Things that don't make sense (v2)

adult: They fought a terrible war so we wouldn't have to
child: And that's why we have peace?
adult: Yes. Without everything they accomplished, without the information they passed down, we too would be threatened

In another thread, someone said that a Bioware employee , using twitter I believe, said the next cycle used the crucible. So if the next cycle didn't fight a war and were never threatened, I guess that means they used the crucible while the reapers were in darkspace. That means whoever found the beacon informed whoever, who then...got together with a bunch of others to agree to build this large thing that will destroy something that has yet to be a threat. Ok. After its built, its attached to the Citadel. Obviously the crucible should be in pristine condition since there was no threat for it to get damaged. So did one person or several persons go up to where the catalyst is? What form did the thing take? Instead of saying your the first organic to make it here, did the thing say you're the second organic? Did the thing explain the other organic failed to use the crucible because of bravado? If there was more than one, who volunteered to be the sacrifice? If destroy was chosen, did the others survive the explosion? The same for the green. 

The kid says is that why we have peace because they were fighting......who/what? Synthetics? 

Is it possible that they encountered a group that wanted to control the reapers like what happened in the prothean cycle and the previous cycle?

The other thing is how long after the crucible was used, did the conversation take place? 

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I had the same complaint about The Arrival, which is that a relay that survived a nova explosion shouldn't be able to be taken down by an asteroid. The rest is just a stream of sarcasm.

It's biotic Shepard, who his biotic powers to cause the weapons fire to shoot past Jeong, circle around and hit him in the back.  Mind you, my Shepard is more than happy to shoot him in the face.

I know there's loads more but personally, currently, having issues with;
Collecting 16 Asari Writings and never being able to read one of them...
Collecting 17 Turian insignias, without ever actually seeing what the designated insignias specifically look like.
The option to watch a dancer but never pay them ... ? (Or was I too distracted to realize credits being transferred...)

Yeah, like what themikefest very adequately said.

... But that's no fun ... How am I going to make a habit out of using ancient Asari writing/s on artwork, or text documents with a custom font of Asari writing/s, if I have no official visual reference to guide me...

(The lack of personal interaction with those writings means) a part of the Mass Effect universe is barren to me and I don't enjoy the blind-spots in my view of it.


Thank you for being informative.


You're probably right about the lack of resources thing. That kind of response could be probably be applied to a lot of aspects of the game though. (Time to jump on the 'remake M.E. with improvements' bandwagon I guess?) 



Even if there wasn't any sort of in game scenario (like I've imagined above) to accompany the collection, I still personally want to know which clans are related to what facial markings.
I wanna be able to look at a Turian and know a bit more about them as an NPC. (Beyond; "Oh, it's a kindly bareface. Better not trust them too much.") IMO, Those Turian facial tattoos/insignias are similar to recognizing the difference between a Krogan and a Salarian. (Considering the unification war among the Turians.) Personally, I feel like it's kind of a big deal. 

. . . As for the dancers thing, one of my Shepards has a max number of credits. It seems like throwing a large sum of credits at a dancer would be mildly amusing. (Shepard: *Tips one random dancer enough for them to buy their own ship with and casually leaves the room*) 
Not a huge important detail or anything, but still. It would have been an extra little element to make some of the npcs feel a bit more like people in that universe.

Hmm. That's surprising.

Ultimately; to each their own. 

Okay, I wasn't sure if you wanted to get into it, so I left things at that, in order to not come across as overly stand-offish ... But if you do want to talk about it; 

What good is a *new* game/story if you are making fixes *for old games, in your new games* ... As with the Asari dancer thing... In ME1, she's there, but the flaw is that there's no option to give her credits. 
There's a similar Asari Dancer in Mass effect 2, but she's incorporated a fix (that should have been applied to her in ME1.) Now, in Me2 you can tip an Asari dancer.
(Why not just put that option in ME1 instead of reusing an old asset with one improvement in a new game. That dancer in me2 could have been an opportunity to script something else in place of that old fix. ) 

Instead of making new games with the old problem's fixes incorporated into them, it would make more sense to me, to make fixes when and where they are required... 
New games should be an entirely new experience. If there was something wrong with the previous game, I don't want things from that old game, in a new game, with improvements made. Because then there is a staleness there. (I think you avoided the Asari dancer in ME2 altogether? I know, the dancer is just a meager example. But the principle is the same. You were bored with the Asari after the first time you interacted with her in me1? There was no point in interacting with her in a new me2 experience? A new experience is not as interesting---if it's just a similar, redone experience, with improvements that should have been made to the original issue...)
A remake would be a better way of fixing issues that could be addressed, without rehashing those issues into an all "new game" experience. Expectations of a remake would be improved graphics, and functionality. Additional things that weren't there before would freshen up a replay.

I like completely new experiences. I feel like they shouldn't be too familiar to previous ones, otherwise it's not really a new game. 
Which is why I like remakes, with additional upgrades and fixes that wouldn't have been possible on older tech. (Final Fantasy Tactics remade for the PSP included multiplayer, which I enjoyed, and still do...) 
Resources, space, sprites, understanding of how to put something into a game, technology to play the game with, that all improves with time. And if people are going to be replaying an older game, why not have that experienced optimized to suit the times... Newer generations aren't going to gain anything by experiencing mistakes previously made, that were already fixed (later, through other games) and never presented in material that they're experiencing for the first time. (Example; a new gen player is just going to see the same issues already seen, and potentially waste some effort trying to conceive fixes for those things, rather than seeing those things in an optimized state. There's no need to think about the fixes for a newer mind, because older minds would have already found solutions. Those solutions just wouldn't be observable at the time of play for a newcomer. And presentation is an important detail. It could be the determining factor of maintaining the audiences attention.) 

Random general example; I wasn't interested in a Voltron experience. (It would have been from the 80's. That was before my time.) But I recently experienced Voltron via Dreamwork's remade animated series. And I really enjoyed it. 

There hasn't been much news for Mass Effect recently. I don't know if they have enough employees at the moment, or they know that there has been a decline in interest since ME:A, or if they just aren't sure what to write at this point... All I know is, here and now, I'm re-playing the original Mass Effect experience (using the trilogy set) seeing flaws where there shouldn't be any, because things can be fixed, *especially* if they have no interest in moving forward for the time being; for whatever reason. 

Anyways, that's just my two cents. 

Yea, I am always wondering that, too when I replay the game. Must be cut content or something.