So SAM Is The True Hero (warning spoilers)

This is a completely stupid point. The AI is just technology - none of the story would have been possible without impossible ftl travel, cryogenics, spacesuits, space ships, broken laws of physics, element zero... the AI is an interesting look at the melding of technology and human and it's impossible-ness melds well with the rest of the impossible-ness. 

Bender: Get out of here freshman, I don't need your help!
Robot 1X: Our owners asked us to assist you.
Bender: Yeah? Well assist this!
[falls off roof]
[Robot 1X catches Bender]
Bender: Ohhh! When I screamed help, I didn't mean you!
Robot 1X: I apologize. However, I was able to do your job, before I saved your life.

Makes you wonder if he got all his knowledge of the game by watching Youtube videos of it.

Oh, so because he is on the "Witcher Bandwagon" nothing sensible he says when objetively observing the plot of a BioWare games has any validity, is that it?
There's only one thing worse than the Witcher overhype and it's the fans that close their ears as soon as someone mentions that game.

Makes you wonder if you're not making the wrong assumptions.

Sometimes, people who dislike Witcher 3 actually have a completionist run to back their opinion up.


My point is - Letalis doesn't seem to see any shortcomings about the Witcher. As a fan, you should realize whatever you like isn't perfect. See, Addison's face was really screwed up, then it got better. What else can I think of. Oh, yeah. Peebee's loyalty. It seems built around showing journalists the game, which results in a clusterfuck of Captain Obviousness.

It simply makes me take any of his criticism with my eyes narrowed and looking for where he's right and where he's picking at bullshit.

Mistaking Meridian for Khi Tasira is not an act of someone who is unconditionally immersed and knowledgeable of the game. It is an act of someone who finished it, but as a casual player more than a fan.
I'm sure he'd be able to name all of the Witcher locations I have long-since forgotten - and I've played all three of those games.

Long story short - he has to work extra at his arguments with me. Mostly because of this bullshit where he doesn't even bother fact checking.

I wish I could have upgraded SAM's voice to be more natural.

He does bring valid points. I've talked about SAM enough already, but for the others

Zero explanations given on how Ryder now can control Remnants without Sam. So now everyone control them like that? Ryder somehow learned by looking at Sam doing it's magic? Nobody even seems surprised, "you don't need Sam anymore for that? Ok, cool, don't overdo it". 

Why Archon can't use his fleet to do what he wants to do? Well, angara on Voeld are hiding, it's hard to destroy their base if they run around the planet all the time. But Initiative? They just put the flag and Kett magically ignore it. It went to absurd levels on Eos - Kett and Initiative have bases 1km apart and both sides pretend it's fine.



The guy didn't bother to read any single Codex entry. MEA is full of problems, but if you want to critisize lore inconsistencies - check out the lore first.

"It went to absurd levels on Eos - Kett and Initiative have bases 1km apart and both sides pretend it's fine."

They have the Strike Team narrative. And we shouldn't take the zone maps to be exact, ever.

He does make mistakes but he also points out how fucking vague the plot is by mistaking it because it's constantly like that. You have some thing in your head that constnatly does magic things and you're supposed to give a fuck about whether he's activating something called The Meridian which gives us everything we needed to make worlds habitable or if he's activating a Vault which terraforms a planet or whether he actiavtes Khi Tasira which awakens some ancient Jardaan thing.

And just again, The "Jardaan"? There's barely any elaboration on this outside of completely optional dialogues. It's about as uninteresting as the ExoGeni Thorians in a side mission of ME1 but it's the Neo-Protheans/Reapers and they even start calling them "gods" or "Like gods" afterwards which is just the subtext thrown right at the screen with zero subtlety.

I know for any series, no matter how bad or stupid it gets, whether it's the new Ace Attorneys or the final seasons of LOST there will always be the kind of super-passionate fans that dive really into it that are so obsessed with nerdlore that they can't see the forest for the trees, and that's what this is. Yeah, sure, there's a discrepancy of whether one thing is Meridian or Khi Tasira cuz one is a giant Terraforming network and another is some portable alien weapon-race whateverz, but the game just doesn't give you a reason to care or remember.

They hammer down what the Protheans are in ME1 in sync to your excitement and awe over how alien everything is. We hear about them in the very beginning and then just in case we didn't catch what those weird "Relays" did or what that strange "Prothean Beacon" was, we go to the Citadel, cue wonderful music and cinema and equally excited reactions from the crew and we're like "wow... what is that place?" and we're reminded "The Protheans made this" which reaffirms why it matters what the Protheans are and how that makes the lore interesting.

There's just such a lack of meaningful context in this game. We're 600 years away from any sense of contemporary-ness of setting; that's one thing that always captivated me about the trilogy, that we're only 150 years away from now and it's based in real life of 2007 where the fiction begins from then on and into the future until we disover aliens and their technology and we have a super relatable setting for an IP. All of that is gone. It's just fragments of our beloved IP that's been transfered to a completely foreign setting and the story does jack shit with it but introduce a bunch of cookie-cutter sci-fi tropes and magical devices and 2 new races I didn't really care about because A: the art design sucks and B: They might as well have been in the Milky Way with how they're just another human-like race and the game squanders all its potential to make it feel like "we are the aliens".

So when SAM was offline for the playable Ryder and Ryder made things happen....?  Playable Ryder can use Remnant tech (eventually) even without SAM.  This suggests Ryder is much more capable and competent than you want to allow credit for.

So basically just like EDI, but with a less sexy voice and more voice prompts for the new scanner function.