You're embarrassing the squad, the player, BioWare, and yourself. Liara, please stop pointing your gun at an obvious hologram. We’re here to shoot bad guys and bang hot aliens. The story doesn’t pause to explore any of this. An AI able to mimic human conversation and behavior.Īnd Eva was invented not by a government or by one of the more advanced species, but by a human terrorist organization.A robot indistinguishable from a human in appearance.An ambulatory full AI, which even the Geth have only recently mastered!.That’s three different amazing reveals in a single package: Coré is revealed to be fully-functioning AI in a robot body that can seamlessly disguise itself as human without raising suspicion, even when in the company of scientists for a week. Right now we have more important stuff to nitpick…ĭr. That’s a big topic and so we’ll come back to it next entry. We also pause to have an argument with Kashley about working for Cerberus. Barring that, acknowledge this discrepancy in dialog by having your allies try to reconcile their different views on Cerberus. Which is it? Is Cerberus a grey-hat pro human organization, or are they cartoon space Nazis? One or the other. But Cerberus is right in the center of this story, and we can’t even tell what the storyteller is saying. This would be tolerable if Cerberus was just some minor side faction like the Blue Sun or Eclipse mercenaries. Again, the storyteller has gone from details-first to drama-first, and now from drama-first to gameplay-first. But it does advance the goals of the writer who is really fond of the idea of the player shooting dudes dressed like space marines. Why kill everyone? Why erase the data? Those are both difficult, dangerous, risky, and costly tasks that don’t advance Cerberus goals. ![]() It’s not clear why she couldn’t just download the data and leave. Coré apparently had run of the place and access to the data. There’s no reason given for killing everyone. I know it's been a while since my last vid- hey doc, do you mind? I'm making a video here. Once they have the plans for the Crucible they start deleting them so that nobody else can have them. ![]() They slaughtered the scientists, presumably twirling robo-mustaches beneath their power armor. Eva Coré infiltrated the outpost, betrayed the scientists, and let the Cerberus strike team in. We see that they are needlessly cruel and the whole “pro humans” idea is just a fig leaf excuse for their atrocities. We see that Cerberus is willing to slaughter a bunch of civilians to steal some intel for themselves. Nobody around here is interested in filling in details or worldbuilding.ĭuring the assault we discover that Cerberus has been partially husk-ifying their soldiers, turning them into half-machine slaves. Mars is just a big industrial base filled with mooks and dead civilians. Liara shows up, but she’s just here to join the party and explain where we need to go and who to shoot. There’s no dialog where you can talk to somebody about what this place was and how it worked. Like the main plot of Mass Effect 2, there aren’t any peasants to meet. Shepard arrives on Mars to discover that the plans for the MacGuffin are here in a research station, and that Cerberus is murdering everyone to secure those plans. I really dig the look of the Mars installation.
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