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A hint, for your second playthrough... if you're having trouble getting Mordin through the suicide mission and want to ensure his survival (which, honestly, is worth it. His final scenes are incredible - some of the best of the series.), there's an easy way to do it. When you're going through the suicide mission, you reach the point where you save some of the crew (though perky redhead Kelly Chambers always seems to disintegrate before my eyes). At that point, choose to send a member of your squad to escort the crew back to the Normandy, and send Mordin. For some reason, he randomly tends to die if left behind to "hold off the Collectors" while you travel to the core to take down the Terminator (I mean, human-form reaper). I will admit to getting a little teary eyed with Mordin's end scene.
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I don't know if anything different would have happened with Kaiden. I had the option to take him as a crew member or tell him to **** off, and I took the **** off option. I absolutely despise his character, just like I despised Carth in KOTOR. I really wish I'd had the option to shoot him at the Citidel (believe me, I tried), just as I wished I could have killed Carth in KOTOR (same voice actor, for those who don't know, and same whiney eternally butthurt character in both games). Don't care if this is a spoiler. Kaiden/Carth sucks. Should have saved Ashley in ME1. If she'd looked as good in ME1 as she does in ME3, I would have. |
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Re: the ending...
I would like to see more of what happened to everyone when it was over (for example, I assumed Garrus and Liara bought it in the charge to the transport beam, but then they show in the crash landing), but maybe that's left that way for future games in the world (gotta leave that open)... I had no problems, really, with the choices presented at the end. I feel like the major payoff in all the choices Shepard made in ME1 and ME2 and the beginning of ME3 comes in how prepared you are for the final showdown (which apparently affects exactly WHAT you see after the ending).
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I really do not care if the end for Shep is tragedy or rainbows and unicorns so much as I want it to pick an ending type and stick with it. I mean what ultimately bothered me about that scene specifically is the most kind thing you could say about it is that its completely superfluous. Because it hedges between "surprise ending" and denouement you are stuck with a scene that really does nothing to move the narrative forward and leaves you wondering a) what you just saw, b) why it was so important that its the only thing you get by way of denouement and c) why a scene that leaves you wondering both these things managed to not be removed or improved. And really the most frustrating thing is we know they're better than that because people wouldn't be this bothered if they actually sucked this much at writing. Or from the damning it with faint praise column at least the ending wasn't as bad as the ending to Battlestar Galactica or Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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03-19-2012, 02:16 PM | #205 |
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I hated the way Battlestar Galatica ended, but it was great compared to this turd.
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Oh, when you go to the Asari homeworld, take the Prothean with you, and when you get back to the Normandy, be sure to swing by his location for a nice little confrontation between him and Liana.
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I've somehow gone from not wanting to play the multiplayer at all the first week to being completely addicted to it.
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