My personal bet is that they wanted to expand on the topic of synthetics having souls. There's Legion asking the question outright, but not every player will sympathise with the Geth race that killed so many in the first Mass Effect game. So a back-up plan: take one of your allies from the previous game and expand on the same topic: does she have a soul? Or, more accurately (since some of you will say that not even humans have souls in your opinion), would a synthetic be able to feel emotion akin to how an organic would? It's just a way to deliver the same theme we have going with the Geth from an angle that we can't reject automatically because she's on our team, and you might not see Geth as being that.
I admit I also originally thought it was a way to throw in more sacrifice in the Destroy ending, but if the rumours about the ending is true (that Walters and Hudson wrote it themselves towards the end), then there's a possibility that it can't fit with the story-writing timeline, i.e. a corporeal EDI was likely written before the endings.
Dont Kaidan Me wrote...
GuardianAngel470 wrote...
How could a white man love a black woman? It's practically beastiality.
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Don't worry, I don't think he was serious
I believe it's a counter-point to the post he quoted. At least that's what I choose to believe
EDI(t): I agree, though, that her form was a bit too much... Not really sure why they would potentially risk making the player question what a soul is and if synthetics could have souls too, by creating a body like hers that will simply draw away attention from this interesting question (that may or may not fit within Mass Effect, but nonetheless).
Modifié par Ajensis, 20 mai 2012 - 08:32 .
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