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[Mass Effect] Actually a Gears of War Spin-off

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    AegeriAegeri Tiny wee bacteriums Plateau of LengRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Both Legion dancing and Joker listening to porn are triggered by standing near them for long enough. You don't have to do anything special, they are basically weird idle animations.

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    curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Aegeri wrote: »
    Both Legion dancing and Joker listening to porn are triggered by standing near them for long enough. You don't have to do anything special, they are basically weird idle animations.

    except they never trigger for me D:

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    OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I can't afford to stand there for 15 minutes waiting for Joker to start watching porn. These batarians aren't going to shoot themselves.

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    moocowmoocow Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Orca wrote: »
    These batarians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    In a perfect world...

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    SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    moocow wrote: »
    Orca wrote: »
    These batarians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    In a perfect world...

    Once Shepard is king, harsh new laws for batarian obstetricians.

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    Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    as long as a batarian crewmate isn't forced on us for 3




    ugh



    if cerberus was exclusively anti-batarian I would actually like them

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    Garret DoriganGarret Dorigan "Why can't I be DLC for UMvC3?"Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I don't know, the dying Batarian on Omega that you can save isn't that bad of a guy. Conversely, that's one of a race of trillions.

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    HylianbunnyHylianbunny Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    The exception that proves the rule.

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    OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I like how Bioware gave us a race to specifically hate. My 3 minutes of hate a day wasn't enough.

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    SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    All that scene tells us is that batarians are temporarily prevented from maiming and killing when they're crippled with infection, which suggests a way to deal with them as a species.

    Also, a batarian squadmate? Bioware is going to make Shepard play the role of Garrus on the batarian version of the Normandy (the Leviathan). You have to hotbunk with thirty batarians.
    Hot and bunk. :winky:
    D:
    :winky:

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    OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    vsove better come through on that airlock interrupt then or I'm airlocking the Bioware team.

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    Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    The Reapers are really all just a hoax put on by the batarians. Well, they used to exist, but they died out for some reason a long time ago, but that Leviathan ship that they found really was a dead Reaper. So they modeled some ships after it and put in some mean VIs.

    "Oh man, 'You can't comprehend our existence,' that's a good one Bob'krysk, throw in something about vanguard or harbinger of destruction. This is gonna piss those humans off so bad"

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    yeah that dying batarian isn't a bad guy

    uses his dying breath to curse our species, probably would have tried to shoot if he had a gun

    he's an Omega batarian, doubt he runs a flower shop

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    OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    The closest Omega comes to a church is a crazy batarian ranting and raving about reapers.

    Wonder what they'll do with all the hints between ME1 and ME2 of crazy people warning about the threat.

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    SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I honestly expect Bioware is going to pull a Geth (or something very close) with the Batarians as a people in ME3. Hopefully the option will exist not to wake him up.

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    HambrabaiHambrabai Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Orca wrote: »
    vsove better come through on that airlock interrupt then or I'm airlocking the Bioware team.


    I do keep fearing that just to spite the people who hate Batarians (which should be anyone who can still draw breath) Bioware is going to introduce a Batarian Special Intervention Unit operative who is going to be like someone glued a ninja to James Bond. They'll make him the most selfless and amazing squadmate ever, he'll probably even buy Shepard a non-wacky handling Mako just to ease the tension among the crew.

    And I'll have to kill myself.

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    SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Very possible. I think Bioware would enjoy the chance to do just that. And no one would know until after the purchase, heh heh heh.

    Not that it would make a difference.

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    SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Synthesis wrote: »
    I honestly expect Bioware is going to pull a Geth (or something very close) with the Batarians as a people in ME3. Hopefully the option will exist not to wake him up.

    The paragon option will be to wake him after leaving him one eye.

    The renegade option will be to leave him one eye after waking him.

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    AegeriAegeri Tiny wee bacteriums Plateau of LengRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I hope they don't add many - if any - new squadmates to ME3. They have a big cast of people there now and they should focus on developing them in the third game.

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    SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You know what's going to happen in ME3? Shepard is going to be killed at the very beginning of the game, just to be rescued by a Batarian. And then the writers will make sure to gloss over how all the horrible shit Batarians do, and make you be an errand boy for them. And they'll pointedly make it so you can barely even question the Batarian's motives, much less actually refuse them, until the end of the game, where you can do something to minor inconvenience them, except that Shepard will still crawl back to do their dirty work like a freaking pavlovian dog as soon as he get's an email from the illusive man...err...batarianman

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    AegeriAegeri Tiny wee bacteriums Plateau of LengRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You mean we'll be rescued by Batman?

