Mass Effect (My Revelation)
By mfpantst 2 Comments
Ok so I was reading a roundup of some of the latest Mass Effect 3 details and had this crazy revelation. First, relating to ME3 here is a spoiler:
Ok so if you read that above then the rest here will make sense. Otherwise, it might not. Ok so I was thinking about my 'primary' playthrough, or what was my primary playthrough (more on that later). So I had this character from the first game that I played through, picked up for the second game and finished the game. He's your pretty generic paragon soldier Sheppard. However, in this primary playthrough, Sheppard had a relationship with Ashley from the first game. And though his strength waivered in the second game, he did not cheat on Ashley (he tried to with Miranda but my dumb ass messed it up). Anyways, that was my primary playthrough. It 'was' because between finishing ME2 and now, I accidentally deleted my saves. In other words, sometime before ME3, I need to play through one and two again to recreate my primary story. Which probably means I'll forget some details, but I remember the broad strokes and will do my best to recreate (controversially I killed wrex in the first game). And this is because I want as much to carry over from 1 and 2 to ME3 as possible from the playthroughs I considered 'my story.' I have once played through ME2 seperate as a renegade biotic- but that's not really the Mass Effect universe I know and love.
Anyways- what intrigues me is how I picked Ashley. And how I stuck with her. And I have throught about how its partially the options available to me, and how I played Sheppard as a little bit zenophobic. So then today I was thinking about how far I've come with this Sheppard character. I mean, ostensibly sometime next year I'll be finishing up my Sheppard's story (assuming between then and now I reconstruct my story in the games), and how it started all the way back on that one planet where we found this beacon and me and one of my teammates landed to check things out and came across that one marine who was almost captured by the Geth, Ashley. That's where stuff just all of the sudden clicked. Ashley is the first female interaction my character has. My first team member, if you will. When I thought about it, I was pretty much blown away. It's like I chose her because this whole Mass Effect story isn't just Sheppard's story, in some weird and twisted way, it's Sheppard and Ashley's story. And while my female failures in the second game had more to do with my inability to get my character with anyone, in another sense, my character is waiting, hoping.
So all that totally motivates me to actually recreate my story by playing both games again, too.