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[Lonely_Fat_Guy]

things arnt always like a happy ending!

[mrsrachelm]

I'm a HUGE Thane fangirl. I admit it. CURE THANE! Not only that, I am hoping to Gawd that he would be a part of the squad in ME3 and a continued LI relationship. All this starting and stopping of LI in each game is kinda lame. Even if you still have a relationship carried over from ME1, you don't really get to do anything with them in ME2 and the role they play is measured in seconds. It's hard to get a real feel of scope. It would be nice to have an LI like Thane be continued ACTIVELY in ME3 where new challenges and development can occur throughhout the game instead of all the start/stop hiccups so far.

[JnEricsonx]

The whole email about the drell and hanar/Enkindlers is actually a ME equivalent of a proverb in the Bible. Someone's walking, and they only ever see their footprints, and they ask God why is that so, and God's response is "Those times you could not walk for yourself, I carried you." So, its the ME equivalent. Boy, lets NOT tell the Hanar that we pretty much made extinct the remnants of their gods.

[KhemoZarDaz]

hmmm.... my stance on his cure is wavering. I just finished

another playthrough and in all reality there's not a whole lot

that makes him special or memorable. I mean yeah, he's a

rad assassin but i think the main reason most people like him

so much is just because he's new and that's exciting i guess?

Idk... it just seems to me like it wouldn't be that hard to make

a more dynamic drell character, imo.



i guess basically what i'm saying is if he dies i won't be that

upset anymore.

[weefrasey2]

well what i think would be a great and touching moment is that if your a fem shep in ME2 and romanced thane to where sheperd loves him and then when you put that female character through to ME3 and your still romancing thane they should make it that if thane dies of his illness they should have a scene of fem shep crying or become very upset even though she is tough. this would be a emotional moment and also surpising becouse shep has never cried before or let emotions get in her way. 

[tai0316]

I know I'm late on this topic but I think there's a way to incorporate the idea that nothing's easy and happy-ever-after in Mass Effect with my personal desire that Fem Shepard have a real chance at the happy ending. I'm thinking back on the suicide mission where if you screwed up it had huge consequences but if you did everything right, everyone lived, no one got left behind. To me that's a happy ending. I'm thinking what if Fem/Shepard had to make a hard choice like curing the Genophage, helping Tali to get her homeworld back, or saving Thane. All choices would have consequences of course and affect her team mates. Even male Shepard could have fun playing with different choices and endings. I just think that there should be a chance for a happy ending for both male and female Shepards, I mean they deserve it after all the saving the universe stuff right?

[thq95]

Lonely_Fat_Guy wrote...

things arnt always like a happy ending!

Yeah, in real life, but I don't necessarily want real life when I play a video game.

Thane needs to survive.

[Collider]

Saving Thane or saving a race is extremely lopsided. Not a good choice.

[tai0316]

thq95 wrote...

Lonely_Fat_Guy wrote...

things arnt always like a happy ending!

Yeah, in real life, but I don't necessarily want real life when I play a video game.

Thane needs to survive.

I agree completely thq95!
Mass Effect isn't based on real-life, obviously. I play these games to experience something more than real-life, heck if ME was real I'd be dead a million times over already. This is sci-fi fantasy gaming at it's best. Shepard has already done extraordinary things to save humanity as it is, and several of my Fem/Shepards were Paragons and therefore pro-alien. Why wouldn't she make choices that could save alien races as well as humanity? This is fantasy so anything can happen and Bioware always gives us the choice to make things really bad, really good or somewhere in-between. If you wanted your whole team and yourself to die at the end of ME2 you had that choice, if you wanted all of you to live, you had that choice too. So why shouldn't I have a choice to try for my happy-ending? Believe me I would do what I always do which is play the game different ways to have different outcomes, I'm simply saying I would like to have a choice. Bioware loves making games where your choices have consequences and I haven't played through ME1 and ME2 a million times to give up on my girl now.

[Naive-Peeve]

It seems to me, bioware isn't the biggest fan of females. First, in ME1, they made Kaidan, a fanboy who should really get a haircut, and Liara who had some crazy infatuation with you. (Sure she brings you back and all, but I still find her eye annoying and her personality.) - Then we jump over to ME2, Garrus who is romaneable, I mean, yay for those who wanted him as a LI, I just see him as the best friend you can ever have, and he looks at FemShep like a mentor rather than a dateable female, or in his case a f*ck buddy. Which probably means more for him than he thinks. Then Jacob Taylor, which was just... ugh. I mean what the hell is up with his sex scene? "Heavy risk... but the priiiize." What the hell is that about, Bioware? Do. Not. Want. He was so dull that I didn't even want to try anything with him. I didn't even bring him on any missions, except his loyalty one!
Then Thane, sweet, religious, badass assassin Thane comes into our lives, and just shows us that Bioware does show women some love. Until you hear about his illness. I mean, drama is always a good thing to put in, but... lost his wife, not in contact with his son, dying - HO-KAY let us romance him then and lose him later! Wee. I think bioware gave him to much drama. Then again, without his illness and all his past mistakes, I doubt Thane would be so interesting. So... (Here comes my answer to the cure for Thane Krios):
It would be kind of a "bunny, sunshine and rainbow land" if Thane was cured, but if his lifetime could be prolonged in some way, instead of a cure for his sickness, because as he said, it might just take years. Besides, Thane has experienced a lot of hell in his life, and he can remember EVERY detail of it. Would you actually want to live with that? I am not saying Thane is suicidal, but it is a lot to live with.
So I'd say YAY for a cure, but I'd be just as happy if his life was prolonged for some years, like 2 - 5 years. I think that would just be more believeable, than just cure him like that. 
That is my answer, not sure if it helps or anything.

