My biggest personal anxiety with Mass Effect 3 is that, no matter how many times ‘Corporal Barbie’ crosses my dash, I struggle to connect with the idea of the Military Hero. It’s just not an archetype I click with or can easily get excited over. In ME1 it took me AGES to ‘find’ my Shep’s character and I never really clicked with Kaidan and Ashley.
Then I got to ME2 and it was all a big Oceans Eleven/Dirty Dozen crime caper… Mad Scientists! Assassins! Thieves! Serial Killers! And I was “I think I can relate to you people. I think we could be friends.”
Now we’re heading into ME3 and the cast seems to be back to soldiers, soldiers and more soldiers. So I’m just a smidge worried that, for me, the big emotional pay-off is going to be a step backwards in terms of my engagement with the game.
My dream made-just-for-me ME game really would ditch Military Fiction altogether and just have all the very naughtiest boys and girls from ME2 pulling off outrageous heists, hits and scams across the galaxy in a full-on crime story.
omg yesssssssss