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    HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Does this mean Shepard will become Red Hood?

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    electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    To kill Batarians you first need a galaxy with Batarians in it.

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    ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    shepard becomes king of the galaxy, institutes death penalty for smoking, batarians dealt with

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    curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    canonically

    they have a prefix, you know

    the Vile Batarians

    it's actually part of the name of their species

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    engineer run on insanity has its ups and downs

    kasumi's loyalty was kind of a bitch

    zaeed's was easy enough

    grunt's recruitment was holy hell this is AWESOME. i didn't die once. it was just me droning, advancing, overloading, meleeing

    i'm still a bit shocked myself, but this just proves that engineer has the one class power (drone) that you DO NOT have to put 10 points into. i just put 3 in there, and i'll probably not need to max it for the rest of the game. that's 7 points better used elsewhere :^:

    also, neural shock is my new favorite bonus power :D

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    Diablo FettDiablo Fett Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    i still love their introduction in BDtS

    the doors open, Shepard gets this absolutely disgusted look on his/her face and says "Batarians." in a tone of voice that might as well be "Goddamned Batarians!"

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    SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    See this? This is why I say that these ME threads are chock full of Cerberus Apologists. And -Tal

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    NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Spoit wrote: »
    See this? This is why I say that these ME threads are chock full of Cerberus Apologists. And -Tal

    come on spoit, nobody can like a batarian

    batarians are the only race in the galaxy primitive and stupid enough to still appreciate clunky RPG's with text delivered stories

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    ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    What do batarian women look like? Have they ever been shown? I guarantee you bioware is gonna mess with everyone by making them somehow insanely attractive.

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    C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Nuzak wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    See this? This is why I say that these ME threads are chock full of Cerberus Apologists. And -Tal

    come on spoit, nobody can like a batarian

    batarians are the only race in the galaxy primitive and stupid enough to still appreciate clunky RPG's with text delivered stories

    ....

    You people don't know anything about us!


    :cry:

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    BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Why no love for Batarians.

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Why no love for Batarians.

    Because there is nothing to love about them.

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    electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Why no love for Batarians.

    Because there is nothing to love about them.

    They're pretty much jerks at every conceivable opportunity. Quarian fleet hires Batarian contractors? They sell out the schematics to pirates. Humans looking to colonize planets for mining? They fake the survey results.

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    SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Why no love for Batarians.

    They kill almost (but not quite) as many human colonists as Cerberus.

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    evilthecatevilthecat Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    my ME3 thoughts:

    option 1: the citadel can indoctrinate as well, we see shep fighting against the very people he's trying to protect!

    option 2: shepard plays intergalactic nanny and smoothes over all of the interracial problems, resulting in a united fleet setting up a kill zone around the citadel, activating the beacon inside and smushing the reapers that come through.

    option 3: shepard convinces everyone to be captured by the reapers and gooed, but not before getting the salarians to biomagically create some sort of genetic modification that allows the newly formed reaper to retain it's memories and then turn on its collegues, saving the next wave of life throughout the galaxy.

    regardless of what happens:

    at the end of the credits we see everyone rejoicing over dead reapers, the camera pans out of the milky way galaxy, heads over to the next one where we see ... another reaper fleet.

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    NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    and the camera zooms out still further to reveal the reapers are running away from the mighty gatherers, an ancient-er race of machine gods

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    evilthecatevilthecat Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Nuzak wrote: »
    and the camera zooms out still further to reveal the reapers are running away from the mighty gatherers, an ancient-er race of machine gods

    no, that doesn't happen until the ME5 credits.

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    NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    pretty sure ME5 is the one that ends in shepard waking up next to her batarian wife, and telling her all about her mysterious dream...........OR WAS IT???!!?

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    evilthecatevilthecat Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Nuzak wrote: »
    pretty sure ME5 is the one that ends in shepard waking up next to her batarian wife, and telling her all about her mysterious dream...........OR WAS IT???!!?

    her?
    what are you on about. shepard is geth, therefore genderless, and henceforth known as it.

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    ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Aegeri wrote: »
    I hope they don't add many - if any - new squadmates to ME3. They have a big cast of people there now and they should focus on developing them in the third game.

    Except that none of them might make it to ME3 except Kaidan/Ashley. They need at least a few more.

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