fortunesque wrote...
So far, I feel like the ME1 LI fans have been completely thrown under the bus. <_<
Doesn't really feel that way to me. From a dev. Q&A:
WhisperPiano: By now, we are aware that most of the characters from the
first game have been given greatly reduced roles, including the three
potential love interests. While the new crew is intriguing, many of us
are irked by what appears to be a disregard for the personal subplots
through which each of our Shepards' stories were individualized. My
question is: wil those of us who choose to have our Shepards remain
faithful to one of the original romance options be able to come away as
satisfied with the roma...
CaseyH-ME2: WhisperPiano - this is an interesting question that we see a lot. Here's our take...CaseyH-ME2:
While Mass Effect fans have grown to love our characters, you can
imagine that after spending years crafting them, we have at least as
much of an attachment to them. So it's definitely not a case of the
team disregarding player's decisions with them or interest in those
characters - in fact, it's the opposite...
CaseyH-ME2:
We actually want to make sure these characters survive the ME2 story,
which ultimately is a suicide mission: some of your crew will almost
certainly die. Some of the ME1 characters are back, and recruitable
(more than you might think), and the ones that aren't still play an
important role in the story and will be around for ME3 - which we can't
say for the new characters.
On an unrelated topic, I thought I remembered from some conversation in-game that Thane still had a few years in him (like 10 or so). Can anyone confirm/deny that? Makes curing him seem rather non-essential to keeping him around for 3.