Dont Kaidan Me wrote...
Oooo. I have SO much to say about this, but I have a larger all-encompassing rant I'd like to post with the Thane issue included.
I will say, however, that I'm beginning to see that this is just a symptom of a much larger problem. The entire story is geared toward one plot line. And if you don't follow that explicitly, then everything becomes nonsensical and convoluted.
Sadly, it appears that the ladies got the mega diss. Less romance options, smallest (or rather) no expansion or elucidation of said romance (or any relationship for that matter). Real super fantastic that Bioware/EA decided to regress and make this a malecentric game. As I said in another thread, my faith in the gaming world has been decimated.
Yes it is, the game seems to be very forceful in pushing people into romancing Liara, or the VS. It really does, and it throws Female players under the bus.
I don't want to sound like a brokern record and all whiny about it, but the reason Samara was the only chick I was interested in was because She's strong, tough, can stand alone and fight againts overwhelming odds likely better than any other squad mate in the whole series, She's got a bit of the broken person in there with the guilt thing too. On top of that her personality is great (I think), and she could totally kick the living crap out of Shepard, she's more than an equal to Shep,
oh yeah and the fact she turned my Shep down when she did, so soon after killing Morinth, and before the suicide run, it felt like she wasn't interested in just a booty call, she seemed only interested in something more serious and perminate. She told Shep many times the Code does not forbid romantic relationships.
the other females out there were all no goes for these reasons
1.Liara, she's Liara the pet
2.Miranda total stuck up b!tch, (she did have a nice @ss but that's it)
3.Tali, totally anoyed me
4.Jack, she was an angery p!ssed of person, who needed a freind more than a boyfriend,
5.Kelly a flirt and that's about it, lacked depth to her character
6.Ashley, um yeah she was Ashley and VS, ME3 seemed to try and force me into a relationship with her or Liara. It destoryed it for me.
Heh the irony of this all is when Samara was revealed I didn't like her just on how she looked, her boobs looked like fake implants (not a fan of fake boobs at all), she was the new Asari squad mate, and I wanted my old squad mate, (rejecting change). Heh just based off of her look I didn't like her, same with Jack.
I remember making the same mistake and saying I'd hate Vega then It hit me my track record with that sort of thing, I said I'd hate most my favorite characters.
Which now brings me back to Thane, because I liked him from the moment he was revealed, I mean how can one not like that bad@ss revele trailing he had? He was the first ME2 squad mate to be revealed and it was totally bad@ss, I liked him instantly, it's hard to imagine this is the same people working BW, when they threw him under the bus like they did in ME3. There was a time when Thane had just as many fans and people who liked him as Garrus, both dudes and chicks.
Back when ME3 came out I remeber there was a poll here about voting for you favorite squad mate in the entire series, I remeber voting for Samara who had 4 votes, and Thane was at the bottom of the votes with 1 only. The results stayed that way for all of March with Thane only having 1 and Samara got another someplace with 5. But it showed just how far BW threw Thane and his fans under the bus.