Mcfly616 wrote...
People call Synthesis: "space magic". Yet, we've seen it before. Hello, Project Lazarus.
Which Lazarus is explained for the most part. Whether or not you agree to suspend you disbelief is up to you.
It's much better than the "essence of who you are" or "organic energy" or "final evolution of all life" or "DNA for synthetics" or a long list of other gripes about it.
People blame ME3 for autodialogue. Which actually made its debut in ME2.
Yet the autodialogue in ME3 is incredibly pervasive, especially in regards to rp'ing, and seen as much worse than the autodialogue in ME2.
People say your choices don't matter in ME3. Well, your choices matter in ME2 about as much as they do in 3.....if not even less.
Well, the meaning of the choices, events, decisions, and action in ME2 were ideally supposed to be brought into ME3 to solve.
It was not ME2's place to make the choices matter. It was ME2's place to make more variables for ME3.
Don't get me started on the waste of time narrative focus on the Collectors.
Which was indeed a weak story as written. But the reason it seems so out of touch with the story is because (in my opinion) ME2 was gearing up for a different story, a different ME3 than what we got. It was building up to a different ME3, one that apparently never left the conceptual stages.
Shoehorned into joining Cerberus.
Much like how I'm shoehorned into being an alliance poster boy in ME3? At least in ME2 you can be vocal about how you dislike and hate Cerberus. I can't even badmouth Hackett and Anderson, or talk to Ashley or Kaidan about why I like Cerberus.
Taking away nearly the entire original crew (stunting character growth), and over-populating the Normandy with a bunch of comic book heroes.
To the original crew, I say good riddance to bad eggs. I don't care about their character growth. I'd have gladly left both Ashley and Kaidan on Virmire if I could. I'd have left Liara on Therum, or killed her for being related to Benezia, Saren's henchwoman. That's how my Shepard is. I don't want Tali going with me. Garrus and Wrex are alright, I suppose. There was nothing about their characters that interested me or made me like them.
On the other hand, I absolutely adore the ME2 team. They are my dream team, and, in my opinion, some of the best squadmates and characters in video game history.
People hate the Catalyst (I'll admit, I hate the fact it appears as a child. Kids are just annoying). But come on, that human Reaper fetus is just god awful. And imo, trying to come up with something different and thoughtful is better than just coming right out and saying "hey we're idiots...now abort this human Reaper fetus"
The Human Reaper is pretty bad, yes. But it's certainly much better than Sir-Lite-Brite and how he's suddenly changing the very narrative of the story.
Don't try to deflect the problems with one thing by saying that something else has problems.
Don't get me wrong, the Suicide Mission is awesome. It just makes ME2 that much more of a drag, because I'm trying to get to the last mission. But it honestly baffles me when people trash ME3s ending, then immediately praise ME2's from a narrative standpoint. Narratively speaking, ME2's ending is the most ordinary and mediocre ending of the trilogy.
It's also the most fulfilling, and you get to do what you set out to do. There is no sudden and inexcusible shift in the narrative of the story. There is no change in theme.
First, you kill the Reaper fetus (god, that's not a great start). Then, you get up and escape the Collector base while being chased by seeker swarms. Base explodes, we tell TIM to shove it, and then we see Reapers coming. (Okay, I'll admit that last bit gives me chills). That (for the most part) seems like the script of a Michael Bay action film. (While fun, it isn't anything to put on a pedestal)
That's not the point of ME2's ending. ME2's ending is to serve as a buildup to ME3. To prepare the action.
And I don't tell TIM to shove it. I tell him to get his forces ready and to get behind me, even though I blow up the Collector Base.
I do tell Hackett and the alliance to shove it after Arrival. Same with Anderscum and the Council.
Meanwhile, I had chills the entire time after going up the beam in ME3 (Extended Cut). We all have our preferences though.
And I was shaking my head in disappointment about how bad the recent Normandy evacuation scene was, and how my expectations were being fulfilled. Which is to say, the bad **** was still bad in my opinion.
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