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[Mass Effect]: 4 months in, feeling old yet?
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I wouldn't exactly say it was "cordial".
Though "You are just a machine! And machines can be broken!" Was pretty retarded and I hate it was the only dialogue option there.
"Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding." is however the greatest opening line ever.
Mako combat is fine if you turn off auto-aim.
Auto-aim fucks up your cannon accuracy.
and this is why Sovereign will always remain superior
I don't have trouble aiming the Mako, though to be honest, I frequently miss things if I shoot while moving, so I assume mine is off.
Yeah, most of Shepard's responses to Sovereign were pretty stupid. Basically "Nuh uh!" material.
Here's my theory:
He's never there in person.
I like that scene, actually, because I think it's starting to become clear the Reapers have another motive, and Sovereign didn't actually mind talking to Shepherd. Which is interesting.
Each of your questions has an answer and leads to the next.
They attack the Normandy because they want Shepard. Why do they want Shepard? Because she was central to the defeat of Sovereign in ME1 and is a prime specimen of humanity.
Why do they need humans for a reaper? Because - as a mechanical race - they are incapable of biological evolution and therefore implement it manually themselves.
They seek to replace Sovereign with a new reaper, one that builds on the strengths of the race that was instrumental to its defeat. Why do they liquify the humans? Because a reaper is a combination of machine and organic material. EDI explains this - albeit quite briefly - in the finale.
The only unanswered question really is the exact nature of reapers, as in the reason why they are a combination of organics and machine. Who made them originally and what are their ultimate motives. These questions are obviously core to the ME universe and will be answered in ME3.
So he's even worse!
That was one of the best parts of ME1, in that single scene Sovereign established himself as a more threatening and credible villain than Harbinger did in the entirety of ME2.
I imagine Harbinger as a hardcore MMO player, sitting behind a fancy multi-monitor display, space-Hot Pocket in one of his hands (claws?), and just getting so mad that the dudes on his team can't do anything right.
"RELEASING CONTROL...stupid faggots. If our DPS wasn't such a moron who always takes aggro away from the fucking tanks..."
Harbinger's a gamer.
Someone wasn't playing on a higher difficulty!
oh, come on
one minute, empty space, then
*bloop* "hai guise"
I mean it's kind of true, at least it was on my experience on insanity. The hardest part of the whole game was the end of Horizon and possibly the platforms. After that you have enough upgrades that Harbinger explodes as soon as you look at him on any difficulty.
well done, sir. :^: and the Harbinger as a WoW raid-leader mental image is fantastic.
I thought the collector encounters kept the pace up quite well.
Nice avatar.
That was one of the only parts were they felt threatening to me. All throughout the rest of ME2 they were vague, and uncompelling.
Nonsense. Just have a 5 min exposition chat with the immortal robot-reapers.
The Reapers are arrogant assholes, Sovereign wasn't going to pass up a chance to gloat about how puny you are. And if that was your problem with him, that he was arrogant and took the time to gloat at you, then by that reasoning, you should despise Harbinger. Harbinger is the equivalent of a schoolyard bully, constantly talking trash and touting his superiority and basically saying he's gonna kick your ass, but then that rings extremely hollow when time and again you wipe the floor with him. The scene with Sovereign made the Reapers feel invincible to me, like Shepard didn't stand a chance against them, it was one of the best scenes in ME1 and there aren't any scenes in ME2 that made me feel the same way.
Sovereign and Saren were much better villains then the Collectors or Harbinger could ever hope to be.
The game kind of overplays how threatening the Collectors really are, in the big picture. Their fleet consists of a single cruiser, which we only ever see beat two frigates in surprise ambushes (the SR1 and the Turian patrol). And then loses to a single upgraded frigate when it doesn't have the element of surprise. The Alliance has 8 battleships, I think a few dozen carriers, and who knows how many cruisers and frigates. As soon as the humans decided to start posting actual ships at their colonies instead of hastly setting up a couple of ground turrets, the Collectors would have been fucked.
It would have never had a chance of getting anywhere near Earth, regardless of what [insert crewmember] says. It wouldn't have really held a couple million people anyways, let alone billions.
How many arrogant assholes villains do we have? I'd like to have someone different for once. You remember those comm records that survived on Ilos? If we had more of those they could have conveyed the same feeling of invincibility.
I would have liked if Sovereign hacked Shepard's vision like Gravemind did in Halo 3. I always thought that was a cooler effect.
Arrogance or fanatical self-righteousness.
If your problem with Sovereign was that he was arrogant, then you must hate Harbinger. All Harbinger does is talk about how awesome he is and how Shepard doesn't stand a chance, but that comes of as a bunch of hot air when every encounter with him ends in Shepard kicking his ass.
Also, vision hacking would have been awesome.
if you've been alive for like a squillion years and turned the entire galaxy into what's essentially your personal fishtank/seafood bar/breeding ground, then you might get a little full of yourself, yes
i don't mind, because sovereign was better at being arrogant than most other arrogant bad guys
It's incredibly silly. Especially given that, in that time, Sovereign could have obliterated the continent you were standing on or something comparable, and by all accounts, he knew what you had done up to that point.
It's a very enjoyable scene, simply because it is surprising, but it's also very, very silly. "Puny human, I shall explain my plan to you in depth so you may foil me, rather than reduce you to ash where you stand!" Cue the evil laughter. Then again, I'm fairly certain Bioware deliberately wanted Sovereign to have a certain amount of cheesy hokeyness.
It wouldn't have been as silly if it had been someone close to Sovereign, but it would have been less imposing also.
:^:
(Specifically, with an incomplete Shepard-Reaver.)
Humans are the best species, and Shepard is the best human.
Like I said, boring. A bizarre fascination becomes "so what?".
Especially given that their plan isn't to turn Shepard, it's to liquidate him/her and along with everyone else. That's like me having booming at a frostie, "Do you feel me, Frostie?"