amrose2 wrote...
Honestly, theres maybe 3 or 4 I would want to carry over. Some of the squad mates are generic and boring ex. Grunt, Samara, Jacob. Some are going to die soon, Thane, possibly Mordin (he's old for a Solarian). Some are going to move on and become leaders or heralds for the armies of their people: Tali, Legion, possibly Garrus.
I just think people should accept the fact that the team will be re-organized again. Expect 1 or 2 from the ME2 squad and maybe 1 or 2 from the ME1 squad.
Why are people trying to make logic out of this kind of stuff? For every scenario you outlined , i could create a counter one, and they could make just as much sense, and even if they didnt make any sense, it would still be what it is. There cant be guessing as to why they will or wont appear.
Thane- Blasto discovers that Element Zero has a secret property that heals whatever the hell is wrong with Thane. There is an emotional scene where Thane admits to using steroids and you option to paragon and he joins
Mordin- He lied, he is secretly only 40, his mother was an alcoholic and forgot about him for ten years, thus he is only 40. It also explains his missing tentacle thing as she drank during birth.
Tali- Had too much fun on the Shepard Sex express, she joins but just lounges around his room waiting for a fix
for every reasoning, there is a counter..these are intendly stupid to higlight the ridiculousness of seriosuly contemplatign why its likely anyone would be in or out. But i hope everyone understands that there doesnt have to be concrete logic to things, the game could even take place 1 day after the second, ergo they all stuck around.
"I certainly hope you are right citizen_snipsV1 but I can only see that
working with select characters. Who knows...maybe Bioware will take a
middle road. Perhaps they will sideline all the characters who couldn't
be love interests to a role similar to Wrex's (i.e. the player can meet
and interact with them but can't recruit- Zaeed, Samara/Morinth,
Mordin, Legion, and Grunt).
I'm fairly certain Liara
will be recruit-able and probably the virmire survivor. Then, I could
see Bioware following a plan similar to the one you outlined: giving
the option to switch out new characters that can be recruited with the
6 characters who could be love interests in ME2. This cuts down on some
of the work and would resolve problems with different save files. Thus
if you don't have Tali survive for example, you aren't given the
opportunity to switch out another Quarian squad member for her when the
opportunity arises.
This seems like the best solution I've been able to come up with."
Paragraph 2--exactly!- Simple things like this are already implemented into Me2, so doing this is not at all a leap what so ever. Develop 5 characters for me3 as squad mates, and have a handful of me2 characters able to take their place, or optional sidequests to recruit them if available, nothing that at all messes with save files, individual canon, nor at all the story.
Believe me i hope im right too. Nothing is ever set in stone, but i think people have to take a second and think of the relative ease that they could use to make it happen, as well as how they have already made the same things happen, so from experience we should know ( ie. morinth/samara)
But of course, i urge all to remind Bioware of that ease, not that i feel important or smarter then then whatsoever, but just to let them know fans loved this game and its characters enough we wnat them to be by our side for the end, or at leats some of them. To let them know we all lovet his game enough to go over scenarios to have them readily available.