AWKWARD ZOMBIE

It could also just be the angle the screenshot was taken from.

Nnnnnooooo I can plainly see that her mouth doesn't reach all the way back like Garrus', or Saren's did/does.

So I'm definately getting the Trilogy for Christmas.

I'll probably spend all of my Microsoft point on the DLC that doesn't come with it.
I really want to COMPLETE experience. Every single thing that's available I want.

A lot of things aren't really worth it, like that fight club dlc in the first one, the extra outfits in the second, arrival and probably some of the stuff in the third. I heard mixed things about about leviathan.

Arrival is a direct tie in to ME3, how is that not worth it?

Because it's really shit from a gameplay and narrative point of view? It would have made way more sense if shepard were to do all of that in ME3. Maybe they could have had more time to make you give a shit about the stupid kid then.

I really don't get why they didn't make the Virmire casualty the inevitable guilt-trip-sympathy-sink, instead of some kid. It kinda wrote itself, and then they rustled it away.

I expected it to be tied to the indoctrination theory at the time.

Boy was I wrong. Shepard has more feelings about some random kid he only met for around 20 seconds than his squadmates whom he got to know very well.

It's not so much the kid, as it is what the kid represents. His/her teammates signed up for it, they go in willing to die, and Shepard knows this. Their deaths aren't an unforeseen thing.

The kid, however, was an innocent. Someone who didn't sign up for a war, and who didn't really deserve death. Not only does he die, Shepard can't do anything about it. There's no way for you to help the kid, no way for you to save him, and he dies.

The kid himself, Shepard doesn't know, and honestly more than likely got over after not too long. However, the idea of being unable to save innocent people, and being forced to basically say "I can't save you" is what gets into Shepard's mind. The kid represents this only because he was the only innocent person to actually make contact with Shepard.

The same kind of idea was used in Schindler's List. The girl with the red scarf is the only one who stands out to Schindler, and when he sees that she was killed later, he uses her as a kind of avatar for the people he feels he can save.

Really, it's a pretty fine story concept and I'll never understand why people hate the idea of having a visual representation of guilt and nothing more.

Well I don't want virtually useless things like armor that does nothing but makes you look cool, but if it adds anything gameplay wise, I am going to buy it.

Ashlenko does pop up in the dream sequences later on. I'll give them a little credit and say it does sound really spooky if most of your squaddies have died over the course of the series, but otherwise it's pretty lame.


Spielberg built it up way better. And Mass Effect doesn't really have a fixed narrative. With Mass Effect you have crazy renegade shepards who will sacrifice any amount of lives to save earth/defeat the reapers. Doesn't make sense for those shepards to have nightmares about this one kid s/he saw once outside.

It could have worked if bioware structured the story in a way made me build some sort of connect with the kid but as it stands playing sad music over the death of a kid I don't know won't make me sad.

It's more lame because Shepard has less to be guilty about.

Though, hearing Mordin, Kaiden, and Thane still made me almost cry a bit.

You killed Kaiden? You motherfucker!

He's super boring in ME1.

I had no idea Ashley would turn into a raging bitchaholic and Kaiden would become a bro.