Forum:Thoughts on ME3 final cinematic

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**Spoilers just in case there is anyone here that hasn't finished it yet**

So I am watching the end sequence of the game last night, the version that plays after you take one for the team and bite it, I found it a little frustrating that when they show your memorial plaque being posted to the wall, it just reads "Commander Shepard". Now what bothers me is this: you have a first name. Granted its never mentioned in game because the voice actors have all recorded their lines months and perhaps years before you typed it in but the cut scenes have always been adaptive, they can alter depending on what your character looks like or what they are wearing. so why couldn't Bioware add a line of code that added your full name to the cinematic of the memorial plaque? It looks particularly odd that it simply reads "Commander Shepard" when right next to it it says Admiral David Anderson. So Anderson gets a full name but you who saved the galaxy 3 times is still just good old Shepard, and a commander at that. Multiple galaxy savings and you dont even rank for a posthumous promotion? sheesh :D

Anyway that was what was keeping me up last night, just thought I would share ;)

Dupmeister (talk) 12:24, October 29, 2014 (UTC)

Maybe it's just in case someone adds a ridiculously long name. I'm actually quite surprised and pleased that you aren't frustrating how "terrible" the whole game was, like I've seen others do.--Observer Supreme 22:25, October 30, 2014 (UTC)

I believe the reason that Shepard's first name isn't put is because most people will identify with Shepard as being "Commander Shepard", not "Bob Marley Shepard" or "Joey Shepard". Shepard is a symbol, someone who ultimately brought down the Reapers, and thus it was more appropriate to acknowledge Shepard as being a legend, as opposed to a person. --173.58.251.107 22:55, October 30, 2014 (UTC)