5 hours into the game, to be honest, I'm a bit disappointed by the strength of Repaers.
I know it's too early to tell, but I won't be able to play ME3 for next couple weeks, so I want to express my concern and hear from your inputs.
In Mass Effect 1, Sovereign was portrayed as a god-like machine capableof devastating a planet by itself, and its might was barely short of matching the power of entire fleets of known spacefaring species combined all together;
Vigil stated that even a reaper cannot win against all races combined, indicating that single reaper is probably powerful enough to defeat one specie's military power on its own.
It's been officialty clarified(in ME3) that Sovereign's destruction was due to Saren's death whom Sovereign was projecting its conciousness into, not because The Fifth fleet took down its shield by bombardment.
Furthermore, Prothean Empire was crushed in a matter of hours sicne Citadel of overwhelmed, Prothean leaders indoctrinated by reapers even before Protheans heard of the invasion.
It took reapers centuries to finish the termination, but the war was over within a day of the invasion.
This is why Shepard had been so busy PREVENTING reapers from returning instead of finding ways to fight them head on because reapers are simply too powerful for us to stop.
ME2 implied that Protheans didn't manage to take down single reaper, and there has been only ONE reaper that's ever been killed while having millions of cycles, which should be in indicator of reaper's power.
Given all these, I expected the war against reapers to be as one sided as a duel between a human and a space hamster(almost no chance to win unless it manages to go for your eyes)
I pretty much thought ME3's atmosphere will be somewhat like a spacestyle fallout 3.
I expected reapers to blow earth up into pieces, erase species on planet's surface in a matter days(not 1 million or 2 miilion count that we are getting in ME3), all races volunteerly joining all their forces to fight, and then getting obliterated without destroying one reaper, and Shepard sacrifing an entire planet inhabited by trillions of lives to just destroy one reaper. (like installing nuclear bombs in the planet core and blowing the planet with a reaper landing on it.)
I really hoped the best outcome to be as bad as codestruction of reapers and galatic civilizations.
In my view, if races hesitate to cooperate or sacriface themselves, they DESERVE to become extinct considering the power gap between reapers and them.
I'm raging after hearing about the prothean weapon that can destroy reapers.
I hate deus-ex-machina relic thingy that can conviently wipe out your enemy.
That's a cliche used too often like the relic in Starcraft 2. Not only does that make the story dumb, but also it makes your enemy look a joke.
In ME3, all species are still busy with political disputes and enmities between them, hesitating to help Commander Shepard who might be the only chance for their survival.
But they will eventually still manage to beat reapers with some mysterious relic protheans made. And illusive man is even thinking of controling reapers.
I thought it would only make sense that even to the youngest reaper that is 50,000 years old, illusive man's intellect and schemes should look like a 3 year old child plotting to overthrow them.
Aren't they supposed to be individually, infinately superior to all other spices?
Why should this little illusive swindler plotting schemes even matter to them who are supposed to be god-like being as portrayed in ME1 and ME2?
Logically speaking, one common reaper(that consist of millions of inteligent organic's in its material) should be able to outsmart 1000 illusive men in any sort of brain games, not the other way around.
Is it just me or did anybody else think 2 reapers are enough to defeat the entire alliance forces?
Excuse me for ranting, but even with only 5 hours of play I can tell reapers look inferior to the threat they used to pose in ME1 and ME2, and I really really hate it.
They look underpowered, underintelligent, planless and posively brainless.
If we fight reapers this easily, what does that make millions of species that perished before us, only managing to take down a reaper out of so many cycles of extinction?
If reapers waited until protheans advanced technology enough to construct a weapon that can destroy reapers, that makes reapers a bunch of dumb machines, not gods as Soverien thought itself to be.
Modifié par IntoTheDarkness, 09 mars 2012 - 11:21 .
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