PsiFive wrote...
Very interesting, and good find, but listening to the dialogue on your YouTube vid I'm not sorry they didn't use it. Sounds a bit, I dunno, not forced exactly because it's not the actors' delivery. It's more like.... well, you know how the Star Wars prequels had all kinds of jarring story elements so as to jam in familiar characters from the original trilogy and probably would have shown us a young Han Solo somewhere if they'd found a toddler who fires first and looked a bit like Harrison Ford? That. I hate watching a movie or playing a game and having massively unlikely odds waved in my face like that - droids that by amazing coincidence are the same ones from twenty years later, Wookies that will one day work with charismatic smugglers just happening to know small green Jedi masters, beautiful princesses falling in love with boring whingers who were annoying brats when they first met.... all from the same drawer as Shepard being the only one who could have saved them both and pause for crew genuflection. Not saying that it wouldn't have been nice to have an outside possibility of saving them both, possibly using some random factor so it wasn't guaranteed even if you'd just followed a step by step walkthrough titled "Saving both Ash and Kaiden", but maybe without those lines. Come to think of it, what if the Virmire decision was a choice between saving Ashley, saving Kaiden or trying to save both but the game basically deciding at random, perhaps with some influence from your earlier actions, whether you succeed or whether they both end up dead? That would have raised the stakes a bit.
There could be a lot of reasons for that feeling. It might have something to do with the fact that we're overly familiar with how the original Mass Effect should play out since we've been playing it for 4+ years. It also could just be that the video itself doesn't accurately portray how the scene should play out with music and actual character model acting. I could have also botched the timing of the lines.
I don't think it's quite to the unbelieveable level of Anakin Skywalker building C3PO, and Shepard has pulled off some amazing things through the course of the series. Doing a perfect suicide run in ME2 is way more unbelievable than if Shepard had saved both Kaidan and Ashley on Virmire in my opinion.
That said, I'm glad they did it the way they did. It firmly cements the theme of "choices and consequences" that the series is built around. Plus it adds some flavor and diversity in the branching storylines.
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