it's so fashy

I've played these games so much so I have no illusions that they are mostly insane liberal propaganda but this always stood out as particularly vile

I occasionally look up the like full dialogue trees of conversations on youtube and anything remotely involving Batarians have like 75% just straight up fascist comments (like literally you see slightly modified quotes of actual fascists)

idk just kinda disheartening to see so many ppl just go fully along with it and have basically nobody be like "hey maybe don't"

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]11•3 months ago

    Mass effect 2 especially is a perfect representation of everything wrong with Bioware's writing and why they get away with it.

    The world building is paint by the numbers at best and neo liberal brain worms capitalist realism at worst...but by God they know how to write characters I actually get emotionally invested in and genuinely give a shit about.

    Really one of the reasons mass effect 3, the ending in particular, was such a catastrophe is the direct result of this problem. The entire attempt to be deep and profoundly philosophical and hinge the entire emotional weight of the story on saving earth fell completely flat because the themes of the series are fairly pedestrian and they never bothered to give the player a reason to care about earth beyond that you're human and your psuedo father figure was "born in London".

    Nobody cared about earth. We cared about seeing Urdnot Wrex with hundreds of Krogan babies, Tali getting her home built on Rannoch, et al.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]13•3 months ago

      they never bothered to give the player a reason to care about earth beyond that you're human and your psuedo father figure was "born in London".

      How dare you forget the generic child NPC that got vaporised at the end of the first level? HE HAD A TOY NORMANDY boohoo