{"id":341823,"date":"2025-10-21T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2166231"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:50:50","slug":"have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <strong> <em>Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2.<\/em> <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There&#8217;s definitely more <em>exciting<\/em> characters in Mass Effect 2. She was just cool is all. They seemed so good together, her and my Shepherd, two straight-talking women on a ship full of neverending melodrama, quipping back and forth along the bridge. But I was trapped in a loveless relationship with the odiously boring Kaidan Alenko. So Kelly remained elusive: the steadfast second in command, a constant source of warmth, good sense and pragmatic kindness.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, she melted. In fact, most of my crew died in that final mission, but Kelly was the first, melting down into flesh chowder in a giant frosted glass tube. Afterwards I read that the only way to save everyone was to max out your relationship stats, upgrade your ship to the nth degree, and hightail it over to the suicide mission the <em>moment<\/em> you can. Reader, that&#8217;s exactly what I did. I went back to the start and put another 30 hours into that game, telling myself I was getting value for money. But in my heart of hearts I knew it was all for Kelly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-06-have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-06-have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2. I&#8217;m not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There&#8217;s definitely more exciting characters in Mass Effect 2. She was just cool is all. They seemed so good together, her and my Shepherd, two straight-talking women on a ship full of neverending melodrama, quipping back and forth along the bridge. But I was trapped in a loveless relationship with the odiously boring Kaidan Alenko. So Kelly remained elusive: the steadfast second in command, a constant source of warmth, good sense and pragmatic kindness. Anyway, she melted. In fact, most of my crew died in that final mission, but Kelly was the first, melting down into flesh chowder in a giant frosted glass tube. Afterwards I read that the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC? | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2. I&#039;m not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There&#039;s definitely more exciting characters in Mass Effect 2. She was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC? | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2. I&#039;m not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There&#039;s definitely more exciting characters in Mass Effect 2. She was\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-21T10:50:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"269\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"headline\":\"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC?\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-21T10:50:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Eurogamer\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/\",\"name\":\"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC? | Arcader News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-21T10:50:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"description\":\"Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2. I'm not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There's definitely more exciting characters in Mass Effect 2. She was\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":269,\"caption\":\"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC?\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"description\":\"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Arcade News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cricketgames.tv\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/author\\\/arcade-news\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC? | Arcader News","description":"Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2. I'm not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There's definitely more exciting characters in Mass Effect 2. She was","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC? | Arcader News","og_description":"Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2. I'm not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There's definitely more exciting characters in Mass Effect 2. She was","og_url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/","og_site_name":"Arcade News","article_published_time":"2025-10-21T10:50:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":480,"height":269,"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Arcade News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Arcade News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/"},"author":{"name":"Arcade News","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"headline":"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC?","datePublished":"2025-10-21T10:50:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/"},"wordCount":211,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg","articleSection":["Eurogamer"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/","name":"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC? | Arcader News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg","datePublished":"2025-10-21T10:50:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"description":"Spoiler warnings for Mass Effect 2. I'm not sure why I liked Kelly Chambers so much. There's definitely more exciting characters in Mass Effect 2. She was","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc.jpg","width":480,"height":269,"caption":"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC?"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/have-you-ever-gone-to-great-lengths-to-save-an-npc\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Have you ever gone to great lengths to save an NPC?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/","name":"Arcade News","description":"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839","name":"Arcade News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Arcade News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/cricketgames.tv"],"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/author\/arcade-news\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365152,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341823\/revisions\/1365152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}