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Kim Shepard wrote...

I'm not too worried about Garrus only getting a cameo or breaking up with Shepard or anything like that. I trust BioWare to keep him as a squadmate and romance interest in ME3. :) Besides, my Shepard had no romance interest in ME1, and she likes turians, not humans. She would be really angry if he broke up with her because he thought she'd be better with a human when she doesn't like humans. I'm only a little worried about Garrus being killed off... probably by some in-game fault of my own.

Speaking of accidentally getting characters killed off, do I really need all of the upgrades or just those for the Normandy? I'm getting bored with planet scanning. xD And I hope that Samara can survive the suicide mission without loyalty because I seriously doubt that my Shepard would be able to fake interest in Morinth. She's the type to repeat the Sidonis mission with a simple headshot.

@Nightfire78: I probably never got the "cute couple" line because my Shepard never had that "trust" conversation with Kelly. xD She had to be unusually rude in ME1 to convince Kaidan and Liara that she wasn't interested (and when Liara started to show interest even after being turned down, I just reloaded the last save really fast). Now that she actually has the chance of romance with Garrus, she avoids talking to people like Jacob and Kelly so the game won't automatically give her flirty lines or make them interested. o_o; Hopefully that doesn't happen with Thane. She wants to be friends with Thane.

Also, I agree with everything you said about past squadmates returning to ME3. :) Killing them off after most of ME2 was spent recruiting them would just seem pointless, and it would work against the fact that Shepard's actions are supposed to have consequences if they're dead in everyone's games whether they survived the suicide mission or not.


As to anyone surviving without loyalty... forget it :P I've yet to see a non-loyal make it out alive (if anyone has contrary experiences, do share) but let me tell you, the Morinth quest is HUGE fun... well it was for me. Get to see all these weirdos in the VIP area of the Afterlife club, deliver the most ridiculous lines to the dancing asari. If you're worried you won't pick the right things to do I can give you the spoiler run-down of what I did, worked 1st time: Mainly I avoided physical fights, got everyone's attention by buying a round of drinks, danced with the asari... oh and talking to the dude at the entrance about the band he's trying to get tickets for is handy as it's Morinth's fav. band. I had a bad response in the dialogue w/ her, but I managed to balance it out, so you shouldn't have too much trouble with it.

Also, I can put your mind at ease about talking to people. I was also worried because I had to bite Kaiden *and* Liara's head off to get them to back off and I never even tried to flirt with either of them, but in ME2 the flirt options seem much more clear & aren't automatic... For instance, I talked to Kelly about everything you could and just avoided the option "I would embrace you" when it came up. Nothing else came up and she stayed just a bud... I also talked with Jacob about everything and just avoided the question "are you single", no probs there either. Thane I never even noticed a flirt dialogue, but I may have already been active on the Garrus romance at that point and therefor Thane didn't even bother to try :P

so talk away and def. do the loyalty missions. I'm not sure if the personal weapons upgrades make a diff. or not. You def. need all the ship upgrades, though.
Good luck :)

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Tootles FTW wrote...

silentstephi wrote...

Honestly, I think the biggest hurdle the ME3 team is going to have is coming up with how they're going to fit everyone into this world they created. Regardless of who's died in your save.

We're encouraged to get the job done and make sure our team is prepped and ready to go. Keeping people alive is VERY easy. Since finding out the secret of keeping the crew/Mordin alive, I have yet to have an ending where I have dead team mates.

Pretty much all of this.  I really don't know where all of this "oh noes, cameos!" thing is coming from, because ME2 left me with the distinct impression that whoever survives is going to be there with you for the finale.  That's the entire point of the game, really.  These are your characters, these are their stories, and you job is to get them out alive...to just disappear in ME3??

I've said it before but here is how I think it's going to go down: Your ME1 squadmates returns, so Ash/Kaidan, Liara, and Wrex.  Even if you killed Wrex that would still leave you with two squadmates (which is the required minimum to run around and pew-pew-pew).  Now add onto that everyone who survived ME3.  Ta da!

