Along the same lines, "My Neighbor Totoro" barely has a plot. The biggest bit of drama is the bit where Mai disappears and everyone is worried that she's drowned in a lake or something(Spoiler: She's fine). It's still really good.
Ugh, no. I have zero sympathy for the Quarians.
That's actually what makes it so good; the chill 'no, everything's fine' atmosphere. There's a bunch of scenes that seem built up for drama or tragedy, but then it just defuses and everything's fine. You got Mei maybe being missing after the first time she meets Totoro, but then she's just asleep in the bushes. Then you have Satsuki and Mei waiting for their dad at the bus stop, but it's getting late and dark and oh no, but then he shows up and everything's fine. And all of it culminates in the end with Mei actually being missing, but with the movie refusing to give in to it.
Iterestingly, the Matrix arguably has a similar dynamic if you take the Animatrix "2nd Renissance" as canon. BAsically, humans created AI, AI wanted to be treated equally, AI even started it's own nation to be self deterministic, Humans got mad about this, and eventually humans wrecked the planet to prove the point. It's even worse if you believe the entire point of the matrix(at least to begin with) was to save the human race from extinction in a world that can no longer support human life. The fact the first matrix was apparently a paradise supports this.
Bleh. It exhausts me to see people try to write AI in a serious way only to make stories where they're nothing more than a race. It completely glazes over just how alien, self-destructive, weird, or (And I say this as one) autistic real artificial intelligence will be if we ever make it. So much of what makes us and other animals what we are is based on thousands upon thousands of years of traits focused on survival and reproduction, and AI isn't going to be starting from the same place and depending on what we have it do, it could act in any number of ways, even with sentience.
I mean, fair enough, the Matrix really isn't a particularly interesting take on AI or a simulated reality because it's basically an action movie with some basic philosophy 101 thrown in. My issue is that the movies try to pull this "Machines bad, they just want us for our warms" when there's evidence that there's more going on here and the movies just fail to do anything interesting with them. I mean, the whole "they need us to make power" line makes no fucking sense because just running the matrix requires so much power that they could easily just grow a bunch of braindead clone humans if that's REALLY what they need us for(rather then using fusion or geothermal which both exist in-universe) and dispense with the whole facade. So clearly if the machines want us alive and cognizant, it's for more than a power source and if they hated us so much, they wouldn't bother with trying to create a paradise in Matrix v1. So there's some other reason they want us alive and conscience that's not stated in the films and we either go with "They feel an oligation to keep us alive and not genocide us" or it's a giant plot hole because the writing really isn't that good.
What they should actually be asking for is for Atlus to port Persona 5 to the Switch. A lot of stuff in Persona isn't actual story too, but planning out your schedule and grinding for levels and money and summons, this is all stuff that isn't very involved and is often perfect for idle time but since the series is on PS, you have to sit down to play it rather than being able to use it to fill in the gaps in your day.
The Genophage=Bad is only truly present in games where Wrex is actively dragging the Krogan, kicking and screaming, to a new modernity so they can get their shit together. In situations where Wrex dies on Virmire and Wreave is in control and is just repeating the same problems with the Krogan, the Genophage still looks like the best possible idea. Even more so in ME3 if Eve dies because you didn't save Maelon's data. Like there are situations where as hard as it is, keeping the Genophage intact is the right choice from a moral and practical standpoint.
I think we can consider the former the 'fan interpretation' and the latter 'what actually happened'.
Yep, it pretty much comes down to "Have the people running the joint learned a single fucking thing?"
Why would you gun down a space-bro?
Because some people play Mass Effect so they can roleplay a literal xenophobe and humanity first dick waver.
More probably, they didn't have the means to defuse the situation or simply let the conversation go on too long. Remember, Ash was on overwatch to shoot the guy if it looked like you weren't going to be able to convince him, and Wrex will pull a gun on you midway through. You can't resolve the situation with Wrex surviving unless you either A: have 8 points in charm or intimidate and a high enough paragon or renegade score (and you won't on your first playthrough) or B: did his loyalty quest and found his family armor. IIRC, Wrex being dead is also the default if you don't carry over ME1 data.
I never did any of the loyalty quests in ME1 and I still passed the conversation check on Virmire first time around. But I did do basically all of the other side quests and crap before going to that mission so it’s possible I just accumulated enough points.
As long as you're learning far enough Paragon/Renegade you should be fine. I did a playthrough where I tried to play those choices as I wanted to without regard for P/R points, but got to that part and realized I couldn't get Wrex to stand down and he died. I think I stopped the playthrough there or didn't carry it over because I didn't want to play through without Wrex. And I didn't know about the armor quest before this.
Its worst mistake was making parry more unintuitive. The general melee combat still felt delightful though, and the blades never sounded better. Ascension is kinda like the bastard of GoW but I still have fond memories.
Ascension felt like change for the sake of change without the willingness to take the formula apart. So you get this weird game that's sorta more of the same, but with these "odd" changes that trip up that enjoyment of having more of the same. I like some of the new combat changes, like roping enemies with your chains, but it's a detriment to the flow of the combat.
