2011-12-15, 21:39 | Link #1201 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
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and yea, all this Ash hate when they prob didn't give her a chance in a play through.
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2011-12-15, 22:05 | Link #1202 |
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I left Ashley to die, but I saw it as the most practical choice at the point of time.
The explosive was a more important objective at that point of time, plus Kaiden was the more senior and higher ranked officer. Besides, it seemed to make for a more compelling story especially if put through a fake context that Shepard chose duty over love. ( not really, but it does give some impression of that if one chose Tali in ME2 ) Further points for Sole Survivor Shepard.
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2011-12-16, 02:27 | Link #1203 | |
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Age: 36
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2011-12-16, 03:40 | Link #1204 | |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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Had the choice been there to fire her from my crew rather than kill her, I would have done that. Indeed, I am actually annoyed that Shepard hold such high regard for her whenever her death was mentioned. I would have liked the option to say "yeah, she died because she was a bad person and I can do without her, and I am not sorry."
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2011-12-16, 04:38 | Link #1205 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: UK
Age: 39
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1. She actually denounces racism at several points in the story, even if you don't change her opinions via dialogue. 2. People refer to her as bigoted, but she's just an alliance marine. Half your ship complains about having to rely on aliens at the start of ME1, nobody more than Pressley, but they eventually come around by the end. 3. Her distrust of aliens stems from the fact her only experience with them was the tragic story of her grandfather during the the First Contact War (between the humans and turians). 4. In ME2 she throws a hissy-fit because you have joined ultra-racist Cerberus. She understands why you did, but admits she could never believe what Cerberus believe (especially after ME1). Not that it matters much anyway. Bioware pulled data to show that somewere around 90% of (presumably Steam/XBL) ME1 players killed off personality-deficient Kaidan instead. Interestingly around the same amount of people played as Soldier, we are the 10%! |
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2011-12-16, 05:21 | Link #1206 |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
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Kaidan only died in my playthrough because Ashley was with the bomb. Had the roles been reversed, Ashley would have bitten the dust. The decision I made was based on duty, rather than personality.
That said, I never really got to know Ashley in ME1, because I found Garrus and Tali much more interesting, and later on, Wrex. I mainly rotated between the three of them, and left the rest of the squad to chill their heels in the Normandy. I can't recall the exact details, but I believe there was a line of conversation that guided you to let Kaidan take point, while Ashley handled the bomb. That alone would help explain why Kaidan kept getting the short end of the stick. Cheers.
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2012-01-04, 12:02 | Link #1207 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
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2012-01-04, 18:25 | Link #1209 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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And I think you still need Origin. Especially if you want DLCs.
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2012-01-05, 03:51 | Link #1214 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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I wouldn't call it "Pay to Win" if the equipment in question doesn't offer any significant game-breaking advantages. Most of the time, the ME weapon and armor DLC's are left unused in favor of the traditional weapons and armor. They're there for extra choice, not to become the ONLY choice.
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2012-01-05, 05:00 | Link #1216 |
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I don't like Origin, but even I can see the stupidity in refusing to buy the game if it requires it. Origin doesn't even need to be an active program when running games unlike Steam and *shudder* GFWL. Having it will have no footprint on your RAM when playing the game, it will just be there on your hard drive. Games that require Origin only do so because they use Origin to download patches.
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2012-01-05, 05:12 | Link #1219 |
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: UK
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It's not as good as Steam, granted, but people are talking as if it's so inconvenient they'd either not play Mass Effect 3 or pirate the game instead.
EDIT: For people who don't use the benefits Steam has (chat etc), then it's equally annoying that you're forced to install/maintain/use it just to play The Orange Box or other Valve productions. So really, it's no better than Origin in that regard. |
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