Jack
I've finally started up Mass Effect 2. I'm always behind the times on video games so yes I do realize it released 2010. No shits given.
I'm a huge sucker for these massive scale single-player RPGs, especially the old school Japanese imports back on the PS1. Definitely a modern take on that, with some interesting twists thrown in. I'm super into this trend from the recent generation video games of "choose your own adventure" where you have two or three choices in some situations and each one affects the story accordingly.
There's one character that seriously intrigues me: Jack.
Grabbed this description from her page on wikia.
The tortures of Jack's time as Subject Zero and her subsequent life experiences have rendered her a borderline psychopath, with an unpredictably violent nature and a severely antisocial personality. She has an innate lust for violence, claiming to experience "warm feelings during a fight" due to her physiological conditioning as a child at Teltin (by shocking her for hesitating and stimulating her with drugs whenever she attacked). She has a tendency to spout profanities constantly in conversation and is very easily provoked. Her body is covered head-to-toe in elaborate tattoos and scars, some being remnants of her experimentation, while others mark prisons, kills, and major events in her life. Having been used and abused so many times by people in her life, Jack refuses to trust anyone and is clearly both angered and confused by Shepard's attempts at conversation, being unable to determine what the Commander wants from her.
This is really fascinating. She grew up in a facility where unspeakable human experimentation was done ON CHILDREN, really no wonder she's pissed. She's the type of character I'd want to do some sort of psychology case study on, if she were real. Of course that would likely be very dangerous for me.
But as for a female video game character, she's somewhat unique. Although her clothes are...strange. She's basically topless with some sort of "belt" covering just the nipples...nothing really left to the imagination. Video games have been criticized for years with female character portrayal, starting with Lara Croft and her DD cups, which are inefficient for all her acrobatics...women often showed a lot of skin when their male counterparts were covered head to toe in armor. It's become a running joke.
I dig the shaved head.
But I have just realized she's apparently a reference to the Chronicles of Riddick character named Jack, a female character with a pretty similar as hell backstory. Never seen any of those. That's cool, though.
I'm a huge sucker for these massive scale single-player RPGs, especially the old school Japanese imports back on the PS1. Definitely a modern take on that, with some interesting twists thrown in. I'm super into this trend from the recent generation video games of "choose your own adventure" where you have two or three choices in some situations and each one affects the story accordingly.
There's one character that seriously intrigues me: Jack.
Grabbed this description from her page on wikia.
The tortures of Jack's time as Subject Zero and her subsequent life experiences have rendered her a borderline psychopath, with an unpredictably violent nature and a severely antisocial personality. She has an innate lust for violence, claiming to experience "warm feelings during a fight" due to her physiological conditioning as a child at Teltin (by shocking her for hesitating and stimulating her with drugs whenever she attacked). She has a tendency to spout profanities constantly in conversation and is very easily provoked. Her body is covered head-to-toe in elaborate tattoos and scars, some being remnants of her experimentation, while others mark prisons, kills, and major events in her life. Having been used and abused so many times by people in her life, Jack refuses to trust anyone and is clearly both angered and confused by Shepard's attempts at conversation, being unable to determine what the Commander wants from her.
This is really fascinating. She grew up in a facility where unspeakable human experimentation was done ON CHILDREN, really no wonder she's pissed. She's the type of character I'd want to do some sort of psychology case study on, if she were real. Of course that would likely be very dangerous for me.
But as for a female video game character, she's somewhat unique. Although her clothes are...strange. She's basically topless with some sort of "belt" covering just the nipples...nothing really left to the imagination. Video games have been criticized for years with female character portrayal, starting with Lara Croft and her DD cups, which are inefficient for all her acrobatics...women often showed a lot of skin when their male counterparts were covered head to toe in armor. It's become a running joke.
I dig the shaved head.
But I have just realized she's apparently a reference to the Chronicles of Riddick character named Jack, a female character with a pretty similar as hell backstory. Never seen any of those. That's cool, though.