Cordially: Welcome to the Mass Effect Thread.

Yukira

All my characters are generic human names. Even the Aliens.

Although, Solar has Steve the Drell and that amuses me to no end.

chiasaur11

Cambiata wrote: »

CorporateLogo wrote: »

Seriously wrote: »

I do love cerberus though

I can just kill them and kill them and never feel guilty

Spoiler:

But they're indoctrinated refugees

That's gotta raise some moral quandries

Not even a little bit.

Only if you should be high fiving more.

dbrock270

Oh wow, four Mass Effect threads on the first page!

Yukira

Also, I'm touching that and you can't stop me.

Shabooty

I think someone gave the reason for the salarian handlebars once

If I remember correctly it's compensation for their concave chests



it's been awhile so I might be getting it wrong

Dubh

Chest protection, then? I always assumed it was necessary to have whenever dealing with Brogan, or Bros of any race, really.

T4CT

all my characters are name some form of Mike, or Mike Blais

Michael
Mike
Mikey
Michael Blais
Mike Blais
Mikey Blais
Michael A Blais
Mike A Blais
Mikey A Blais

i am only allowed nine characters at once

Hullis

Yukira wrote: »

Also, I'm touching that and you can't stop me.

Fine! Touch that! See if I care!

...Please don't touch that.

Dongs Galore

Mildly interesting spoiler-heavy compilation of Indoctrination arguments reposted from G&T:

http://w11.zetaboards.com/Theorycraftng_HUB/topic/7698722/1

Joolander

Shabooty wrote: »

I think someone gave the reason for the salarian handlebars once

If I remember correctly it's compensation for their concave chests



it's been awhile so I might be getting it wrong

but like, what would they be compensating for?

wouldn't concave chests be considered attractive to a salarian ?

chiasaur11

You know, you gotta wonder about the challenges of a galactic market for filmmakers. I mean, sure. Everyone loves Blasto. But beyond that?

Turian crime dramas will bore every other species.

("Did you do it?"

"Yes."

"CASE CLOSED")

Salarians wouldn't get romantic comedies at all.

Elcor would basically see every other species's movies as the most melodramatic overplayed stuff ever.

Gotta be a marketing problem there. Mainly curious about turian and salarian films, though. Do turians cop films have ill-matched partners "By the book cop" and "Even more by the book cop"? Is one of the standard moments in a salarian action movie where you find out that the hero implanted a bomb in the baddy's henchman's neck in the opening gunfight, allowing him to kill them both in the blast?

Shabooty

dammit I can't remember the details but I don't think the salarian chest bar was for protection

I think it was more trying to fit in with the asari and whatnot

I remember they didn't have those chest bars until after they came to the citadel

Yukira

The Turians probably have war movies. They'll get by the books dudes and then they'll have guys like Garrus or Victus.

King Riptor

CorporateLogo wrote: »

Seriously wrote: »

I do love cerberus though

I can just kill them and kill them and never feel guilty

Spoiler:

But they're indoctrinated refugees

That's gotta raise some moral quandries

Nope

Spoiler:

One if you honestly think a refugee camp will protect you from reapers you probably buy lottery tickets too. Natural selection

Two they are not human anymore. They are effectively partial husks and are on their way to becoming full husks.

Honestly killing them is the most humane options

Solar

Yeah the Turians are probably into war films

except because every Turian was or is in the military all the Turian war movies are super-accurate and well researched

I imagine that Turians would be into stuff like Generation Kill, actually

Joolander

Does there exist a Krogan film maker?

If there is, he's probably the ME universe's Michael Bay

Nerdgasmic

drell art films where the holograms are in black and white and the scenes all have a lot of rain

Dongs Galore

Joolander wrote: »

Does there exist a Krogan film maker?

If there is, he's probably the ME universe's Michael Bay

There was a Cerberus News reference to a Krogan war comedy called "Ruck Humpers" which did not do well among Citadel audiences.

Skeith

Finished my Vanguard run of 1, working on 2 now. I reeeally need to be more careful about dropping the enemy shields when there's like, 4 or 5 of them before I charge.

Der Waffle Mous

There was a running joke in a tabletop ME game I was in where my character was a film buff.

The krogan and vorcha were enchanted by Jaws.

Speed Racer

krogans wouldn't make movies about war

they would make movies that are themselves tools of war

KalTorak

Dubh wrote: »

if the next Mass Effect installment isn't the outer space version of Mean Girls

then I'll be disappointed

wanna get my renegade on in a xenologically diverse school setting

oh my god Ashley you can't just ask people why they're batarian

Yukira

Krogans look at Earth's history and see Michael Bay as a visionary.

Joolander

Dongs Galore wrote: »

Joolander wrote: »

Does there exist a Krogan film maker?

