Mass Effect 3 Discussion Part 2: Discuss Harder

[mysterydriver]

First has reached its limit, so here you go as people still go through the story, the story behind the story, the multiplayer, and creepy pictures that make people who haven't played the game tilt their head and decide to never walk down a dark alley in the Mass Effect universe.

Original Thread can be found here:
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[The Punisher]

So I've not killed General Oraka, but instead promised to get him lots of guns. I have no idea how. Any thoughts?

[clifford]

I think you have to talk to a merchant somewhere close to Oraka, and then scan a planet for the guns that merchant is looking for.

[jagilki]

Apr 19, 2012 16:12:58 GMT -5 clifford said:

I think you have to talk to a merchant somewhere close to Oraka, and then scan a planet for the guns that merchant is looking for.

Bingo.

[Deleted]

Apr 19, 2012 16:07:17 GMT -5 mysterydriver said:

creepy pictures that make people who haven't played the game tilt their head and decide to never walk down a dark alley in the Mass Effect universe.

Original Thread can be found here:
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Maybe I'm naive or just lazy from not reading the whole thread there, but what creepy pictures?

I thought all discussion was (A) Endings, (B) Multiplayer, or (C) Literary criticism.

[clifford]

The only picture I remember is that one with a T Rex telling a mammal to run while it fends off a Reaper.

And that was hilarious, not creepy.

EDIT: Or, more probably the one with a fan's imaging of Tali's face. But that was more weird than creepy.

[jagilki]

Maybe the Yahg Whatever race Shadow Broker was Yahg?

Picture was posted just before the Mass Effect Race Riots.

[Deleted]

Apr 19, 2012 16:21:07 GMT -5 clifford said:

The only picture I remember is that one with a T Rex telling a mammal to run while it fends off a Reaper.

And that was hilarious, not creepy.

EDIT: Or, more probably the one with a fan's imaging of Tali's face. But that was more weird than creepy.

Is it the one that looks like a cat or a starfish? Because both of those are pretty bad.

I don't see where the idea that those are better comes from. The Codex said that quarians look like humans except for having crazy legs, chicken feet/hands and f***ed up ears. And it isn't like Hammasa Kohistani isn't a close facial match (from what we see from the mask, anyway), because she is.

To those who say they made her too pretty, just be glad they didn't give her giant boobs like they did to every other female character in the series.

[clifford]

I thought what they went with for Tali's face was fine, but they really should have put it in as an in game render and not just some photoshopped stock image.

[mysterydriver]

Apr 19, 2012 16:18:06 GMT -5 @mightykretzler said:

Apr 19, 2012 16:07:17 GMT -5 mysterydriver said:

creepy pictures that make people who haven't played the game tilt their head and decide to never walk down a dark alley in the Mass Effect universe.

Original Thread can be found here:
officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=display&thread=418687

Maybe I'm naive or just lazy from not reading the whole thread there, but what creepy pictures?

I thought all discussion was (A) Endings, (B) Multiplayer, or (C) Literary criticism.

It was a joke about this pic:



That's all.

[clifford]

Will the person who had the picture of the Yahg as the 'creepy pic' please step up and claim the 5 credits and model ship they've won?

[FinalGwen]

So, does anyone else come up with backstories for their multiplayer characters, to the point of planning elaborate fanfiction? I've got about 3 or 4 stories that I really want to write up. And I bet they'd fit better into continuity than Deception, to boot!

[Deleted]

Apr 19, 2012 17:15:51 GMT -5 clifford said:

Will the person who had the picture of the Yahg as the 'creepy pic' please step up and claim the 5 credits and model ship they've won?

Yeah that was me. I really like the Yahg design, because it provides as much narrative for them as anything else does. It completely explains their nature just through the visualization.

[KStrick]

Apr 19, 2012 17:28:32 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

So, does anyone else come up with backstories for their multiplayer characters, to the point of planning elaborate fanfiction? I've got about 3 or 4 stories that I really want to write up. And I bet they'd fit better into continuity than Deception, to boot!

I go so far as to search the Mass Effect Wiki for names for specific members of a race, then I find out the religion/culture the race is based on, then search online for cool sounding names (and learn the meanings behind those words). Granted, I've done this since the Sims 2, and just about any time a game gives you the "create-a" feature with something other than white humans.

Granted, I've pretty much settled on my level 20 Salarian named Chambord, named after artifacts in France depicted a fire-breathing salamander/lizard. Since my focus is on incinerate and energy drain... you do the math.

[twiggy101]

Apr 19, 2012 17:28:32 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

So, does anyone else come up with backstories for their multiplayer characters, to the point of planning elaborate fanfiction? I've got about 3 or 4 stories that I really want to write up. And I bet they'd fit better into continuity than Deception, to boot!

I mainly use 2 different infiltrators: a human named Candy Man and a quarian named Barbie Girl.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Apr 19, 2012 17:28:32 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

So, does anyone else come up with backstories for their multiplayer characters, to the point of planning elaborate fanfiction? I've got about 3 or 4 stories that I really want to write up. And I bet they'd fit better into continuity than Deception, to boot!

Well yes and no. For me all of my characters are part of a special squad called Shinigami. Their armor colors are ALWAYS white and black, and the story behind this squad is, each member selected for it is like Shepard. They all either died and were brought back to life(not like Shepard, though, more like their heart stopped beating and then was restarted by medical people), or they came near death.

Originally I had Shepard as the founder of this squad, selecting people like her. Then of course in game Shepard knows nothing aboutthe initiative that led to the gathering of the multiplayer charatcers, so I remade it to Hackett personally doing this.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

I prefer just being a dick and giving the humans white armour so I look a bit like Cerberus.

[BigJerichool222]

So I just realized that the Spectre name only makes sense to Humans, since you know...SPECial Tactics & REconnaissance are all English words and the shortened name takes letters from them. Which is weird since I'm pretty sure Spectres existed LONG before the Humans even came to Citadel Space.

It doesn't make any sense. Do the Universal Translators give their own cleverly put together names depending on the species?

[JDviant]

Random thought - As I finished the game a few weeks back, I couldn't help but think it wasn't as satisfying as how Babylon 5 did almost the same thing. Shadows > Reapers baby ^_^

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Just one of those minor issues that you forget because the game is so good, but I did have a problem with the story from the start.

How much did they have to nerf the Reapers for this story to work?

In the first and second games, ONE Reaper is almost invincible, then in part 3, hundreds of them can be fought back in the time it takes Shepard to travel the galaxy recruiting allies?

Why are they using all these varieties of footsoldiers? The footsoldiers aren't turning people into husks or anything, they just kill them, couldn't the Reapers just do that from space?