Gweedotk wrote...
Yeah my expectations are extremely low. I thought the way the game portrayed aliens is what made it unique, instead of making it all about Humans and blah blah. if PureMethodActor is right and the renegade path is the canon, I honestly hope this film doesn't make it past the conceptual stage.
All I see is EA milking the series, which will simply end up damaging the fan base and hurting the game experience (it will for me at least). If they had made up a story from scratch, I would be more optimistic, but porting a game into a movie has never been successful. There is little originality to begin with, we've got enough "AHHH Aliens!" movies already out. If it were taking the paragon path, it would at least have some originality there but nah, once more the aliens suck, humans rule, gun and run, blah blah.
But this is just me.
I agree with you completely, especially the bolded parts. I mean, are we really SO closed off to having aliens play huge roles in franchises, or "OMG! What if..." alien protagonists? I'm so tired of seeing human-centric storylines play out. I have to say this is precisely one reason I stay more of a Star Wars geek than a Trekkie, because the focus in Star Wars isn't completely human-centric. I actually think (please don't shoot me, fellow Star Wars lovers) that the new Clone Wars series helps in that, especially with Ahsoka Tano as a main protagonist. We see someone who's not human take a major role. Star Trek: TOS was like this, too, with Spock taking a major, and sometimes main, role in the episodes.
My point is that relegating everything to "humans are the only major players in the conflicts" is just utterly boring to me. Its a reason I don't like Dragon Age 2, and its a reason I've been worried about Mass Effect's direction since ME2. While the "collectors capturing humans" thing wasn't bad, but the revelation that we'd be seeing Earth in the series annoyed me, and the whole "must take earth back from evil bad guys" thing is almost too much. I wanted something original, something else to bring the Reaper conflict to a head, but instead of a galactic-proportions epic, we're reduced to collecting everyone in the galaxy....
to save Earth <_<
Because I'm pulling my last bit of available finances and focusing solely on getting Elder Scrolls Skyrim, I probably won't be getting ME3 for a while unless I find a job very soon. I don't mind at all, and will be waiting for reviews to come in.
Now, as it goes for the movie... there's no way I'm seeing it if those involved in the movie actually go forward with their plan to base it off the first movie rather than create a tie-in. I'd rather not see Renegade Sheploo getting Udina on the council.
In fact, I don't want to see ANY Renegade at all in Shepard. I want this Shepard to be a goody-two-shoes boy/girl-scout, Hulk Hogan-like noble hero. I think the anti-hero has been overdone now
Modifié par PureMethodActor, 29 juillet 2011 - 07:22 .
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