If squadmates died in ME1/ME3 then guess what?  That's the price you pay for being Commander Failure of the Normandy SR-Loser.  It is not difficult to have your crew survive in ME2, and the game is meant to be played and replayed even if you did mess up (for me, my crew died my first playthrough) - you're supposed to want everyone to live, and if you don't then Bioware failed at their job.

I also don't think that they'll be any new squadmates introduced unless certain ME2 people don't make a reappearance due to storylines (i.e. Samara goes back to asari space, or Thane's illness prevents him from participating).

Garrus and Tali are a definite lock.  They're not going anywhere, and that's the mindset that I'm sticking to until Bioware tells me otherwise.


I'm just going to say, "Ditto."

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@Brass_Buckles: Really? I talked to Thane after his loyalty mission, and my Shepard didn't get any flirting options. o_o; Do you mean the next conversation after that? I think he was just talking about the mission and his son, but I didn't expect Garrus to start flirting right after his mission either. It was pretty funny how it starts right after my Shepard helped him kill Sidonis though. Maybe she wasn't the only one who enjoyed that mission a little too much.

@aznsoisauce: If that apartment on Omega included a romance with Aria, it would be Shepard #7's happily ever after. xD He really wants a lifetime paid vacation from the Illusive Man on a tropical paradise, but he's always drawn back to that criminal lifestyle somehow.

@Nightfire78: I'm not worried about failing Samara's loyalty mission, I've read through it in the strategy guide. :) I'm just trying to keep Shepard as in-character as possible with the personality I planned for her, and I can't imagine her pretending to be interested in Morinth even though she'd want Samara to kill her. She's a great liar, but I don't think she'd be able to pull it off with a straight face - people like Morinth disgust her, and she'd be happy to kill her, just not like that. If she did do that mission, it would be grudgingly, and she'd hate Samara forever for it. xD

I've never checked all of Kelly's dialogue options, but in Jacob's case, even the "Don't you want to be friends?" option sounded too flirty for my Shepard. I'll try to get through his conversations eventually with another female Shepard and see how it works.

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Kim Shepard wrote...

@Brass_Buckles: Really? I talked to Thane after his loyalty mission, and my Shepard didn't get any flirting options. o_o; Do you mean the next conversation after that? I think he was just talking about the mission and his son, but I didn't expect Garrus to start flirting right after his mission either. It was pretty funny how it starts right after my Shepard helped him kill Sidonis though. Maybe she wasn't the only one who enjoyed that mission a little too much.

@aznsoisauce: If that apartment on Omega included a romance with Aria, it would be Shepard #7's happily ever after. xD He really wants a lifetime paid vacation from the Illusive Man on a tropical paradise, but he's always drawn back to that criminal lifestyle somehow.

@Nightfire78: I'm not worried about failing Samara's loyalty mission, I've read through it in the strategy guide. :) I'm just trying to keep Shepard as in-character as possible with the personality I planned for her, and I can't imagine her pretending to be interested in Morinth even though she'd want Samara to kill her. She's a great liar, but I don't think she'd be able to pull it off with a straight face - people like Morinth disgust her, and she'd be happy to kill her, just not like that. If she did do that mission, it would be grudgingly, and she'd hate Samara forever for it. xD

I've never checked all of Kelly's dialogue options, but in Jacob's case, even the "Don't you want to be friends?" option sounded too flirty for my Shepard. I'll try to get through his conversations eventually with another female Shepard and see how it works.


You don't have to flirt with Thane to be considered to be flirting with him by the game (though Garrus won't go all jealous on you if you aren't actively flirting with Thane--tempting to encourage Garrus jealousy dialogue, actually).  Eventually he'll call you "siha" whether you flirted or not--he just won't explain it unless you ask if you're more than friends or tell him you want him.  Tell him you want him and the music changes.  Yes, I was bad and tested it out.  Then I re-loaded.  No cheating on Garrus.  :devil:

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Massive response post time, yay, it's becoming a tradition!!! So nice to have this thread to come home to after a loooooonnng hellish day.

siltsonata wrote...

