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Mass Effect 3: Mohawks and high-heels

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

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  • Z0reZ0re Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    Most of the squad is technically comprised of serial murderers; Tali, Legion, Grunt and Kasumi are about the only ones who arguably aren't. In Grunt's case its literally because he's born during the game.

    Just based on what we know/see in the games

    Garrus- His time on Omega alone should speak for this
    Mordin- Genophage revisions, his time on Omega
    Zaeed- Works as a merc and has... flexible standards in employers
    Miranda- Works for Cerberus, straight up murders Wilson
    Jacob- Works for Cerberus, kills a lot of random people in the cell phone tie in
    Samara- Literally murders people extra-judicially for a living
    Jack- Has several murders on her record
    Thane- ... is an assassin

    Now, all of them are more sane and less predatory (with the possible exception of Zaeed) but you've got a squad of killers through and through.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Z0re wrote: »
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    Most of the squad is technically comprised of serial murderers; Tali, Legion, Grunt and Kasumi are about the only ones who arguably aren't. In Grunt's case its literally because he's born during the game.

    Now, all of them are more sane and less predatory (with the possible exception of Zaeed) but you've got a squad of killers through and through.

    Well, Mordin it was all, if I remember right, either self defense or in service of country. So, another possible exception depending on definitions.

    But yeah. Lot of killers.

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    "Jacob is way too nice a guy for the number of ways he knows how to kill people."
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Bioware is nice enough not to put in scenes like this in case players do stupid things, so they don't let you do the stupid things.
    The one I was looking for isn't on YT, but this will do.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj-xKIJduEE

    I think Morinth's proposition was a test to see how many people would do something honestly stupid.

    With recruiting Morinth in the first place already being pretty dumb.

    That's true, I forgot about that one because wow that's dumb. At least it's post-game only, right? So there's at least a little padding and it's heavily messaged that it's a super dumb thing to do. TW2 has multiple scenes like the one in the tags, and they can be very humbling, like getting slaughtered by redneck guards.

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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    At some point I will recruit Morinth, just to see if Dominate is a decent bonus talent.

    It's great fun, at minimum.

    Of course, you don't have to, you know, keep the save for any length of time.

    Just choose Morinth, quick save, and reload.

    That's actually what I meant. I'd never dump Samara, come on. Although if Morinth wore actual fucking clothes as opposed to Samara's Tits McGee, I'd seriously consider it. Did no one at Bioware realize how horrible that looks? At first glance, it's just kooky, but after that it's damn unprofessional, and not in a subtle (ish) way like Miranda's catsuit.

    I hoped Morinth would wear what she has in Samara's loyalty and in her cabin. But no, for all the missions she has the same terrible outfit Samara wears.

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    @plush yeah, but they are telegraphed ahead of time as being REALLY GODDAMN STUPID decisions

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    I just think she's a more interesting character than Samara...I'd rather see her in ME3. And I never thought she was a serious threat to Shepard or anything.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    yeah, it's not like you even need her biotic powers

    in theory

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Miranda is a pretty serious killer if you take into account all the death possibly resulting from following her advice.
    @plush yeah, but they are telegraphed ahead of time as being REALLY GODDAMN STUPID decisions

    I was caught totally offguard by the...uh, guard. I had seen the popup before on first playthrough at ye olde brothel, so I remembered the 'bribe failed!' response and thinking 'hm, bribe you say' and trying to get off by paying 90 gold.
    Geralt: Not on your life. *charge*

    I never actually knew about the Iorveth one until I searched for the guard one on youtube just tonight, because I never sass back at someone who has my pal and I surrounded by archers.

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Tali and Legion have both killed a hell of a lot of geth. Tali's also killed a lot more than that if you took her in your squad in the previous game.

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  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
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    I love this.

    Also there's a bad end waaaaaaaaaay before that in the Witcher 2, if you try and attack Roche in the interrogation room you get a crossbow bolt in your back courtesy of Vess.

    "Just another prisoner shot while trying to escape." Love it.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Especially with biotics, I just assume Aria can do anything Trinity can do

    Clip from Aria: The Documentary

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  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I also assume she is as manipulative as Natalie in Memento

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    Especially with biotics, I just assume Aria can do anything Trinity can do

    Clip from Aria: The Documentary

    crashing motorcycles into praetorians all day erry day

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    Especially with biotics, I just assume Aria can do anything Trinity can do

    Clip from Aria: The Documentary

    crashing motorcycles into praetorians all day erry day

    Special power of the engineer in ME3

    Turn his drone into a holo-motorbike and crash it into enemies at full speed. Tech variant of the Vanguard Charge.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    jackisreal wrote: »
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    I just think she's a more interesting character than Samara...I'd rather see her in ME3. And I never thought she was a serious threat to Shepard or anything.

