Mass Effect Legendary Edition review. (Contains massive spoilers.)

Yeah I had the same issue with zevran, the problem is that to keep his loyalty and not have him betray me  I need to have a big approval rating with him. The problem is that if I try to be nice and get him to talk about him, he automatically thinks I am flirting with him the moment his approval goes up... And then I have to select the good dialogue to not hurt his feeling but still tell him I am not interested.

Dragon age 2 and inquisition followed by Andromeda brought this problem to an end with the heart option, you can be as friendly as you want without ever flirting with them. But this kind of mechanic was flawed in both DAO and the mass effect trilogy, I did not wanted to flirt with jack but since I was a paragon she thought I wanted more than a friendly relationship...

It is weird that FemShep seems so starved, compared to BroShep.

Am I remembering the games wrong?

Why is one version of Shepard dying of thirst?

Is it "fanservice"? I feel that this was directed, not ad-libbed.

Simple. That seems to be the only thing that would get through to the character. Look at what the stupid thing did on EOS. It found the perfect guinea pig that would put up with her nonsense. Had little Ryder got in the asari's face about been knocked down, it's possible the asari would realize Ryder is someone who doesn't put up with stupid crap. 

Seems to be you don't have a problem with little Ryder being a wuss not to stand up for themselves. 

Read my addition to the previous post... or are you too in love with Cerberus to see that Shepard is a wuss as well?  He/she can't even properly defend his/her actions against Tela Vasir's accusations... i.e. to say that he'll eventually be gunning for TIM and to take Cerberus down.

 Interesting you added that crap after I replied to your post. Then again it's a habit of yours to do that. But, I will reply to you added whatever. As far as the Vasir stuff. Why would I defend myself? She was dying, defending myself would prove nothing since she is dead a few moments later.


Interesting? Of those, who knocked Shepard to the ground and/or wanted to have a good time in the escape pod? What reason would there be to throw Taylor and Lawson out the airlock? Why would I tell TIM to get lost after Horizon or the collector ship? Going back to the Alliance would prove useless since the Alliance wasn't doing nothing. Wait a minute. They might with Shepard holding their hands since they can't do anything for themselves. 

Since you're coming up with this whatever. Where's the option to get in smurettes face about having armor put on display? How about getting in her face for trying to blame the Alliance for what's happening to Thessia and then later trying to blame the protheans? How about getting in the Anderson clown's face when he says they need Shepard to help them find a way to stop the reapers when he said in ME2 it's up to him/her to stop the reapers?

You're just moaning and groaning about someone who doesn't like MEA because you like it.

I agree! With all of this, although I could never leave my boo Tali behind.

I am always curious about synthetic life, and felt a sadness in ME1 destroying proto-EDI on Luna. Recognizing who she was, it did occur to my Shep that there really should be an emergency disconnect just in case. Can't make one without EDI knowing, so that might be a difficult conversation...

Regarding Miranda, there is this little detail where she kinda singlehandedly resurrected you. Despite not trusting her, ever (I have NEVER done the Miranda romance lol), I gave her the benefit of the doubt. It would have been a nice touch to have an "influence" based confrontation with her regarding loyalty, and give her a Wrex-like solution by shotgun.

I just go back to replayability. I was mortified, again and again, doing my first DS playthrough of KoTOR. The things you can do to your team, are shocking really. Chaotic evil. I did that once, it was enough, but it was a damned worthwhile experience and I saw the amount of love given to a RP choice that is likely the road less taken.

In the case of MEA, you are building a team. They should have had more choices for that team, if they were going to make some of them so questionable. Neither of those characters ever redeem themselves in my eyes, in-game. Peebee ended up just annoying me, whereas Liam, who I wanted to like, became my most hated BioWare character. Absolute jackass, pretty sure in the heat of that moment, bare minimum I beat him within inches of his life. The moment of decision/internal dialog choices would be "shoot this fucker in the eye" or "kick the living shit out of him". 50/50 tbh.

So, not arguing with you really. I guess adding an explanation, not sure if it helps lol.

I figured someone would jump on that. She was the leader of the Lazarus Cell, and had Wilson and a small team of unnamed scientists involved in the direct manipulation of Shep's body.

So it is a stretch, but she was the primary active hand in Shep's restoration (even if TIM was the money and reason behind it).

No real argument on Jack either. The thing about ME2 is, you ultimately can kill your entire crew. It takes a serious psycho Shep to play the game just to kill their team, but then a full renegade Shep might do that.

Most previous BW games gave you a choice at a certain point to off someone from your team, or they could decide theyhad had enough of your shit. DAO in particular comes to mind with how well this was done.

Except... at the time ME:A was in development, there was an outcry here (or on the old BSN rather) basically telling Bioware to not allow squad members to die during the game... so ME:A did not offer us the same sort of options as ME2 in response to what then was the apparent "popular opinion" on the issue.  I agree, I like having the luxury of being able to pick and choose from a number of squad members and having the luxury of getting rid of squad members during the game... but that really increases the "budget" for the game because of all the alternative paths that the game could take and with a large number of alternative peoples in it.  I don't think Bioware really has that sort of budget to work with anymore.  US parents of Canadian subsidiaries don't tend to be too generous about flooding money north of the border.  Profits from a Canadian subsidiary tend to flow south (at least that's been my experience in the Canadian oil industry... which has a high percentage of companies owned by American parents).

I can only think of her getting mad as Liara post-one mission when they were all sitting together discussion the mission. Had to be after Virmire. Doesn't sound like that's what you were talking about. Maybe some remark based on Ash liking Shep and the feeling that Liara was getting a little too close?