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I just spent 20 minutes shooting at stasis'ed phantoms only to *not* see the sword spinning out of their grasp.
She's trying to snuggle chestnuts for the winter news in her cheeks or something.
Other than that she didnt really bother me, it was just a little odd. Little bit out of place is all.
Well to be honest, I kinda can fault him for that. Because in theory he's a "professional journalist", rather than some fanboy with a blog. In theory. But if he's just going to act and speak like every other fanboy, what makes him a journalist at all?
Like I said in the other thread, if this debacle has taught us anything, it's that game "journalists" are terrible.
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She's nothing but fanservice. Heck,
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Have you seen their reactions to the latest statement about clarifying the ending though?
Alex: But seriously, @BioWare, way to weather the storm and stand by your creative vision, or what the fuck ever.
Kessler (granted not an actual GB guy but still) BioWare sends a clear message with this announcement; our game and our ideas don't matter. The consumer's dollar is all that matters.
Jeff: Fuck that. Case closed, damage done. Can't unsee the awful dream sequences, can't unring the bell, so on, so forth.
Ryan: BOO BIOWARE. FUCKING BOOOOOOOOOO
Bioware has begun their very own Kobyashi Maru simulation.
Yeah, they really needed to tone that down. It doesn't look bad on her but on her digital version it's about all I can see.
Yeah she didn't bug me. Though I'm not sure who gave the go ahead on the slinky dresses for ME3 since they all look terrible and not flattering at all.
She was just entirely pointless, is all. I mean, she literally did nothing. She was just another person for Shepard to get busy with.
Actually if you answer the two longer interviews she can give you it adds to your war assets
She also happens to have no talent for voice acting
Ignoring that though, the character herself is weirdly pointless. Like, she has almost no dialog. You try to talk to her and it goes to "Hey, do you want to throw me off your ship yet?"
I find it super humorous that he tried to insist the people within Bioware would take the backlash as a compliment. Guy literally has no idea. The concept of a developer that thrives on people dumping on them is laughable. They don't exist.
She looks like a sad cartoon turtle in game. I wish i has GIS at work to show you.
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I see. Well, I think I should be able to end it tonight! Then I too can join the nerd-rage train... or something.
I had the exact same thought myself. There's easily enough discussion of it to survive as it's own thread.
I swear to christ this ending is the gift that just keeps giving.
Wheres my michael jackson popcorn gif at?
But also I agree that what she wears just looks weird as well.
For a reporter she looked horribly ... i dont know... dumpy. Like she was trying to hard to show her chest off but couldn't be bothered to use some freaking hair conditioner. That being said she also was really under utilized as a game device. I really was expecting more from here seeing as you had the option to tell her to get the hell off my ship.
Well, they had this position on the Bombcast last night and though I disagreed with it they were at least understanding of people who had the opposite opinion.
I didn't take issue with people holding a different opinion than my own, I took issue with people attacking the people who disagreed with them. The GB guys, I think, did fine in that regard.
Note that Ryan hasn't actually finished the game, also.
My advice to you is to remember that elevators are the true enemy of the Mass Effect series.
So just be ready whenever you see one.
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Indeed.
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Yeah but a ton of internet people are treating this whole thing as though it's some meta-battle against DLC or what the fuck ever.
Whereas I have a positivist policy of being happy to run with whatever retcons someone does if it greatly improves things. Like, I kind of want Bioware to remove the "heat sinks" codex entry for weapons, and just pretend they were always using heat sinks, because it's less plotholey.
The other thing is, all the people saying "99% of the game was great, who cares about the ending" don't really have a leg to stand on in regards to this type of thing either: (and 99% of the game was great) - if 99% of the game justifies its purchase price, then who the fuck cares if the ending changes with paid DLC.
I sure don't.
BioWare can't win for losing. If they keep the ending as is, they keep their "artistic integrity" in tact to keep people like Giant Bomb happy...but they piss off paying fans. If they change the ending to please paying fans, they lose their "artistic integrity" and we get the constant hipster bullshit about selling out to the man.
The Reaper tech implants happened earlier. We see a video of this when we're in his base, where it foreshadows that there is something severely wrong with him
I was all prepared to take Bioware to task for reusing the ending of ME1. I think that it would have garnered them far less grief if they actually did.
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Welp, might as well have just let the reapers win, it was kind of pointless to disregard sovereign's warnings of inevitability. The other endings where shep dies are contrived as shit. Shep doesn't die in a "heroic sacrifice" shep dies because the plot decided this is where shepard dies. If shep had died with anderson when the crucible was activated, it would have worked better
True, but having a reputation for responding to fan complaints means you sell more games in the future, which is more important that maintaining some kind of aloof hipper-than-thou image in the eyes of GiantBomb.
Of course, it also means you get more complaints in future, but that's beside the point. I'm still unfinished (and unspoiled somehow!) on the single-player because I keep getting distracted by MP, but the reaction to the ending has been... extreme. I doubt you'll see a reaction like this again unless the next Xbox comes with revolutionary pooping-on-your-chest technology.
I have to say I was pretty happy that you can import a character into ME3, make them any class you want and change their look (and I was able to import one character face, but not the other. Glitchy but it works sometimes, anyway), and they didn't waste time making up a plot to make it 'plausible'. :^:
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For what it's worth, I thought it fit into the ME2 plot really well. I don't think there was really room to make up something here, so yeah, glad they didn't come up with something completely stupid.
I mean...does anyone really think Ben Reilly should be Spider-Man? Sometimes a creator wants to respond to the backlash. Art is never complete; it's abandoned..or whatever.
Now if I can just convince Stephen King to fix the Dark Tower series...
Now I definitely have to do another run through the ending sequence. Damnit.
Well yes, I agree with you.
For all the hate that 'Shepard coming back to life' got, the beginning of that game grabbed me right from the start and made me excited to play, made me feel like anything could happen. I can't really say the same for ME1 or ME3.
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You learn something valuable every day.
Honestly it's been done before even in movies. From what I understand, later versions of Highlander 2 removed all the crazy "Highlanders are aliens" crap.