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DeinonSlayer wrote...
A fact for which I am very grateful. The only time I used those lines was when roleplaying a particularly dimwitted Shepard.ImaginaryMatter wrote...
DeinonSlayer wrote...
Looking at individual lines, Shotgun Julia already covered the "Asari can mate with each other?" one. I guess a close second is at the end of Freedom's Progress in ME2.
Shepard: *looking at footage of what are obviously aliens* "What's a Collector? Is that some kind of alien?"
Miranda: "No, Shepard, Collectors are cosplaying humans. Answer the ad on space-Craigslist and they'll issue you your outfit."
If I remember correctly the, "the Asari can mate with each other," line is entirely optionaly and thus should not be included; the same is with the Collector line.
The thing here which is why I won't think of these as bad is that it's exposition and exposition is needed to explain these things to the player. The average player is not going to learn from reading codexes. I never read the codex unless I'm specifically curious about something like how long do turians live. I prefer to have it in the dialogue wheel for the first game or two then after that, it's an option I never take because I know. I don't really think of it as a dimwitted shepard but one who has not been exposed to all the races or perhaps all the details about the races. Kind of like how liara in ME1 goes on about how people don't understand her race and believe rumors. I think of it as kind of rare that someone would walk up to another species and ask them about their mating rituals or how long they live, etc. In fact, I CANNOT imagine such a thing happening unless you know the person well enough to ask inquisitively as in the case with Liara and Wrex and Thane. Shepard is a soldier and not really sitting in some library studying all the details about the different races. Often shepard is battling them or someone else. So to me, all of this is done well enough that it can be overlooked though it probably in some places could be done a little better so to not come off like they are pandering to complete idiots. But overall, it's for the benefit of us, those of us that don't read things. And exposition, as a rule, is one of the most challenging things to write. It realy is. You have to do it in a way that still holds the audiece while not treating them like idiots and it has to fit in smoothly rather than just being dumped on you. If you have ever written anything where exposition was required, and if you are any good at writing, you KNOW what a nightmare it can present, especially for something that is totally Alien (no pun intended) as with sci fi and fantasy genres where it's a new universe with new species and new laws or mechanics.
So I can forgive a lot regarding all of the exposition as there really is no way to get around it. Yes, they could have made some of shepard's questions seem like they came from a smarter individual, but I think they were more focused on the exposition rather than how shepard asked the question which is also a common issue with exposition given through questions. People forget to keep the questions asked by the character in line with what you might expect from that character at least intellectually or perhaps even with some political correctness about it.
Of course, this is just my 2 cents on the matter. Exposition is a ****.
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