Quething wrote...
So I was looking through my screencap folder and I found this:
... and it got me thinking. To me, this is a pretty perfect shot, one of the few in the game that's actually in-character for Jakarta. ME3 paints Shepard, regardless of the player's opinion on the subject, as slowly breaking under pressure and going all PTSD and having traumatic guilt-stricken nightmares about some random kid with implausible dialog. Which is so backward; Jakarta was on the edge of a mental breakdown the whole way through ME2, because of the stress and guilt of working for Cerberus, but in ME3... well, check out the screencap. Yeah, war is horrible, Earth is falling, she couldn't save Thessia, whatever. She's back with the Alliance, she's got Ash and Garrus at her side, she's got a weapon, she's got aliens signing on in droves, she's ending the genophage and the geth-quarian war, this is a great time for her! She is absolutely sure she's going to win and the Reapers are doomed, just as much as she was after the setbacks on Eden Prime and Virmire. She wouldn't be bopping around like it was her birthday or anything, but she would be content that the job was getting done and she was in the right place with the right people doing the right thing again, finally.
But it seems like a lot of people are pretty happy with the general worn-down-soldier aspects of the plot, even if most aren't thrilled about the dreams specifically. So I thought I'd ask what the thread thought about it; is your Shep's reaction to Earth/Thessia/the dreams/the last push to the London conduit pretty close to what we got in the game, or would her reaction be a little further afield?
My general feeling in ME3 is pretty much frustration(not all of it - just as related to that comment). It took the reapers coming through the back door blasting, for people to get out of their state of torpor and expect Shepard to perform miracles - Reticence from the Asari council and political mind games from the Dalatrass just exacerbate that feeling. The war itself didn't really worn Shepard down. Loosing people ( teammates/civilians) hit her hard but her resolve stayed strong. Although she did feel physical fatigue a little, mentally she was at her best. Being a N7 SF soldier means performing the impossible on a daily basis.
The thing i didn't buy was the dream: my Deirdre would never feel so much guilt over the kid's(kid who's not behaving like a kid)death - or use his image as a conduit for guilt. Not more than for other casualties. Same about Thessia; she didn't feel worse than she did for Earth or Palavan. It was all bad things happening to good poeple. From the moment the Reapers got out of Deep space, nothing could have change the fate of those three worlds.
On the note of things i don't buy: VS getting injured on Mars after 2 jarring tactical mistakes of her/his own - and Thane the most proficient assassin not taking advantage on a 4 on 1 (3&1/2 on 4) fight, and practically jumping on K.L. sword.
Modifié par SaturnRing, 31 mai 2012 - 01:51 .
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Made this one long before ME3...
