Terraneaux wrote...
Yeah, what is up with that? Why did the writers think that those characters should act so, well, out of character in ME2?
The prevailing belief is that it was in order to make the ME2 love interests more appealing in comparison, so they would be correct in their prediction that most players would cheat on them. Which strikes me as short-sighted in a number of ways:
1) It means that they weren't confident in their claim that the ME2 love interests were so enticing on their own merits to warrant switching up -- they had to stack the deck so to speak and sour people on the previous ones.
2) It leaves a big 'what now' with ME3, where people are very much expecting them to follow through on the promise of rewarding people for being faithful. All I can say is that if they think that the grumbling about it NOW is bad, if they drop the ball in the finale the fan discontent will be... unpleasant.
I definitely am of a mind that whatever happens, ME3 is not the game to go introducing a bunch of new characters. It's the final chapter in a series, and it's where the plot threads should be coming together rather than introducing a bunch of new ones.