#yeah for patho but i haven't done it in ME yet

[sol-consort]

Would let you stack donuts on it

Joker, James, Garrus, Wrex, Liam, Jaal.

Won't

Jacob, Anderson, Saren, Hackett, Mordin, Evfra.

Maybe? mostly confused:

Kaidan, Thane, Nihlus, Legion, Kallo.

(Note: constructive criticism on placement welcomed only if backed by sound arguments)

[dgcatanisiri]

*sigh*

Of course all the walkthroughs of Star Trek Resurgence I easily find on YouTube are going through with the complete nothing of a "romance" with Carter and Miranda. It just doesn't have anything going for it in anything on a practical level - the game has barely established the characters when Miranda ends up taken over, so nothing really shows WHY the romance should happen or why the audience should invest emotionally in it.

I mean, yeah, sure, I'm a hard sell on heterosexual romance in the first place, but... I mean, just on a basic, writing-focused level, this relationship is not ESTABLISHED before the disruption, and so it leaves me with the outright feeling of "why am I being asked to CARE?" Like even if I did get on board with het romances, I legitimately felt so much more pathos within Carter and Edsilar's relationship over the course of the game, BECAUSE it was built up so much. If there were some version where their survival wasn't mutually exclusive, I wouldn't have been opposed to the idea of THEM getting together. But Miranda's never given the development she needs to be someone I have any genuine sense of investment in seeing her be rescued, in seeing her and Carter being anything other crewmates. Sure, she comes to him and asks to take that step, but, again, this is practically at the start of the game, when these characters haven't even gotten established.

Granted, at least it's been easier to get the choices for later in the game that make more sense - saving the Tkon crystals at the temple and choosing Westbrook as the first officer. The former is a perfectly Starfleet call, the Tkon minds in those crystals have done no direct harm themselves, not to mention they hold history, and there's a good practical reason of holding a supply of what the enemy is looking for, making the ship something that the enemy may not be able to straightforwardly destroy, and the latter is the choice to make in practical terms, because you want a first officer who is ready to call out your questionable choices. Hell, of the three options, Bedrosian is ABSOLUTELY the WORST choice - she demands that Rydek put her desires above the good of the many.

Like I was honestly kind of offended to see that the playthrough on DanaDuchy's channel went with Bedrosian as first officer in the end, siding with her throughout, because she really does show that she is NOT ready for that responsibility. And, as I said in my earlier write up of my thoughts on the game, I can get that all being a trauma response on her part, and the situation not offering an opportunity for her to step down and recuperate from it all, it ALSO means that, again, she shouldn't be in that position.

And yet, every playthrough I find on YouTube wants to go with the Miranda romance, and several are saying that they agree with Bedrosian...

I say again, I did genuinely enjoy the game, I'm not making the complaints I am because I disliked it. I just dislike the common choices that are all over YouTube, because they're just not anywhere near what I would, and when there's a choice-focus in a game like this, it can be one of those things that genuinely bug you.