11. Fanmix - Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2
Okay, so, this is entirely unusual for me (I'm not much of a fanmixer). However, for Challenge #28 at landofart (Text and Nothing But Text), I decided to shove together my current video-gaming obsession with fanmix making and see where that got me. And I ended up with this? I suspect that it mostly fits with my head!canon of Shepard.
The full notes and some geeky ramblings about the game can be found below the cut. All of the songs are included in the .rar. but Animal That I Have Become (Three Days Grace) as that file is a protected file. If you would like any of the songs individually, let me know and I'd be happy to upload them for you.
01. Re-Education (Through Labor) - Rise Against
02. Attack - 30 Seconds to Mars
03. Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace (Not included, sorry!)
04. Assassin - Muse
05. The Pursuit - Evans Blue
06. Queen Anne's Revenge - Flogging Molly
07. Brand New Hate - Backyard Babies
08. Let the Flames Begin - Paramore
09. Somewhere Around Nothing - Apocalyptica
10. Remedy - Seether
Music to Kill To - .rar
This mix was inspired by the fact that (now that I finally got around to playing it!), in one of the data files you find in the lair of the Shadow Broker you get a peek into Garrus' head via the Top Five Songs he has playing while he's in the field. And, I figured that if Garrus was listening to music while sniping people, why wouldn't Shepard? (It all made sense to me, I swear.) So, rather than being a mix with songs that I think describe Shepard, this a mix of what I think that Shepard might listen to... if he or she listened to the same music that I listen to.
The first four songs were just general Shepard. Songs 5 - 7 I thought were more in the style of Renegade Shepard and the last three I thought were more Paragon-y. I was looking for angry, loud, driving rhythms, and I had to work really hard not to duplicate bands (otherwise this would have been a mix that only consisted of Three Days Grace, Rise Against, and 30 Second to Mars).
As alluded to above the cut, I'm also pretty positive that my play through choices and head!canon have heavily influenced my music choices, here. My current game involves my first ever Renegade Shepard, and I'm playing through as man!Shep since I never do it (the voice actress for fem!Shep is better, in my opinion). The playthrough before that, Shepard was as Paragon as a person could get and female, so... the style and the gender both influenced my music choices, I'm sure.
Full credit for the N7 image goes to lincer556 on DeviantArt, because I was too lazy to try and figure out how I wanted to screencap whilst I was playing.
The full notes and some geeky ramblings about the game can be found below the cut. All of the songs are included in the .rar. but Animal That I Have Become (Three Days Grace) as that file is a protected file. If you would like any of the songs individually, let me know and I'd be happy to upload them for you.
01. Re-Education (Through Labor) - Rise Against
02. Attack - 30 Seconds to Mars
03. Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace (Not included, sorry!)
04. Assassin - Muse
05. The Pursuit - Evans Blue
06. Queen Anne's Revenge - Flogging Molly
07. Brand New Hate - Backyard Babies
08. Let the Flames Begin - Paramore
09. Somewhere Around Nothing - Apocalyptica
10. Remedy - Seether
Music to Kill To - .rar
This mix was inspired by the fact that (now that I finally got around to playing it!), in one of the data files you find in the lair of the Shadow Broker you get a peek into Garrus' head via the Top Five Songs he has playing while he's in the field. And, I figured that if Garrus was listening to music while sniping people, why wouldn't Shepard? (It all made sense to me, I swear.) So, rather than being a mix with songs that I think describe Shepard, this a mix of what I think that Shepard might listen to... if he or she listened to the same music that I listen to.
The first four songs were just general Shepard. Songs 5 - 7 I thought were more in the style of Renegade Shepard and the last three I thought were more Paragon-y. I was looking for angry, loud, driving rhythms, and I had to work really hard not to duplicate bands (otherwise this would have been a mix that only consisted of Three Days Grace, Rise Against, and 30 Second to Mars).
As alluded to above the cut, I'm also pretty positive that my play through choices and head!canon have heavily influenced my music choices, here. My current game involves my first ever Renegade Shepard, and I'm playing through as man!Shep since I never do it (the voice actress for fem!Shep is better, in my opinion). The playthrough before that, Shepard was as Paragon as a person could get and female, so... the style and the gender both influenced my music choices, I'm sure.
Full credit for the N7 image goes to lincer556 on DeviantArt, because I was too lazy to try and figure out how I wanted to screencap whilst I was playing.