Edit: Fine, Image, FINE.  Be that way. -_-

And yeah, I'm not demanding nekkid turians so Shepard can wallow in a harem.  I really have a genuine curiosity about what they look like under the clothes, so I can get a better idea of their biology.  I have the same interest in krogans and salarians (not the asari, though: intimate details about their mating habits, but none for anyone else. yeah, ok.) Don't want to see it in game, though:  I'd be very happy with some new, super-official art along with biology blurbs. Nerd like that.


Yeah, me too, pretty much.  I'd be fine if we visited Palaven (or anywhere) and saw a turian not in head-to-toe armor, arms, I could even accept shirtless, but I don't have a strong need to see the full monty. I  am genuinely, academically curious because like ppl have said, it's hard to tell from the armor what's biological and what's padding and such. Same curiosity about the krogans' humpback and salarian concave chest.

As for the likelihood of being able to visit Palaven and/or meet
Garrus' family, I would say it's a possibility, but I'm definitely not
counting on it. I actually thought it was somewhat odd and telling at
the same time that out of all the squadmate loyalty sidequests in ME2,
a lot of them related to
family members -- yet for Garrus, who actually had a brilliant set-up
for a family-related quest from ME1, they just re-used the same old
revenge plot that they had in the first game.
Besides which, at this
point I'm operating under the assumption that Garrus (and all the other
ME2 squadmates) will have cameos at best in ME3, due to their killable
status in ME2. I would love to be wrong, but I think it's better to be
pessimistic and possibly end up pleasantly surprised rather than to be
optimistic and get my hopes crushed.


Huh, that is a really good point.  I never noticed that, but you are SO right! Really strange decision. I'd love to believe it's because they are planning on fleshing it out in ME3...as for ME3 cameos, I still remain guardedly optimistic that Garrus and Tali (and a few other ME2 squaddies) will be recruitable.  This is partly from a story-telling standpoint.  It would be odd (and crappy *trilogy*-telling) if the only continuous character in the 3 games was Shepard. It seems clear the old LIs will come back. Garrus and Tali are already 2-0.  Reducing them to cameos in ME3 just seems like a strange decision.  But what gives me much more hope than that, is that it also seems like a bad business decision.  I think the large, established fanbase of this franchise would be very, very displeased with a decision to have all ME3 recruitables be new characters. Besides, why waste the development resources inventing new ones when they already did so much grunt work on the old ones.

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Was I the only one more worried about my space hamster and fish after the Collectors came on board Normandy?


OMG me too!  I just had the most terrible vision of little Boo inside a tiny hamster sized Collector pod, and my Shep assigning Grunt to the "Rodent team" to bring him safely back to the SR2..

hmm this is probably starting to get long, so I'm gonna post and keep truckin' through

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Brass_Buckles wrote...

You don't have to flirt with Thane to be considered to be flirting with him by the game (though Garrus won't go all jealous on you if you aren't actively flirting with Thane--tempting to encourage Garrus jealousy dialogue, actually).  Eventually he'll call you "siha" whether you flirted or not--he just won't explain it unless you ask if you're more than friends or tell him you want him.  Tell him you want him and the music changes.  Yes, I was bad and tested it out.  Then I re-loaded.  No cheating on Garrus.  :devil:

So Thane starts to like Shepard and call her "siha" no matter what, but as long as she doesn't choose the romance dialogue, she's not really flirting? Did I get that right? xD One of my Shepards will have a romance with Thane, but not this one - she waited for Garrus since ME1.

