Xeranx wrote...
scotkrow wrote...
Xeranx wrote...
I'm giving you the option to think about it and see what happens. Though seeing as I'm practically steering you with that statement, you might not want to generalize about anyone else in the future.
You're not doing anything but typing a four letter word that I looked up and only found the urban dictinoary deffinition that makes no sense and an Afghan school and names. None of those have anything related to my statement.
In addition, generalization is a part of human nature, it's a common speach pattern and even people who are thinking might miss, because they think too fast, or think over and aroud it, and other people who think enough will 'read' between the lines and see that a generalization a person is making is not 100%. And since you brought it up I'll say this time that only most people who think enough will realize that.
Rana is a character in the story of Mass Effect. I gave you her name to think about her character and tell me whatever you thought regarding her character. Why? Because there's a lot there that has potential for the trilogy if the developers had used it.
I don't ME2 is good filler. It's about as tangible to me as air for whatever it is supposed to accomplish. The developers went for an ESB-type story which doesn't resemble ESB from what I can remember. They chased some ideal instead of focusing on the story that was hinted at the end of Mass Effect. Also, in ESB (from what I remember...haven't watched it in years) the Empire was still a very real threat. They weren't absent. Everything done by Luke was in preparation for taking on Vader. Han and Leia were growing closer, but they still had their respective roles to play as part of the Rebellion. What about that correlates to what we see in ME2?
We focus on the Collectors who don't amount to much by the end of ME2. We have characters that are veritable throwaways and the hackneyed way they're introduced for the purpose of exposition is poor as far as I'm concerned. All of that could have been reworked with the focus on the overarching story which entailed finding ways to stop the Reapers. Then the Collectors, themselves, could have been fleshed out more. As they exist they're puppets. It's nothing we haven't seen before considering the Keepers, but they were initially introduced as traders who then began abducting people. That the connection was made to the Reapers, I don't know how that happened. That connection should have come later and not once we regained control of Shepard.
Rana studied indoctrination at Saren's request. Or, more precisely, she took over her superior's position at Saren's command to study indoctrination. Then we have Exogeni research on the Thorian and, for those that saved her, Shiala who was rendered cured of indoctrination due to the Thorian. Add in Mordin and we could have had those characters working towards a method of stopping the Reapers. At the very least, if we were going to think about adopting Reaper tech to try anything (SR2 and EDI), we could potentially avoid what happened to Dr. Chandanah and his group on the Derelict Reaper.
Cerberus could have been introduced as a viable option for the research to take place under their umbrella if there were something about the research that the Council wanted nothing to do with.
So many things could have been done to make the overarching story more solid and more enjoyable for those who don't think that ME2 makes the total story incohesive as far as the trilogy currently exists. I don't want to be told that Mass Effect is a trilogy if everything that occurs in ME2 needs ME3 to shore it up. If ME3 needs to validate ME2 that makes ME3 ME2.5 as far as I'm concerned.
As far as my 'not doing anything' is concerned, I quoted a section of your post that involved four points if I'm not mistaken. Four points and I selected just one, but you didn't figure out what I was trying to get at. I didn't want to spell it out because the tone in the section I quoted was enough for me to think you thought yourself better than those who "don't appreciate" ME2 like you do. And had you not seemingly lumped us in with those who 'don't want to think too hard' I wouldn't have said anything.
That's why I'm telling you not to generalize. Regardless of what "people" do, you do have control of yourself. Don't hide behind what "people" do if, in the liklihood of someone saying something that - to you -seems to speak for you, you will tell that person to speak for themselves.
I was just playing 2 and came across Rana when I was getting Grunt, I had always thought of her by her last name Thanoptis. She's going to make an appearance in ME3 for sure, but she's more like a side character, he's like Lando's Admin assustant in ESB.
And it's not a story comparison from ESB and ME2, it's a purpose comparison.
And if you do want a story comparison. The reapers are the threat, like the empire, and they are present in the collectors. you don't know the collectors are reaper puppets until you see the husks on horizan, and that's the 1/3 way mark in the game, you're dealing with the collectors as your "payment" for cerberus bringing you back, and they are targeting humans, shepard views their responsibility to be humans/all life in the galaxy. Also shepard has no leads on the reapers, and going after the collectors is a good way to travel and look for leads on the reapers, because other than that there's no way to really hunt them, you have to wait for them to come to you, so you just have to find evidence that they exist so that everyone else will believe you and start preparing.
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