30 Days of Mass Effect: Day 2

[beccatoria]

Ahahahaah and already I'm skirting the edges of the deadline and it's only day 2. But whatever, 'tis meant to be fun, and I was only late due to 1) squaring away some stuff for Vidukon, which, for once, went all smoothly and stuff, so that was nice and 2) watching Defiance, which...to be honest with you is not very good but reminds me of 90s scifi

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[gonzo21]

Weirdly the thing that always put me off playing as femshep was the character model for the females had a really bizarrely stretched unnaturally long neck. And once I'd noticed it I couldn't not-notice it any longer.

I think it was stretched so that she would fit better into the armour models. But still, yeah. Bizarre mutant.

[beccatoria]

I actually never noticed anything weird with her neck until I made it thicker one time, because it looked better with the face, but then IN the game, yeah, it was this HUGE neck that made it really obvious how long it was. So I went back and replayed the first half hour to fix it. It doesn't generally bother me, though. Certainly not more than Broshep's delivery of his lines... o.O He gets better as the series goes on but I never really like him, and in the first game I just found it horribly distracting. Vocal mutant? :p

ME2 does have a lot of casual wear for the Normandy with high collars though - maybe other people complained about the same thing?

[gonzo21]

Male shep in ME1 was dreadful. I started out as him but gave up and restarted with a woman because the voice acting was so poor.

Didn't bother me quite so much in ME2, and given I don't think you could have lesbian romances in 2, I went with a guy.

[beccatoria]

Well you could seduce your secretary to make her feed your fish, though to be honest with you, I just found that whole thing uncomfortable. In the third game you can buy a fishfeeder which seems a far more sensible solution... :p

However, just to entice you over to the side of Good and Righteousness, if you (a) chose to save Ashley on Virmire and (b) didn't romance Garrus in ME2, you can basically only romance chicks in ME3, cus there ain't any dudes left for you.

Seriously though, VOICE ACTING. SUPERIOR VOICE ACTING! :p

[gonzo21]

Yes, the seduction of the secretary was a bit weird wasn't it. She felt a bit like she was there as the booby prize for Shephards who wanted a bit of action but who didn't want to have to put in any thought to get it.

[beccatoria]

Not to mention if you invite her up after the end of the suicide mission, whereas everyone else gets to snuggle on the bed, she, instead, does some super weird, uncomfortable to watch dance for her in a dodgy outfit and it's like...okay, there are lots of things on the gender spectrum about these games that I'm willing to mock, but that was honestly one of the only things that made me feel sketchy and uncomfortable watching it. :(

[gonzo21]

You know I'm not sure if I saw that scene, I was romancing Miranda. (Mostly because she reminded me of Claudia Black/Aeryn.) Which is where you'll probably tell me she was voiced by Claudia Black.

[beccatoria]

No, if you romanced anyone else, you don't see the scene.

And no, Claudia Black doesn't voice Miranda (though I assume you know she voices Morrigan in Dragon Age: Origins?) but she does have a small role voicing the grumpy Asari bartender with a Krogan father on Illium? She's hilarious and sounds like Aeryn that one time she was possessed by Rygel. Also she comes back in ME3 and calls you an "anthropocentric bag of dicks". Which really, it doesn't get much better than that.

She also voices Admiral Xen, the Quarian Admiral you meet during Tali's trial who's a bit batshit and likes experimenting on Geth. She also comes back in the third game, in a minor role again, though if Tali dies during the suicide mission, she takes Tali's place on some of the missions on that storyline (I don't think as a playable companion, just...as the character who like, delivers information and stuff).

[gonzo21]

Yep, I knew she was Morrigan. I sort of quite enjoyed the first Dragon Age game, but never bothered with the second when I heard it didn't fix any of the problems with the first.