Comments | redknightalex: Mass Effect 3: The Ending Part 1

redknightalex

Mass Effect 3: The Ending Part 1

Mar 18, 2012 21:40

Note: Because I wrote four frakking pages of this, not including the post I want to use to include the pretty screens I took (which may need to come at another time), I'm separating this into multiple posts. I seem to have many feelings on the issue. Understatement of the year ( Read more... )

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develish1 March 21 2012, 07:00:19 UTC

I'm sorry love, I really couldn't read all that, but I'm glad to see you posting, and sharing all this :)

redknightalex March 28 2012, 17:07:00 UTC

I honestly never expected you to read it. So I guess we're even then, huh?

skybound2 March 26 2012, 14:38:27 UTC

Honestly, I agonized over this. I wasn't playing Shepard, I was Shepard, and the choice I made would be the most important decision I could make...gaming wise.
THIS. So much this. I've never been as invested in a game before, and I have NEVER (consciously or unconsciously) made an avatar of myself in a game before. I always manage to stay far enough removed so as to avoid that. But I failed with my alpha F!Shep in this game, over the coruse of the three gamesshe BECAME me, and I didn't even realize it to almost the end. And making that decision was so frakkin' hard, that it hurts to even think about.

Now, I am off to read the next post!

redknightalex March 28 2012, 17:06:17 UTC

For games that have some sort of CC, and more importantly allow me to choose my gender, I try to make a character that looks like what I\d like to be (my personal head!canon me because, yes, I do have one lol) but, usually after a few hours of play the character is its own personality. Particularly with Bethesda games, I like to create a paladin-esque character who tries to right the wrongs even if the other right thing to do is clearer (I think D&D has an expression for that one. Lawful good? IDK), things I can't do. Skyrim makes it a bit harder to do that thought.

But with Shepard...I knew from the first game that she was different. I shouted so loud when she came out of the rubble in the first game that my parents were wondering what was going on. Then I'm pretty sure I danced around my room for a while. I think I really did. Except, like you, I didn't get how far this avatar seemed to have become me, or be a vessel for my thoughts/emtions/actions, until the third game when what you did MAKE a difference in the story. I think the ( ... )