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Mass Effect: Blue Öyster Cult was wrong.

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  • ChronocideChronocide Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I reckon it'd be cool if there was a BG2 style subquest where you uncover a suit of armour made from woven together Batarian Skin that you have to be full Renegade to use. The Hide of Many Eyes, makes your finger pointing shoot Cain rounds and your dancing impregnate Asari.

    Chronocide on
  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    So...uh...am I the only one who's happy we get to kill more Cerberus agents again?

    No, you aren't. I look forward to putting a round or seven into TIM's head. Preferably with a Batarian squad mate in tow. I can dream.

    Why just one? I want to tow hundreds of Batarians behind my ship at a time, limiting it to one would ruin the game.

    You'll see, the squad mate we get will be awesome. I will be vindicated.

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The "trial" is actually an extended ceremony awarding Shepard 304,942 Alliance medals.

    (Thank god you collected all that platinum)

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  • SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    ME 3 better give us plenty of non-husked Batarians to waste. Anything that has more than two eyes goes straight into the Shepard-grinder.

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  • CatalaseCatalase Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Finally played Arrival. Biggest personal disappointment:
    The figure of 305 000 Batarians you kill is actually rounded up, so technically it's not quite as large a genocide. :(

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  • Torso BoyTorso Boy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Are there mirrors for the new screenshots?

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Torso Boy wrote: »
    Are there mirrors for the new screenshots?

    This link: http://img845.imageshack.us/g/husk.jpg/

    Should have all the screenshots seen to this date from the guy on GameFAQS.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Is that a bayonet?

    And jet boots?


    My my I do believe I'm getting the vapours.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    What I'm wondering is where Cerberus was hiding all this high-tech stuff during ME2.

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  • SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Is that a bayonet?

    And jet boots?


    My my I do believe I'm getting the vapours.
    MY Vanguard is going to have the time of his life!

    Silpheed on
  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Why would they want to kill Shepard if he gave them the base?

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Well, there is the matter of the 3 bases you blasted apart in ME1.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Like I said, I'm pretty sure their motive will be at least hinted at in the next book.

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  • Torso BoyTorso Boy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I think the reason will be explained in the game. TIM being pissed about the base or you appropriating the Normandy doesn't quite do it.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Why would they want to kill Shepard if he gave them the base?

    tying up loose ends. they dont need him anymore, he knows more than most about their workings and infrastructure.

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    What I'm wondering is where Cerberus was hiding all this high-tech stuff during ME2.

    they actually gave you a similar suit that everyone ignores because the helmet doesn't come off

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    It's anti-Shepard tech.

    Kinda like how Earth relies on Superman to defeat then invaders, at which point they put him on trial with red sun radiation and kryptonite.

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  • Torso BoyTorso Boy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Why would they want to kill Shepard if he gave them the base?

    tying up loose ends. they dont need him anymore, he knows more than most about their workings and infrastructure.

    Still, you'd think they'd wait until after he saved the galaxy. Because they explicitly believe he is the only person capable of doing it.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Torso Boy wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Why would they want to kill Shepard if he gave them the base?

    tying up loose ends. they dont need him anymore, he knows more than most about their workings and infrastructure.

    Still, you'd think they'd wait until after he saved the galaxy. Because they explicitly believe he is the only person capable of doing it.

    Maybe Cerberus just needed Shepard to put them in a position to save the galaxy. That way they could take all the credit.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Why would they want to kill Shepard if he gave them the base?

    tying up loose ends. they dont need him anymore, he knows more than most about their workings and infrastructure.

    man what

    TIM spent 4 billion credits reviving you instead of building an army because he knows you are the only one who can stop the reapers, he didn't even know about the base until the very end.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Didn't TIM get partially indoctrinated in some comic or book or whatever?

    Maybe that's why he's going after Shep now that the Reapers are back

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Tal, I fear that you are just going to slowly melt down until there is nothing left but a gibbering mess as we get more information about ME3 that contradicts your world-view.

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  • SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Why would they want to kill Shepard if he gave them the base?

    tying up loose ends. they dont need him anymore, he knows more than most about their workings and infrastructure.

    man what

    TIM spent 4 billion credits reviving you instead of building an army because he knows you are the only one who can stop the reapers, he didn't even know about the base until the very end.
    Maybe TIM decided that a dead messianic figure is far more useful than the 4 billion spacedollar man running around the galaxy following whatever whims that strikes him?

    Personally I'm hoping that there's more to the situation than TIM becoming indoctrinated.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    What I'm wondering is where Cerberus was hiding all this high-tech stuff during ME2.

    they actually gave you a similar suit that everyone ignores because the helmet doesn't come off

    I don't know...there is different from your Cerberus Armor and the Hulkbuster Mark-02 I'll seeing in those screens.

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Why would they want to kill Shepard if he gave them the base?

    tying up loose ends. they dont need him anymore, he knows more than most about their workings and infrastructure.

    man what

    TIM spent 4 billion credits reviving you instead of building an army because he knows you are the only one who can stop the reapers, he didn't even know about the base until the very end.

    i hope its a choice affect thing, and they wont be after you if you kept the base or something.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Tal, I fear that you are just going to slowly melt down until there is nothing left but a gibbering mess as we get more information about ME3 that contradicts your world-view.

    -Tal's actually right in this situation though.

    I mean it's shocking but he is.

