a Master Ninja said:Why are Reapers so chatty? For being incomprehensible and unstoppable beings, Sovereign and Harbinger sure enjoy taking a moment to rub it in the face of a mere mortal.
Sovereign talks to you only once, doesnt he?
a Master Ninja said:Why are Reapers so chatty? For being incomprehensible and unstoppable beings, Sovereign and Harbinger sure enjoy taking a moment to rub it in the face of a mere mortal.
Yeah, but he reveals everything in that one exchange. You can probe him for the Repears' entire plan.HK-47 said:Sovereign talks to you only once, doesnt he?
Right except he doesn't spend the rest of the game saying stuff likeCrunched said:Yeah, but he reveals everything in that one exchange. You can probe him for the Repears' entire plan.
Because Reapers are assholes.a Master Ninja said:Why are Reapers so chatty? For being incomprehensible and unstoppable beings, Sovereign and Harbinger sure enjoy taking a moment to rub it in the face of a mere mortal.
Coxswain said:Because Reapers are assholes.
(Honestly I don't know why so many people seem to take Sovereign's "you cannot understand" spiel at face value when the obvious alternative is that his entire speech is the Ancient-Evil-AI equivalent of "neener neener, fuck you Shepard". Harbinger is just the annoying little brother in that situation.)
Just imagine the Turian Councilor's reaction to Shepard kicking down the door, bursting into the Citadel tower, doing that slam-hands-down-on-table-and-lean-forward animation, then shouting, "The Reapers are real, and they're trying to make a rape baby with my entire species! (What? No, I killed it, I can't show you, it's... it's gone now.)"Fimbulvetr said:Maybe he was just too embarrassed to say "we want to make a baby with the galaxy".
Coxswain said:Just imagine the Turian Councilor's reaction to Shepard kicking down the door, bursting into the Citadel tower, doing that slam-hands-down-on-table-and-lean-forward animation, then shouting, "The Reapers are real, and they're trying to make a rape baby with my entire species! (What? No, I killed it, I can't show you, it's... it's gone now.)"
I mean, all of this nonsense would be solved if Shepard and his away team had a video feed being recorded. Then they could record Sovereign's and Harbinger's long monologues and the Council would accept it as proof since they accepted an audio recording in less than ten seconds as "Irrefutable evidence of Saren's betrayal".Coxswain said:Just imagine the Turian Councilor's reaction to Shepard kicking down the door, bursting into the Citadel tower, doing that slam-hands-down-on-table-and-lean-forward animation, then shouting, "The Reapers are real, and they're trying to make a rape baby with my entire species! (What? No, I killed it, I can't show you, it's... it's gone now.)"
Lostconfused said:Well there is still that reaper IFF hooked up to Normany 2. But I guess it would be awkward for Shepard to explain why there is an AI on board the ship.
Anyways considering the fact that Reapers are already invading and blowing things up I don't think Shep has to worry about proving their existence.
On the other handShepard might need a better reason than "Another crazy alien artifact shot visions into my head" for blowing up an entire solar system.
Lostconfused said:Well there is still that reaper IFF hooked up to Normany 2. But I guess it would be awkward for Shepard to explain why there is an AI on board the ship.
Anyways considering the fact that Reapers are already invading and blowing things up I don't think Shep has to worry about proving their existence.
On the other handShepard might need a better reason than "Another crazy alien artifact shot visions into my head" for blowing up an entire solar system.
Lostconfused said:Right except he doesn't spend the rest of the game saying stuff like
"I KNOW YOU CAN FEEL THIS"
"I KNOW THIS HURTS YOU"
"WE ARE YOUR SALVATION"
over and over and over again. Harbinger just won't shut the fuck up.
shinobi602 said:I don't really think anyone will need convincing when the Reapers actually invade and start slaughtering millions of people.
PaddyOCanager said:So I don't know if this was mentioned before but is the Arrival foreshadowing the end of ME3?
To destroy the Reapers, Shepherd has to destroy the mass relay in Earth's system - sacrificing Earth but ultimately saving the galaxy?
PaddyOCanager said:So I don't know if this was mentioned before but is the Arrival foreshadowing the end of ME3?
To destroy the Reapers, Shepherd has to destroy the mass relay in Earth's system - sacrificing Earth but ultimately saving the galaxy?
According to Ashley, they did have their suit recordings, in ME1 at least.jackdoe said:I mean, all of this nonsense would be solved if Shepard and his away team had a video feed being recorded. Then they could record Sovereign's and Harbinger's long monologues and the Council would accept it as proof since they accepted an audio recording in less than ten seconds as "Irrefutable evidence of Saren's betrayal".
It's not like they had much of a choice once they were trapped within it's kinetic barriers. I'm more curious as to why Cerberus didn't try to recover the derelict Reaper before sending in a team to retrieve it's IFF and losing their minds to indoctrination. I guess the game logic would be that getting the IFF was made priority so as to reduce the number of human lives taken, but I imagine retrieving irrefutable proof of the Reapers' existence and getting some actual help from the Council would save more lives, human included, in the long run.HK-47 said:Hey guys look a derelict Reap-oh we dropped it into the brown dwarf it was orbiting...
That could have really helped us convince the galactic community.
Oh well!
this would be coolPaddyOCanager said:So I don't know if this was mentioned before but is the Arrival foreshadowing the end of ME3?
To destroy the Reapers, Shepherd has to destroy the mass relay in Earth's system - sacrificing Earth but ultimately saving the galaxy?
Yeah, happens all the time. Stand still for a moment, allow his neck to "reset"... lolmalfcn said:Been slowly starting to play ME2 again. Bought it day 1, then shelved it. Got all the DLC when it was on sale, but keep getting distracted by other games.
One thing that bothered me, and continues to do so is Shepard, and his neck. Often I start running around, and he cocks his neck to the side..and starts looking at some bizarre angle. Anyone else notice this? It is like he got stuck looking at something.
malfcn said:The Arrival is on sale for 320 points..worth it?
Patryn said:Probably not. If it was foreshadowing anything it's going to beShepard's trial. The asteroid thing is just a callback to Bring Down the Sky, where you stop Batarians from blowing up a planet with an asteroid.
I'm glad they priced them accordingly though, seeing Shadow Broker at 800 and then Arrival at 560 let's me know there's less contentAcidote said:I bought and played through it yesterday. Just more slightly below average gameplay. Lair of the Shadow Broker set the bar really high.