I will pay Bioware like several million dollars if they put a Batarian in as a mandatory squadmate and love interest who steals Shepards thunder and kills the Reapers.
Also, he bitches about uppity humans and all Shepards responses are some variant of agreement.
I will pay Bioware like several million dollars if they put a Batarian in as a mandatory squadmate and love interest who steals Shepards thunder and kills the Reapers.
Also, he bitches about uppity humans and all Shepards responses are some variant of agreement.
I will pay Bioware like several million dollars if they put a Batarian in as a mandatory squadmate and love interest who steals Shepards thunder and kills the Reapers.
Also, he bitches about uppity humans and all Shepards responses are some variant of agreement.
I still maintain that some of the Batarians on the Archangel mission are pretty good dudes
Like the guy that greets you when you get out of the shuttle and the mechanic treat you more politely than a ton of human characters do in the games
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I still maintain that some of the Batarians on the Archangel mission are pretty good dudes
Like the guy that greets you when you get out of the shuttle and the mechanic treat you more politely than a ton of human characters do in the games
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I was actually using Ye Olde Style along with two others, but hadn't updated them. Now that I have, I'll have to try using it alone since the others one now look weird in tandem. But sigs no longer overlap! So good advice, talking killer whale. Good advice.
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Sury-however-you-spell-the-nick updates Ye Olde Style pretty much as fast as the forums are patched, so if you like to kick it oldschool, it's the go-to stylesheet.
He created a human ghetto on the Citadel and called it "Hu-Town" 8->
and had Batarian slavers successfully attack Palaven 8-> 8->
Given the shitton of ass kicking the Turians gave to their own Separatists, I can't wait to see what the Hierarchy does in reaction to this little "incident".
Here's the thing, if the esteemed Mr. Dietz actually knew anything about the Mass Effect universe, he would've realized how patently ridiculous it is to have Batarian slavers attacking Palaven, Palaven, homeworld of the Turians. A race that believes you must destroy your enemy so thoroughly that they can never threaten you again. I imagine Palaven is the very definition of a fortress-world.
I mean, Batarians are stupid, no doubts there, but I don't think they're that stupid
Oh, I know. I just think the fallout will be 'hi-larious'.
Sometimes continuity goofs have nice outcomes. Like the Endor holocaust.
Here's the thing, if the esteemed Mr. Dietz actually knew anything about the Mass Effect universe, he would've realized how patently ridiculous it is to have Batarian slavers attacking Palaven, Palaven, homeworld of the Turians. A race that believes you must destroy your enemy so thoroughly that they can never threaten you again. I imagine Palaven is the very definition of a fortress-world.
That would be almost as ridiculous as the Sith attacking Coruscant when it was the capital of the Republic. No way a real BioWare writer put that sort of stupidity in one of their games.
Here's the thing, if the esteemed Mr. Dietz actually knew anything about the Mass Effect universe, he would've realized how patently ridiculous it is to have Batarian slavers attacking Palaven, Palaven, homeworld of the Turians. A race that believes you must destroy your enemy so thoroughly that they can never threaten you again. I imagine Palaven is the very definition of a fortress-world.
That would be almost as ridiculous as the Sith attacking Coruscant when it was the capital of the Republic. No way a real BioWare writer put that sort of stupidity in one of their games.
Oh, wait...
That's a little bit different
In TOR the Sith were gathering forces for 300 years while the republic grew weaker
In this book a single 300 year old Batarian ship makes a single successful slave run on space Rome
...and the mechanic treat you more politely than a ton of human characters do in the games
To bad for him that the Renegade interrupt to kill him is so good. It's not as visually spectacular as some Renegade interrupts, but it's so wonderfully casually cold-blooded. Feelingly cold-blooded.
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Naw. The writing is just bad bad. That being said I pretty much just buy the books because I need as much pre-release info as I need. But stuff is painful to read at times.