    Beyond some unexplained phenomena we have yet to figure out, TIM has no reason to be after you. Even if you did destroy the base.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Maybe he is a cunt

    maybe he made a deal with the reapers

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Like I said...who knows.

    Honestly, I don't think any conclusions can be drawn at this point.

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  • Inter_dInter_d Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Is it even confirmed that it's TIM? I mean think about it: Cerberus has always been a loose association of bad corporations/military/scientists that as we've learned in ME2 is the result of a lot of their cells going rogue or a serious lack of oversight.

    Is it really a stretch of imagination that maybe there was a coup? Maybe TIM lost all of his clout when Shepard blew up the base and told him to fuck off. That's 4 billion Credits down the drain and shepard knows a lot of the inner workings of the organization. It only makes sense to kill him off.

    Or if you gave TIM the base, as we've seen in the past, maybe the Cerberus team that got there decided to overthrow TIM with the new tech or someone else within Cerberus planned to use it take over from the start.

    TIM may believe in you but Cerberus as a whole does not.

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  • Ad astraAd astra Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Judging by those screenshots, Cerberus got some upgrades. That's some Tony Stark, Iron Man, stuff they're wearing.

    Also, you know how the phrase "Bigger, better, and more badass" was used as the tagline of Gears of War 2? Well, I think it's applicable to ME3.

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  • ArteenArteen Adept ValeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm sure TIM has his reasons.

    "Shepard, you've already gained valuable experience fighting reapers, but that alone won't be enough. The only way we'll be able to defeat the reapers for good is if you gain more experience. That's why I'm pitting the full might of Cerberus against you, Shepard. You're good at killing and my men are damned good at dying."

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Inter_d wrote: »
    Is it even confirmed that it's TIM? I mean think about it: Cerberus has always been a loose association of bad corporations/military/scientists that as we've learned in ME2 is the result of a lot of their cells going rogue or a serious lack of oversight.

    Is it really a stretch of imagination that maybe there was a coup? Maybe TIM lost all of his clout when Shepard blew up the base and told him to fuck off. That's 4 billion Credits down the drain and shepard knows a lot of the inner workings of the organization. It only makes sense to kill him off.

    Or if you gave TIM the base, as we've seen in the past, maybe the Cerberus team that got there decided to overthrow TIM with the new tech or someone else within Cerberus planned to use it take over from the start.

    TIM may believe in you but Cerberus as a whole does not.

    That could have happened also.

    Heck, at the end of Retribution TIM is basically scrapping up whatever scraps he has left and he was forced to make a deal with Aria.

    Someone could have saw that as a moment of weakness and pounced for control.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    TIM has absolutely no reason to hunt you. I am 100% sure that the Cerberus guys hunting you are not following TIM's orders.

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  • ForumiteForumite Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2011
    "I have been told that we have to give you up, Shepard. To them. They said they would let some of us live, Shepard. That our species would be allowed to continue its existence, albeit at diminished numbers. I have to deliver you to them, Shepard. Dead or alive. For yoomanity.

    *smokes*"

    I hope TIM becomes the antagonist or at least someone Shepard has to stand up against in ME3. He's the only thing close to a respectable opponent to go up against Shepard that is not a faceless machine

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  • Torso BoyTorso Boy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    TIM has absolutely no reason to hunt you. I am 100% sure that the Cerberus guys hunting you are not following TIM's orders.

    Absolutely, unless something major has changed, which can't be ruled out yet.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    TIM is not dumb enough to make a deal with the reapers. Reaper technology is the only thing he's careful with. He usually lets his employees, including you, do whatever the hell they want in pursuit of a goal and observes them but rarely interferes. This can lead to bad things like Overlord. But when he studied Grayson, he was physically on the scene supervising the whole thing and immediately ordered Grayson's termination when he started acting dangerous. We could have learned a lot if it wasn't for those turians.

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    TIM has absolutely no reason to hunt you. I am 100% sure that the Cerberus guys hunting you are not following TIM's orders.

    Unless for any reason he thought you were more valuable for yoomanity dead or captured. He says as much like five times in the second game. New data suggested you're not in the best interests of the agenda? He'd flipflop like a fish on dry land.

    That's his DEFINING characteristic. Within the cause anything, outside the cause nothing. 4 billion space moneys and Shepard aren't that special. Faustian bargain seems more likely than a coup or rogue cell.

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  • ForumiteForumite Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    TIM is not dumb enough to make a deal with the reapers. Reaper technology is the only thing he's careful with. He usually lets his employees, including you, do whatever the hell they want in pursuit of a goal and observes them but rarely interferes. This can lead to bad things like Overlord. But when he studied Grayson, he was physically on the scene supervising the whole thing and ordered Grayson's immediate termination when he started acting dangerous. We could have learned a lot if it wasn't for those turians.

    Well, if the reapers are shitting all over earth while offering the deal he might be more receptible. Kind of like Breen in Half-Life 2

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Arteen wrote: »
    I'm sure TIM has his reasons.

    "Shepard, you've already gained valuable experience fighting reapers, but that alone won't be enough. The only way we'll be able to defeat the reapers for good is if you gain more experience. That's why I'm pitting the full might of Cerberus against you, Shepard. You're good at killing and my men are damned good at dying."

    I'm picturing TIM as a DM finding a random encounter that will give his party just enough XP to level up before the next major encounter. The thought amuses me.

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