DSK- said:
Vrex360 said:
The Horizon encounter in Mass Effect 2 between Shepard and Ashley.
Let me make something clear here, I am not mad because Ashley didn't leap into Shepard's arms and bow to his feet like so many other youtube commenters seem to be, if you ask me she was perfectly justfied to be confused and upset that the love of her life returned after being gone for two years and was now working for a terrorist organization.
No sir, I'm just mad that this was all I got. I picked Ashley over Liara in Mass Effect 1 and I honestly couldn't find myself interested in any of the others at my disposal so I decided to hold out until Mass Effect 3. Suddenly I hear Liara fans are getting a DLC, and then I start to realize that DLC after DLC is getting made and everything seems to be in an effort to not acknowledge that Ashley ever existed.
It peeves me off so much, I still hold out hope for Ashley returning in Mass Effect 3 but for now I am getting quite mad at how little involvement one of my favorite characters has gotten in an otherwise terrific game.
I was disappointed also. No matter what you try and say she (or Kaidan - yes I'm giving spoilers because everyone has pretty much spoiled RDR for me :>) won't listen to reason - and doesn't thank the maker that you are alive.
To be honest, I'm just mad at how crap Shepard's responses were on Horizon. In response to working with Cerberus he can either say that they aren't the enemy or that he doesn't work for them, but there isn't an option to say:
'I don't like Cerberus either but like it or not, I need their resources for this mission'.
So he instead either sounds like a brainwashed Cerberus drone or just someone with no idea what his loyalties are.
Plus, if romance happened, when he first greets Ashley there's this touching scene where they both tenderly embrace, having finally been reunited after two years of heart break on Ashley's side they are finally together and when I hit the option to say 'I missed you' he opens with the line:
"It's good to see you again Williams, how have you been?"
Because you know,
that's an appropriate thing to say to someone who loved you who has spent the last two years in grief after your apparent death.
Seriously, it was like the game was trying to make it impossible for me to convince Ashley that what I was doing was for the right reasons, or at least not have it end in bitterness like that. I mean they give me multiple dialogue options but they were entirely cosmetic as no matter how I played the scene out, it never changed. It was a pre-determined path with no way to alter it except mix up the dialogue a little, giving off the illusion of interactivity without actually having any.
And after that, the only acknowledgment I get from the game that Ashley even exists at all is one email message and a scene where Shepard looks at her photo. Otherwise she might as well have slipped into an alternate dimension and while this may not matter to players who romanced Liara or weren't all that attached to Ashley or Kaiden to people like me it was a major game killer. Imagine a sequel to your favorite movie that then removed your favorite secondary lead, that's what Mass Effect 2 was at points for me.
Once again, I didn't blame Ashley for how she reacted on Horizon, I blame Shepard for having crappy responses to all her questions, I blame Bioware for giving Shepard those crappy responses and for completely kicking her out of the game and I blame the youtube commenters who's endless complaining about how much they hate her is making it less and less likely that Bioware will be adding her in any future DLC for a long, long time.
Wow, I can rant a lot, huh?
Sorry by the way if this aggression seemed in any way directed at you, it wasn't at all but it might have seemed that way.