    She's an unstable sociopathic murderer/rapist, what isn't threatening about this? If she doesn't kill you, there's every chance she'll murder one of your crew members. Her condition includes an inability to resist the urge to kill for too long.

    With Samara you have, at worst, someone who might turn on you but also has an instruction manual for manipulating her. See Nihlus' encounter with her.

    With Morinth, you have an unpredictable fucking lunatic who gets off ON MURDERING PEOPLE. There's...really no compelling reason to get Samara killed for this chick.

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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    I just think she's a more interesting character than Samara...I'd rather see her in ME3. And I never thought she was a serious threat to Shepard or anything.

    She's an unstable sociopathic murderer/rapist, what isn't threatening about this? If she doesn't kill you, there's every chance she'll murder one of your crew members. Her condition includes an inability to resist the urge to kill for too long.

    With Samara you have, at worst, someone who might turn on you but also has an instruction manual for manipulating her. See Nihlus' encounter with her.

    With Morinth, you have an unpredictable fucking lunatic who gets off ON MURDERING PEOPLE. There's...really no compelling reason to get Samara killed for this chick.

    The biggest problem with Morinth is that recruiting her doesn't lead to you overhearing about crew members being missing when you leave different spaceports.

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  • MaverikkMaverikk Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    I just think she's a more interesting character than Samara...I'd rather see her in ME3. And I never thought she was a serious threat to Shepard or anything.

    She's an unstable sociopathic murderer/rapist, what isn't threatening about this? If she doesn't kill you, there's every chance she'll murder one of your crew members. Her condition includes an inability to resist the urge to kill for too long.

    With Samara you have, at worst, someone who might turn on you but also has an instruction manual for manipulating her. See Nihlus' encounter with her.

    With Morinth, you have an unpredictable fucking lunatic who gets off ON MURDERING PEOPLE. There's...really no compelling reason to get Samara killed for this chick.

    The biggest problem with Morinth is that recruiting her doesn't lead to you overhearing about crew members being missing when you leave different spaceports.

    I don't like to think of that as a gaping plot hole.

    I like to think that's Morinth's way of telepathically blocking the ability to gossip and think freely about the shenanigans going on around the ship.

    Agreeing with a lot of people though, there's no real reason to morally justify having her on your team outside "I wanted to have her on my team just once". Personally, I couldn't find it in my heart to forgive her after what she did to that innocent albeit rebellious girl you're forced to investigate early in that particular quest.

    That still doesn't want me from having a three-way with her and Aria. Just got to make a mental note to shoot them both in the head when I'm done.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Morinth just needs to hook up to a nervous system for a quickie to kill someone, right? Even Shepard went down in a few seconds? Reapers have nerves somewhere, right?

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    Morinth just needs to hook up to a nervous system for a quickie to kill someone, right? Even Shepard went down in a few seconds? Reapers have nerves somewhere, right?

    Do we know if Reapers even have a "nervous system" in a way we understand?

    Also I don't think that would work, for the same reason that Tali, as good as she is, would not be capable of using AI hacking on a Reaper.

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  • Z0reZ0re Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    Morinth just needs to hook up to a nervous system for a quickie to kill someone, right? Even Shepard went down in a few seconds? Reapers have nerves somewhere, right?

    They're a collection of programs like the geth. So unless she can get freaky with Legion, I'm thinking this is a lost cause.

    Also, justification for terrible experiments.

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  • EmporiumEmporium Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Z0re wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Morinth just needs to hook up to a nervous system for a quickie to kill someone, right? Even Shepard went down in a few seconds? Reapers have nerves somewhere, right?

    They're a collection of programs like the geth. So unless she can get freaky with Legion, I'm thinking this is a lost cause.

    Also, justification for terrible experiments.

    Or amazing fanfic.

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    I just think she's a more interesting character than Samara...I'd rather see her in ME3. And I never thought she was a serious threat to Shepard or anything.

    She's an unstable sociopathic murderer/rapist, what isn't threatening about this? If she doesn't kill you, there's every chance she'll murder one of your crew members. Her condition includes an inability to resist the urge to kill for too long.

    With Samara you have, at worst, someone who might turn on you but also has an instruction manual for manipulating her. See Nihlus' encounter with her.

    With Morinth, you have an unpredictable fucking lunatic who gets off ON MURDERING PEOPLE. There's...really no compelling reason to get Samara killed for this chick.

    Exactly. She's way more fun!

    The only crew member I can really see her killing is Kelly, and honestly the Normandy would probably be safer without that walking STD factory.

