CCCToad on 5/3/2012 at 05:24
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Okay, I'll bite. Why do you hate Jack?
I actually wasn't intending that as a hook. I thought was fairly obvious. While it is the case that she is the way she is because of her past trauma, fact remains that Jack is a complete and utter bitch.
june gloom on 5/3/2012 at 05:41
Yeah, and? A renegade Shepard is more or less a sociopath. Not to mention Zaeed, who is as shady as it gets. Or how about serial killing space vampire Morinth, if you replace Samara with her? Or Miranda, who's haughty and ruthless and nobody really likes her? Perhaps Thane, who's essentially a murderous Batman?
And, going back a bit, what about Ashley, who was an unpleasant little bigot who I left to die with the nuke first chance I got?
Seriously. Most of these characters aren't exactly saints, and a few of them are just unpleasant to talk to.
DDL on 5/3/2012 at 08:57
Those others are much more generally predictable, though.
Zaeed kills people for money, doesn't really care too much about it: and he's up front and honest about it. He's being paid to be there, he'll kill when you tell him to kill.
Morinth kills people because she likes it, is up front and honest about it, but is otherwise more or less a paletteswap of her mother. Plus she's not only optional, she's actually relatively tricky to acquire in the first place.
Thane kills people, is up front and honest about it, works for hilarious tentacle monsters, and has a moral code of sorts.
And so on. They all are at the very least relatable to on some level.
Jack is basically horrible to talk to no matter what you do. She hates the world for ignoring her, she hates the world when it pays attention to her, she's just generally an irredeemably fucked-in-the-head piece of work.
This isn't her fault, necessarily, but she seems so reluctant to even acknowledge the fact that the universe might not all be douchebags that it gets to the point where even the most carebear players are tempted to just think "christ, fuck you, then. I tried." *selects jack for the tunnel run of the suicide mission*
Mind you, if they'd added the option for an interrupt (paragon or renegade, really) to just slap her and shout "grow the fuck UP, damnit", that might have helped.
Mr. K. on 6/3/2012 at 13:05
Quote Posted by Phatose
So, EDI actually is going to get a body and be a combat teammate, as she has combat chatter embedded in the demo files. Dear god, let those 'sex bot' rumors be massive exaggerations.
Plus, $10 day 1 DLC of a Prothean squad member with a Jamaican accent. Yes, Bioware actually believes we'll spend another $10 on the Mass Effect expy of Jar-Jar Binks.
Maybe the multiplayer is fun because all the insane developers were working on the single player section.
I don't know about multiplayer being fun, but I know about it being "mandatory": (
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/06/mass-effect-3-war-assets-and-readiness-how-multiplayer-affects-your-ending/)
Fun times. XBOX people even get the privilege of having to PAY for it.
Jason Moyer on 6/3/2012 at 14:01
I don't see how that makes multiplayer mandatory. In the last game if you did all of the sidequests, gathered resources for upgrades, and made the right choices before the final battle you were rewarded with a happy ending. In the new one if you do all of the sidequests, gather resources for upgrades, and make the right choices before the final battle you're rewarded with a happy ending. Or you can do some co-op and make the other parts optional. Big deal.
Phatose on 6/3/2012 at 15:16
Er...I suspect he's misunderstood the situation.
He didn't get a bad ending because he didn't play multiplayer.
He got a bad ending because all the endings are bad.Sulphur on 7/3/2012 at 00:40
The first 'unnecessary' comma is actually required to block off a parenthetical phrase, and the second one is fine because fiction writing also happens to pay attention to rhythm and dramatic effect.
So, 85/100. Not too bad. Also: yeesh.
