Comments | oddlittleturtle: Character Death Confusion

oddlittleturtle

Character Death Confusion

Mar 25, 2012 17:43

This journal is now MASS EFFECT: BULLSHIT.
(Like it wasn't before.)

( Question about a character death that confuses me. )

character death, spoilers, femshep, mass effect, gaming, random

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oddlittleturtle March 25 2012, 23:19:25 UTC

huh. Weird.

sinvraal March 25 2012, 22:57:19 UTC

It looks like they re-shuffled this bit at the last minute and dropped in a missing bit of dialogue or something. He lived in my game, but I got the text dialogue and the "anything for you" line. The awkward transition in the romanced dudeShep version kind of reinforces my hypothesis if you ask me- it's a cludge.

The recent (source questionable) writer leak suggested that Cortez was supposed to die at that moment, but it was successfully argued that he should be able to live. So they might have cobbled together a last-minute patch to get a he lives outcome, but the dialogue is patchy and weird because if it.

oddlittleturtle March 25 2012, 23:22:44 UTC

Hm. Makes sense.

lilchickadee March 25 2012, 23:13:31 UTC

That's exactly what happened in both of my FemShep runs (same FemShep, same decisions, two different playthroughs), too. So whether it's a complete bug, or if (as sinvraal suggested) it's a last-minute fix, or even if it's what they intended and the VA just delivered it oddly, I'm not sure.

But it isn't just you. ♥

oddlittleturtle March 25 2012, 23:23:11 UTC

\0/

I will celebrate that I'm not the odd man out then. XD

stargater March 26 2012, 02:40:56 UTC

My FemShep had the second one in that video, where Shepard yells "Cortez!" and Kaidan yells "You're gonna pay for that ahhh!" then Cortez went down and I don't have anything else with him. Are you saying your FemShep has the Dude!Shep line? I haven't heard of that one yet.

lilchickadee March 26 2012, 03:04:16 UTC

If you complete either Steve's frienship arc or his romance arc, Steve will actually survive the crash. Ss FemShep you get the bit above - where you have a subtitled "Steve!" and then Cortez's response and retreat. As a DudeShep, the "Steve!" is actually voiced (and according to my friend who has run her DudeShep and completed Steve's frienship arc, it sounds quite "plaintive").

oddlittleturtle March 26 2012, 03:10:51 UTC

Ack. :( I can't help but do the friendship arc with him. I love him to pieces.

stargater March 26 2012, 04:04:47 UTC

Hmm. I talked to him after every mission, well most missions at least, I might have missed a couple but I know I talked to him every time I went down to talk to Vega. Guess I missed a crucial one for the friendship arc.

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oddlittleturtle March 26 2012, 03:57:15 UTC

Makes perfect sense. That's what I took it as when I first heard it when he said it to Charity. However after listening to the youtube... it's the same line with the same inflection as for the dudeShep. Maybe it wasn't a romanced dudeShep? IDEK.