Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude, come here and give me a hug! A great big hug! I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes incomplete story critiques on this great big crazy internet of ours!honestdiscussioner said:
See, this is my problem with this. Writing it like this makes it seem you find yourself and this 'we' you are referring to, whoever that may be, superior to other people. People who may care less about railroading and are better at filling in the gaps with their own mind in stead of just pointing them out and being annoyed by them.Shamus Young said:
I agree emphatically. It's one thing for the Council to question where the hell I was for two odd years. Fair question, I'm curious about that myself. Why don't we ask the two Cerberus operatives I have with me? It is however another for the Council to ignore a potential threat that things like Sovereign represent when I come back and say "There's more of these damned things you know". That was pants on head retarded; but I'd have accepted it had I been able to do the following:SillyBear said:
Question: How did the Omega-4 relay get built if it's the only way between the two points it connects? Presumably there are other, far more treacherous, paths between those two points and the relay only serves to make a safer trip. But if I'm understanding the way relays work (Relay built in point A connects to relay built in point B), you'd have to have another way to get to points A and B to build the relays before you can use them.Agayek said:
If this is in reference to Shepard trying to prove the existence of the reapers, I think I remember the Turian council member saying that he thinks Shepard has become obsessed to the point of truly believing in them. In other words, he thinks that mind-reading Shep while he says "Reapers are real" would come up as true not because it actually is true (which it is), but because Shep truly and honestly believes that it's true, despite it not being true.Souplex said:
No, the way I remember it people knew that the Collectors were using it to move through the system, but they didn't know exactly where it led to (not until EDI tracked it down, which happened after you gained the ability to move through the relay IIRC). Also keep in mind that the Reapers have vastly superior technology, parts of space that are impossible for the alliance races to move through could simply amount to rough spots for the Reapers, turning paths that are impossible to cross into paths that are undesirable to use.Agayek said:
I completely agree. I am a huge Bioware fanboy. I own at least one copy of every game they've made, two of several, at least 4 of KOTOR (two on Xbox, because I lost one for a while, one on Steam, one on physical media). I signed up for SWTOR the day it was available, I bought the freakin' item packs on DA2, for god's sake. I'm not a hater, looking to cap on them at my first chance. And to be clear, I have preordered ME3 already, just in case they do another "pre-orders get Signature Editions" bit.RedEyesBlackGamer said:
I'll totally agree on this. The entire "Oh, everyone who has any taste hates DA2" thing is getting really old. I get it. You didn't enjoy DA2. I did. This is really not a defining characteristic for either of us.Oro44 said:
I can answer that krogan question easy. There is one point where talking to Mordin that he says "the genophage is commonly and INCORRECLY called a sterility plague." Mordin then goes on to say that the genophage actually just puts the krogan birthrate back to pre-industrialised levels. The krogan have no idea HOW the genophage works or what it ACTUALLY does. All they know is they don't have as many successful births as they used to. And since krogans are not as smart as Salarian scientists, and don't have much interest in such things, this is the conclusion that they came to.Bayushi_Kouya said:
Well there was that thing where Liara dives into Shepard's head in Mass Effect 1 to see his visions.Souplex said:
Jerk!Shepard turns the whole thing on its head by stating multiple times "I DON'T WORK FOR CERBERUS, CERBERUS WORKS FOR ME. BITCHES."Lorechaser said:
Totally in agreement with you here, man. Really tired of people hating on Bioware because they're trying to go in a new direction with their games. At its core, Mass Effect 2 is still an RPG and the story is epic. Most of the supposed 'plot-holes' that he mentioned dont even exist, as you pointed out. Keep up the good work, Honest.honestdiscussioner said:
Well, no. Omega-4 has a sister relay. A mass relay is incapable of functioning without one. Just because they don't specifically say "the Omega-4 relay has a sister relay" doesn't mean it doesn't have one. Everything in the game, in fact, does point to a sister relay near the Collector base. The game also never shows any of your squad mates eating. This is sort of like suggesting (or, more accurately, insisting) that because none of your squad-mates have a meal onscreen that they are absolutely, unquestionably, irrevocably vampires. Then going on to say that this means there is the plot hole of Vampires existing in the Mass Effect universe when nothing else has been supernatural in the game (well, except for telekinesis, mind-melding, giant, magical, mind-controlling sentient ships, and zombies). The way I see it, there are one of three possibilities: you aren't paying any attention, and then making stuff up, you have some kind of mental disorder, or you're manufacturing non-existent plot holes for the sole purpose of complaining about them on the internet. All of those are just kind of sad. In reference to the post before; we don't have any idea what the Reapers are actually capable of. We can guess, but that isn't the same thing as knowing. They're mile-long, sentient starships capable of doing things we can't imagine. I think it's pretty safe to say that if the Reapers built a base in the core, then they had a way of doing it, because they did it.Agayek said:
