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ME = EPIC SPACE OPERA.
ME2 = friends recruiting melodrama. Fun to play, nothing memorable.
ME3 = Gay Shepard's foolish agony of his sexual identity. COD space version.
(I have nothing against the homosexual. I only hate that Shepard has time to spare for his sexual itentity crisis in the galaxy's dire situation.)
Pretty much sums up how I feel about Mass Effect Trilogy.
ME3 will surely be a fun game to play, but it won't be regarded as one of 'epic RPGs' because ME is no longer a RPG game since ME2. With leaked infos, Bioware has already revealed that they have no intention of making this a story oriented game.
One example of Bioware's misdoing is homosexual shepard.
Disclaimer: I'm not against homosexuals at all. In real life, I support the same-sex marriage. But I'm against the fact that Bioware is putting in something that is neither relevant or consistant from previous series. The Alliance is a hostile military organization that decided to open a full-scale war agaisnt the very first alien they encountered(and was attacked by.) Their political stance is definately conservatitve and militarism as seen with their racism and human centric attitude in ME2. I doubt if stubburn-conservative alliance have not descriminated Shepard before he became famous.
Moreover, this kind of work only attenuate a character's characteristic, making Shepard even more dull than he is now. Can you think of an image when I ask you who the protagonist of Oblivion is? No. it's because the game allowed too much freedom in character creation that there is no speicific protagonist.
Likewise, homosexual Shepard will only restrict the variety of dialogues Shepard can use and the personalities he can display.
Bioware doesn't care at all if stories and settings in ME3 make any sense as long as they can sell it to COD infected casual gamers. ME3 would have been so much more epic if they just dropped all these foolish sexual identity crisis and romance affairs(realistically, Shepard shouldn't have any sec to dip into romances and do random dull quests).
Instead of romance mingle-mangles and the routine quests of "do this for us, and our race help you," ME3 should have been a stroy of man(or woman) who is miserably cornered and outnumbered, depressed and afraid of his heavy responsibilities, struggling to find a lay of hope against the impossible odds, using every trick in the book against reapers and abandoning everything of his values in order to just stay alive. One mistake Shepard makes should mean the elimination of an entire race instead of the loss of one of Shepard's teammate.I want different endings to be about which races remain alive instead of which lovers I've chosen and which teamates survived.
Now this is a true epic space opera. Shepard shouldn't be some Godly figure who can win everything wihtout sacraficing any. Shepard should show some human quality of fears, mistakes, and regrets. If he does not, then reapers are not worthy foes to be remembered by gamers for a long time.
But look at what Bioware is doing. Shepard cares so much about reapers that he has to feel agony in his sexual identity, dips into romances with many parners from various races, does mundane quests ranging from a package delivery to a a rescue of some random people at best.
Sure, players will feel almost depressed and overwhelmed by the threats of the reapers when Shepard roams around the galaxy, wasting time to gain support from aliens. Yeah, Reapers can be easily defeated even when you start gathering helps after they arrive.
I have no doubts Mass Effect 3 is going to be a great hit in the game market. But I don't expect to see an epic RPG with fantastic stories like planescape torment or KOTOR.
Well, it's not like totally unexpected results. ME2 have become somewhat of a sitcom comedy between characters instead of epic space saga. All recent ME2 DLCs had total disastrous stories.
I am buying this game, but my expectations and excitements are long gone since Dragon Age 2's letdown.
edit: well, taking out things those were not my main points. I don't care if Sheaprd is gay, lesbian, or anything. I care that the game focuses on trivial things in its stroy telling. I hate to see anohter ME2 style melodrama of love, friendship, and character recruitments.
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