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beccatoria

30 Days of Mass Effect: Day 2

Apr 29, 2013 22:46

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 ( Read more... )

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gonzo21 April 30 2013, 10:44:14 UTC

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 April 30 2013, 13:22:46 UTC

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 April 30 2013, 19:43:15 UTC

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 May 1 2013, 10:13:51 UTC

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

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laura47 May 13 2013, 17:59:16 UTC

" "Kolyat, why did the last verse say she?""

I've been wondering about that, is that romance only, and if not, what do they do in the broshep version? I said the prayer outloud with kolyat and cried my face off.

beccatoria May 13 2013, 22:36:48 UTC

No, it's not romance only. I haven't got that far in my playthrough, but I've youtubed it. If you're playing Broshep it's nowhere near as touching. You say the same prayer (though obviously with "he") at which point you ask Kolyat why Thane was praying for forgiveness when he died a hero's death (which makes no real sense to me because asking for forgiveness is a fairly standard religious thing to do?) but Kolyat answers the same way - that he's already asked forgiveness for the lives he has taken (again confirming to me that Thane WAS praying for forgiveness afterall, Broshep, I MEAN REALLY), and that the prayer was for you ( ... )

laura47 May 13 2013, 22:45:32 UTC

I knew as a player I almost certainly wasn't making it out, but I felt like my Shep still was holding out hope... that line really might have changed it, though. At the end, in London, I still said I might make it, we might all make it, maybe I should have responded to Kaidan the other way, but.. I just went with what I'd been doing. I'd just done the Citadel party, and I tried to be all "i guess this is the last party..." and he believed so much that i'd find a way, i'd win and we could live happily ever after... it would have been easier if he didn't love me. I keep just getting broken up thinking about him, left behind, after he begged me not to leave him behind... I think if somehow he'd gotten up there with me, and wanted to die with me, I would have let him. And I am very anti-suicide, I'd normally never let anyone kill themself over their lover dying, but there, in the moment, I don't think I would have stopped him. And I feel super weird about this! Bioware you're fucking with my head about choices THAT DIDN'T EVEN EXIST

laura47 May 13 2013, 22:48:45 UTC

(Though argh, man, your point about how he'll never give up because you came back once before. WHY. WHY WOULD YOU TELL ME THAT?! WHYYYYYYY.)

I'm sorry! I thought everyone would go down that dark depressing path. Oh but you haven't finished romancing him yet... yeah. I feel guilty that i affected his life so much and left. Thane, Thane I woke up from 10 years of not really being alive, helped him find himself, his purpose, his son, and we had no regrets. Kaidan there was so much more pain and complications and I feel like I took over his life. idek. But he wouldn't trade it for anything, I know.