Why didn't more people complain about Kai Leng in Mass Effect 3?
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I really didn't have any problems with him, yeah he was kinda op, and in cut scenes I thought that Shepard could have probably taken him but then again he was a major plot device so he could not have been killed off that early in the game. Shit load of games pull crap like this and nobody complains, at least ME3 gave some explanation why he is so damn bad ass. I also have to admit that if I hadn't reed the novels, it would have been more WTF what's with the cyborg ninja for me.
The worst thing about him is that everyone acts like an idiot when he shows up, for example why doesn't shepard just shoot him when in the first stand-off? if this were me2 we would have an interrupt to at least try to shoot him, and then when he's on the shuttle it would have been so much easier to scrape him off on one of the support beams or do a barrel roll than to shoot at him, but again no player input. Then there's the confrontation on thessia, which even before the horrible cutscene incompetence he spends most of the fight standing still in the open "recharging his shields" while I inneffectively charge-nova him and he taunts me for being "too slow".
Finally there is the last cutscene on the cerberus base where everyone ignores his defeated form and aimlessly stares into space so he can sneak up on shepard, remember in me1 where shepard told his squad to make sure saren was dead, by having them shoot his clearly deceased body in the head? Apparently bioware doesn't.
Finally there is the last cutscene on the cerberus base where everyone ignores his defeated form and aimlessly stares into space so he can sneak up on shepard, remember in me1 where shepard told his squad to make sure saren was dead, by having them shoot his clearly deceased body in the head? Apparently bioware doesn't.
I would've preferred a Gunther Hermann to be honest, his skul-gun would've been way more threatening than that flimsy "space-age" katana.TopazFusion said:
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Reminds me of that scene in Mass Effect 1 on Noveria where Alestia shows up to reveal that she's a sleeper Asari Commando. I chose the Renegade option, to which Shepard shouts out something along the lines of "She's got two Geth behind her and is pointing a gun at us, SHOOT HER ALREADY!"IFS said:
He just seemed out of place for to me. Oh well, its just a game. I think people need to stop obsessing over it.
Fifth copy?! Why did you buy the first four?!?Gone Rampant said:
I read the reviews of Deception and avoided that awful piece of shit like a plague rat with oozing pustules.
Why are you giving money to the people who wrote, edited, and allowed that awful travesty of fiction to exist?
If you want to buy a book with Kai Leng in it to hurt, get book 3 where he's first introduced (and first starts his career as a Marty Stu). At least the rest of the book was good.
Strange thing- my Kindle killed itself while I was reading book 3.Bara_no_Hime said:
And as for how I'm getting the book... I can't tell you, but I destroy it every time.
When somebody sets you on fire and you stub your toe running for the swimming pool, you don't complain about your toe.
That's why more people aren't complaining about Kai Leng.
That's why more people aren't complaining about Kai Leng.
All i can say is that he was better than anything in Mass Effect 2 which i'm playing through again right now. Why do i give a shit about these achievements when i really don't like the game that much and i've already got all the difficulty ones which have some minor significance?
Anyone still crying about mass effect 3 should take a good hard look at number 2...it's pretty poor in anything but dialogue. I'd forgotten there was no dodge roll which after 3 makes it terrible to play. Moan about the story and ending all you like but the gameplay was tweaked nicely to avoid the tedium of 2
Anyone still crying about mass effect 3 should take a good hard look at number 2...it's pretty poor in anything but dialogue. I'd forgotten there was no dodge roll which after 3 makes it terrible to play. Moan about the story and ending all you like but the gameplay was tweaked nicely to avoid the tedium of 2
I looked at him less as an antagonist and more like a speed bump.
In fact, most the time I spent fighting him I spent laughing at him like "Is this guy freaking serious?"
He mocks Shepard and says how he's so much better than him, but then when it comes to fighting, Shepard gets his two squadmates and he gets endless nameless troops and an attack helicopter. All the while exclaiming that he's better than Shepard.
A few other times I was a bit annoyed. Such as when he's on the top of the shuttle while flying through the presidium. My first thought was "Just scrape him off with one of those bridges we're weaving through." Oh I would've loved that. People would've complained if Bioware let you just pancake him into oblivion between the shuttle and a bridge. They would say it was unexpected, there was no build up.
Me, however, I would've laughed my ass off repeatedly.
In fact, most the time I spent fighting him I spent laughing at him like "Is this guy freaking serious?"
He mocks Shepard and says how he's so much better than him, but then when it comes to fighting, Shepard gets his two squadmates and he gets endless nameless troops and an attack helicopter. All the while exclaiming that he's better than Shepard.
A few other times I was a bit annoyed. Such as when he's on the top of the shuttle while flying through the presidium. My first thought was "Just scrape him off with one of those bridges we're weaving through." Oh I would've loved that. People would've complained if Bioware let you just pancake him into oblivion between the shuttle and a bridge. They would say it was unexpected, there was no build up.
Me, however, I would've laughed my ass off repeatedly.
Because he has strong barriers? Like Saren in the first game. Shepard shoots him but the bullets just bounce off because he has shields/barriers.IFS said:
OT: I didn't mind him. Sure he could have been better written but when I gutted him I felt so much joy.
i was bothered by him because he emitted radiation that killed shepards brain and she forgot she is biotic for the cutscenes. seriously, my shepard never once used the stupid blade, how hard could it have been to make the animation in the cutscene fit the class. the same thing bugged me in ME2 when liara had to save shepard from falling to her death. fine, maybe shepard is not strong enough to fly but she can fire tiny black holes from her hand, i am pretty sure she can slow her fall.
yeah, i didn't mind him except that my shepard being biotic would have broken his plot armor several times (that's a nice barrier BOOM, now it's gone, Garrus shots him in the head)
oh and i think this is relevant:" there are tow ways to be upset about a villain, one is because of what he does to the characters we care about the other is because he was written by lazy stupid hacks"
yeah, i didn't mind him except that my shepard being biotic would have broken his plot armor several times (that's a nice barrier BOOM, now it's gone, Garrus shots him in the head)
oh and i think this is relevant:" there are tow ways to be upset about a villain, one is because of what he does to the characters we care about the other is because he was written by lazy stupid hacks"
Honestly, I didn't care about him; he was fairly forgettable. His fights were silly, as the only time I ever had issues with him was when I didn't realize that shooting all the mooks was required for his health to go down.
Plot-wise the cut scenes told me "This is the cool villian", but his actions never really reinforced the implied badassery. Fighting of course was a waste of time, there's no way to make a melee opponent viable when I have so many mass effect abilities to throw at him.
The only reason I saw to hate him was him being a part of the third's (and somewhat second's) tendency to treat technology as magic. And there were far better examples elsewhere of this, so I didn't care about him.
Plot-wise the cut scenes told me "This is the cool villian", but his actions never really reinforced the implied badassery. Fighting of course was a waste of time, there's no way to make a melee opponent viable when I have so many mass effect abilities to throw at him.
The only reason I saw to hate him was him being a part of the third's (and somewhat second's) tendency to treat technology as magic. And there were far better examples elsewhere of this, so I didn't care about him.
Cause there is way better stuff to moan about.
His plot armor was annoying though, but killing him was very satisfying.
His plot armor was annoying though, but killing him was very satisfying.
Kia Leng was a not threat in my opinion. Though he was supposed to be this "Anti-Shepard" he was was kinda boring. I think it would have been better had he fought Shepard multiple times and had the first fight be hard with just him, then him and some troops (like phantoms), and finally him, phantoms but your squadmates are knocked out when you defeat the phantoms. Sure it seems like a "video game," but it is a video game. Really I think he wasn't used to his full potential.