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Moaradin · (02-07-2012, 01:48 AM)

Oh god the quotes!

MrTroubleMaker · (02-07-2012, 01:49 AM)

Originally Posted by LumpOfCole:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/AELwf.jpg[img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/Ng7oJ.jpg[img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/NPlYL.jpg[img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/iKqe2.jpg[img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/gt0NY.jpg[img]

lol

EatinOlives · (02-07-2012, 01:49 AM)

Planet scanning in ME3 replaced with cereal eating CONFIRMED.

Narpas Sword0 · (02-07-2012, 02:49 AM)

Asari stir fry

TheSeks · (02-07-2012, 03:04 AM)

Originally Posted by LumpOfCole:

http://i.imgur.com/AELwf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ng7oJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NPlYL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iKqe2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gt0NY.jpg

Is this... is this true? Holy shit, and I thought Mass Effect 2's ending was bad.

godhandiscen · (02-07-2012, 03:15 AM)

Originally Posted by Lyphen:

Haha, Dietz, author of Halo: The Flood? What's the excuse this time? Another time constraint?

Seriously. Not looking good for Dietz when he fucks up two videogame novelizations like these.

LumpOfCole · (02-07-2012, 04:38 AM)

Hey guys, I just finished Chapter 4 of Deception: Rage Comic Edition.

Derrick01 · (02-07-2012, 04:46 AM)

haha I love how you made that hologram of him eating cereal and everything is properly reversed. You put more attention to detail in this than the damn writer did.

ElectricBlue187 · (02-07-2012, 04:47 AM)

Quote:

okay. *dies*

wow this is great I want to read the whole book in this format

inky · (02-07-2012, 04:48 AM)

Wow, these comics are great :lol Those batarian faces... keep it up.

kai3345 · (02-07-2012, 04:59 AM)

:lol those ragecomics are amazing

DanielJr82 · (02-07-2012, 05:11 AM)

Those comics are great, lol.

LumpOfCole · (02-07-2012, 05:52 AM)

Originally Posted by Derrick01:

haha I love how you made that hologram of him eating cereal and everything is properly reversed. You put more attention to detail in this than the damn writer did.

I only reversed him so he could face the Illusive Man :)

bigdaddygamebot · (02-07-2012, 05:55 AM)

Originally Posted by Qwomo:

well that's one way to put it

the same could be said for Sonic fans

Yeah...no.

They're fucking mad as hatters.

WanderingWind · (02-07-2012, 06:08 AM)

LumpOfCole. I LumpOfLoveYou.

Mindlog · (02-07-2012, 06:13 AM)

Originally Posted by LumpOfCole:

I only reversed him so he could face the Illusive Man :)

I'm looking forward to the artistic interpretation of the ending. There's a lot of material to work with.

LumpOfCole · (02-07-2012, 06:27 AM)

The end will be fun to do.

I'm currently trying to figure out how I want to represent Aria.

BrokenEchelon · (02-07-2012, 06:29 AM)

I bet BioWare would score 90+ averages on Metacritic for digging their own grave.

Stage On · (02-07-2012, 07:24 AM)

I bought the book before finding out about the problems with it after it was too late to cancel.

I'm not going to bother reading it now after hearing how bad it is. Plus having been spoiled by the ending I'd like to pretend the events of the book never happened.... It's better that way.

*sigh* I thought this was leading up to Gillan being a squad member in Mass effect 3. Now that would have been cool...

Yaska · (02-07-2012, 07:29 AM)

After reading this topic, I'm scared of reading my kindle copy. Maybe I should just wait for the revised edition.

bhlaab · (02-07-2012, 07:31 AM)

BioWare Apologizes for Mass Effect

Arjen · (02-07-2012, 07:33 AM)

Those comics are amazing

Moaradin · (02-07-2012, 07:41 AM)

Is it even salvageable if they corrected all the lore mistakes?

Arjen · (02-07-2012, 07:48 AM)

Originally Posted by Moaradin:

Is it even salvageable if they corrected all the lore mistakes?

They fucked up the timeline pretty big, Gillian and Nick are 18 when they are supposed to be 15. I'm not going to spoil things, but there's now way 15 year olds could do the things they are doing in this book.

Mindlog · 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by LumpOfCole:

The end will be fun to do.

I'm currently trying to figure out how I want to represent Aria.

That is an interesting problem to have. How do you represent someone pretending to be someone that doesn't exist with a non-existant family that doesn't want to not let her mourn the daughter that none of them know in anonymity?

Originally Posted by Stage On:

*sigh* I thought this was leading up to Gillan being a squad member in Mass effect 3. Now that would have been cool...

Yeah, I thought they were going to get creepy with it and make her a LI.
Luckily, they had an even worse idea.

Abylim · (02-07-2012, 08:44 AM)

Loving the comics... Lol at bioware.. wtf is up with them?
ME3 is highly anticipated, but I worry. Thank god the Dragon Age team isnt involved.

wildfire · (02-07-2012, 09:01 AM)

Originally Posted by Derrick01:

I'm honestly surprised they acknowledged the errors at all. They haven't commented on any of their own plot holes/inconsistencies through ME2+DLC or the comics.

This is the only ME book I haven't read so it must be really bad for Bioware to take note.

