CronoDragoon wrote...
Kasumi? Someone you say finished her character arc and moreover was DLC? Exactly what did she still have to bring to the story outside of her fans simply wanting more? No, a minor mission is enough for her I think.
Being DLC is no excuse, particularly when DLC characters are more interesting than some stock characters. As for story importance you know as well as I do how arbitrary that is. The writers dictated her importance to the story (or lack thereof) just as they dictated her shoddy appearance. Just as they also dictated I might add, the overinflated appearance and importance of other characters. Writer favoritism is the cause of decreased signficance and therefore screentime, not the other way around.
For Thane and Jacob, I'd argue their issue isn't screentime but what the writers did with said screentime. Jacob is a waste of time from the moment they introduce him. He could have served as the character who calls out the Alliance on hypocritical bull**** with his background as a corsair. Instead his father goes nuts and he knocks up a scientist. I don't have a problem with Thane's sacrifice but romancers of course disagree.
Well quality over quantity naturally. Still doesn't change the fact that people still want more even in the cases where the alloted time is used satisfactorily
No, actually. She's the only character except maybe Raan who actually changes her opinion about the geth, and since she's a more prominent character than Raan what I said stands. Koris is at the other extreme from Xen, and Gherrel doesn't really care one way or another as long as he gets Rannoch back. She's the only one who's opinion of the geth as a race demonstrably changes from her interactions with them.
Please. With all the imagery and feel-good tone at the end of the peace ending, you'd almost think it's a happily ever after scenario if you didn't realize there was also a galactic war to win. Besides I don't seem to recall her saying anything overly
racist about the geth before. Certainly she mistrusts and even despises them for the predicament the quarians are in. But I don't recall her saying they're just suborganic machines or anything like that before. So without that you're left with "I used to hate you because you took away my home but now we're cool", which is again, every other quarian except for Xen. And Koris I guess.
Good point about Udina, but I fail to see how the VS is less worthy of screentime than Jacob in terms of "soldier worthiness" or whatever.
They're not. But by that token then, why is Jacob less worthy of Spectre or squad status and associated screentime? Do you see how all things being equal, the only explanation remaining is bull**** favoritism?
What DLC? Citadel? I think you're in the minority of ME2 fans pissed about their treatment in Citadel, although they goofed when their initial PR release seemed to state that you could do the whole DLC with them.
Oh well if I'm in the minority then it's ok to ****** all over my preferences. Or perhaps to politely dismiss them as preferences implicitly irrelevant.
The ME1 squad is held highly and the ME2 one entertains diminished roles because the ME2 characters each have their own story that's completed at the end of the loyalty mission. Any appearance in ME3 is basically fan service at that point. Contrast this to the ME1 squad, who for the most part are either tied to the Reaper plot or to a major series arc that comes to a conclusion in ME3. The VS becomes tied to the Cerberus conflict by the middle of ME2. Tali = Rannoch. Liara is tied to both the Reapers and the Protheans, which becomes especially meaningful when Javik the Great and Mighty enters the fray in ME3. By this logic Wrex should have been a squadmate in ME3, which I still kinda agree with.
Uhh... no. The ME1 squad are no more "tied into the Reaper plot" than anyone else that stands in danger of becoming Reaper slushies. As for side plots...
The VS doesn't become tied to Cerberus. ****ing and whining about how they used to trust you and "you've totally changed man!" while doing ****all to address the ongoing problems does not a tie make. By that logic, Anderson is also tied to Cerberus because he also disapproves of your association.
Liara has no ties to the Reapers and any speculations she might've had on the Protheans get hilariously eclipsed and roflstomped by Javik. Add to that
the most outrageous example of artificial promotion to date and you've got a character that at best should've fit Hackett's role but with benefits.
Garrus has no ties that weren't just hastily and superficially pasted on to him
Tali is tied to the quarians and ironically would've made more sense on the squad if she was still just some admiral's daughter. Being promoted did her no favors. Regardless you cannot possibly claim she has more right to squad status than Legion.
Wrex is fine where he is. At least until Citadel makes him quad-teabag both his responsibilities to the krogan and the hopes of fans whose characters were equally loved but not as tied up.
The ME1 squad had zero closer ties to the main plot, zero issues that just
begged further exploring and zero innate superiority to the ME2 squad. The bottom line is you had a pool of sixteen equal squadmates to choose from and Bioware clearly pampered six of them, to varying degrees, while the others were at best neglected. The fact that some of the character writers made the best of the limitations they were given and got the most of a character's appearance does not change the fact that those limitations were unfairly stringent.
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