...and the mechanic treat you more politely than a ton of human characters do in the games
To bad for him that the Renegade interrupt to kill him is so good. It's not as visually spectacular as some Renegade interrupts, but it's so wonderfully casually cold-blooded. Feelingly cold-blooded.
I didn't think you were killing him, just taking him out of the fight for a while.
I didn't think you were killing him, just taking him out of the fight for a while.
The Batarian working on the gunship that Shepard stabs in the back with the electrified screwdriver thing? I guess there's no way to know for sure. But it looks like Shep gets the shiv all the way through his armor and into his back.
It's also sort of hard to imagine that a Renegade interrupt would ever leave a Batarian target alive.
someone was talking about an anderson romance in the last thread.
well i was watching requiem for a dream the other day, and keith david turns up with the line "i know it looks pretty, but i didn't pull it out just for some air."
i was like, not even shep could resist that voice.
So you know how Bioware hinted we will have to make binary choices as to who lives to help us vs Reapers and who gets eaten/husked/indoctrinated by them? Like, Geth or space gypsies, that kind of thing.
I want to see who they pick as alternative to Batarians. My money is on the Volus. And I'd love to see the statistics on that "choice".
picked up my canon/insanity run & finished Horizon. I died like 4 times in the first wave of husks, then not at all after.
luckily the praetorian is easily exploitable with the piles of crates, not looking forward to the one on the collector ship.
...and the mechanic treat you more politely than a ton of human characters do in the games
To bad for him that the Renegade interrupt to kill him is so good. It's not as visually spectacular as some Renegade interrupts, but it's so wonderfully casually cold-blooded. Feelingly cold-blooded.
I like how the one time you meet a polite batarian the only logical way to deal with him is to kill him anyway.
I want to see who they pick as alternative to Batarians. My money is on the Volus. And I'd love to see the statistics on that "choice".
Is there a Volus in either ME1 or ME2 who's not a complete asshole? I can't think of a single one.
I suppose they're not exactly comparable to Batarians. Batarians are actively evil. Volus just seem to grow up to be natural d-bags. But Volus are always obviously jerks in-game, whereas most Batarian evil occurs in the lore. That makes me hate Volus much more than Batarians.
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I want to see who they pick as alternative to Batarians. My money is on the Volus. And I'd love to see the statistics on that "choice".
Is there a Volus in either ME1 or ME2 who's not a complete asshole? I can't think of a single one.
I suppose they're not exactly comparable to Batarians. Batarians are actively evil. Volus just seem to grow up to be natural d-bags. But Volus are always obviously jerks in-game, whereas most Batarian evil occurs in the lore. That makes me hate Volus much more than Batarians.
There's the biotic god. He says he's sorry for being an asshole when on SPACE DRUGS.
There's the guy on Noveria. He sends an email about his therapy and shutting the door was the only sensible option.
The Shadow Broker employee? He's on the up and up.
So you know how Bioware hinted we will have to make binary choices as to who lives to help us vs Reapers and who gets eaten/husked/indoctrinated by them? Like, Geth or space gypsies, that kind of thing.
I want to see who they pick as alternative to Batarians. My money is on the Volus. And I'd love to see the statistics on that "choice".
Hmm.
If that's the case
Geth
Krogan
Elcor
Turian
Hanar.
The Salarians and Asari both have viable outs to extinction via bulk breeding and long life spans let em get swiped as long as there are survivors they'll be fine.
Fuck the volus and batarians.
The quarians made it clear they don't want peace or even wish to apply logic to the geth situation fuck em. Im sure a microbe would have wiped them out eventually.
Im also assuming the Drell are the bulk of the Hanar military and are lumped in with them.
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So I ran through that Kingdoms of Whatever-the-Fuck demo. Not bad. Not great either. But I like some of what they were attempting: huge, open world that felt positively WoW-ish, a class system that doesn't seem too constricting, and an attempt to make the fighting more actiony.
