wildannie wrote...
coldwetn0se wrote...
I am replaying my Evan Shepard right now; currently in ME1 (just died last night in the damn MAKO...Gah! I really do suk at shooting with that boat!). I am looking forward to getting her into ME2, but I admit, there seems to be a spot in ME2 that I get to now (still finishing up Mace in ME2 and have had to replay a bit of Cate and Ulee for screenshots), and THAT is when nasty visions of the events we shall not discuss, start trippin' through my brain. I'm not sure exactly WHAT that point is, since I don't think it's related to any specific mission. No. Instead, it is more along the lines of how I role play my Sheps. Once I get to that "ease" with Thane, taking him everywhere and having gone through different dialogues and banter.....that's when the bad thoughts start invading.
So, while I am blissful with Evan right now, and looking forward to the day she meets Thane, I worry about the inevitable.....maybe it will be different with her.....I swear, everytime I think I can start enjoying this series, bad thoughts hover on the peripheral......Not to sound to 12 Stepperish, but 'One day at a time'.
I'm glad you can try and enjoy it, I can't (or maybe I'm just not prepared to)... I'm just so angry with the ME team for letting us down (and themselves). By us I'm particularly thinking about the female gamer. If they had just decided to make Thane's death compulsory but done it later in the game and treated it with the emotional gravity that it needed I might NOT have been happy but I would probably not have felt angry, and alienated as I do now and it is that anger and alienation that prevents me from playing ME & ME2 again.
I can play DA though which is what I'm mostly doing... I'm considering trying again to get into The Witcher but I don't hold out much hope as I hate being Geralt... wish I could play as a female character and romance Iorveth 
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I totally understand where you are coming from, Annie. I have felt the same way, but last week, I gave it another go, and I'm trying to enjoy the first two games again. I still have not finished a single play through in me3 (and stopped playing it on March 7th), and have had it on the back of my shelf boxed up (can't even see it) since the same week it came out. Only way it will ever be played, for me, is if we are given a choice to save/extend Thane's life, and we can have our romance back. Not asking much, eh??
In the first few weeks after the release, I couldn't get into any game. I would put DAO or DA2 on, but couldn't play for more than about an hour, tops. Now I can play both DA games and enjoy them (still a bit PO'ed that they shelved the DA2 expansion....really didn't help that they announced that only ONE WEEK after me3 was released....
) Only problem I am having playing DAO is, I am REALLY trying to finish up my mage Amell run(have 3 others also waiting to finish....I'm so bad at running too many PT at the same time...yeesh), and I really don't like playing a mage in DAO (poke,poke). However, I want to finish it to have an Amell import for DA2.
Maybe my ME1 replay of Evan (actually, she never played in ME1; was originally started in ME2 before I owned ME1) is far enough removed from me3 that I can sort of forget about it.....I don't know.......
I think the
female gamer (that play fem!Shep) was really pushed in to a role that most of us NEVER would have RP'ed our Shepards as. Maybe for the lulz or just to have multiple different Sheps, but to force all of us down one particular path....uh-uh. The dialogue alone when talking to Kaidan about Thane (or other LI's for that matter), is pretty telling.....wut, fems get "gun shy" when discussing new relationships with ex's, but males don't?? Hell to the no! I would have easily stated my choice and stood by it. If he wanted to yell or argue, that was his (Kaidan) choice. My Sheps would have all stood their grounds on this point. We should have had an option for that, plain and simple.
Funny thing about our LI choices too.......All my fem!sheps go with Thane (Evan is the ONLY Shep of mine that has/had got it on with Kaidan; all the others were Thane exclusive.). So though I never wanted more options for my Shepards (only for Thane
), just the fact that the only new LI's for fem!Shep are female......hmmmm, there goes choice again! I actually don't have a problem RPing with a fem/fem pairing (or m/m pairing either), but when I rp a Shep to be hetro, then that is what they are. They had two perfectly fine male LI's for fem!Shep, and they tossed them away! Sooooo disappointing.
Ok, enough of the rambling......the sun is out (for once
) and I'm going for a hike in a bit......crawl out of my cave for a bit.
Retour en haut
