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Geth consensus is pretty atrocious in both gameplay and story(whitewashing of past Geth atrocities).
This. Half an hour of zapping orange blocks whilst being beaten to death with a Geth sympathy stick.
"The quarians had neither the numbers nor the ability to stand against their former servants. In a short but savage war their entire society was wiped out. Only a few million survivors-less than one percent of their entire population-escaped the genocide, fleeing their home world in a massive fleet, refugees forced to live in exile." (p.116, Mass Effect: Revelation)
"This is not justice!"
...you sure about that, Legion? <_<
BW's attempt at sympathy backfired and made me want to kill them even more(that and butchering them by doing away with the consesus bit if you do peace or side with them).
What atrocities are you talking about?
I concur that the whole Heretic/True Geth twist is a good of asspull to have friendly Geth (i.e. Legion), but apart from them acting as a primary enemy in ME1 I don't see anything that would qualify as atrocity.
Even if the Geth were xenephobic isolationists and would butcher everyone coming to their space it is a logical reaction to what the Quarians did. If someone tried to commit genocide, no one can expect the other faction to sit around and just let it happen. Quarians started the war, Quarians lost the war. All fair game.
99% Quarian death rate(Geth fighting back is understandable but they took it too far) and killing everyone who ventured into their space mostly. That's largely downplayed or outright ignored in that mission.
First of all, that number is not official. It is the result of a statistical calculation made from fans that were pretty much guessing how many Quarians there were before the war. The game itself has some glaring issues with mathematical ratios. Just saying that projected casualty rate is well due on the devs having had no scale there.
Also, you have to understand that the Geth and Quarians weren't secluded cultures. It's not like the Geth were from that continent and the Quarians from another and they could just settle the war at their frontiers. They quite literally shared the exact same ressources.
So if one planet full of quarians decides to rid that planet off all Geth, the Geth have no other choice but to take that planet or die. Quarians failed to take out the Geth, which means the Geth took the planet, Quarians had to evacuate.
Now, I don't know exactly how many ships the Quarians had at the time, but I very much doubt they had enough to even transport a minority of all landbased population from a whole planet. And that wasn't just one planet. Factor in all those ships the Quarians very deliberately must have used in their attempt to kill all Geth that were destroyed in combat and it is entirely likely that in the end when the Quarians finally got the notion they couldn't win, they only had the ships to harbour about a measly couple of percent (talking 3, maybe 4% at max).
What about the Quarians they didn't evacuate you might ask? Well, as a Geth, I would have simply fortified the ressources so they couldn't use them to kill me. Guess that means the remaining planetside Quarians would have had to make due with mass starvation from their collapsed economy and stuff. And in all fairness, I wouldn't have had much of a mind to go rescue all those people that just fought an intersteller genocide attempt.
I agree that the fate of those Quarians that were not evacuated is a complete blank point in writing as the Quarians simply would never have had the ressources, least of all the time and organization to get every still living Quarian offworlds and then run. Since there is no word off non-Flotilla Quarians after 300 years from their exodus, you can either imagine those numbers left planetside were too few for a sustained population given the inevitably hardships a wartorn planet would have had, or were too many to support themselves with their ressources, or it could very well be the Geth swooped through and killed every last one. It is not mentioned whatsoever. It's a gaping plothole.
And I will argue that plothole is a more viable opinion about the Geth than a hypothetical atrocity.