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[CheesesackIII]

Now, this may be a slightly odd and relatively minor thing to talk about, but I personally feel that Bioware hit the nail on the head when it came to the politics and enmity between humans and Batarians.

From what I've read, a lot of people really hate the Batarians, and with good reason. Pretty much every one you meet in the game is a massive thug/douche, their race has a hisory of slavery and general unpleasentness and if you chose the colonist background for Shepard, they killed his/her parents.

However, there were a few points in the game when I actually felt an emotional engagement with them and their plight as a race. The first was during the bring down the sky mission, when you get to talk with the leader of the terrorist cell that hijacked that asteroid. It was quite obvious he was a fanatic, however I got the real feeling that, for him, the situation had spiralled completely out of control and he was only acting the way he was because he felt there was no other option.

There are numerous points like that throughout both games. Earlier in the same mission, the confrontation with his second-in-command and in ME 2, when you encounter the infected Batarian during the mission to recruit Mordin. The stuff they say about the human race being stronger and more dominant than them really hit home. Think about it, they're no longer welcome in council space and are forced to settle in the Terminus systems, where you're either part of the criminal underworld, or a target for those that are. Then the humans come along and start settling planets on the border of their space. I'm not saying that the Batarians had any right to those planets, but the fact that the council flat-out ignore all their protests made it clear that, despite what everyone says in game, the humans have significantly more power and favour than some of the other races.
This is probably just rambling, but I felt bad for what they've been forced to become just to survive. It doesn't make the way they behave right, but then again morals aren't really an option when your only sources of income are slavery and mercanary work. Hearing the infected guy accuse the humans of releasing the virus was far more emotional than if he'd simply begged for his life.

So, yeah, kudos to Bioware for putting the complaints of people like Udina into perspective.

Modifié par CheesesackIII, 15 février 2010 - 06:13 .

[Llandaryn]

I agree. It was good to see Batarians in the game. In vanilla ME1, it was made obvious that they were antagonists of the Alliance and humans in general, and that they were responsible for slavery/piracy, but we didn't get much more than that.



It was good to put a face to the name and actually interact with them. And yes, I found the sick Batarian to be poignant too. They remind me of Cardassians in some ways, brain-washed by the Central Command or the Obsidian Order into believing that humans are evil. I hope ME3 gives us a chance to see Batarian civilians, rather than vilifying the whole race.