Laterali wrote...
chmarr wrote...
Phoenix NL wrote...
chmarr wrote...
one other thing, i have an idea on how to save thane, mordin as well as legion so they are there till the end.
3 ideas to save 3 lives and it can all be done in a valid sensible way
Admittedly this is a personal opinion but I don't think they should find a way to bring them back. I think their deaths were incredibly well done and poignant.
well legion is the easy one to bring back
mordin, theres so many ideas i can think of that can save him
thane would be the hardest but in one of the other posts it is true that thane was still breathing when we left him and thane stopped his son from giving him a blood transfusion, maybe when he went unconciousness and after shepard left his son would then have the yes / no say in the blood transfusion so in a sense his son could save his life
I think their death scenes were the best scenes in the whole game, maybe aside from Tali on Rannoch. I always welcome choices though. I think Mordin would have been the easiest to save, he normalized the Shroud, and then just hung around, either the Normandy could have swooped in and grabbed him, or at the very least he could have taken the elevator back down, he actually had plenty of time.
I think Thane's was a good death, it was how I expected him to die. And Legion, well, that seemed forced. Even though I thought it was well executed. I'm just mad we didn't actually get to have any of them in our party, even for a short time. We didn't even have a Krogan.
Thane's death was fantastic; way better than waiting to die of his disease. It was sad, sure, but he died a hero and that is awesome, especially for a character that always was atoning for his past.
Mordin's death was also executed very well. He died (at least the Paragon way) undoing the wrongs he comitted in his life; he found peace. His death was also a good death. I would not take this away from him, and I think saving him would take away something from the game. His death is actually one of my favorite parts of the game; not because I wanted him to die (quite the contrary, I really like his character), but because of how upset I was he died and how happy I was he had the chance to sacrifice himself to right his wrongs.
I agree Legion felt forced, but was well done. If you think about it though, he isn't really dead; piece of him exists in every geth platform, so that is kind of cool. I also like the idea of the machine sacrificing himself to save others; it shows nobility and honor in the geth (which further pisses me off about the whole synthentic vs organic thing the starbrat spouts at me that the thing that is supposedly my Shepard for some reason blindly agrees with).
With the level of meanginful sacrifice in this game, blowing up the mass relays, killing all synthetics (and possibly destroying every solar system with a mass relay) is overkill. The game was bittersweet (the meaninful, but sad deaths of your friends, constant sacrifices, offset by jokes and conversations with old friends and the touching scenes with your LI) . The ending just makes the game bittersuck.