While I harp on ME2's uselessness to the main storyline (I'm looking at you Thane), when it did give continuation of plotlines from ME1, ME3 did a more than serviceable job with it.BaladasDemnevanni wrote...
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There's a good amount of truth to this, but I think the final answer is a touch more complicated.
What ME2 failed to do was be significant in its own right. And by that I mean, when you finish ME2 it's difficult to say what, if anything, we managed to achieve.
However, it's always possible to give a game retroactive plot importance. This can be done by giving the player information which they were not previously aware of, to make seemingly trivial information very important.
Basically, ME2 could have done more to stand on its own, especially if so much content wasn't optional. But there was nothing stopping ME3 from finding some plot threads to latch onto.
See both Rannoch arc (not just the big issues such as whether Tali or Legion are alive but where Daro'Xen's whole plan actually gets hinted at you from an email in ME2 AND the fact that Legion himself if you brought him along to Tali's trial mentions that the creators have always attacked if they thought they had the advantage) and the genophage arc.
I don't thinkthe collectors gave ME3 anything to work with especially once you try and figure out how such a small ship would actually be able to harvest earth....sure, it blew up the Normandy, but the Normandy is a frigate and the game itself tells you that even planetary defence towers/turrets are enough to drive them off
There's also the fact that Me2 IMO did the best job in fleshing out the ME universe than ME1. I ALSO disagree with the idea that you could get rid of Samara or Grunt or Jack et al. Removing them and making the ME1 crew do double duty simply piles on too much for the characters...
I LIKE the fact that even though Liara has the backstory about her experience being a pureblood, she is NOT ALSO the front-alien for the ardat-yashi storyline. Same thing with Grunt...even though he's a krogan and his origin is tied somewhat to the genophage, the genophage arc was never a main part of his character arc.
It makes the galaxy of ME seem more *real*/*expansive* since you actually find characters that are NOT the go-to person for every single issue relating to their race...
Modifié par Bleachrude, 15 juillet 2013 - 08:33 .
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