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[Lisylis]

Because I totally didn't.

The beginning, where you run for like a hundred feet to escape to the ship, wasn't particularly instrumental in securing my dedication, and the end just seemed full of semi-incongruous postboxes(?). I mean, good work modelling those, but ?_?

I feel like they dropped Earth in without much thought because, you know, we live here, and didn't try to tie "humanity" to the actual planet at all.

Is this how you feel or am I just an unfeeling cretin?

[KingKhan03]

I felt more connected to Tuchanka which is pretty sad considering the tag line is *TAKE BACK EARTH*

[incinerator950]

I don't feel connected to anything in Mass Effect.

Save Collectors and Collector Armor, but that's because I'm Bug Man.

[naddaya]

I didn't. At all. It felt out of character, short-sighted, weird. And don't get me started on that "it's good to be back home" terrible line.

[The Angry One]

Not really.
More importantly, my Shepard didn't, or shouldn't. She's a spacer who leans on the renegade side of things.
Putting Earth on a pedestal like some precious jewel while all these other planets are in equally dire situations made no sense, aside from "humans, rar!".

Personally I felt more connected to Palaven, even though we never go there. Because at least the Turians were kicking the Reapers in the teeth for every inch they took and didn't roll over and go "IT'S HOPELESS!" like everyone else.

[CSMone01]

Nope. 5 minutes on Earth at the start of the game, and an 11th hour mission at the end of the game left me with no connection whatsoever to Earth. Not to mention that there were never any missions on Earth in the previous two games.

[Roxy Lalonde]

I can understand why so many people didn't feel connected to Earth at all, and I honestly didn't at the beginning. However, my family left England when I was a child to come here to Australia, and I've always wanted to go home. Keelah se'lai and all that. Having to fight through a devastated London in Priority: Earth was actually rather painful for me. But that's just me and my English sentimentality.

Modifié par Roxy Lalonde, 18 avril 2012 - 09:08 .

[B3ckett]

Completely not. We didn't see any real part of it, aside from some ruins.
Earth was just a marketing thing, didn't work for the story though.

[Lisylis]

KingKhan03 wrote...

I felt more connected to Tuchanka which is pretty sad considering the tag line is *TAKE BACK EARTH*

IKR

We were involved with Tuchanka HEAPS, though. Meeting Wrex and helping Grunt with his quest, and then curing the Genophage, AND exploring cool Krogan ancient cities. Like it's mostly destroyed, but it's also full of cool stuff.

I think this is largely tied to character and lore, though, a LOT of effort went into Tuchanka.

It was the "take back earth" quote I was largely thinking of when i posted this. I mean, it would have been different if you could have seen it ever in gameplay, but the way it stands, it just seems like another location :\\

Modifié par Lisylis, 18 avril 2012 - 09:09 .

[The Angry One]

Roxy Lalonde wrote...

 Having to fight through London and see it all devastated was actually rather painful for me. But that's just me and my English ways.

I've lived here in London quite a while and I didn't really notice the difference.

[KingKhan03]

Lisylis wrote...

KingKhan03 wrote...

I felt more connected to Tuchanka which is pretty sad considering the tag line is *TAKE BACK EARTH*

IKR

We were involved with Tuchanka HEAPS, though. Meeting Wrex and helping Grunt with his quest, and then curing the Genophage, AND exploring cool Krogan ancient cities. Like it's mostly destroyed, but it's also full of cool stuff.

I think this is largely tied to character and lore, though, a LOT of effort went into Tuchanka.

It was the "take back earth" quote I was largely thinking of when i posted this. I mean, it would have been different if you could have seen it ever in gameplay, but the way it stands, it just seems like another location :

I thought the way they handled Tuchanka was masterful that was the peak of the game to me That scene after Mordin cured the genophage was so good you really felt like wow we just did something incredible. On earth I got the feeling like ok Horde mode and then well you know :mellow:red, green, blue.

[Lisylis]

The Angry One wrote...

Not really.
More importantly, my Shepard didn't, or shouldn't. She's a spacer who leans on the renegade side of things.
Putting Earth on a pedestal like some precious jewel while all these other planets are in equally dire situations made no sense, aside from "humans, rar!".

Personally I felt more connected to Palaven, even though we never go there. Because at least the Turians were kicking the Reapers in the teeth for every inch they took and didn't roll over and go "IT'S HOPELESS!" like everyone else.

I played a Spacer paragon and even then I had trouble finding any meaning in things. As a paragon, I was totally pro-alien and equality among all species. Why would Earth be special?

It seems like an Earthborn would have had more of a connection, but I don't think anything was done to promote this?

I really wanted to actually go to Palaven  and Thessia (pre-destruction), and Dekuuna (I just love Elcor  )

[Roxy Lalonde]

The Angry One wrote...

Roxy Lalonde wrote...

 Having to fight through London and see it all devastated was actually rather painful for me. But that's just me and my English ways.

I've lived here in London quite a while and I didn't really notice the difference.

I was pretty amused at how 22nd-century London basically looks like how it is now.
Except for, you know, the .. Banshees.

[Bigdoser]

The Angry One wrote...

Roxy Lalonde wrote...

 Having to fight through London and see it all devastated was actually rather painful for me. But that's just me and my English ways.

I've lived here in London quite a while and I didn't really notice the difference.

