The Character Romance thread (Official)

Jun 11, 2017 7:03:16 GMT @radium said:

Jun 10, 2017 23:41:43 GMT Walter Black said:

Of course. Didn't get the DLC for 3 though, as I was still burned out by the ending. Even with the Extended Cut, I just didn't feel invested anymore. Maybe someday...

Yeah, that ending was beyond saving the moment Starchild showed up in his faulty invisibility cloak. Even the Extended Cut had so much wasted potential. 

But I liked the DLCs for 3 a lot. Citadel was awesome, Leviathan was dark and atmospheric and Omega was pretty fun, plus you got those new abilities. You should try them out when you have time. 

YMMV, very little of what I saw in Mass Effect 3's DLC peaked my interest. For instance:

While I'm a sucker for a good mystery and horror,  Leviathan demystified the Reapers just as bad as the Starchild did. Plus, for supposedly Lovecraftian abominations, the Leviathans themselves were a little to mundane for my liking.

In his novels, Drew Karpyshyn hinted that there was so much more to Omega, from being an abandoned Prothean research facility, to being the Citadel's de facto socio-political opposite number. With all the potential in an Omegan civil war, and how it could shape the Terminus Systems for centuries to come, the writers threw all that away for yet another damn Cerberus plot . I admit I could be reading more into it than what was actually there. But if an amateur like me could think of things like that on the fly, why couldn't Bioware? Nyreen Kandros was cool and all, but I would have liked to able to bring at least one of my own sqadmates to comment on Omega's fate, and she had should have been in the game proper anyway.

With Citadel , there was again too much character interaction that should have been in the main game. Too much forced humor, too much fan service. On a general genre level I've grown weary of clones, especially evil counterpart ones. When contrasting the protagonist, I prefer separate individuals with narrative similarities and differences, rather than the blatantly obvious "Me Am Bizzaro Shepard!" . Plus, Thane's funeral; it seemed sober and all, but why no wake for any of the other fallen?

 The worst part for all of them though? Too little actual role playing in an RPG. Too much auto dialogue and assumed motives. What if I didn't trust the Leviathans and didn't want their help? Why couldn't I put someone else in charge of Omega? Why is my character making rookie mistakes just because it's "funny"? Why did I have to borrow Anderson's place and not be able to buy my own?