Lol, this is the Dirty Harry argument all over again. Evil cop person who doesn’t respect law or due process. Bureaucracy good, vigilante bad, there is no grey area. You can see these retards in the characters, the useless attack journalist you can punch out, Uldina is basically Nancy pelosi circa 2008, etc. the entire point of shepherds story was that he was constantly undermined because he was the only one who initially found out about the reapers. His battle was to save the galaxy despite itself, it’s a heavily religious allegory that they backpedaled hard on while rushing forward to in three. The entire purpose of shepherd was to be the shepherd in the valley and save life despite itself. Allegorically we see these themes constantly in history, Jesus, Prometheus, hell half of Greek mythology is Demi humans achievements despite both gods and humans meddling.
You could tell the writing took a hard drop after the first one. Hell even the “we must save the council” in the first one was cringy, we must sacrifice our military fleets to save three people who consistently worked against you the entire story. You chose to ignore the sacred political elite and save the lives of millions of others? How renegade of you.
You can tell they flatlined hard on three because it was the beginning of the end of gaming. There was a very clear allegorical storyline that was convoluted in two, and completely train wrecked in three. It wasn’t even a new story cycle for them, you can see heavy story elements from kotor in the first mass effect. The worst failings of three were clearly the “diversity” cast, the wokening of the storyline, and the lack of any real sense of dread by any character, it all dissolved into “I feel bad” “were facing complete genocide of intelligent life” “but my feelings!” .
ME:A had endless potential, what we got was woke retardation. The only redeeming quality was a more mobile fight system. Vanguard addict that I am loved how flexible maneuverability was, everything else though killed any fun of that game. I meant to say “diverse” as in humans, couldn’t even fight the reapers with wrex or grunt in three.
I dunno, man. They literally end 3 with an old man telling his grandson “the story of the shepherd.” The quality of the writing wasn’t ideal but with the weird dream sequences and all it seemed heavy in 3
Which would have made sense from 1’s end, 2 was fluffer, great fluffer mind you, but fluffer none the less. 3 was diplomatic simulator and constantly trying to “white savior” everything with no real consequences to your actions, there was no life ending despair feel. Cerebus was a failure of writing and imagination in its entirety. Shepherd during the “Ascendancy” ending was so convoluted and hamfisted because they didn’t reiterate the themes from 1 throughout the series.
Spectres being above the law never made sense anyway.
Well technically they do, they're just called glowies IRL.
Udina is a sociopathic careerist
Because they needed a bad guy. If the council just decided to drop space nukes on the aliens, you won't have Shep and his tinyass squad trying to save the galaxy with just 3 fucking people.
Sarens arc made sense since he and the matriarch were indoctrinated by trying to stop the reapers, his I hate humans stance being the fall guy until then seemed redundant. Spectres didn’t need to follow planet and local laws but were still bound to the council. So yeah, pretty much glowies.
Lol, this is the Dirty Harry argument all over again. Evil cop person who doesn’t respect law or due process. Bureaucracy good, vigilante bad, there is no grey area. You can see these retards in the characters, the useless attack journalist you can punch out, Uldina is basically Nancy pelosi circa 2008, etc. the entire point of shepherds story was that he was constantly undermined because he was the only one who initially found out about the reapers. His battle was to save the galaxy despite itself, it’s a heavily religious allegory that they backpedaled hard on while rushing forward to in three. The entire purpose of shepherd was to be the shepherd in the valley and save life despite itself. Allegorically we see these themes constantly in history, Jesus, Prometheus, hell half of Greek mythology is Demi humans achievements despite both gods and humans meddling.
Shep gets away with everything as Super Cop because he's the player character and the story tells us he works for the government because reasons.
Technically in ME2 he's a terrorist lol
He should have beaten up the entire council too. ORA ORA ORA!
You could tell the writing took a hard drop after the first one. Hell even the “we must save the council” in the first one was cringy, we must sacrifice our military fleets to save three people who consistently worked against you the entire story. You chose to ignore the sacred political elite and save the lives of millions of others? How renegade of you.
You can tell they flatlined hard on three because it was the beginning of the end of gaming. There was a very clear allegorical storyline that was convoluted in two, and completely train wrecked in three. It wasn’t even a new story cycle for them, you can see heavy story elements from kotor in the first mass effect. The worst failings of three were clearly the “diversity” cast, the wokening of the storyline, and the lack of any real sense of dread by any character, it all dissolved into “I feel bad” “were facing complete genocide of intelligent life” “but my feelings!” .
You already had a diverse cast in 1. They got more characterless and retarded in 3 though.
And ME:A plumbs new depths in Western© Gaming™ Quality®
ME:A had endless potential, what we got was woke retardation. The only redeeming quality was a more mobile fight system. Vanguard addict that I am loved how flexible maneuverability was, everything else though killed any fun of that game. I meant to say “diverse” as in humans, couldn’t even fight the reapers with wrex or grunt in three.
I dunno, man. They literally end 3 with an old man telling his grandson “the story of the shepherd.” The quality of the writing wasn’t ideal but with the weird dream sequences and all it seemed heavy in 3
Which would have made sense from 1’s end, 2 was fluffer, great fluffer mind you, but fluffer none the less. 3 was diplomatic simulator and constantly trying to “white savior” everything with no real consequences to your actions, there was no life ending despair feel. Cerebus was a failure of writing and imagination in its entirety. Shepherd during the “Ascendancy” ending was so convoluted and hamfisted because they didn’t reiterate the themes from 1 throughout the series.
Saren the badguy was also a Spectre.
Spectres being above the law never made sense anyway.
Well technically they do, they're just called glowies IRL.
Because they needed a bad guy. If the council just decided to drop space nukes on the aliens, you won't have Shep and his tinyass squad trying to save the galaxy with just 3 fucking people.
Sarens arc made sense since he and the matriarch were indoctrinated by trying to stop the reapers, his I hate humans stance being the fall guy until then seemed redundant. Spectres didn’t need to follow planet and local laws but were still bound to the council. So yeah, pretty much glowies.
"Portraying a non-perfect future society means WANTING a non-perfect future society."
No wonder these people are so absolute shit at creating new stories and characters.
Waco. Stasi (German Democratic Republic GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik)
Also, it's a fucking video game.
Goddamn, how do leftists not have severe neck problems from all this navel gazing?