Han Shot First wrote...
A lot has been suggested that there are consequences for cheating on your ME1 LI. Ive also noticed people playing paragon feel they cant romance anyone because it isnt 'paragon' enough. But is it really cheating?
It isn't cheating in any definition of the term. If it was Bioware's intention to put Shepard in a situation where he'd have to choose between staying faithful to a LI who only had a cameo in ME2 or 'cheating' with someone else, they didn't really execute it well. The way the story plays out Shepard is actually single going into Mass Effect 2.
Death tends to end relationships. Even marriage vows state, 'Till death do us part,' and Shepard was dead for two years. No one except Liara had any inkling that Shepard may have been brought back, and even then, the notion that Cerberus could actually pull it off would have seemed fairly far fetched. All the Mass Effect 1 LIs should have moved on to varying degrees. But even if they hadn't dated a person or two during that two year span, they all make it clear that they aren't interested in picking up where they left off with Shepard for varying reasons. Liara is the least confrontational of the ME1 love interests, but even she makes it clear that a lot has happened over the last two years and that she isn't interested (at that time, at least) of picking up where she left off with Shepard.
That leaves Shepard single in Mass Effect 2 regardless of who he or she romanced in Mass Effect 1, and last I checked, you have to be in a relationship to be unfaithful.
That being said, I have no issue with the ME1 LI acting jealous to varying degrees about ME2 romance options. People are often irrational creatures, and sometimes they get jealous for irrational reasons.
I just have an issue with it being defined as 'cheating' officially, when it clearly wasn't.
I have a somewhat different take on it. While I did die, I never lost the desire for Ashley. I was stoked to see her, couldn't wait to meet up with her, she was the first person I asked Anderson about, but I had no way of getting in touch with her. Then I learn that she is on Horizon and my heart leaps for joy at the prospect of seeing her again. My will was set, the Collectors weren't going to get her no matter how many of them I had to kill.
I get to Horizon and fight through a ton of Collectors and a half dozen smart mouth Harbinger drones, activate the colony defenses and...I get my ass handed to me by the one person that I wanted to see above all others. She called me a traitor to my face, accused me of betraying her and Anderson, and even insulted my intelligence by suggesting that I was too stupid to know that I was being played. Frankly, it would have been kinder if she had just shot me and be done with it.
Adding insult to injury, she sent a crappy email semi-apology stating that she had changed and so had I. How the hell could she know that when she spoke to me for less than three and a half minutes? Is she psychic or did her little crystal ball tell her that? Maybe she has a divining rod crammed up her backside and that's how she knew. I saved her life for the
third time, did she show any gratitude at all for my saving her from the Reapers and a gruesome fate? Nope, and she never even asked me what I was doing or where I was headed. She never asked how I was able to move while everybody else was frozen in place. She basically said "talk to the hand" and left.
I never left Ashley, she left me on Horizon. She left me because she didn't use her head and while she claimed to have loved me, how can you love someone that you don't even know? If anyone would have known who I was and what I stand for, it was her. We fought side by side to stop Saren and the Geth. We were lovers and before that we were friends. Now she doesn't even know me? Frankly, I don't even want her on my ship anymore because every time I look at her I get pissed off all over again. Hell, I don't even want to speak to her.
I don't know why the writers chose that experience for me and I don't care. From a players perspective, they made me feel a great deal of emotion and job well done. From Shepard's perspective he got run over by a truck and that's exactly how I am going to play him.
Cheating? I dare her to open her mouth about it.
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