Aislinn Trista wrote...
@Sable
I understand how you feel. I believe that Holly Shepard slowly faded away in ME3, replaced by too much auto-dialogue and the huge amount of scenes left completely out of my control.
The crappy way they handled her romance and the weirdo endings were just nails in the coffin. I honestly feel like I'm mourning her right now. This all essentially ruined the entire experience for me. My attempts to play ME3 with other FemSheps has failed.
I went back and played some ME2 last night and it actually made me feel happy. It felt like MY Shepard again, with all the awesome allies I've come to adore.
Maybe I'll get over it, maybe I won't. As it stands I'd like to think she died there, sitting next to Anderson and finally took that journey across the sea. The Crucible fired and the Reapers were obliterated.
It's pretty much the only way I can find peace in it. 

Kalahira. Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves...
Yes... mourning. That is the exact word, Aislinn. That's why I'm making that video... to mourn Jessica.
Like Sage with Kyrie, I felt that Jessica made it through a good portion of all that auto-dialog with her character intact, but then there were many other situations where I was just saying to myself, "No, that's
wrong." Most of those occurred in bars, oddly. I wanted way more control over what Jessica would say and do in the interaction with Vega and the other marines for example. Hell, pretty much any conversation with James, especially that sparring match you're
forced to take part in... Jessica doesn't spar with people she doesn't know and doesn't yet trust. And Jessica not only
can't dance, she
doesn't... there should've been an option to reply to Jack's "We all know you can't dance" with a, "You're right, but you go out there and have fun," or something similar. And every conversation with EDI and Joker about their relationship (she's a metal Barbie doll, dude,
seriously?) set my teeth on edge. Jessica may support synthetic life as its own distinct form, after altering her blanket views of all AI thanks to her interactions with Legion and EDI. But even though she would take severe exception to being called one, she's still a racist towards machine life, and she'd be a segregationist towards any kind of sexual union (if you could call it that) between the two life forms. Nothing she said during those conversations was right.
Where the hell was our middle-right, neutral option? There was one,
one, in the
entire fricking game. During the scene with Liara and the time capsule (which was a great scene), you had a neutral option, "The truth". It's so rare in that game I even remember its label. And where did our branching Investigate trees go? Lots of pruning took place with them, too.
Gah, I have got to stop dwelling on this, I'm only making it worse. So yeah, just like you, Ais, I ignore the ending. If they're going to leave it ambiguous, then I'm going to one-up them and make it so damned ambiguous that Jessica's status after hitting the ground in London is "MIA". The advanced life of the galaxy survives. The Reaper threat is, somehow, removed. But fifty or a hundred years from now, nobody will know what really happened or how it was accomplished, or where the final resting place of the heroine known as Shepard is... only that her name was written across the stars by her lover, Dr. Liara T'soni.
Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 24 mars 2012 - 06:53 .