My ME Rankings (Destiny)

by marmot 1333 , Thursday, February 02, 2017, 18:38 (2852 days ago) @ Ragashingo

> [*]"Killing" Shepard at the beginning felt far more like a dumb PR stunt than something that should have been in the story.
I remember being completely amazed by this. I went in having no idea it was going to happen, and it completely subverted my expectations. I was impressed with how it was handled, and I thought it was a great story justification for being able to re-allocate points for an imported character.

> [*]Having the Council be equally unfriendly and dismissive no matter your choice during Sovereign's attack felt like a betrayal.
They're politicians, dude. It was a betrayal, but not in the sense that I think you mean. The whole point is that they serve themselves first. They've got their heads in the sand, while you and your team are out there actually getting things done. I think it worked into the story perfectly. It was another way of showing that it was up to you to save the day!

> [*]The focus on the Collectors... a group I don't believe you'd even heard of in ME1... instead of the Reapers did feel very forced and out of sync.
Fair enough.

> [*]Cerberus changing from that silly group of scattered crappy evil scientists who mostly died when their little evil experiments went terribly wrong to an obviously evil SUPER MEGA POWER that could go toe to toe with the major governments and their militaries was mind boggling;y wrong.
> [*]Cerberus being able to build a new bigger and better Normandy completely ruined the fiction that the original was a top secret beyond cutting edge ship.
I disagree with this as well. I think both of these things works with the fiction: they are a shadowy organization backed by ridiculous wealth. Just because you didn't know everything about them in the first game doesn't mean that they weren't doing the same things. They don't advertise how powerful they are, because they don't need to. Security through obscurity.

> [*]And maybe worst of all, spreading my squadmates to the wind and sticking me with all these new people... even though each did end up having an interesting story... made me very unhappy. Me and my team were going to go back out there and save the galaxy. Uh... no... me and some different team will deal with some silly threat while most of my former squadmates tell me they are too busy to help. :/
Meh. I thought the ME2 team was awesome, particularly Mordin and Miranda. I really liked how some of the ME1 cast was used in the story, doing their own things--especially Liara.