Posts by SA Rasann

  • Mass Effect 2 Arrival Trailer

    True, but often times allies won't be 'conveniently' be in one spot for you to pick up like a pack of groceries - sometimes the story is about gathering allies to defeat the 'insurmountable' force coming to annihilate everyone - as well as introducing other forces that will be involved at a later time


    LOTR had that element as well (not to get off-topic) Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf had to in effect 'gather' any and all friendly forces to stand against Sauron and his armies - which was pretty much an 'insurmountable' force coming to annihilate everyone -


    And yes, it is true of the ungrateful, selfish species in the ME universe - they always want something done for them before they help you. And usually (depends on how you choose to handle the situation) it would help or harm the galaxy -


    but like you said Michael, it depends on a person's point of view -

  • Mass Effect 2 Arrival Trailer

    Can't expect that every storyline is going to be the most awesome, or even a great storyline - every great story has its 'thin' plots - not every storyline/plot in a series like this is going to be earth-shattering or blindingly awesome - I kinda see it as a 'glue' type of storyline, though thin, it has its purpose -


    Everything you did seem to point in one direction - The Reapers - otherwise why try to stabilize the political situation on Tuchanka? Why help the Quarians out? (keep in mind they have a fleet of 50,000 - if memory serves me right - I'm sure more than the combined fleets of Klingons, Romulans and the Federation -) Why destroy an entire station full of Heretic Geth (who are/were under the control of the Reapers)? I'm not sure how it would be deemed that ME2 strayed from the main plot, it all had in some way had to do with the Reapers, directly or indirectly -


    also, would you really think that the Reapers would just sit on their haunches and monologue at Shepard? Telling Shepard how 'inevitable' their defeat is (funny, but typical 'Bad Guy' attitude, when their 'carefully' laid plans had been turned upside down) - they most likely do have other forces in the galaxy, besides Collectors - I'm sure we'll find out in ME3


    besides, ME1 can be said in the same way:


    1. Shepard runs into Prothean Relic, finds out Reaper threat
    2. Shepard builds team
    3. Shepard defends citadel from Sovereign & Geth


    (Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to bash ME - I'm a huge fan of ME)


    we also gotta remember that people are not necessarily going to do things out of the kindness of their 'heart', just like in life itself, people need things done, even when there's a larger threat looming ever closer, even those who have been allies before -

  • Going on with the mission?

    I tried the vegas and neophobos systems but they were all hostile.....I checked my status page and the majority of the commercial companies in liberty and bretonia are hostile as well as the rheinland military...I'm a little scared to go back and have the bretonia military firing on me because of some dumb corporation raising a fuss....I'm at that 'break' before assaulting tekagi's fortress as well...