My single thing to say is that I love Thane, he is the most interesting character I have ever met, and Bioware made him so believeable, that I was saddened when he relived one of his bad memories. So I'd be happy to have just a little more time with him, than just approximately 6 - 8 months.

Modifié par Naive-Peeve, 13 juillet 2010 - 06:21 .

[Fiery Phoenix]

Peeve, read this:

“A new technology is helping victims of the Vallum Blast breathe easier
-- literally. Researchers at U. Thierax are attacking the myriad of
respiratory diseases caused by inhaling dust around the blast site.
Dubbed "medi-gel for the lungs," the Eupulmos Device analyzes a
patient's tissue or medicard record before adjusting its
virally-delivered superdrugs to match the patient's genetic
predispositions. After that, the mister sprays the aerosol into the
patient's nasal passages and the drug is absorbed into the lungs. The
mister can also deliver microsurgery machines to make non-invasive
repairs to tissue and has a color-coded nozzle at each end with separate
agent reservoirs for dextro and levo patients. Said one ER staffer,
"The effect is incredible. In a year, the whole galaxy will be using
these things."”


Today's Cerberus news. I wonder what this means for Thane, if at all.

[Naive-Peeve]

Huh. I am speechless. Perhaps there is hope for Thane fans.
Thank you Fiery.

[Atomic_Boom22]

Perhaps a mission where the reapers bribe him with it to kill Shep?

[tai0316]

Atomic_Boom22 wrote...

Perhaps a mission where the reapers bribe him with it to kill Shep?

 Ouch!

[Lucky Thirteen]

mrsph wrote...

If they cure Thane then I will retroactively go back and kill him off. Because it will totally ruin his entire character and purpose.

Dying isn't his purpose and does not define his character. I actually think it's pointless
that they put it in the first place because a lot of what influences him involves
his faith, his family, and his training. Curing, or giving him treatment to
prolong his life isn't going to change who he is. I don't think dying changed
him at all in the first plac, he just reacted to it.

Modifié par Lucky Thirteen, 15 juillet 2010 - 04:54 .

[tai0316]

FieryPhoenix7 wrote...

Peeve, read this:

“A new technology is helping victims of the Vallum Blast breathe easier
-- literally. Researchers at U. Thierax are attacking the myriad of
respiratory diseases caused by inhaling dust around the blast site.
Dubbed "medi-gel for the lungs," the Eupulmos Device analyzes a
patient's tissue or medicard record before adjusting its
virally-delivered superdrugs to match the patient's genetic
predispositions. After that, the mister sprays the aerosol into the
patient's nasal passages and the drug is absorbed into the lungs. The
mister can also deliver microsurgery machines to make non-invasive
repairs to tissue and has a color-coded nozzle at each end with separate
agent reservoirs for dextro and levo patients. Said one ER staffer,
"The effect is incredible. In a year, the whole galaxy will be using
these things."”


Today's Cerberus news. I wonder what this means for Thane, if at all.

Once again, the significance of one year passing is mentioned. Thane has up to 12 months to live. This treatment will be available in one year. The data on Cerberus I uploaded on my game, will take EDI one year to analyze. It's all coming down to the release of ME3. I'm betting if Thane lived through the suicide mission on ME2, we'll have a chance to save him on ME3, if we choose to.

[Missy_MI]

Naive-Peeve wrote...

It seems to me, bioware isn't the biggest fan of females. First, in ME1, they made Kaidan, a fanboy who should really get a haircut, and Liara who had some crazy infatuation with you... Then we jump over to ME2, Garrus who is romaneable, I mean, yay for those who wanted him as a LI, I just see him as the best friend you can ever have, and he looks at FemShep like a mentor rather than a dateable female, or in his case a f*ck buddy. Which probably means more for him than he thinks. Then Jacob Taylor, which was just... ugh....

My single thing to say is that I love Thane, he is the most interesting character I have ever met, and Bioware made him so believeable, that I was saddened when he relived one of his bad memories. So I'd be happy to have just a little more time with him, than just approximately 6 - 8 months.

Word to all of that.  I had resigned myself to not pursuing any romance subplots in ME2 until finally getting Thane.  As a gamer girl who has played a female Shepard character through the first two installments, I really, really hope Thane is included as a squad member and romance option in the third game.

It would be interesting to know the player gender split on the Thane live or die debate.  I know guy friends who couldn't stand Carth in KOTOR I for example, but I personally thought his romance option for female characters was one of the best that's been done in a video game.

I say save the drell!  If it involves some sort of wrenching sacrifice, so be it.  But having the option at all would be greatly appreciated.

[General Ashous]

I would save Thane if I were given the choice as he is one of the most interesting and complex characters that there is, and that's marvelous. Well that's what I think anyway.