Mass Effect 3 - Page 13

Taak Farst · 05-11-2011, 07:44 PM

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Cerberus made a deal with the Reapers.

It said it somewhere on the BW forums.
I set my ps3 on arrival and left it running until the timer ran out. and at the end is a brief video of different flashes. I slowed it down and it was interesting. One little glimpse includes Ash, Mordin, I can't remember who else...but also the Illusive Man, walking alongside. It looked like it was one of those "lets have one last goodbye and then face the **** to come" type epic moments.

Given that the Illusive Man is part of that, I assume he

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Left Cerberus. Because of above; and became, not a squadmate probably, maybe, but an ally of some kind. Don't see why he wouldn't make a good squaddie though.

***Lynk Former*** · 05-11-2011, 10:09 PM

@ Taak: He can just stand/sit there and smoke and the enemies will die of lung cancer from second hand smoke...

Liverandbacon · 05-13-2011, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DarthParametric

I was thinking more for male Shepards that wanted the chance for a round with a razor sharp keratin plated meat trap.

While a losing cutscene showing all life being destroyed by the Reapers because Shepard died after a horrible penis shredding incident would be funny, 2011 Bioware isn't about to include a female party member you can't bang without consequences. They even made up some flimsy reason it's possible to get it on with Tali without her getting Space Flu and dying. It would lead to hordes of fanboys crying about it and complaining on the forums.

Primogen · 05-13-2011, 11:30 PM

Well, Tali -does- get sick as I recall after Shep bones her, she's just taken enough immunoboosters that she doesn't die of it.

**ChAiNz.2da** · 05-14-2011, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Liverandbacon

They even made up some flimsy reason it's possible to get it on with Tali without her getting Space Flu and dying. It would lead to hordes of fanboys crying about it and complaining on the forums.

What rumors have you heard about me? I had something in my eye

Totenkopf · 05-14-2011, 11:53 AM

Confess and come clean, ChAiNz.....we've got the pics.

DarthParametric · 05-15-2011, 06:41 AM

Here's a Casey Hudson Twitter roundup.

First off is a comment that relates to what Taak Farst suggested a few posts back. He was asked "It is said that Cerberus is the enemy. Does this mean the Illusive Man is after you? Or is it just Cerberus? Or both?" To which he replied:

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Hm, We'll leave that a mystery for now. A bit into spoiler territory.

Of course that could be just the usual marketing no comment thing and TIM could turn out to be the stereotypical Bioware bad guy, but at least it doesn't shoot down Taak Farst's idea outright. If TIM does turn out to have left though, that would, to my mind, make even less sense why Cerberus would be the enemy. Ah well, I guess time will tell.

A comment concerning LIs:

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Originally Posted by Casey Hudson

Love interests won't all necessarily be permanent squad members in #ME3 . Interesting new things happening in that area.

Which I guess had to be expected given that half the ME2 LIs are only making cameos in ME3.

In reply to questions about ME3 squad members he said:

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We have some new (and unannounced) characters that will be cool and quite different from what we've done before.

And when asked specifically if it was just the 5 announced so far (Tali, Garrus, Liara, Ashley/Kaidan, James Vega) he said:

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Originally Posted by Casey Hudson

Not exactly. More surprises coming on squad members in #ME3

So maybe we'll get Blasto after all?

Taak Farst · 05-15-2011, 10:11 AM

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but for anyone who isn't a Bioware Social Forums goer, it's good to check this thread out. It's updated every few days with new ME3 info and it's already packed. Clicky

***Lynk Former*** · 05-15-2011, 12:26 PM

Why can't you just retransmit the info here so we can enjoy it in LucasForums? XP

*hypocrite*

lol

**leXX** · 05-15-2011, 03:09 PM

So apparently ME3 has no new love interest. :/ Clicky

Primogen · 05-15-2011, 03:12 PM

Good, we've got enough as it is.

Mav · 05-15-2011, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by leXX

So apparently ME3 has no new love interest. :/ Clicky

In ME3, Shepard will realize that nobody can match how awesome s/he is, and will just fall in love with him/herself.

DarthParametric · 05-15-2011, 03:31 PM

Maybe EDI will invent a Holly Hop Drive and male Shep can cross over to the female Shep-verse.

EDIT: News has come out in the last day or so about same-sex LIs (beyond just Liara) in ME3. Casey Hudson suggested on Twitter that this wasn't a reference to existing LIs, and instead - in a direct contravention of a previous comment he made a day or two before - indicated that these will instead be new LIs.

Alkonium · 05-19-2011, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by DarthParametric

Maybe EDI will invent a Holly Hop Drive and male Shep can cross over to the female Shep-verse.

EDIT: News has come out in the last day or so about same-sex LIs (beyond just Liara) in ME3. Casey Hudson suggested on Twitter that this wasn't a reference to existing LIs, and instead - in a direct contravention of a previous comment he made a day or two before - indicated that these will instead be new LIs.

Wait, it doesn't include existing LI's? And here I was hoping to cheat on Tali with Garrus after cheating on Liara with Tali.