The problem is the controls suck, the camera is being held by a drunk, I ran into a number of graphical glitches, and I just don't care about the world or the story.
picked up my canon/insanity run & finished Horizon. I died like 4 times in the first wave of husks, then not at all after.
luckily the praetorian is easily exploitable with the piles of crates, not looking forward to the one on the collector ship.
There's a wonderfully convenient pillar you can play hide-and-go-seek around with it.
I found the demo inoffensive but uninteresting. Salvatore+McFarlane isn't really a creative team that rouses me, but hey, free ME stuff and a new IP, so I wish them well.
And the praetorian on the ship is easier than the one on Horizon, I think, because of the pillar Orca mentions. I just leave my squadmates up on the overhang so they can help shoot down husks/collectors while I do the safety dance around the pillar.
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So I ran through that Kingdoms of Whatever-the-Fuck demo. Not bad. Not great either. But I like some of what they were attempting: huge, open world that felt positively WoW-ish, a class system that doesn't seem too constricting, and an attempt to make the fighting more actiony.
The problem is the controls suck, the camera is being held by a drunk, I ran into a number of graphical glitches, and I just don't care about the world or the story.
picked up my canon/insanity run & finished Horizon. I died like 4 times in the first wave of husks, then not at all after.
luckily the praetorian is easily exploitable with the piles of crates, not looking forward to the one on the collector ship.
There's a wonderfully convenient pillar you can play hide-and-go-seek around with it.
Praetorians are easy meat.
Still boring and irritating to fight. Especially with the shield recharge ability when your squadmates are idiots.
As for species?
Depends on the breakdown.
Turians are probably the first choice. Best military, never break in battle, and they have the time to regroup before the Reapers arrive.
Salarians next. They've got intel second to none, and their set up is not built to handle an attack if nobody helps them evacuate.
Geth. Not war focused, and no idea what they have in the way of a fleet, but they have tech.
One thing that always bugs me is the batarians in a creative sense. Did BioWare mean for them to be so hated, or were they supposed to be a "humans cause hardship too" parable that went horribly horribly awry?
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Still boring and irritating to fight. Especially with the shield recharge ability when your squadmates are idiots. [/quote]
I will admit that you need to micromanage your teammates, because sometimes they want to do something stupid...but so long as you place them somewhere safe (I like sticking them under cover by the heavy weapon ammo), it's not bad.
Same as Horizon. I shove them in a truck while I square-dance around boxes there.
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One thing that always bugs me is the batarians in a creative sense. Did BioWare mean for them to be so hated, or were they supposed to be a "humans cause hardship too" parable that went horribly horribly awry?
Slavery is part of their culture.
All we see of them is warlords and mercs.
They invaded a human colony.
Let me think about this.
I think it's Bioware's secret plan to get everyone to hate people with glasses, personally.
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Absolutely not.
That would mean letting the Reapers do the killing.
Shepard cannot have that.
Also, he bitches about uppity humans and all Shepards responses are some variant of agreement.
you mean this cruddy novel has batarians attacking the turian homeworld?
GODDAMMIT
SHEPARD DOES NOT LIKE COMPETITION
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like I can't wait for it to come out now
But he's a cool Batarian
in that that being dead substantially lowers their body temperature after a period of time
:^: Reading that put a smile on my face.
Dead batarians are pretty hot when I'm done with them.
Incendiary ammo, you see.
Like the guy that greets you when you get out of the shuttle and the mechanic treat you more politely than a ton of human characters do in the games
mmm
yeah
you might want to see a doctor about this
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And it looks right that way.
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Oh, I know. I just think the fallout will be 'hi-larious'.
Sometimes continuity goofs have nice outcomes. Like the Endor holocaust.
That would be almost as ridiculous as the Sith attacking Coruscant when it was the capital of the Republic. No way a real BioWare writer put that sort of stupidity in one of their games.
Oh, wait...
