deathbykebab wrote...
essefar wrote...
Well I think there's a lot of different playstyles, and they're all okay.
For me the first playthrough is special: it's the most immersive, the story most powerful, and I'm not trying to steer the mechanics because I don't know the outcomes yet. I just immerse and play. For me, that's the 'canon run': even if I struggle with a surprise outcome, well that's the RP part. If I do play through again, it will be with a very different character or it will be months or years later. For me, the first playthrough has to be with the character I began in ME and continued in ME2, otherwise there's really no point.
Yup, I completely agree. That's the other part of why I'm holding off. I don't want to go through a 2nd time with my original face because I'll know what's coming and what choices I may need to take and I could alter it to my advantage, having known the outcome or cost of the decision. With the first time, I won't know - it's more natural.
When I was playing ME2 for the first time, I lost about 4 main people on the suicide run, so about a year later I went back and saved them all, so there's an alternate reality where I saved them and couldn't save them.
When I play ME3 with my OriginalShep, I'm going to stick with the man that couldn't save his cute little redhead assistant and a few others, because that was my decision and I have to live with it - and it's astounding how you feel that weight.
For me, it's that OR decision at the end of ME, not knowing that AND is a possibility. I stand by the wartime triage, but really didn't expect or like the way it tipped the balance of power and reactions to humanity in ME2 ~ and that's something my femShep has to live with.
I did almost meddle in the love interest story (femShep romanced Kaidan), after the scene on Horizon and then that whiny
mememe letter. The inability to engage in a sane way really broke immersion for me:
Why didn't you tell me you were alive?! The bleepy game wouldn't bleepy let me!! I got as far as checking the internet to see if there were different versions of the letter, and found Raphael Sbarge's voicing of the letter instead, which completely transformed it, and gave me a bridge back into the story. Kaidan had been grieving while i'd been dead-then-conflicted about my new allies. Now I'm grieving the loss of him while he's conflicted about my new allies. A pleasing symmetry, and it took me way deep, so a somewhat sombre ME2 for my femShep but satisfying for me personally. The jury is still out on what's realistic in ME3: I'm sure there are some Disney possibilities, but the reality of grieving for 2 years then having that person walk through the door - that's shatteringly complex. Besides, I hear Earth needs to be saved...
Modifié par essefar, 15 mars 2012 - 01:01 .