The Three Musketeers of Sci-fi Vidya
I did not care for the mass effect companions.
>>729395669Cmon, garrus is pretty cool.
>>729395994Garrus is just the third wheel.
>>729395994He insists upon himself. He doesn't have any plotline of his own, and is stuck in Shepard's shadow the whole trilogy. Even when he goes Batman, he's just trying and failing to be Shepard.
>>729396629Garrus is always the second in command bros before hoes
>>729395448based "just gonna stick with the first two people i meet across the entire franchise" anon
>>729396650for me Garrus often acted as a straightman to renegade Shepard
>>729396769It'd be nice if he had some agency of his own, though. It's a major problem with many vidya companions. They have no wants or needs, they exist to follow the player around and tell them how great they are. And there's a place for that, but it makes characters like Garrus shallow. Characters should never feel like pets.
>>729395994I feel like Garrus is the type of character terminally online friendless people insist they like on the internet in a desperate attempt to fit in. In the way they do it for Balgruuf in Skyrim.Just an irrelevant boring character people who never interact with men in real life glorify.
>>729396689Based
>>729395448The Three Musketeers were fuckups, always getting into shit they couldn't get out of. Those three are like three D'Artagnans.
>>729399969They are friends
>>729401501Uh huh.
>>729402113Anything else you'd like to know?
>>729402305Do you?
>>729402957I really shouldn't be doing this. But yes.
>>729403132What would you like to know?
Liara >>>>>>>>
I dunno, I only rolled with Wrex and Garrus.
>>729404282I think that's most of us.
>>729404218Liara <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< getting raped and eaten by varren
>>729395994If none of the Human squad mates or Liara existed, Garrus would be the worst companion in the series. Garrus is fucking annoying and overrated as fuck. Actually being around someone who constantly talks like he's setting himself up for a "badass" one-liner would get old really fucking fast.
>>729395448now with so many years of hindsight, the Reaper threat should have been resolved in ME1 and the next two games should have just been these three going on adventures throughout the galaxy with the other party members drifting in and out
>>729407883That;s gay. Please leave.
>>729395448I miss Mass Effect. Playing throught these games was a magical time in my life. I still think about the characters now and then, like they're my long lost friends.
>>729405506Mass Effect 2 felt like they were trying to delay resolving the Reaper shit they ended the firat game on just slapped together a poorly justified sidestory to focus on what they did best: characters. Mass Effect 3 was always going to be a mess, since resolving a plot line about a lovecraftan machine race threatening to kill everyone is pretty much impossible to resolve without contrived writing and overexplaining shit.
>>729408940>That;s
>>729410018>That;sgay
>>729410087>That;sgayfor(you)
>>729405506You wouldn't even have to change anything about ME1 to achieve this. Citadel portal is closed, reapers trapped outside indefinitely until you want to bring them back.
>>729409663They could've done it if they had the balls to make realistic endings.>Example Ending 1: Everyone fights to the last man and dies heroically >Example Ending 2: Shepard finds a way to get people into hiding and wait out the cycle>Example Ending 3: Shepard gets indoctrinated and accelerates everyone dying Scenarios that actually confront the scale and power of the reapers that they set up.Defeating the reapers ending was always gonna end up some contrived bullshit.
>>729410471Those are all anticlimatic. They would be recieved even worse.
>>729410673Nah not if you executed them well. You can have climactic moments in all of those.
>>729410471The few remaining Protheans waited for hundreds of years in cryostasis before the Reapers left. There is no waiting it out, especially for humans.
Who shot it?
>>729410794How uncreative of you. Imagine if Liara or someone with the aid of Shepard managed to create a new stealth technology that Reapers can't detect, then you can have generations living in hiding. It's more feasible than destroying the reapers entirely.
>>729410918Where is the "miss because I'm a shit shot and my Shepard isn't even a sniper" option?