DarthParametric · 05-19-2011, 09:00 AM

Speaking of LIs, I was finishing off another ME2 playthrough I've had languishing last week while waiting for The Witcher 2 to unlock. I was compiling all the info for that playthrough to put into a spreadsheet when I decided to do a quick and dirty side-by-side of all my existing characters, just outlining the basics for quick comparison. One of the things that became apparent is that one of my "faithful" playthroughs was the only one to lose any of the Normandy crew. He lost 50%, including Kelly. All of my "faithful" Sheps shagged Kelly, which one of the devs mentioned would be taken into account in ME3 (and possibly LOTSB from what I have heard, although I haven't tried myself that with one of those saves yet). So this Shep cheated, but the partner in question subsequently died. I realised of course that all potential LIs in ME2 could be dead, and that raises the question of what will be the outcome of that particular scenario in ME3? One would assume in instances where both parties are still alive we will see some sort of catfight, but that can't happen if one of them is a corpse (or Human meat paste). I haven't tried that save with LOTSB yet, so I'll have to try that out and see if Liara says anything about Kelly post-death, as that Shep romanced Liara in ME1.

Salzella · 05-19-2011, 09:41 AM

All my sheps go with Kelly and Liara's never mentioned it to my main femshep, who was in a romance with Liara... so I'm fairly sure it doesn't impact LotSB. I'll be a bit sad if it does impact ME3 love as well... i only went to bed with her so she would feed my fish

DarthParametric · 05-19-2011, 11:24 AM

You can just be friends and still get her to feed your fish.

***Jeff*** · 05-19-2011, 02:42 PM

Can't find the original post because of how terrible the BioWare forums are, but:

Sabretooth · 05-19-2011, 03:01 PM

Wait, is it April Fool's Day today or something?

**Astor** · 05-19-2011, 03:24 PM

The Reapers are destroying the universe, and we have to listen to one of the crew talk about how much they love their fellow man/bird/whatever?

I'm all for choice in video games, and I don't want to sound prejudiced or anything, but this seems a little stupid.

**mimartin** · 05-19-2011, 04:14 PM

In 170 something years I would hope some of same prejudices today would no longer be apparent. Let me guess they are going to stereotype Ashley further by making her homophobic. They should allow same sex coupling without all the hoopla. Guess they missed FalseNews giving them free publicity with FalseNews “Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas” reports.

Pavlos · 05-19-2011, 04:28 PM

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The Reapers are destroying the universe, and we have to listen to one of the crew talk about how much they love their fellow man/bird/whatever?

I think that the issue is not really one of it being inappropriate, many of the greatest works of art have a range and scope of subject matter which on the face of it can seem quite absurd, Dickens's Little Dorrit springs to mind as an example (empire, guilt, love, debt of all sorts, imprisonment, the evils of the state, the inescapable ties of the past, and the nature of narrative).

The problem is that I do not really have the confidence in the ability of BioWare's writing team to tie these things together in any strong or meaningful manner. I have long since suspected that a great many of their creative decisions are carried out according to a check-list of features to be included, their plots and characters glued together from separate parts.

**leXX** · 05-19-2011, 04:39 PM

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Yes, but will they feed my hamster?

Salzella · 05-19-2011, 05:18 PM

I already have a homosexual Shepard

(well, bisexual but w/e). No need for any hoo-hah about it, though the prospect of Manshep and Kaiden having a heart-to-heart about their long-supressed bromanly feelings for each other does sound fairly fascinating....

@minimartin, two explanations: either a) the writing acts as a metaphor for 21st century problems or b) Bioware have an extremely dim view of the human race. or maybe both of the above.

Taak Farst · 05-19-2011, 06:38 PM

sounds fun. not homaphobic or anything, because I have no issue with it. But i haven't ever played a homosexual character in a game nor would I like to. I TRIED to in DA2 with Anders because I felt maybe it was a good opportunity to get to know my awakening friend more. But I just quit that. Felt weird.

But this might just tempt me.

EDIT: I too, will put forth the same question as leXX. Because, I swear, through 5 playthroughs of ME2, my poor hamster didn't eat once.

Mav · 05-19-2011, 08:54 PM

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Yes, but will they feed my hamster?

I still want a ****ing crazy space shark w/ friggin laser beams on its head for my Normandy 2.0 aquarium.

**mimartin** · 05-19-2011, 09:16 PM

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I still want a ****ing crazy space shark w/ friggin laser beams on its head for my Normandy 2.0 aquarium.

Talk to Joker, pretty sure he is the only one that can get that for you.

You must be watching Starz right now.

Totenkopf · 05-19-2011, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Pavlos

The problem is that I do not really have the confidence in the ability of BioWare's writing team to tie these things together in any strong or meaningful manner. I have long since suspected that a great many of their creative decisions are carried out according to a check-list of features to be included, their plots and characters glued together from separate parts.

Yeah, this kind of sounds like a checklist theme to me as well. Also, about as annoying as Shep overhearing a crew member talking about having an abortion and then feeding them the pro-life line or insert any other social causes w/an agenda to be met. Geez, do we get to "accidentally observe" an intimate hetero encounter too?

note: keep in mind I've had femshep pick Liara over Carth, err..Kaidan, in a few playthroughs. I just suspect Pavlos may be right about them handling it tritely.

DarthParametric · 05-19-2011, 11:31 PM

Bioware should just move to Japan and become a eroge developer.

Liverandbacon · 05-19-2011, 11:37 PM

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Can't find the original post because of how terrible the BioWare forums are, but:

Guys, it's photoshopped. Calm down.

Also, I'm glad they're adding new characters for homosexual relationships instead of making previously straight characters suddenly and inexplicably turn bi. I can do without incredibly lazy 'everyone is bi' DA2 style character writing.