It'll be hilarious to suddenly hear the music change when Shepard flirts with Thane though. The Normandy knows, and it will switch music according to your conversation choices. o_o;

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@ Gerse1



Is it strange if, every time people talking about going to Palaven, with its tropical climate, I get a mental image of Garrus in a Hawaiian shirt? One of the really colorful ones that people seem compelled to wear on tropical vacations. I'm pretty sure my Shepard (who has a strange sense of humor and has already painted 'Quib-Quib 2' on the side of the drop shuttle) would buy and wear one if she went to a world full of sun, sand, and turians.

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@ Gerse1

Is it strange if, every time people talking about going to Palaven, with its tropical climate, I get a mental image of Garrus in a Hawaiian shirt? One of the really colorful ones that people seem compelled to wear on tropical vacations. I'm pretty sure my Shepard (who has a strange sense of humor and has already painted 'Quib-Quib 2' on the side of the drop shuttle) would buy and wear one if she went to a world full of sun, sand, and turians.


I dunno, I'd be wanting to be in my (climate controlled) armor on Palaven if I were Shepard, seeing as the radiation would be very bad for humans.

But the mental image of Garrus in a Hawaiian shirt is hilarious.  If only I still had a scanner, I'd totally draw and color that for the heck of it.

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I still don't mind Thane calling me Siha even though I've got no romantic interest in him whatsoever. He feels more like a favourite uncle to my Shepard, or some other such paternal figure. I'm not trying to weird out the Thane romancers..this is just how it plays out in my story. :P



@AnotherStupidAccount: Hawaiian shirts..YES. A million times yes. I can just picture a whole crapload of Turians lounging about in hawaiian shirts, cargo shorts and giant novelty sunglasses.

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Good point about the radiation. She might have to settle for a hawaian shirt custom-painted on her armor in that case.

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MarginalBeast wrote...

They can always get an apartment on the Citadel if they need a place to live that isn't a ship.


My thoughts exactly. They wouldn't need to worry about citizenship issues, and there would be plenty of food available for both humans and turians. Problems solved!

Tootles FTW wrote...


Pretty much all of this.  I really don't know where all of this "oh noes, cameos!" thing is coming from, because ME2 left me with the distinct impression that whoever survives is going to be there with you for the finale.  That's the entire point of the game, really.  These are your characters, these are their stories, and you job is to get them out alive...to just disappear in ME3?


Speaking as one of the people who's assuming (until officially told otherwise) that ME2 squadmates will be ME3 cameos, the major reason I'm thinking that is because BioWare has specifically gone on record as saying that the ME1 love interests were not squadmates in ME2 simply because BioWare was trying to "protect" them from being killable. In other words, they were saving them from the suicide mission so that they could be assured of having a bigger role in ME3. The obvious implication, then, is that being on the suicide squad in ME2 means that a character's chances of playing a major role or being a squadmate in ME3 are up in the air at best.

Of course, it's all moot if BioWare was just pulling that "we're keeping the ME1 LIs out of ME2 so they can have big roles in ME3!" stuff out of their butts in a belated attempt to calm the enraged Kaidan/Ashley/Liara fans. Which is certainly a distinct possibility.

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Brass_Buckles wrote...

You don't have to flirt with Thane to be considered to be flirting with him by the game (though Garrus won't go all jealous on you if you aren't actively flirting with Thane--tempting to encourage Garrus jealousy dialogue, actually).


...What jealous dialogue?

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@Nightfire78: I'm not worried about failing Samara's loyalty mission, I've read through it in the strategy guide. :) I'm just trying to keep Shepard as in-character as possible with the personality I planned for her, and I can't imagine her pretending to be interested in Morinth even though she'd want Samara to kill her. She's a great liar, but I don't think she'd be able to pull it off with a straight face - people like Morinth disgust her, and she'd be happy to kill her, just not like that. If she did do that mission, it would be grudgingly, and she'd hate Samara forever for it. xD

I've never checked all of Kelly's dialogue options, but in Jacob's case, even the "Don't you want to be friends?" option sounded too flirty for my Shepard. I'll try to get through his conversations eventually with another female Shepard and see how it works.


