Shifty-looking Chicken wrote...
JeffZero wrote...
Yuoaman wrote...
Ha, I'm never able to kill off people in the Suicide Mission - I've considered doing it just to see the scenes, but it always felt too much like betrayal to me. Plus, I always get fooled for a second when they pull that fake-out with Garrus. Every time.
Yeah, that's how my girlfriend is. Every time she replays ME2, she intends to kill a few off (she sorta-kinda-but-not-entirely agrees with my viewpoint that it really helps with the dramatic storytelling thing) but she can't bring herself to do it.
I understand. It kind of is a betrayal, from a meta perspective. I like all the squadmates a fair bit. I hate having to orchestrate it, but I also hate the perfect ending. So it's a Catch-22.
Damn the Collectors.
To me, personally, killing off people in the SM doesn't feel all that emotional; the deaths don't really seem to mean much or have any real impact. That's why I keep everyone alive, besides the obvious "I want to do everything perfect".
In fact, I know somebody who killed off Jacob one time just because he thought it was funny.
I like the rapidity of the deaths. It's very... Joss Whedon, to put it in modern-day pop culture terms. The way he offed someone in
Serenity is the reference I'm making. If you're unfamiliar, then I'll just say that he likes to mix the emotional deaths with some abrupt, more realistic ones.
I like the vents-related death especially. The way a bullet just... pop! And someone's gone. To me that's drama, but I know that I'm not in the majority on this one either. Just... very nail-bitingly realistic. One wrong step. It's all over.