That coming from the guy who obessive-compulsively feels the need to defend WotC to the death, no matter how many bad decisions they make.
Aside from that, flagged for personal insult.
Dude, chill. What I said was sarcastic self-deprecation, provided you read past the first ten words. It wasn't an insult. I was acknowledging that you were right, at least to some significant degree.
Not to toot my own horn, but if I wanted to insult someone I'd do a much better job than that.
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When the asperger's guy (me) catches the sarcasm, you know it was obvious. Must have hit a real sore point, or he had a terrible day. That's usually when people miss otherwise obvious sarcasm.
I miss the ME1 mechanics. If 2 & 3 still did that I would almost be able to forgive the poor ending. Granted I haven't seen the fixed version yet.
What idiot came up with the idea of heat clips anyway? And I can't have shields and barriers? What happened to reave from ME 2?
Other then that I do like the hack and bypass minigames better and most the other stuff is enjoyable.
Hrm, yeah, let's drop it. Sorry, Scott, I was having a bad day. :(
Hrm, yeah, let's drop it. Sorry, Scott, I was having a bad day. :(
It's cool, no worries! Hang in there/stay strong/use Warp ammo.
Oh, that does get better in part three and only applies to her leadership skills and her chances to get together with Shepard. She's pretty confident in her tech skills and her trusty shotgun. :D
Except that she still can't be trusted to actually DO anything herself - she needs you for every little decision. Who has to tell the quarians to stand down and not fight the geth? Yeah. By contrast, I don't remember anyone telling Liara to track down the Shadow broker.
I never liked Liara as a romantic option. First of all, I find Asari in general pretty creepy. Secondly, I don't think I could do a long-term platonic romantic relationship. That's not how this Shepard rolls.
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Well... Let me just add that Liara is pretty non-platonic. If we are discussing platonic romances, Tali is exhibit A. Sure, once in a while she can tank up on antibiotics, but...
Well... Let me just add that Liara is pretty non-platonic. If we are discussing platonic romances, Tali is exhibit A. Sure, once in a while she can tank up on antibiotics, but...
At least Quarrians are "compatible", even if it'll probably kill them. And call me a prude, but breaking my skull open and manipulating the pleasure centres in my brain with your tentacles doesn't count as "romance".
(I also don't like Tali as a romantic option, but for very different reasons.)
Ohhhhh, asari are eminently compatible. They do not splurge their head tentacles into your gray matter.
Except that she still can't be trusted to actually DO anything herself - she needs you for every little decision. Who has to tell the quarians to stand down and not fight the geth? Yeah. By contrast, I don't remember anyone telling Liara to track down the Shadow broker.
Except that Liara also needs you to get the information, do the mission and so on. Saying that Tali doesn't do anything without the player applies to every NPC ever in the game.
Your lack is faith in Tali is... disturbing.
Ohhhhh, asari are eminently compatible. They do not splurge their head tentacles into your gray matter.
Any lore I've seen on the matter seems to disagree with the first part (which makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint). I was exaggerating the second part to highlight why I don't agree with Bioware's writers on how smexy "merging nervous systems" sound.
Except that Liara also needs you to get the information, do the mission and so on. Saying that Tali doesn't do anything without the player applies to every NPC ever in the game.
Considering how eager the rest of the Quarrian species is to commit collective suicide, Tali is actually unusually independent minded. :)
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Ohhhhh, asari are eminently compatible. They do not splurge their head tentacles into your gray matter.Any lore I've seen on the matter seems to disagree with the first part (which makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint). I was exaggerating the second part to highlight why I don't agree with Bioware's writers on how smexy "merging nervous systems" sound.
It is stated that it feels awesome and that the mate does not feel any discomfort whatsoever, so i believe that the merging of the nervous systems is done by synaptic connections through the skin and there is nothing invasive like small tentacles penetrating the skin or some such. Now, if you personally feel that that is wrong, that's your opinion.
At least Quarrians are "compatible", even if it'll probably kill them. And call me a prude, but breaking my skull open and manipulating the pleasure centres in my brain with your tentacles doesn't count as "romance".
