jeweledleah wrote...
/rant
1. Shepard IS a traitor. seeing how Shepard is working for the avowed enemy of the alliance and the council.
2. by your own admission, Tali would have been your first choice if available in ME1, so really, Horizon was just an excuse to feel better about moving on to her in ME2
3. no, technically it was not cheating in a true sense as for Ashley 2 years have passed and Horizon is set up in a way to be able to interpret it as a breakup if one so wishes. but apparently, /grumble its what bioware is calling it. not to mention - as stated above, its only been couple of weeks for Shepard, so their feelings are supposed to be a bit fresher then Ashley's.
4. Tali doesn't join Shepard immediately or without questions,its only when you meet her a second time, that you get to recruit her, after much time has passed. She had time to think about it. Tali is also not part of the military organization, her loyalty to the flotilla is purely personal.
I wish people would:
1. at least attempt to put themselves in Ashley's shoes and see how they would reacted after someone they thought was dead showed up 2 years later, perfectly alive, talking like nothing happened, personally confirming the rumors that they were alive and working for cerberus. the same organization that Ashley was sent to Horizon to INVESTIGATE IN RELATION TO COLONY KIDNAPPINGS. and lo and behold - colony gets kidnapped and oh look, Cerberus vessel is there.
2. stop romancing her just because their first choice is not available.
3. consider if this was their real life relationship, would they write off a lover after a single fight that was at least partly caused by someone else's manipulations. (TIM ADMITS setting up Horizon after you get back to the Normandy, he ADMITS spreading the rumors about Shepard for months, he proceeds to set Shepard up, again and again through the rest of the ME2)
4. stoip saying it was one night of monkey sex. it was a year's worth of building a relationship, because you start flirting pretty much as soon as you meet and continue through out all the events on ME1, that took about a year to conclude. you, the player might think it was a one night of monkey sex, becasue it took you 20-30 hours to finish the game, but in game time=/=play time. traveling between systems doesn't take couple of seconds. etc
/end rant
1. That first point has a lot to do with the quality of the writing. As a player I can very well understand why the VS is mad at Shep on Horizon. I just cant express it because Shep isnt given the option to do so. As the player I can genuinely make my best effort picking the options that would make things right with the VS. But it did not turn out that way.
2. & 4. With all the different Shepards people play some are bound to have a stronger or a weaker connection to the VS then others. Why is it so bad to romance them 'just because' or just for sex. Cant it just be part of the story youre writing for that particular Shepard? People can have relationships that dont turn out to last or arent built on 'true love' feelings. Playing a Shepard who realized during the course of ME2 that the relation he thought he had with the VS wasn't as strong as he initially believed it to be can be jsut as interesting as playing a Shep who realizes how strong his feelings are for the VS even if the ME2 events acted against it.
3. You cant compare Horizon to a real life domestic dispute... It isnt on the scale of 'honey why did you let othe bread on the table once again ?' You would have to compare it to something like 'If your boyfriend/girlfriend decides not to fallow you to China where you plan to work for the next year... is the relation still viable?' Horizon might not even be the first fight between Shep and the VS. Who is to say if already in ME1 Shep didnt have problems with how Ashley's views on aliens affected the mission or her being willing to let the Council die, or that FemShep wasnt already annoyed by how Kaidan wanted to play nice and save the Council ? So Horizon might be just the last thing that tipped the scale for Shep to move on with his love life.
All these interpretations are up to the player. So is wether he is cheating or moving on with someoen else. The VS reaction to it is up to the writers.
Retour en haut
Seriously though, the VS nonsense "no contact" situation is a writing mess, deparving the players from making the decision themselves to contact or not to contact VS and show them you care. If you wanna take it as an excuse to cheat, do whatever you want. Just don't pretend it's all VS fault, he/she reacted like most people would presented with the attitude Shep got railroaded into.
