Hey remember that Mass Effect 2 sidequest
Hey remember that Mass Effect 2 sidequest
where an impoverished young woman is trying to sell herself into slavery and the game presents the most ethical outcome as helping her negotiate a better contract for her indentured servitude?
Looking back those games were Fukuyama'd as shit, jfc
What if instead of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism you just had space liberalism? Go down the wrong elevator in the Citadel and you're in a slum with roving criminal gangs everywhere. Shepard even starts as a Jack Bauer super troop with a license to murder anyone
Suddenly flashing back to that one dialogue where a human woman is desperately trying to get her mixed human/asari daughter out of a warzone and the galactic beuracrat she's speaking to initially won't do anything until the woman gives an emotional Sorkin speech that changes the beuracrat's mind.
I still like the first game the best, despite all the shit politics the world is interesting and I love the atmosphere and the sorta Star Trek-y clean utopian scifi atmosphere the game has. And while I love Sovereign and the lore surrounding the Reapers in the first game, I honestly feel they should have been a one and done threat.
All the trite "chosen one saves the world from an ancient evil" mystery bullshit completely sucked the air out of cool stories they could have done within that universe, especially since they ended up completely wrecking said universe for the sake of it