Ah, sorry, misunderstood that then. My bad! :blush:

It was right up my Shep's alley... she likes people reaping what they sow, so trapping Morinth by playing the false love like Morinth traps her "prey" was just right for her :) An option to have someone else do it and then sniper shoot her in the head would have also been acceptable for her, though ;)

Almost everything Shep. says to Jacob sounds too flirty for me because of the voice acting they put on it... even things that aren't flirt options and are not interpreted as such by the game/Jacob. I finally chose to pretend that Shep. has heard Jacob's skeazy come on lines to someone else and is making fun of him with her "sexy voice", only he doesn't get it :P That then made the dialogues much more fun for me, and in the end they were buds and nothing flirty ever happened :D

Never had the advert claim I was with Thane... of course I did Garrus' loyalty mission as soon as possible and started up the romance right away, so it probably never got the chance to make a mistake LOL
Thane did end up calling my Shep. "siha" as well, but there was never any option to stop or start a romance in my dialogues. I asked what it meant, he said maybe he'd tell me some day, and then he needed the rest of the game to "think about what we'd already talked about". I have heard, though, that other romances become unavailable if you have not initiated them yet and are at the "definite date" level with someone else (except for Kelly, or so I've heard). Never purposely tested it, though.

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I thought everyone got jealous if you flirted with someone else blatantly. Maybe Garrus doesn't. ... It would be like him.



Garrus> .oO( Hm, she's flirting with somebody else, or at least that's what I heard. Well, maybe she's rethinking how strange this whole interspecies thing would be. I won't say anything. )

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Brass_Buckles wrote...

I thought everyone got jealous if you flirted with someone else blatantly. Maybe Garrus doesn't. ... It would be like him.

Garrus> .oO( Hm, she's flirting with somebody else, or at least that's what I heard. Well, maybe she's rethinking how strange this whole interspecies thing would be. I won't say anything. )


As far as I know, he mentions not wanting to get involved in a "stupid love triangle" (he said love, hah) but doesn't make any particularly jealous remarks. I haven't actually viewed the scene myself though, so I have no idea what his tone of voice indicates.

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SavageLycan wrote...

And now for something completely different:

Garrus, PUNCH


a) AWESOME
B) is it weird hearing Mark Meer's voice come out of Garrus?

Ms Cherissa wrote...

For serious there should be an achievement for it if you can keep your
fish all alive WITHOUT having to get Kelly to keep them fed.

For serious.


yeah, THIS.  and one for getting drunk in every bar.  I seriously thought there was gonna be one, since at first I thought something special happened at each of them (poison at omega, pass out in bathroom in dark star, asari and her 'mystery drink' in eterinty) but....it never happened :crying:.  I thought it funny your squad has nothing to say to you during the "in the thing the more stuff goes in" sequence.  They were probably scandalized (esp. if they spent ME1 with my Shep...death has really changed her coping style lol).

Also, re: too many people's posts, I support drunken Garrus.  Not embarrasingly, gropey-drunk Garrus, but funnier-than-usual-because-he's-buzzed Garrus.  yay! :P actually, I wish we could see the whole drew having a good time.  Maybe that could be postgame easter egg for ME3.  Shep DOES say the next Normandy needs a bar....oo what a great place to go chat up your squadmates between missions.

Aris Ravenstar wrote..

Speaking of, is it just me or did Joker really change in personality
between games? (Joker stuff).... but with him being all irritated with EDI and having spent the
last two years not flying, and presumably guilt-stricken over Shepard's
death, you'd think he wouldn't be quite so upbeat all of a sudden.


Like the song says, sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from cryin'.

Re: whether Garrus will leave Shep in ME3 for simplicity/because he can die/so your 1st LI can come back/whatever.  I think there will probably be the option for Shep to break up with the ME2 LI.  Considering everything about the Garrus romance, I don't see him leaving Shep out of the blue.  And I don't see him "stepping aside" just because Kaiden/Liara show up on the squad again, as some have suggested.  I only think he would "step aside" if Shepard asked him to, in the now predictable type of situation where Kaiden/Garrus confront either each other, or you, and the game makes you choose between them.  If you choose Kaiden, Garrus probably lets it go, because of his respect and feelings for Shepard, but is hurt.

