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[Jayelle Janson]

My Shepard was a colony kid so she always felt more affinity for Eden Prime or Horizon.

[ungodlike]

Auralius Carolus wrote...

The Normandy is home. Earth doesn't connect at all. AT ALL.

Agreed, then Joker crashes our home on some jungle planet leaving us on the Hell that is Earth.<_<

[Star fury]

We didn't visit Earth during first two games. I didn't even have desire to visit it. Then there is a small trip from Alliance HQ to Normandy.
I feel more attached to quarian flotilla and Tuchanka, hell, even Thessia made me want to bite Reapers' throat. Fall of Thessia was ten times more emotional that Earth mission. Wrex makes you champion of krogans, you help quarians to solve their mess.
Considering Shepard's personality - even Earthborn doesn't have much desire to defend Earth. Street gang urchin wants to defend the likes of Finch? Give me a break.

[Tony208]

Priority: Citadel would've made more sense.

The whole Earth thing didn't work.

[Ziggeh]

I didn't feel as connected to earth as I might have been, as it hadn't really been described in any detail up to that point. But the game made it quite clear I was supposed to feel that way and that Shepard did, whether I chose her too or not. So rather than decide to swim against the tide and then feel dissapointed, I just ran with it. Earth is important, mkay.

[Tom Lehrer]

Has a human anyone would feel connected to Earth...the question is how connected? We just have to look at European settlers in other parts of the world to see how much that homeland connection means after a generation or two.

Its only been ~30 years since Humans started colonizing other worlds in the ME verse though so most humans even colonists were born there. Its not hard to imagine that even spacer and colonist Shepard were born on Earth since Shepard is older then most Human colonies.

[Grimwick]

The Citadel is far more iconic to the series and galaxy than Earth ever was.

I suppose it's the mark of good writing (ignoring endings) that I care more about the Citadel/Palaven/Tuchanka/Thessia than I ever did for Earth... that being said I do understand Shepard's focus on earth as a representation of humanity. Just like the other races focus on their homeworlds.

[TAK The Voyager]

Star fury wrote...
Considering Shepard's personality - even Earthborn doesn't have much desire to defend Earth. Street gang urchin wants to defend the likes of Finch? Give me a break.

Exactly. Besides Anderson, who else there did you really care about back on Earth? No one. Tuchunka had Wrex and Mordin. Rannoch had Tali and Legion. Fortunetly for me, that's 4 of my favorite characters right there. All with happy endings.

So, no, I didn't feel much for Earth. For me, Earth was pretty much going to be (what I thought) where the Reaper's defeat would happen. The last section felt weird, like SOCOM but with aliens, you know?

[Zuka999]

I had expected Priority: Earth to be like Priority: Tuchanka or Priority: Rannoch. With multiple missions around the planet all culminating is one primary one. But nah, it was all one mission.

[KingWrex]

My Shep was earth-born and left Earth to get away from it but you figure seeing thousands of people dying while escaping to the Normandy, or even just the knowledge of that happening should be more than enough motivation for Shepard to care about Earth. Sure Bioware handled the Earth section wrong. In their eyes the stupid kid the reason we were supposed to wanna come back which is nonsense. My Shepard had all the motivation he needed when he saw the Reapers touchdown on Earth and immediately started the slaughter.

[Ender99]

Nope. Not at all, and my Shepard wouldn't have either. She was a colonist.

[aMytallica]

Of course! This is where I live. Whether you visit it often in the game or not is irrelevant in my opinion. As a human being you should care!

And of course it makes sense for Shepard and the rest of the humans in game to care also, whether they were born on Earth or not. Earth is home to the beginnings of human civilisation. Whether humans have expanded and been born elsewhere is irrelevant. All of human history is on Earth - art, ancient architecture, all of it is at stake. I would find it odd if the characters in game did not react so passionately about its destruction.

Look at Tali and the quarians. They don't care any less about the fate of their homeworld just because they weren't born there and have "only visited it once"...

