Shepard’s customizable backstory sure barely mattered huh
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Replying to @rootlessmrgimm @Cybren and
There are ways it matters but you really have to look it up, and it super messed up when they made one of the backstories make Shepard a 100% should-be enemy to Cerberus and then ignored that
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Cybren and
A Sole Survivor Shepard joining Cerberus *without remark or complaint* would be like TLOU3 opening with Ellie working alongside Abby as friends with absolutely zero explanation and no "hey, sorry about bashing your dad's face in"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Cybren and
tbf, Shepard has *no other options* until she goes to the first disappeared colony, after which she can immediately go to the Citadel to report the serious problem, and is explicitly told she will not be given any resources to investigate. Until later, Cerberus is all she has.
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Replying to @EmilyUnbound @BootlegGirl and
also you can tell the Illusive Man to go straight to hell the moment you lay eyes on him; it doesn’t change that Shepard is surrounded by Cerberus personnel who would try to stop her from commandeering the Normandy if she tried
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Replying to @EmilyUnbound @BootlegGirl and
No one is denying the railroading was meticulously put in place, it just obviously is railroading And even accepting all the railroading, there just doesn't feel like there's the scope to RP this Shepard as being as emotionally stressed by the situation as she should be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
This is the same thing I was saying about VtM: Bloodlines the other day, about how Refusal of the Call should be an option even if it's just a game over
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
Even at age 9 i bristled at not being allowed to join Team Rocket when that bridge guy asked me in pokemon Red
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Replying to @Plutoburns @arthur_affect and
Yeah I mean we talk about how all games railroad you and while this is true I think there's something to be said about how there are moments where you SUDDENLY feel much more railroaded than normal and how this is almost never a positive experience from an audience viewpoint
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It's a TVTrope, "But Thou Must"
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