.The Virmire Survivor accuses Shep of being disloyal.Liara T'Soni imo takes a cheap shot of the highest order when Shep tells her "Don't give in to temptation." (After taking out The Observor) She has the unmitigated gall to say to him:
Says the dead Spectre working with Cerberus.She knows damn well, how Shep has no other choice but to work with Cerberus, and all he's suffering for it.But like the others, Liara tries to act like what she is doing is no worse or better than what
Shep is doing.
But this is not the only thing.I'm bothered and shocked by how Garrus and Liara in particular speak in Shepard's presence about commiting criminal acts! Vakarian wants Shep to help him murder Sidonus.Liara
talks about killing all five of the Shadow Broker's Agents.Simply because they work for the SB. This crazy blue
b!tch in ME2 who impersonates the Liara I know and love from ME1.Is waging a private war.Under nothing but her own authority.Never have I seen such a worthy scenario for one to say to a character: Who the hell do you think you are Liara!?
Harkin says to Garrus that the Terminus Systems really changed you.Liara is on the border of the TS on Illium.But the same could be said of her...
When we go to her apartment in LOTSB.Looking over the place.Seeing her Degree on the wall from a top notch college on Thessia. I was reminded of what she and Garrus seemed to have forgotten.That they are CITIZENS.And they have NO RIGHT to act outside of the Rule of Law.
Everyone's Shepard is different of course.But there are a few dialoge options that I would really like Shep to be able to say to some of these folks.To Miranda, on account of how on two separate occasion, that bloodthirsty b!tch killed an unarmed person right in front of me.(Wilson & Nekat) Like I condoned the act, or would just keep my
mouth shut about it.
Shep: You know Miranda.Your last name may be Lawson.But you are not
Above the Law!

I mean... Shepard can punch Zaeed in the face, save the refinery workers at the
expense of Vido Santiago getting away.Lecture Zaeed on the importance
of honor and duty and point a gun in his face.
But how Shepard rebukes Miranda, Garrus and Liara is pretty tame by comparison.
Shep: Be careful out there Liara.Don't turn into the thing your hunting.
Liara: Says the dead Spectre working for Cerberus.Don't worry
Shepard.I'm not my mother.Everything I'm doing.I'm doing of my own
free will.For better or for worse.
Shepard says a bunch more to Liara after taking out Tela Vasir.But I wanted to do more.I wanted to grab Liara by her shoulders a shake some sense into her.Like how Shep tries to get the Racchni Queen to free the asari he thinks she's controlling on Illium... I wanted to make it clear to her in no uncertain terms.That if she doesn't watch herself.I would take her down just like we just took down the last Shadow Broker...
What get's me as well.Is the level of hypocrisy that runs wild at times in ME2. Shepard says to the Shadow Broker: You should have known that someone would come after you for working with the Collectors.
Err... Isn't Toombs coming after Shepard for working with Cerberus?
After the crew is abducted, Miranda essentially states that they are expendable.And the "mission comes first" I
really wanted Shepard to be able to say to her indignantly:
"I wonder Miranda.If your precious sister "Oriana" was taken by the Collectors.I bet you would move heaven & earth to save her!"

I am also shocked by how casually Garrus and Liara talk to Shepard
about commiting premeditated murder.
Shep: Liara, I'm not going to help you murder someone.
Liara: If I can't narrow it down.I'll take out all five.There all
connected to the Shadow Broker in some compacity.Nothing to lose sleep
over.

Tali even ask Shepard to commit a crime on her family's behalf.
And another thing... To my knowledge Garrus Vakarian became Archangel b/c he was outraged at how criminals and lowlifes on Omega behaved as if they had impunity.Killing people in public view and such.Yet Garrus
kills Sidonus right in the middle of a populated section of the Citadel. WTF?!

Liara feels no remorse for putting Sekat's life in danger.And says that she would do it again.You know what would be great in ME3.If it is not only Shepard who may have some just commupence to deal with.But other characters as well.
Some people are really upset that Shepard's squad in ME3 will be alot smaller than it was in ME2.I'm not.Look I'm not trying to come across as hollier than thou or anything.But I don't care to asscociate myself
with half the people Shep recruited in ME2.Even though I may like interacting with some of them.The Galactic News Report that questions the company that Shepard is rumored to keep.Had me saying: Amen
brother

I really like Samara.In fact I have grown more fond of her now than I was a year ago.But I will never forget how uncomfortable I felt with what she was asking me to do.Where as Thane was asking me to help him
save his child.Samara wanted me to help her kill hers.I cringed when after choosing to stay true to Samara rather than siding with Morinth.The Justicar killed her daughter.
I can't speak for anyone else.but in Mass effect 3.I want people around me that I can trust.I want people around me who are good and descent.I could never imagine the liara T Soni that i knew in ME1.Saying and doing the things she was in ME2.Tali who once said to me (In ME1) that she would never abandon her people.After being "Exiled' she essentially said that she could care less about the fate of the quarian people.Garrus who told me that he was going to go back to the Citadel and do things the right way.Quickly got frustrated and changed his tune.
I want people around me like Kaidan Alenko and Shiala.I could never imagine either one of these characters asking commander Shepard to do the kind of untoward things other characters ask of him.
Modifié par ubermensch007, 14 novembre 2011 - 11:31 .