I liked Mass Effect a lot, one of my favorite games, however they could have been better. I did not like that the paragon choice was the good choice. The game made some interesting moral choices, the rachni queen and the genophage are 2 big choices you make but what is the point in to making a tough choice when the moral choice is the one with the good outcome.
Other then that the games are great, companions are cool, woke crap is minimum, only thing that was bullshit was Kaiden suddenly turning gay in the third game.
We did not know how good we had it. Never Winter Nights 2 MOB was in 2007, Dragon Age Origins 2009, Mass Effect 1 2007, Mass Effect 2 was in 2010. I so wanted to work for Bioware back then.
but what is the point in to making a tough choice when the moral choice is the one with the good outcome.
Exterminating the Rachni queen was the only truly moral choice. Depending on your morals, I suppose. I smashed that button as fast as I could and sent that bug straight to hell.
That was the logical action but the moral one was to spare the queen. It ended having a positive outcome in ME3. I hated this on many levels, it gave a human stile morality to a space traveling bug like race, it felt like lazy writing
according to your morals, it was. not mine. values and morality are subjective. I completely, unironically have absolute faith that purging the universe of the queen was just, right, correct in all ways.
In retrospect, I'd actually say Ashley was kind of a small preview for the insanity of today. There's quite a few people online who will ignore the entire character in an instant claiming "Ashley is racist, and thus is a terrible person!" and then write her off on Virmire without a second thought. However, not only is her position is both understandable given her history (if they bothered to look into it) and (as the series progresses) is also provably accurate for the Council. But, no, muh racism! so the whole character must be written off.
I always had Ash die because to me the idea of making sure the nuke was properly made was more important than just holding the line somewhere else.
It's why in Dragon Age Inquisition, I always did the mission where I time travelled because if the enemy could go back in time to fuck with stuff, I could lose the war before it even started, even if the expense is that I lose troops who become possessed by demons. That sucks but to me the potential threat of time travel is worse than the other that was presented to me.
the rachni queen and the genophage are 2 big choices you make but what is the point in to making a tough choice when the moral choice is the one with the good outcome.
Thank god for Galactic Readiness reducing these down to numerical values wherein you must go against your morals at times to magically effect something completely unrelated in the final battle.
I liked Mass Effect a lot, one of my favorite games, however they could have been better. I did not like that the paragon choice was the good choice. The game made some interesting moral choices, the rachni queen and the genophage are 2 big choices you make but what is the point in to making a tough choice when the moral choice is the one with the good outcome.
Other then that the games are great, companions are cool, woke crap is minimum, only thing that was bullshit was Kaiden suddenly turning gay in the third game.
We did not know how good we had it. Never Winter Nights 2 MOB was in 2007, Dragon Age Origins 2009, Mass Effect 1 2007, Mass Effect 2 was in 2010. I so wanted to work for Bioware back then.
Exterminating the Rachni queen was the only truly moral choice. Depending on your morals, I suppose. I smashed that button as fast as I could and sent that bug straight to hell.
That was the logical action but the moral one was to spare the queen. It ended having a positive outcome in ME3. I hated this on many levels, it gave a human stile morality to a space traveling bug like race, it felt like lazy writing
according to your morals, it was. not mine. values and morality are subjective. I completely, unironically have absolute faith that purging the universe of the queen was just, right, correct in all ways.
Ash was such a great character
In retrospect, I'd actually say Ashley was kind of a small preview for the insanity of today. There's quite a few people online who will ignore the entire character in an instant claiming "Ashley is racist, and thus is a terrible person!" and then write her off on Virmire without a second thought. However, not only is her position is both understandable given her history (if they bothered to look into it) and (as the series progresses) is also provably accurate for the Council. But, no, muh racism! so the whole character must be written off.
I always had Ash die because to me the idea of making sure the nuke was properly made was more important than just holding the line somewhere else.
It's why in Dragon Age Inquisition, I always did the mission where I time travelled because if the enemy could go back in time to fuck with stuff, I could lose the war before it even started, even if the expense is that I lose troops who become possessed by demons. That sucks but to me the potential threat of time travel is worse than the other that was presented to me.
Thank god for Galactic Readiness reducing these down to numerical values wherein you must go against your morals at times to magically effect something completely unrelated in the final battle.
That was such a stupid mechanic. ME2 was a great game but ME3 it felt that they had writers block.