taigin wrote...
Jhosephine wrote...
I think it would have helped if you weren't given the files by TIM about who to recruit and where. If you were just to bump into them instead as you explore and do missions it would feel less forced. Like with other Bioware games. Make it as much a mission to actually search for the best of the best as it is to gain their loyalty.
Right now we have a list, we know where they are and technically we don't have any option as to recruit them or not.
It's like a chore....recruit the list, make list loyal, epic endbattle, done. Although that's not doing the game much credit.
I like it when characters are part of the story and as you follow that story you find them and interact with them before recruiting if you want. Maybe I didn't want to pick up Jack or Zaeed, maybe I would want Tali to stay with her people. But it's never a choice.
Oh just rambling on my part, but yeah, it feels forced 
Yea it's a very shoehorned feeling. I guess it fit well with TIM as a character. He is in total control of the situation. From who to recruit to what events that will take place, where he manipulates every part possible for his own ends. Maybe it's the feeling that you as a character aren't in command of the game and what will happen and how it unfolds, TIM is. In ME1 you pretty much get free hands to search for Saren, which creates the feeling that you as a character are driving the plot forward.
I feel i'm very influenced about the topics about plot that's been discussed on the forum. A bit of topic maybe 
I had the hardest time getting into ME2 when I first played it. I agree, it's almost like finishing up a grocery list than developing a plot. No in depth missions with multiple ways to finish them, (just whether you kill the guy at the end or not), few big story choices, no exploring to find interesting people, just a list from TIM, and then a list of loyalty quests you either do or ignore. blah blah blah It eventually successfully got me invested, but if it hadn't been a BioWare game, I'm not sure I would've slogged through the initial slump.
And you're right Taigin, it's almost more TIM's story than Shepard's. We just get it from Shepard's POV.
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