Also I love Splinter Cell's idea that a Garrus relationship might help Shep's image with the Turian Councilor ^_^.  I guess I can see that going both ways though, hehe. He would either respect Shep more, or rrrrrraaaaaaaaaagggggeeee.

EDIT: weird formatting makes these take up way more space than necessary.  Also Nighfire kind of said everything I just said about squad cameos, only much more thoroughly and eloquently =).

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What I find funny is that I think that Liara had a thing with Ferron. If that is the case I don't want to hear her mouth if she mentions Garrus and me.


Wait, what? who? there's a drell friend of Liara's?  I never heard her mention it...

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Briallen wrote...

MarginalBeast wrote...

They can always get an apartment on the Citadel if they need a place to live that isn't a ship.


My thoughts exactly. They wouldn't need to worry about citizenship issues, and there would be plenty of food available for both humans and turians. Problems solved!

Tootles FTW wrote...


Pretty much all of this.  I really don't know where all of this "oh noes, cameos!" thing is coming from, because ME2 left me with the distinct impression that whoever survives is going to be there with you for the finale.  That's the entire point of the game, really.  These are your characters, these are their stories, and you job is to get them out alive...to just disappear in ME3?


Speaking as one of the people who's assuming (until officially told otherwise) that ME2 squadmates will be ME3 cameos, the major reason I'm thinking that is because BioWare has specifically gone on record as saying that the ME1 love interests were not squadmates in ME2 simply because BioWare was trying to "protect" them from being killable. In other words, they were saving them from the suicide mission so that they could be assured of having a bigger role in ME3. The obvious implication, then, is that being on the suicide squad in ME2 means that a character's chances of playing a major role or being a squadmate in ME3 are up in the air at best.

Of course, it's all moot if BioWare was just pulling that "we're keeping the ME1 LIs out of ME2 so they can have big roles in ME3!" stuff out of their butts in a belated attempt to calm the enraged Kaidan/Ashley/Liara fans. Which is certainly a distinct possibility.


They may also have been protecting them from dying so you couldn't evade the "cheating consequences" simply by always killing off the old LI that you no longer wanted... and I still think it was also so you'd be tempted to cheat in the first place (which worked since a lot of people say their Shep. cheated because the other LI was distant/rude and not willing to join-up and help)... Also, even with bringing back the ME2 squad, the possibility of them all being dead in your game means they need some fallback team people to give you so you can actually play the game. Creating new ones is a pain in the butt, pulling the ME1's out of your sleeve is preferable. I don't think saving the ME1s to have a certainty of them being alive in ME3 necessarily precludes ME2s still being around if you kept them alive.

But perhaps I am simply a hopeless optimist ;)

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Maybe BioWare wants them to have plot-important roles in ME3. That is my guess.

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Nightfire78 wrote...

Briallen wrote...

MarginalBeast wrote...

They can always get an apartment on the Citadel if they need a place to live that isn't a ship.


My thoughts exactly. They wouldn't need to worry about citizenship issues, and there would be plenty of food available for both humans and turians. Problems solved!

Tootles FTW wrote...


Pretty much all of this.  I really don't know where all of this "oh noes, cameos!" thing is coming from, because ME2 left me with the distinct impression that whoever survives is going to be there with you for the finale.  That's the entire point of the game, really.  These are your characters, these are their stories, and you job is to get them out alive...to just disappear in ME3?


