Mass effect 2 >:(

[tsatoma]

Is it wrong to say that I have a crush on Garrus

No.

No, it is not.

Not in the slightest.

Do not even entertain the thought.

alright good

Glad to see I'm not the only one.

I was able to intimidate Wrex into seeing things my way, so I hope he'll play a part in Mass Effect 2. Maybe not a big part, but I just would like him to be there.

 

[Omikron009]

No Wrex? Wow. He was my favourite character, dammit! I'm still going to get it at launch, thought. Mass Effect is my second favourite game.

 

[Jandau]

wait...even if you import a save file in which you let wrex live, he still isn't in the sequel?

WHOOP WHOOP BS ALARM!

He is, only not as a party member.

I don't exactly know why, but I think that might be worse than him not being there at all

I already said why, on the first page. Some people shot Wrex in the face in the first game. It would be really lame if he just suddenly showed up, alive and well. Recording voiceovers, designing quests and all that for a party member that may or may not be there isn't efficient. The same goes for Kaidan and Ashley.

1.) I didn't mean I don't know why they aren't using Wrex, I mean I don't know why I think its worse that he is a supporting character than not there at all
2.) Now that you mention it, that reason makes no sense.
A.) It would be weird if Wrex appears alive and well after killing him, but why is having him appear alive and well as an external character any better than appearing alive and well as a party member?
B.) For you to kill him you would have had to have played Mass Effect 1, in which case you should be able to transfer your save, isn't this the WHOLE POINT of transferring saves? So we can enjoy our previous choices to the fullest without contradictions? Why transfer saves if the game needlessly handicaps us like this?
C.) It's not efficient, but the whole point of these games is that your choices carry over, it would be like Dead Rising saying "The big draw of our game is that is that you can use everything as a weapon, but for practicality, we decided to only include 20 weapons"

Wrex will appear as a supporting character if you didn't kill him. If you killed him, I'm guessing that he DOESN'T appear. That way your choice carries over without forcing Bioware to design a ton of potentially redundant content.

The Dead Rising comparison is a bit unrealistic because I'm pretty sure that including a few extra item models requires FAR less work than writing, voicing and designing an entire major character.

Overall, I think that having Wrex appear (or not appear if you killed him) as a supporting character is a good compromise. The only way to make him the major character would be to make the new Krogan an optional character that appears only if you killed Wrex and keep Wrex as a party member otherwise.

 

[Danpascooch]

wait...even if you import a save file in which you let wrex live, he still isn't in the sequel?

WHOOP WHOOP BS ALARM!

He is, only not as a party member.

I don't exactly know why, but I think that might be worse than him not being there at all

I already said why, on the first page. Some people shot Wrex in the face in the first game. It would be really lame if he just suddenly showed up, alive and well. Recording voiceovers, designing quests and all that for a party member that may or may not be there isn't efficient. The same goes for Kaidan and Ashley.

1.) I didn't mean I don't know why they aren't using Wrex, I mean I don't know why I think its worse that he is a supporting character than not there at all
2.) Now that you mention it, that reason makes no sense.
A.) It would be weird if Wrex appears alive and well after killing him, but why is having him appear alive and well as an external character any better than appearing alive and well as a party member?
B.) For you to kill him you would have had to have played Mass Effect 1, in which case you should be able to transfer your save, isn't this the WHOLE POINT of transferring saves? So we can enjoy our previous choices to the fullest without contradictions? Why transfer saves if the game needlessly handicaps us like this?
C.) It's not efficient, but the whole point of these games is that your choices carry over, it would be like Dead Rising saying "The big draw of our game is that is that you can use everything as a weapon, but for practicality, we decided to only include 20 weapons"

Wrex will appear as a supporting character if you didn't kill him. If you killed him, I'm guessing that he DOESN'T appear. That way your choice carries over without forcing Bioware to design a ton of potentially redundant content.

The Dead Rising comparison is a bit unrealistic because I'm pretty sure that including a few extra item models requires FAR less work than writing, voicing and designing an entire major character.

Overall, I think that having Wrex appear (or not appear if you killed him) as a supporting character is a good compromise. The only way to make him the major character would be to make the new Krogan an optional character that appears only if you killed Wrex and keep Wrex as a party member otherwise.

I just feel like it waters down the value of the save import

I also disagree that the content is totally redundant, because it could heavily influence replay value, if you played with Wrex dead, you could play the whole game again with him alive and get a different experience, you could play the game with one set of choices and then again with the opposite set, that way the content would not be redundant, and the game would have MASSIVE replay value.

 

[Trotgar]

Wrex is the best guy in the game. Ahh, his voice is plain awesome.

 

[Trotgar]

As long as Carth Onasi is in it, I'm good.

Isn't Carth Onasi from knights of the old republic?

Same VA. Kaiden = Carth. They are literally clones. They act the same. They sound the same. They look the same.

Just checked on wikipedia. They even have the same voice actor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Sbarge

EDIT: oh, sorry.