Vid: Machine [Mass Effect]

[beccatoria]

This premiered at the WisCon Vid Party last night! :D

Title: Machine
Video: Mass Effect // Bioware
Audio: Machine // Regina Spektor
Summary: The war is in your body. The future is here. The future is a machine.
Notes: Spoilers for all three games. Vid features close variations on the default FemShep model from ME1 & ME2 (due to impossibility

Comments

[cho_malfoy]

OMG A MASS EFFECT FANVID YOU ARE MY NEW FAVORITE

Seriously, I can't say how perfect this is: the music, the clip choices (I'm particularly fond of FemShep/Liara, so I loved the little bits of them that snuck in), the overall emotional quality. I ended up really misty at the end, which is just how I like my ME. Thank you for sharing!

[beccatoria]

Yay! Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for letting me know. The music was a total gift to work with.

[prozacpark]

I saw this at Wiscon last night, and was all LDLKJLKJDF. Still haven't played the game yet, BUT. This made me want to get over my DIRECTIONS issues and actually play it VERY SOON.

It was totally epic (the editing, song choice, FEMALE SHEPARD, and just...everything), and there was a general consensus that we all wanted to play this game.

Hopefully, I'll have more articulate thoughts later. But for now, I just want to draw hearts all over it.:)

[beccatoria]

YOU HAVE AN ISABELA ICON <3

Thank you so much for letting me know you enjoyed it - I'm so glad I got the chance to premiere it at WisCon. Before ME3 I don't think I would have thought I could vid Mass Effect (though I know other people have), but the third game was just so cinematic, I knew I had to try and it turned out to be so much more rewarding than I'd hoped.

I'm so happy you enjoyed it and that it made you want to play the game. I want you to play the game so I can hear your thoughts on it!

I much preferred the directional radar thingy in ME2 when it literally told you what direction to walk in right now and when you got to the next corridor it would reorient itself again, so it was like satnav or whatever but then in ME3 suddenly it was this general direction thing and I was like, wtf, HOW DO I GET THERE?! So yeah, I empathise, but it was worth getting over, and once I stopped stressing about it and just started wandering around, I found that usually you can just swan off in whatever general direction the corridors

[prozacpark]

I love Isabela SO much. And well, um, pretty much all the women of Dragon Age.

Randomly, one of the best panels so far has been the Identity in Video Games panel, which I had been to right before the Vid Party, so your video really sort of brought the themes of that panel ALL together in an awesome way for me?

I mean, there are definitely OTHER themes here that are intriguing me VERY much? But I probably don't know enough about the game to comment on them in a meaningful manner, but just the realization that this story CAN be told in this medium? Very powerful. To have a female heroine that you can lead on a journey that doesn't screw her over because you ACTUALLY have agency with the narrative? Just <3

[beccatoria]

Yeah, most of them are pretty freaking rad. I adore Morrigan beyond words and Isabela I just want to run away with and do crime forever. Anora is really layered and interesting for a character who is essentially present in a very small part of the story. I made her queen in my first playthrough (and the one I imported into my first DA2 playthrough that I'm currently working on), then next time I made Alistair marry her. I sort of want to play through as a human noble to romance Alistair and be the queen but I'm not sure I'd have the heart to be shut Anora out in the cold. D

[alias_sqbr]

This is hands down the best Mass Effect fanvid I have ever seen. I got chills.

[beccatoria]

Wow, thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and thanks for letting me know. Chills are awesome and humbling. ♥

[bionic]

WOOOWWW. WOW!!!! That was so unbelievably amazing. Beautifully done and perfect and bittersweet and perfect. Thank you so so much for sharing. Absolutely loved this!

[beccatoria]

Awww, thanks! <3 I'm really glad you liked it - thanks so much for letting me know. Bittersweet was exactly the note I was striving for.

[beccatoria]

Thank you so much! I'm really thrilled you felt it worked given you didn't know the source, and that you think I did the song justice - as you say, it's extraordinary and just begging to be vidded.