Speaking as one of the people who's assuming (until officially told otherwise) that ME2 squadmates will be ME3 cameos, the major reason I'm thinking that is because BioWare has specifically gone on record as saying that the ME1 love interests were not squadmates in ME2 simply because BioWare was trying to "protect" them from being killable. In other words, they were saving them from the suicide mission so that they could be assured of having a bigger role in ME3. The obvious implication, then, is that being on the suicide squad in ME2 means that a character's chances of playing a major role or being a squadmate in ME3 are up in the air at best.

Of course, it's all moot if BioWare was just pulling that "we're keeping the ME1 LIs out of ME2 so they can have big roles in ME3!" stuff out of their butts in a belated attempt to calm the enraged Kaidan/Ashley/Liara fans. Which is certainly a distinct possibility.


They may also have been protecting them from dying so you couldn't evade the "cheating consequences" simply by always killing off the old LI that you no longer wanted... and I still think it was also so you'd be tempted to cheat in the first place (which worked since a lot of people say their Shep. cheated because the other LI was distant/rude and not willing to join-up and help)... Also, even with bringing back the ME2 squad, the possibility of them all being dead in your game means they need some fallback team people to give you so you can actually play the game. Creating new ones is a pain in the butt, pulling the ME1's out of your sleeve is preferable. I don't think saving the ME1s to have a certainty of them being alive in ME3 necessarily precludes ME2s still being around if you kept them alive.

But perhaps I am simply a hopeless optimist ;)


Joke's on Bioware then.  I'm replaying ME1 with my character who's with Garrus just so I don't have any baggage for her.  She'll just be straight-up Garrus's Shepard.

I have no idea who I'm gonna stick my less-nice Shepard with though.  She might cheat... Then again Kaidan is too goody-goody for her.

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Gerse1 wrote...
Also I love Splinter Cell's idea that a Garrus relationship might help Shep's image with the Turian Councilor ^_^.  I guess I can see that going both ways though, hehe. He would either respect Shep more, or rrrrrraaaaaaaaaagggggeeee.


I can see it now...:
"Ah yes, 'turian boyfriend'. Your imaginary relationship with Garrus. We have dismissed that claim."

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Gerse1 wrote...

Wait, what? who? there's a drell friend of Liara's?  I never heard her mention it...

If i remember right he's the mysterious "friend" who helped her to retrieve Shepard's body from the Shadow Broker and died in the process. The one she's trying to avenge now. Details are in the comic series ("Redemption")

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AnotherStupidAccount wrote...

@ Gerse1

Is it strange if, every time people talking about going to Palaven, with its tropical climate, I get a mental image of Garrus in a Hawaiian shirt? One of the really colorful ones that people seem compelled to wear on tropical vacations. I'm pretty sure my Shepard (who has a strange sense of humor and has already painted 'Quib-Quib 2' on the side of the drop shuttle) would buy and wear one if she went to a world full of sun, sand, and turians.


Sounds like a great idea for a fanart to me ;)

Also lmao at Quib-Quib 2 :lol:

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Nightfire78 wrote...

Gerse1 wrote...
Also I love Splinter Cell's idea that a Garrus relationship might help Shep's image with the Turian Councilor ^_^.  I guess I can see that going both ways though, hehe. He would either respect Shep more, or rrrrrraaaaaaaaaagggggeeee.


I can see it now...:
"Ah yes, 'turian boyfriend'. Your imaginary relationship with Garrus. We have dismissed that claim."



Garrus> Imaginary?  I'm right here.  I even admitted it!  Are you mocking us?
Councilor> Ah yes, 'mocking' you.  Your imagination is now inciting paranoia, Officer Vakarian.  We have dismissed that claim.
Shepard> But if he said it and I said it then it must be true, right?
Councilor> Don't make me laugh.  Aside from the fact that such an... association... would probably leave both of you dead--
EDI> Ahem.  I have video evidence, if you would like to see.
Shepard> ACK!  EDI NO!
Garrus> ... EDI, would you mind sending that to my quarters for... ahem... review?

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Liara said herself that she doesn't know if he's dead or alive. So Feron could be alive just so that Shepard and Liara can rescue him in a dramatic fashion.