LogFAQs > #940652187

Yeah, the game is really open-ended, probably even more so than the first! I don't have anything against a more linear experience personally, but I do think that works, and makes sense, for a game like this one.

Of course, if you really hated a character you could also make a point of recruiting him but then skip his loyalty mission so that he would die during the suicide mission.

The idea of a xenophobic loner Shepard is interesting because I've always felt that the need for acceptance of different peoples and the value of team-work were major themes of Mass Effect and that Shepard being good at making friends was the most fixed part of her identity. How badly would the suicide mission go with just Shepard, Jacob, Miranda, and Mordin? You could have Mordin do the hacking in the vents successfully and Miranda could provide the psychic barrier, right?

Thinking of that brings to mind how people will sometimes complete Final Fantasy VI with only Celes, Edgar, and Setzer. That game won't kill off your characters as punishment for insufficient sidequest completion, but I imagine going through the final dungeon with three teams of one is still really hard.

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