Same here I agree. XD

[Elyiia]

You mean the planet I was on twice? I was more connected to Omega than Earth.

[Occulo]

KingKhan03 wrote...

I felt more connected to Tuchanka which is pretty sad considering the tag line is *TAKE BACK EARTH*

Same here.

Earth wasn't given any special attention in the previous two games, except perhaps that one part in Mass Effect 2 where you realise the collector base can hold more humans than just the ones living in colonies.

When you do visit it in Mass Effect 3, you're not shown much of it. In the beginning you're there for a few minutes watching the Reapers invade. You never get to see the the city looks like before the invasion--knowing what it once looked like, and then seeing it all crumble would've made much more of an impact, I think. It's the same with London, except at least you have the Big Ben as a recognisable landmark.

You don't really get to bond with anyone on Earth either, and the only person the player develops a real attachment to is Anderson. (No BioWare, children do not automatically endear themselves to others just out of the virtue of being children.) And personally, even that attachment felt tenuous. You don't really share worries or memories in the beginning--that's only in the end, which is well done by the way. If you had more people you cared about on Earth then you'd be more worried. Like with Garrus, when Palaven was burning and you didn't know whether he was on the planet or not.

[The Angry One]

Roxy Lalonde wrote...

The Angry One wrote...

Roxy Lalonde wrote...

 Having to fight through London and see it all devastated was actually rather painful for me. But that's just me and my English ways.

I've lived here in London quite a while and I didn't really notice the difference.

I was pretty amused at how 22nd-century London basically looks like how it is now.
Except for, you know, the .. Banshees.

Right now we round up the Banshees and give them roles in EastEnders.

[ticklefist]

Except for when I jump, yeah.

[incinerator950]

Lisylis wrote...

The Angry One wrote...

Not really.
More importantly, my Shepard didn't, or shouldn't. She's a spacer who leans on the renegade side of things.
Putting Earth on a pedestal like some precious jewel while all these other planets are in equally dire situations made no sense, aside from "humans, rar!".

Personally I felt more connected to Palaven, even though we never go there. Because at least the Turians were kicking the Reapers in the teeth for every inch they took and didn't roll over and go "IT'S HOPELESS!" like everyone else.

I played a Spacer paragon and even then I had trouble finding any meaning in things. As a paragon, I was totally pro-alien and equality among all species. Why would Earth be special?

It seems like an Earthborn would have had more of a connection, but I don't think anything was done to promote this?

I really wanted to actually go to Palaven  and Thessia (pre-destruction), and Dekuuna (I just love Elcor  )

Because you're playing a general story, and the general story says Shepard is Pro-Alliance, and Pro-Alliance means help Humanity, save Earth.  Doesn't matter what you chose.  Just like Shepard being a Spectre.  PR move for the Alliance, not because you're awesome.  

[Lisylis]

Roxy Lalonde wrote...

I can understand why so many people didn't feel connected to Earth at all, and I honestly didn't at the beginning. However, my family left England when I was a child to come here to Australia, and I've always wanted to go home. Keelah se'lai and all that. Having to fight through a devastated London in Priority: Earth was actually rather painful for me. But that's just me and my English sentimentality.

Finding a personal meaning in all this is actually pretty cool! Like that sort of stuff can't really be included by the actual developers and writers intentionally, that's just specific to people in your position (or other English people perhaps?)

I'm just like "welp, live in new zealand, nobody acknowledges we exist anyway"

Modifié par Lisylis, 18 avril 2012 - 09:15 .

[BobbyDylan]

The Angry One wrote...

Roxy Lalonde wrote...

 Having to fight through London and see it all devastated was actually rather painful for me. But that's just me and my English ways.

I've lived here in London quite a while and I didn't really notice the difference.

QFT..


To answer the OP, I'd say no. In fact, I'd love to be able to launch an asteroid from the Oort cloud into the charon relay, destroying the sol system and all the reapers there. Galaxy saved for the loss of one system, Awesome!

[Tleining]

Agreed. I was playing an Earthborn Shepard who got away from that place asap and had no intention to ever return.
And then suddenly the Alliance Security Council was on Earth instead of Arcturus Station, you had spent 6 Months on Earth wasting time while the Batarians were obviously under attack from the Reapers.
And of course the Mission in London because "I was born in London.""Really?" *SILENCE*.

Yeah, let the bulk of the Reaper Fleet stay at Earth while we take back the Rest of the Galaxy.

i agree with KingKhan03, after killing the Maw on Tuchanka that place pretty much felt like home for my Shep. Everything is out to kill you, awesome

[ohbarf]

Nah. Colonist Shep. Sixteen would have been a long while ago, and growing up in the military probably meant a lot of living on ships and temporary places on all sorts of planets.

Earth wouldn't have been anything particularly special to my Shepard. I'm inclined to think it was that whole "third in the trilogy is the best place to start" thing.. using Earth as a goal might have been viewed as making it more "accessible" to people new to the series. Terrible, terrible reasoning, but I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[Whereto]

No, only visited it twice. The first time it was all a big blur of WTH is happening? Who is vega? What happen to the trail? The second time it was a bland and horrible mission, ending with a starchild. So no I didn't, not in the slightest.

[Nataladass]

i was more connected to earth while killing the AI on luna (EDI) in ME1