Hadeedak wrote...
OUTRAGE!
*cough* I've stated it elsewhere and will again, but Garrus and Thane are my favorite LIs. Garrus because he's your bro, even if he's not particularly attractive to me, and Thane because he was designed to be woman candy and damnit, in my case it worked.
I think it worked in a lot of our cases. It definitely did in mine.
Throwing my two cents in, even though I'm probably going to repeat everything everyone else has said.
Thane had a very significan character arc in ME2, romanced or not, but especially romanced. He went from basically suicidal, to wanting to live, and if romanced, to allowing himself to love again. In ME3 he is nothing but a bit player, a flat, two dimensional waste of space, basically. He has next to no role in the plot, and may as well have been some random NPC like the asari and krogan couple from ME2 (I found them, or her, in the Presidium Commons, thought it was a nice touch).
I romanced him. In fact, I had a hell of a time creating characters who didn't. But now that I put aside Margurite's PT after his death, and started on my Garrusmance, I can definitely say there is next to no difference. In fact, the only difference there is is the one dialogue option, which makes Shepard sound like a sex-crazed ****. They took what was probably the only truly mature romance option (imo) from first two games and made it sound like a fling.
Thane himself is now back to stoic, despite being romanced. The only real response we get from him is after Shepard basically molests him in the middle of the hospital. That is the only time he becomes something of himself, the way he was at the end of ME2.
I have to admit, I loved the prayer when he died. I thought it was a beautiful sentiment, right up until I found out that it happens to everyone. The players who romanced Thane have been left out in the cold, despite all the little hints towards a cure we were given throughout ME2 and it's DLCs.
They wrote Kolyat badly too. For a romanced Shepard, there is no need for an introduction. Thane would likely have told Kolyat about his relationship with Shepard. For a Shepard who is friends with Thane, there is no need for an introduction. She would remember that he had a chile. For Shepards who took the Renegade option... well, I suppose there could be need since Shepard shoots people on almost an hourly basis, but overall there was no need for Kolyat to reintroduce himself.
As for Thane's death, well, no npcs commenting (except the bastard who killed him), no contact from Kolyat (for romanced Shepards), and especially no emotional reaction from Shepard, well, Thane's back to being a random NPC. It's not even suitable for a non-romanced Shepard. I'm not touching the scene itself, because I think it was rather in-character for Thane to go head-on into battle despite his terminal illness (to protect either his son or his love, or both, depending on romance option obviously), but the reactions afterwards were bloody terrible. Granted we knew this would happen, but it shouldn't have.
There, that's my two... no, ten... cents worth. Maybe if we scream loud enough they will hear us and respond. Threats to take hostages or burn Casey's house down didn't work (though they may have been becaue we didn't really mean it, thinking they would be smart enough to know that this would have been a very bad idea. Guess we were wrong).
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