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Wrex: My people were sterilised as punishment for rebelling against the galactic hegemony. We live in an irradiated wasteland and only 1 in 1000 krogan births survive to term. We're a dying race. Trast: This is fun and light-hearted and not at all depressing.
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Lt. Danger posted:Wrex: My people were sterilised as punishment for rebelling against the galactic hegemony. We live in an irradiated wasteland and only 1 in 1000 krogan births survive to term. We're a dying race. he said he thought it works better when it's more light-hearted. maybe he didn't like the genophage plot?
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Mass Effect is at its strongest when it's straight sci-fi, fortunately it maintains that tone consistently throughout all three games and only deviates in the wild imaginings of goons.
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aegof posted:I went back and I think I found the exact moment goons stopped being ironic about this. those pictures   
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Lt. Danger posted:Wrex: My people were sterilised as punishment for rebelling against the galactic hegemony. We live in an irradiated wasteland and only 1 in 1000 krogan births survive to term. We're a dying race. please don't tell me that sci-fi shlock nonsense garnered a legitimate emotional response from you
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Pattonesque posted:he said he thought it works better when it's more light-hearted. maybe he didn't like the genophage plot? Tali: When we realised we had created artificial intelligence, we immediately tried to commit genocide to avoid galactic sanctions. We lost the war for our homeworld and now we exist on the fringes of society, feared and hated by other races, with crippling autoimmune conditions that prevent us from having casual contact with other people. Our military dictatorship is now split on the issue of whether to invade Rannoch and try to kill or enslave the geth, a peaceful race that just want to be left alone. My father personally committed war crimes in pursuit of this goal. Trast: This is just like Buck Rogers.
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Cowcaster posted:please don't tell me that sci-fi shlock nonsense garnered a legitimate emotional response from you No, Trast is the one with the legitimate emotional responses here. However either they've forgotten exactly what happens in Mass Effect or they think it's really funny and uplifting that e.g. Exogeni and Binary Helix fed a bunch of civilian researchers to horrible alien monsters in the name of unethical science.
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Lt. Danger posted:No, Trast is the one with the legitimate emotional responses here. However either they've forgotten exactly what happens in Mass Effect or they think it's really funny and uplifting that e.g. Exogeni and Binary Helix fed a bunch of civilian researchers to horrible alien monsters in the name of unethical science. why are all your posts so abrasive and combative
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Feb 24, 2017 17:23
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Lt. Danger posted:Tali: When we realised we had created artificial intelligence, we immediately tried to commit genocide to avoid galactic sanctions. We lost the war for our homeworld and now we exist on the fringes of society, feared and hated by other races, with crippling autoimmune conditions that prevent us from having casual contact with other people. Our military dictatorship is now split on the issue of whether to invade Rannoch and try to kill or enslave the geth, a peaceful race that just want to be left alone. My father personally committed war crimes in pursuit of this goal. right, I don't agree with him, but also he said he thinks it works better when the tone is lighter, not that the tone was always light I'm just r e a d i n g w h a t ' s i n t h e t e x t
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If we pick out all the dark bits I don't think there's gonna be much Mass Effect left.
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Medlar posted:
Dating itself through using current fashion and styles is a time-honoured tradition of Science Fiction and especially Space Opera.
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Feb 24, 2017 17:29
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man guys, have you read some of these pokemon descriptions, they're so ~dark~ and ~twisted~
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Cowcaster posted:man guys, have you read some of these pokemon descriptions, they're so ~dark~ and ~twisted~ I had to give up on Pokemon, it was too hardcore and edgy for me. Read about Cubone and wept, breaking my gameboy.
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Also if we're making unreasonable gripes, can I mention that I resent that the Collectors for example are a fully alien race that uses shoulder-braced rifle type weapons? It's lame.
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AlternateAccount posted:Also if we're making unreasonable gripes, can I mention that I resent that the Collectors for example are a fully alien race that uses shoulder-braced rifle type weapons? It's lame. they've got two legs two arms and shoulders why wouldn't they
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AlternateAccount posted:Also if we're making unreasonable gripes, can I mention that I resent that the Collectors for example are a fully alien race that uses shoulder-braced rifle type weapons? It's lame. I mean its Mass Effect, most of the aliens are roughly humanoid in shape. When did we ever see a hanar or an elcor do anything besides remain in one place and talk? I mean its space opera and not some attempt at hard sci-fi, you're not gonna get much besides humanoid aliens that behave in humanoid ways.
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Serf posted:I mean its Mass Effect, most of the aliens are roughly humanoid in shape. When did we ever see a hanar or an elcor do anything besides remain in one place and talk? I mean its space opera and not some attempt at hard sci-fi, you're not gonna get much besides humanoid aliens that behave in humanoid ways. still a bit miffed we never got to see elcor walking tanks
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Pattonesque posted:still a bit miffed we never got to see elcor walking tanks me too 
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Pattonesque posted:still a bit miffed we never got to see elcor walking tanks Same here, comrade. Andromeda was another squandered opportunity to take a stab at some alien aliens, but the fat-neck cat people and the collectors 2.0 are just bleh.