That's a little bit different
In TOR the Sith were gathering forces for 300 years while the republic grew weaker
In this book a single 300 year old Batarian ship makes a single successful slave run on space Rome
To bad for him that the Renegade interrupt to kill him is so good. It's not as visually spectacular as some Renegade interrupts, but it's so wonderfully casually cold-blooded. Feelingly cold-blooded.
That's quite painful...
The Batarian working on the gunship that Shepard stabs in the back with the electrified screwdriver thing? I guess there's no way to know for sure. But it looks like Shep gets the shiv all the way through his armor and into his back.
It's also sort of hard to imagine that a Renegade interrupt would ever leave a Batarian target alive.
well i was watching requiem for a dream the other day, and keith david turns up with the line "i know it looks pretty, but i didn't pull it out just for some air."
i was like, not even shep could resist that voice.
I want to see who they pick as alternative to Batarians. My money is on the Volus. And I'd love to see the statistics on that "choice".
i will not be able to finish the game
luckily the praetorian is easily exploitable with the piles of crates, not looking forward to the one on the collector ship.
I like how the one time you meet a polite batarian the only logical way to deal with him is to kill him anyway.
Is there a Volus in either ME1 or ME2 who's not a complete asshole? I can't think of a single one.
I suppose they're not exactly comparable to Batarians. Batarians are actively evil. Volus just seem to grow up to be natural d-bags. But Volus are always obviously jerks in-game, whereas most Batarian evil occurs in the lore. That makes me hate Volus much more than Batarians.
There's the biotic god. He says he's sorry for being an asshole when on SPACE DRUGS.
There's the guy on Noveria. He sends an email about his therapy and shutting the door was the only sensible option.
The Shadow Broker employee? He's on the up and up.
And Doran! He runs an honest casino.
Why I fear the ocean.
how would you feel if you were half the height of every other species and you had to wear a dumb suit all the time or your body would explode
you better be fucking good at math if you want to be successful at all
Hmm.
If that's the case
Geth
Krogan
Elcor
Turian
Hanar.
The Salarians and Asari both have viable outs to extinction via bulk breeding and long life spans let em get swiped as long as there are survivors they'll be fine.
Fuck the volus and batarians.
The quarians made it clear they don't want peace or even wish to apply logic to the geth situation fuck em. Im sure a microbe would have wiped them out eventually.
Im also assuming the Drell are the bulk of the Hanar military and are lumped in with them.
The problem is the controls suck, the camera is being held by a drunk, I ran into a number of graphical glitches, and I just don't care about the world or the story.
Oh well.
Maybe when it hits $10...
There's a wonderfully convenient pillar you can play hide-and-go-seek around with it.
Praetorians are easy meat.
And the praetorian on the ship is easier than the one on Horizon, I think, because of the pillar Orca mentions. I just leave my squadmates up on the overhang so they can help shoot down husks/collectors while I do the safety dance around the pillar.
Still boring and irritating to fight. Especially with the shield recharge ability when your squadmates are idiots.
As for species?
Depends on the breakdown.
Turians are probably the first choice. Best military, never break in battle, and they have the time to regroup before the Reapers arrive.
Salarians next. They've got intel second to none, and their set up is not built to handle an attack if nobody helps them evacuate.
Geth. Not war focused, and no idea what they have in the way of a fleet, but they have tech.
Then it gets into impulse decisions.
Why I fear the ocean.
Still boring and irritating to fight. Especially with the shield recharge ability when your squadmates are idiots. [/quote]
I will admit that you need to micromanage your teammates, because sometimes they want to do something stupid...but so long as you place them somewhere safe (I like sticking them under cover by the heavy weapon ammo), it's not bad.
Same as Horizon. I shove them in a truck while I square-dance around boxes there.
Slavery is part of their culture.
All we see of them is warlords and mercs.
They invaded a human colony.
Let me think about this.
I think it's Bioware's secret plan to get everyone to hate people with glasses, personally.