[VintageUtti]

No, and not just because my Shepard was a spacer. The first two games did a really good job of showing how awesome galactic life was outside Earth, and then in ME3 you only get a brief glimpse of it before it gets attacked. I think a longer intro and/or at least a chance to walk around before the Reapers arrived would have helped.

[Camarooni]

I just liked that Canada was in the game, we aren't in much...

[TODD9999]

Nataladass wrote...

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

This is oddly true.  Then, I could take a few moments from zooming around killing turrets to look up and wonder what things were like on Earth, to compare what I was doing in-game to what we have done in real life.  

But yeah, I didn't feel especially connected to Earth.  Anderson's little updates about the war were just too vague - they could have been taking place on any populated planet.  And then there's the big focus shift - it was no longer about retaking Earth, but just about bum rushing the teleporter in London.  Earth wasn't the concern, just hitting that telepad and getting to the Citadel.  It's interesting, in a way, having the Citadel (a place we've been in all three games, the center of galactic civilization) be in Earth orbit actually stole the limelight from Earth in a pretty big way.

[Camarooni]

I think they just didn't want to confuse new players who aren't familiar with Earth.

[sistersafetypin]

My Shep's a Spacer. She felt more connection to the homes of her bondmate and friends... Thessia, Tuchanka, Palaven.... Than she felt for Earth. All things considered she probably would have picked up Anderson, let Earth fall and actually work to defend and save the other planets.

[Mr. Big Pimpin]

I didn't feel that connected to Earth, and got annoyed every time autodialogue made me care so much.

That said, the final Tali conversation (romanced) where they turned the whole "Keelah se'lai" thing the opposite way they had on Rannoch, was really cool.

[Flammenpanzer]

Grimwick wrote...

The Citadel is far more iconic to the series and galaxy than Earth ever was.

I suppose it's the mark of good writing (ignoring endings) that I care more about the Citadel/Palaven/Tuchanka/Thessia than I ever did for Earth... that being said I do understand Shepard's focus on earth as a representation of humanity. Just like the other races focus on their homeworlds.

Pretty much this. I was not happy with the Earth-centric plot.

I felt like a collosal dick asking everyone to focus on Earth while their worlds were burning. I kept thinking...why am I supposed to care so much about Earth?

Only reason I can think of is that there were that many Reapers there...which I still don't understand. Didn't they have thousands? An already-delayed cycle, you'd assume they'd be more careful and attack the Citadel first. Look at how quickly Earth was taken by surprise.....You'd have the same shock when the Citadel falls pretty much, but galaxy-wide.

[Nuclear Pete]

Mr. Big Pimpin wrote...

I didn't feel that connected to Earth, and got annoyed every time autodialogue made me care so much.

I don't get comments like this. How can you not feel SOME connection to earth. You live here dont you?

...no?

Modifié par Nuclear Pete, 19 avril 2012 - 06:30 .

[Gogzilla]

Well its the Home world.

All of human history and Alliance power base was Earth.

After spending 3 games talking to Tali , surely people would not take their home world for granted ?

[Bookman230]

 No. If we had visited it back in ME1 and/or ME2, and if they had set up lovable locations and characters there then, sure. I would've thought of those places and people to fuel me. But due to Wrex's and Tali's love for their planets, I felt far more connected to those. Not to mention all the lovable Krogans and Urz we met on Tuchanka. I felt like my Shep was a unsympathetic/short sighted idiot for putting Earth ahead of the universe, unlike I had been playing him all along.

[Jestina]

What's earth? Shep spends more time elsewhere.

[palician]

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.

Thank your parents for getting you the hell out of this hellhole of a country.
The final battle should have been the citadel as its the focal point of the mass effect series.

[HellbirdIV]

I cared more about Thessia, Palaven, Rannoch, and even Kar'shan.

I didn't care that much about Tuchanka, because it's not like the krogan NEED a planet to survive. They're like Batman, they just go into space and keep on trucking like it ain't no thing.