It's so bad it not only contradicts books that came before it but also after it. They needed to patch it.

Svafnir · (02-07-2012, 09:21 AM)

Well glad I didn't pick this book up.

Anuxinamoon · (02-07-2012, 09:36 AM)

Those rage comics are a masterpiece. The cereal part had me crying with laughter.

mclem · (02-07-2012, 10:01 AM)

Originally Posted by Jipan:

The bowl of cereal has had me crying with laughter. That's the funniest thing I've read in a while. I can't believe that was in the book. Now I have to read that passage. Who in their right mind would break into a person's home to eat a bowl of cereal?

Goldilocks?

Fuu · (02-07-2012, 11:02 AM)

Originally Posted by LumpOfCole:

Hey guys, I just finished Chapter 4 of Deception: Rage Comic Edition.

http://i.imgur.com/e8JZC.jpg

rofl great times, thanks for posting them here too.

R_thanatos · (02-07-2012, 12:05 PM)

The comic is incredible

reptilescorpio · (02-07-2012, 12:23 PM)

LumpOfCole spinning this disaster into some positive word of mouth better than a thousand PR mouthpieces at Bioware could ever imagine.

Keep up the great work man, very entertaining. I actually want to know what happens now!

Fuu · (02-07-2012, 02:19 PM)

Thumbs up to the updated thread title :lol

Brobzoid · (02-07-2012, 02:45 PM)

omg best thread

Ifrit · (02-07-2012, 02:52 PM)

Does the cereal part actually happens? I refuse to believe that

Arjen · (02-07-2012, 03:06 PM)

Originally Posted by Ifrit:

Does the cereal part actually happens? I refuse to believe that

Yes it sure does.

Bisnic · (02-07-2012, 03:08 PM)

Originally Posted by Arjen:

Yes it sure does.

The worst part is...i bet they'll keep that in the edited version. Gotta have some funny parts in a "serious" sci-fi franchise am i right?

Garrus Vakarian · (02-07-2012, 03:10 PM)

So glad I clicked on this thread, for many reasons.

Arjen · (02-07-2012, 03:13 PM)

Originally Posted by Bisnic:

The worst part is...i bet they'll keep that in the edited version. Gotta have some funny parts in a "serious" sci-fi franchise am i right?

Honestly, they shouldn't even bother "fixing" it, i'm 2/3 in, but it is really, really awfull.
Let's just al pretend this book doesn't exist.

Bisnic · (02-07-2012, 03:17 PM)

Hopefully the guys writing the story of ME3 have nothing to do with the one who did Deception.

SpacePirate Ridley · (02-07-2012, 03:18 PM)

I read the first 2 books, I think a new one just released here, and thats the third. But Deception is the fourth one no?

Originally Posted by LumpOfCole:

Gillian's autism was completely disregarded in Deception with no explanation. I used Doc Brown to show what I believe happened to her autism (and her sudden and impossible aging of 3 years to coincide with the book's timeline).

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. Please continue with this amazing retellings.

Arjen · (02-07-2012, 03:22 PM)

Originally Posted by SpacePirate Ridley:

I read the first 2 books, I think a new one just released here, and thats the third. But Deception is the fourth one no?

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. Please continue with this amazing retellings.

Yesp, it's the 4th book. Retribution is the third.

Derrick01 · (02-07-2012, 03:24 PM)

Originally Posted by Bisnic:

Hopefully the guys writing the story of ME3 have nothing to do with the one who did Deception.

Even worse, it's Mac Walters!

Ok I jest. He's not worse than this writer, but he's certainly not a lot better.

Ciastek3214 · (02-07-2012, 03:31 PM)

Originally Posted by Bisnic:

Hopefully the guys writing the story of ME3 have nothing to do with the one who did Deception.

I kinda would like that to happen just to hear people cry.

Jenga · (02-07-2012, 03:34 PM)

id actually read those comics if they weren't reddit meme abortions

Bisnic · (02-07-2012, 03:39 PM)

Originally Posted by Ciastek3214:

I kinda would like that to happen just to hear people cry.

"Thane went to assassinate a volus who nearly killed his son, Shepard slowly following behind.

But before that, while he is sleeping....let's eat chips and watch space football on his TV!"

All animated, voiced and in glorious HD for Deception fans!

Ushojax · (02-07-2012, 03:42 PM)

Originally Posted by Bisnic:

Hopefully the guys writing the story of ME3 have nothing to do with the one who did Deception.

Let's hope they guys who wrote ME2 have nothing to do with it either. Although if you've seen the leaked story stuff, you've probably stopped caring already.

Bisnic · (02-07-2012, 03:47 PM)

Originally Posted by Ushojax:

Let's hope they guys who wrote ME2 have nothing to do with it either. Although if you've seen the leaked story stuff, you've probably stopped caring already.

I didnt. Well except some stuff concerning Thane... i think. And im not even sure that was before the real leaks happened.

Derrick01 · (02-07-2012, 03:52 PM)

Originally Posted by Ushojax:

Let's hope they guys who wrote ME2 have nothing to do with it either. Although if you've seen the leaked story stuff, you've probably stopped caring already.

They are. As I said, Mac Walters is still lead writer.

My mind was put a little more at ease on the gameplay stuff for ME3, but as long as this guy is still lead writer I will always worry about the game's story.