The whole point of the Asari, physiologically, is that they're compatible with everyone. They're capable of mating with any sapient species because they don't produce offspring by genetic recombination, they merely use their partner's genetic information to influence - to some lesser extent - the child's own genetic makeup (which is why they're capable of mating regardless of the gender of the partner). There are no half-Asari-half-something-else. All Asari offspring are Asari, but they always exhibit some of the traits of the non-Asari parent.
Evolutionarily, the Asari (apparently; mind you, the real-world evolutionary practicality of this is dubious at best) benefited from a genetics/survival standpoint from the variation provided by the ability to produce offspring influenced by such an incredible variety of possible parents. This also resulted in the Asari developing sexual selection traits that make them as universally appealing as possible (in this case, almost literally universally, in the sense that most sapient species in the universe find them attractive). Accordingly, it also behooved the Asari, evolutionarily, to make the process of mating as universally enjoyable as well.
In other words, they evolved to be consummate consummators. No worries about compatibility, no fear of cranial trauma.
Now, if you personally feel that that is wrong, that's your opinion.
Thank you, I think it's pretty much a given that my opinion is my opinion. I'm not sure why that had to be pointed out, but there we go.
I'm sure the whatchamacallit feels nice. Lots of things feel nice. I guess that Asari "intimacy" reminds me of the "sex" scene from Demolition Man. I'm sure it's nice, but it doesn't sound particular fulfilling in the long term. Which would have been less of an issue if the BioWare writers hadn't seemed hell-bent on convincing me that I'm wrong and that it's awesome.
To re-iterate my comment above: That's not how my Shepard rolls.
The whole point of the Asari, physiologically, is that they're compatible with everyone. They're capable of mating with any sapient species because they don't produce offspring by genetic recombination, they merely use their partner's genetic information to influence - to some lesser extent - the child's own genetic makeup (which is why they're capable of mating regardless of the gender of the partner). There are no half-Asari-half-something-else. All Asari offspring are Asari, but they always exhibit some of the traits of the non-Asari parent.
Yeah. When I said compatible I didn't mean procreation. I was talking about sexual compatibility and trying to be delicate about it. Sorry. It has been stated somewhere lore related (I can't be bothered to dig through year old links on the bioware forums) that Asari are not sexually compatible with humans. As in: they only have the bits to do you Asari style. And, biologically speaking, that makes sense.
I'm not judging anyone for liking that. I'm just saying that it doesn't sound particular interesting to me. Hence why I don't dig Liara as a romantic option.
(and, just in case there's more confusion: everything in this post is my opinion. Including the quoted bits!)
So it is not impossible the captives of the Thorian could make some thorian-style asari children...
Mordin (incidentally one of the best characters of the series) , Nooooooooo...........!
Sorry, just passed Tuchanka last night. Carry on.
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I feel your pain, Sunderstone. Someone else would have gotten it wrong.
Yeah. When I said compatible I didn't mean procreation. I was talking about sexual compatibility and trying to be delicate about it. Sorry. It has been stated somewhere lore related (I can't be bothered to dig through year old links on the bioware forums) that Asari are not sexually compatible with humans. As in: they only have the bits to do you Asari style. And, biologically speaking, that makes sense.
That's also not true. In fact, the opposite is true. There are multiple references made throughout the series indicating that Asari are, for all relevant intents and purposes, physiologically female in a very human sense. This includes a scene in one of the Mass Effect novels indicating that one of the characters was having penetrative sex with an Asari. Furthermore, we are given no reason to believe otherwise.
In fact, at one point in the first game Liara literally tells you that Asari and humans are "physiologically compatible".
EDIT: Good lord, if I ever have kids I hope they never think to Google my name.
Someone else would have gotten it wrong.
lol, now back to my /crying
Gonna miss Thane too. Sigh.
Gonna miss Thane too. Sigh.
That's a good scene.
Thane goes out like he lived: like a boss.
I handled it the EXACT same way, Peter. That was the ONLY renegade thing my Shepard EVER did. Such was my hatred of Lieutenant Bastard Kai Leng.
