Cainne Chapel wrote...
The prothean IS optional... how is that even debatable? If he is NOT integral to the storyline... then he is the very definition of optional, just like Kasumi and Zaeed, neither are needed for the full experience but are nice to have
I think we need to be clear what is meant by "optional" here.
Is the Prothean critical to the main plot of the game ie. the invasion of the galaxy by the Reapers and the conclusion of that story, however that may occur? No. Hence, it's
optional.
However, the Prothean is not comparable to Kasumi or Zaeed because he is the sole interactable member of an absolutely critical race in the backstory of Mass Effect. A more comparable case would be Legion (in
some senses, hear me out here), whereby Legion was completely optional to the main story - you could sell him to Cerberus and do a completely valid and complete playthrough of the central plot. But in doing so, you would miss out on a huge chunk of backstory about one of the most important races in the game, namely the geth - information that indeed completely altered
my perspective of that particular race and made me see a great deal of the rest of the backstory in a totally different light. The same can't be said for Kasumi or Zaeed who with all due respect didn't add a great deal to the fundamental background or backstory of the Mass Effect universe.
However, this is a bloody Prothean we're talking about, an immensely important race in the backstory, and anyone who denies that simply hasn't played Mass Effect with an active mind. It stands to basic reason that since he's a squadmember, he/she/it'll be interactable at least on the same level as Legion was. Which means that those with the DLC will find out far more about the story of Prothean civilization, society, the Reaper extermination and get a truly unique and special insight into the current events. Of course it will have a drastic influence on the backstory and hence the whole Mass Effect experience at large.
tl;dr - you shouldn't compare the Prothean DLC to Kasumi/Zaeed.---
Now, on the broader issue, I'm definitely not a fan of this (mostly for the above reasons), but having bought the CE I can't say I will complain too loudly. Especially given that it seems that this content was written after the main game had been certified gold and was hence complete in every meaningful sense of the word. If significant time
during the main
development time was spent on this, time that could and should have been spent on the main game available to
all customers for no extra cost, then that would be unacceptable IMO.
Modifié par spark_ptz, 23 février 2012 - 03:50 .
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