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Serf posted:Same here, comrade. I'm still going to enjoy using my space wizard powers on them and listening to companions squabble about it all, though.
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Feb 24, 2017 17:59
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Has anyone said rear end defect lately?
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homullus posted:I'm still going to enjoy using my space wizard powers on them and listening to companions squabble about it all, though. It will not diminish my enjoyment of the game, no. If it mattered that much I would've quit back in Mass Effect 1.
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I just hope there's more Andromeda aliens than the Angaran and Kett
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Cowcaster posted:they've got two legs two arms and shoulders why wouldn't they Should just be a race of guns, tbh, like the scion or the arm cannon things.
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Lt. Danger posted:Tali: When we realised we had created artificial intelligence, we immediately tried to commit genocide to avoid galactic sanctions. We lost the war for our homeworld and now we exist on the fringes of society, feared and hated by other races, with crippling autoimmune conditions that prevent us from having casual contact with other people. Our military dictatorship is now split on the issue of whether to invade Rannoch and try to kill or enslave the geth, a peaceful race that just want to be left alone. My father personally committed war crimes in pursuit of this goal. Kai Leng: Despite my reputation as a feared assassin and touting myself Shepard's equal, I fail miserably in every single encounter against him, succeeding only when I literally enter cheat codes into my omni tool. This is done with such unerring regularity that it becomes a running gag throughout the entire narrative, and everything from my dialogue to aesthetics highlight my laughable incompetence. Goons: Man, I can't believe Bioware wants us to take this guy so grimdark seriously.
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Christ, the Bioware community never fails. Why is it so horrible to have a purely straight character? It's loving weird and kind of creepy to have every character be bi, it's like they're all there purely to be hosed.
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Deakul posted:Christ, the Bioware community never fails. BioWare will slowly progress to being the first AAA studio that only makes VR gently caress games.
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Feb 24, 2017 18:41
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I will see for myself, in first person, how big PeeBee's Dee is.
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marshmallow creep posted:I will see for myself, in first person, how big PeeBee's Dee is. Please link your Patreon.
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Deakul posted:Christ, the Bioware community never fails. I've never found it creepy so much as just kind of statistically improbable, but frankly what do I know. It seems more weird that there seems to be a dearth of purely homosexual options in their games. It was kind of nice for people to have a broad range of romantic options for their own preferences, I guess.
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exquisite tea posted:Kai Leng: Despite my reputation as a feared assassin and touting myself Shepard's equal, I fail miserably in every single encounter against him, succeeding only when I literally enter cheat codes into my omni tool. This is done with such unerring regularity that it becomes a running gag throughout the entire narrative, and everything from my dialogue to aesthetics highlight my laughable incompetence. "I was a highly trained marine, fitted with the best equipment money can buy and implants derived the most advanced synthetic race in the galaxy and a terminally ill Drell stopped me from killing my target. The guy even bragged about it on his death bed"
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Deakul posted:Christ, the Bioware community never fails. Everyone being bi is dumb, but it's usually the only way to have as many potential partners for gay characters as for straight characters. Of course, if they are all bi then the romances will treat you as genderless like with Josephine, and that's poo poo, too.
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I've never really cared about the relationship system in these games, but I figure it is ignored easily enough that there's no point in worrying about it.
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FunkMonkey posted:I've never found it creepy so much as just kind of statistically improbable, but frankly what do I know. It seems more weird that there seems to be a dearth of purely homosexual options in their games. It was kind of nice for people to have a broad range of romantic options for their own preferences, I guess. The creepy thing about having a bunch of aliens aboard your ship who all wanna gently caress the PC is that the game ceases to be about writing characters with their own agency and personalities, and more about providing uniform sexual gratification to the player apart from any other considerations, because of course why wouldn't they want to sleep with you? It's offputting and weird.
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Serf posted:I've never really cared about the relationship system in these games, but I figure it is ignored easily enough that there's no point in worrying about it. Same here. I'll usually try at least one just because they tend to be amusingly awkward.
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exquisite tea posted:The creepy thing about having a bunch of aliens aboard your ship who all wanna gently caress the PC is that the game ceases to be about writing characters with their own agency and personalities, and more about providing uniform sexual gratification to the player apart from any other considerations, because of course why wouldn't they want to sleep with you? It's offputting and weird. But you could flirt with Cassandra and Dorian even as a woman, and they would reject you. It's not unrealistic that some of them would want to get together with you.
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new briefing https://www.masseffect.com/andromeda-initiative/training-hub/weapons-and-biotics
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exquisite tea posted:The creepy thing about having a bunch of aliens aboard your ship who all wanna gently caress the PC is that the game ceases to be about writing characters with their own agency and personalities, and more about providing uniform sexual gratification to the player apart from any other considerations, because of course why wouldn't they want to sleep with you? It's offputting and weird. Fortunately there always seems to be a very explicit point in these games where you can shut them down and lock them into a platonic relationship at most, which is what I pretty much do any playthrough after my first. I remember being somewhat pissed with this regarding Anders in DA2 because the only options were to romance him or insinuate that you were disturbed by his homosexual interest in you. You couldn't just have had a "sorry, but I'm just not into you like that" option? Buck Wildman fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Feb 24, 2017 |
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