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  • MaverikkMaverikk Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    I'm not sure why some people think it's such a great idea to recruit a serial murder/rapist into part of the 'team'.

    I have never not been able to kill dat hoe.

    I just think she's a more interesting character than Samara...I'd rather see her in ME3. And I never thought she was a serious threat to Shepard or anything.

    She's an unstable sociopathic murderer/rapist, what isn't threatening about this? If she doesn't kill you, there's every chance she'll murder one of your crew members. Her condition includes an inability to resist the urge to kill for too long.

    With Samara you have, at worst, someone who might turn on you but also has an instruction manual for manipulating her. See Nihlus' encounter with her.

    With Morinth, you have an unpredictable fucking lunatic who gets off ON MURDERING PEOPLE. There's...really no compelling reason to get Samara killed for this chick.

    Exactly. She's way more fun!

    The only crew member I can really see her killing is Kelly, and honestly the Normandy would probably be safer without that walking STD factory.

    You don't talk about my Kelly like that. That's my secret bedroom name for her, and mine alone.

    "STD factory" is also our safety word.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Wild supposition for the third game: Whatever is causing the star at Haelstrom to die will be the key to defeating the reapers. (Sorry if similar theories have already been discussed at length, I don't think I've read the *entire* thread).

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  • Iron WeaselIron Weasel Dillon! You son of a bitch!Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm finally slowly working my way through the various DLC and am enjoying what I've seen so farn namely Kasumi and Shadow Broker. I am a little bit irritated by the surveying information you get from SB, though - I cant find anyway to clear the galaxy map markers for resource-rich planets, which in some places create blocks of text that block other parts of the map. Still, good stuff - I feel dumb for leaving this stuff aside so long. Does LotSB have different dialogue options if you do it prior to finishing the suicide mission?

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Liara's dialog is different, and I think a few other small tweaks occur. In general I reccomend doing the Campaign, then LotSB, and then Arrival.

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  • Z0reZ0re Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Liara's dialog is different, and I think a few other small tweaks occur. In general I reccomend doing the Campaign, then LotSB, and then Arrival.

    I recommend Shadow Broker as early as possible if you want free credits/upgrades/resources, there aren't that many changes and there are massive mechanical benefits.

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  • takyristakyris Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    The guy who wrote Kelly still carries a grudge against me for that Mordin line.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Kelly's like, canonically a xenoslut right

    I've never seen such a unanimous interpretation of a character

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  • Z0reZ0re Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    -Tal wrote: »
    Kelly's like, canonically a xenoslut right

    I've never seen such a unanimous interpretation of a character

    She is creepily into Garrus' scars, and thinks Thane is attractive at least. I'm pretty sure at some point she implies she has/wants to have sex with a Turian at the very least.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Especially with biotics, I just assume Aria can do anything Trinity can do

    Clip from Aria: The Documentary

    crashing motorcycles into praetorians all day erry day

    Special power of the engineer in ME3

    Turn his drone into a holo-motorbike and crash it into enemies at full speed. Tech variant of the Vanguard Charge.

    Can you yell "Tetsuo" while doing it?

    Because that could be a dealbreaker.

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    takyris wrote: »
    The guy who wrote Kelly still carries a grudge against me for that Mordin line.

    this is amazing


    !!!

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Oh MAN, I always wondered whether that was an accident between separate writers or whether they intended to make Kelly seem so...much like she seems. Now I know.
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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    on the one hand Kelly is more asari than the asari

    on the other hand I wouldn't put it above Mordin just to screw with you while he watches youtube

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    so I searched "Mordin Kelly"

    turns out a livejournal called "masskink" is exactly as bad as it sounds

    brb self lobotomy

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  • takyristakyris Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Oh MAN, I always wondered whether that was an accident between separate writers or whether they intended to make Kelly seem so...much like she seems. Now I know.
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    Totally unintentional! And as I tell him, my completely innocent line would never have been linked to Miss Chambers had he not written her in such a way as to invite the comparison.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    jackisreal wrote: »
    so I searched "Mordin Kelly"

    turns out a livejournal called "masskink" is exactly as bad as it sounds

    brb self lobotomy

    You have no one but yourself to blame.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    jackisreal wrote: »
    so I searched "Mordin Kelly"

    turns out a livejournal called "masskink" is exactly as bad as it sounds

    brb self lobotomy

    It was mentioned earlier.

    It scared Dox. I think that's sufficient warning.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    takyris wrote: »
    The guy who wrote Kelly still carries a grudge against me for that Mordin line.

    Ha ha. This is awesome.

    Although, I personally didn't associate that line with Kelly until the internet suggested it. Yay internets!

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