Thane's death was the scene that wrecked me the most. Kolyat's quiet assertion that the prayer was for Shepard and not for his father was keenly gut-wrenching. I can't really limit it to that scene specifically, but Thane's whole arc is the highwater mark for me as far as videogame writing is concerned. It's a very small number of times that a fictional character's life and death has reduced me to blubbering sobs but that's what happened with Thane.
Assuming you pick up the Citadel DLC, Sunderstone, you'll have the opportunity to eulogize Thane. It's a really nice touch and one I suggest you do not miss.
Kai Leng's a tosser and should be ashamed. He was prevented from reaching his target by a terminally ill Drell.
One joke my friends and I all made after the Retaliation DLC for multiplayer: No wonder we had to assemble all of the galaxy's biggest badasses for the Suicide Mission. The Collectors are terrifying.
(You'll note Leng didn't make the Suicide Mission roster ;))
I have all the DLCs :)
Btw, my otherwise Paragon Shepard shot Udina in the head. I felt like he would have killed a different counselor otherwise. Looks like I have another Renegade moment to look forward to.
I have all the DLCs :)
Btw, my otherwise Paragon Shepard shot Udina in the head. I felt like he would have killed a different counselor otherwise. Looks like I have another Renegade moment to look forward to.
Heh. I'm doing a major play through this summer - trying to go through all the games now that all the content is out. When I did ME3 I didn't have any of its DLC before I'd finished. Should be fun - and I can even rationalize away the ending with the Indoctrination Theory.
I remember accidentally and unintentionally murdering an attack ship mechanic in 2 during the ArchAngel mission. I watched with dawning horror as some fancy tool was jabbed into the unsuspecting dude's back before I regained enough sense to Alt-F4 my way right out of that mess! Never again!
But if you don't murder him, you have an incredibly hard time with that attack ship later...oh yeah, i did that, one strike for each game i guess
Back end of that fight as a whole is a giant pain.
Guns are for Sheps who can't BE.
More so in ME3 than ME2. I'd love to see the story for the first two games ported in the ME3 controls / power scheme.
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I prefered game 1 (though three was alright controls wise) game one was more rpg like and haveing different powers mattered more as each had individual cooldowns and there were more "skills" to invest in. And i will never understand switching to clips instead of the original cooldown method or possibly allowing both styles.
It seems to me they shaved off many rpg elements to focus more on action, which i don't think was really needed. They could simply have bolstered the action without sacrificing all the more deep rpg elements.
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I prefered game 1 (though three was alright controls wise) game one was more rpg like and haveing different powers mattered more as each had individual cooldowns and there were more "skills" to invest in. And i will never understand switching to clips instead of the original cooldown method or possibly allowing both styles.
It seems to me they shaved off many rpg elements to focus more on action, which i don't think was really needed. They could simply have bolstered the action without sacrificing all the more deep rpg elements.
I don't think there were really any "deep" RPG elements in the first game. Inventory and equipment management, maybe? But it wasn't a very good equipment system, so nothing of value lost there.
I liked the leveling system the most in the first one. There was so much detail and fine control over where you got to put your points. Weapon trees, shield trees, class trees and a specialization tree after the Luna mission? That leveling format was far and away my favorite across the series.
I also liked finding new armors for the different crew members, though the ENORMOUS scarcity of Quarian armor further encouraged my lack of Tali-use.
I didn't miss the inventory/equipment juggling at all in ME2. Aside from the tedious planet scanning, everything else worked really well in that game. And it introduced the vanguard biotic charge, the most exciting feature in a shooter I've yet seen.
I've been doing a go through of ME 3 and is it just me or does Jacob seem angry or somehow displeased with Shepard the whole time and he's doing a poor job of hiding it?
Seemed to be the usual Jacob snoozefest to me, but I play a BroShep. So if you are playing a FemShep who romanced him, I could easily see that there are other interactions than with the other Shepards.
Jacob is just like that. Even in ME 2 he was making snarky comments to half the crew. That's why he watched from the ship the entire game.