If there is, he's probably the ME universe's Michael Bay

There was a Cerberus News reference to a Krogan war comedy called "Ruck Humpers" which did not do well among Citadel audiences.

... and yet it still made over 20 billion credits?


but seriously, do you have a link?

chiasaur11

Dongs Galore wrote: »

Joolander wrote: »

Does there exist a Krogan film maker?

If there is, he's probably the ME universe's Michael Bay

There was a Cerberus News reference to a Krogan war comedy called "Ruck Humpers" which did not do well among Citadel audiences.

Neither did the action movie C-SEC (presumably about a loose cannon human and a by-the-book Turian who have to stop Krogan terrorists).

Except in the Krogan DMZ, where it was "accidentally" marketed as a comedy.

Iron Weasel

With a potential audience in the trillions, you have to figure that even the shitty movies must make a lot of money.

Squall

Nerdgasmic wrote: »

drell art films where the holograms are in black and white and the scenes all have a lot of rain

the industry probably doesn't even market toward drell

zero dvd/bluray sales

jwalk

promoted my Vanguard.
was levelling up Drell Vanguard, not liking it quite as much as I remembered.. Pull is great, but I keep wishing I had Nova. anyway I usually use the Disciple shotgun on them, it's lightweight, but tried out the N7 Eagle which I hated before, it's not bad on a Vanguard - light enough to get 200% or 198% recharge bonus, and does ok at short range. just don't try to shoot anything farther than 6 feet away...

Nerdgasmic

Squall wrote: »

Nerdgasmic wrote: »

drell art films where the holograms are in black and white and the scenes all have a lot of rain

the industry probably doesn't even market toward drell

zero dvd/bluray sales

these would be the movies that the drell make themselves

chiasaur11

Squall wrote: »

Nerdgasmic wrote: »

drell art films where the holograms are in black and white and the scenes all have a lot of rain

the industry probably doesn't even market toward drell

zero dvd/bluray sales

And they're a niche market to begin with, considering the tiny population.

-Tal

Drell just sell skin samples that contain awesome memories

Dux

Javik is

such a tragic character.

Blankzilla

Joolander wrote: »

Shabooty wrote: »

I think someone gave the reason for the salarian handlebars once

If I remember correctly it's compensation for their concave chests



it's been awhile so I might be getting it wrong

but like, what would they be compensating for?

wouldn't concave chests be considered attractive to a salarian ?

This just in:

I am sexy to all salarians

pablo_price

in the old thread, someone was asking what happens if you don't take the renegade interrupt after
late game spoiler

Spoiler:

the kai leng fight

basically nothing changes

Spoiler:

instead of breaking his sword, you just lean out of the way as he stabs the keyboard you were using and then kill him with the same line.
your team continues to obliviously stare at the pretty star

The Infra

Dux wrote: »

Javik is

such a tragic character.

Javik is

Such a douche.

My first play is all Renegade, but when he

Spoiler:

was being a dick to Liara after the destruction of Thessia I was like "Uh uh, you don't talk to my lady like 'dat"

pablo_price wrote: »

in the old thread, someone was asking what happens if you don't take the renegade interrupt after
late game spoiler

Spoiler:

the kai leng fight

basically nothing changes

Spoiler:

instead of breaking his sword, you just lean out of the way as he stabs the keyboard you were using and then kill him with the same line.
your team continues to obliviously stare at the pretty star

I was actually screaming at my monitor during that whole scene. Until BAM! Shepard is a badass as always.

Aretè

Just came across this link on Reddit

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/5695/article/mass-effect-3-writer-allegedly-slams-controversial-ending/

Bit upsetting that someone took it upon themselves to screencap it all.

Dichotomy

best thread title

Joolander

Blankzilla wrote: »

Joolander wrote: »

Shabooty wrote: »

I think someone gave the reason for the salarian handlebars once

If I remember correctly it's compensation for their concave chests



it's been awhile so I might be getting it wrong

but like, what would they be compensating for?

wouldn't concave chests be considered attractive to a salarian ?

This just in:

I am sexy to all salarians

what that weird lumpy thing in the middle of your face?

and where are your horns?

and why are your sclera all freaky and white?

Cambiata

The only thing that was screencapped was Taky asking people to be careful what they attribute to him. Which could be applied to a lot of things he's posted about, privately or publically.

The rest of it is complete hearsay of hearsay. There's no proof of any of it. I was even one of the people saying "don't talk about that", and I never saw the post come from Taky's account.

CorporateLogo

Aretè wrote: »

Just came across this link on Reddit

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/5695/article/mass-effect-3-writer-allegedly-slams-controversial-ending/

Bit upsetting that someone took it upon themselves to screencap it all.

Never underestimate the pettiness of your fellow man