WanderingWind said:Halt. Stop. No.
Dragon Age II's take on relationships was embarassing. Not an example to emulate.
He's currently busy on a side project.WanderingWind said:Who wrote Mordin? Give that dude a promotion
I like to call them Bro Squad.MWS Natural said:BEST COMBO EVER.
Dice said:I strongly disagree.
-Oh, this girl who was constantly all into her own business apparently has the romantic maturity of a 15 year old and has had a huge crush on me this whole time.
-She is now dumping it on me all at once in an incredibly awkward confession.
-I act like the thought never crossed my mind, yet contradict that by saying I feel the same way... so apparently I love this girl but never acted like she existed?
-Basically after 3 conversations that go along the lines of "gee, you're swell!" -> "yeah... especially in my pants" she wants me to deflower her.
edgefusion said:Maybe from a straight perspective but there are barely any gay characters represented in games. If the character talks and isn't completely flaming then it's a step up from what we get now. I'd rather have an embarrassing gay relationship in ME3 than to be shunned entirely.
"In Mass Effect 3 we'll fight the Reapers other experiments, with other species.
One is a hideously bloated pregnant Asari, her gums stripped away and a robot skeleton showing through her rotting flesh"
"The Reapers take on the Rachni, who were already viscious insect monsters,are covered with bulging savs of lesser creatures. Rather than hitting their weak spot for massive damage, you want to avoid it like the plague: bursting any of these sacs before the creature is dead wit will unleash a swarm of horrible mini-rachni that crawl all over your body"
"The Reaperised Krogan wears heavy armor plates that can shear off with enough focused fire. Once you do the creature changes its behaviour to be more defensive clutching its lurid blue intestines to its stomach as its lumbers towards you"
"One Reaper creature draws life force from anything that dies near it.
The time-honoured strategy of taking out the easy enemies first ends up
being counter-productive: you make the creature stronger than it would
have been with its allies alive."
Yeah, but do you honestly expect a pro-anything group to keep their morals in the face of ultimate annihilation? I predict there will be many factions/people who end up allying with the reapers in hope of mercy during the story. Hell, the offer for cerebrus could be to kill off all of the other races and leave humans as the dominate "slave-race".Ickman3400 said:Yes, they already went this route in ME1 with Saren.
Saren though, was not the head of a giant pro human organization that hates aliens and had JUST revived you to actively work against the aliens that they are now apparently working for.
Try to make sense of that.
f0rk said:Isn't everyone in DA2 bi? That's a lot worse in my opinion, its like anti characterisation
squicken said:I'm sure that if they could do it again, they'd let players choose to be homosexual from the first game.
But now, they'd have to basically have it so that a middle age Shepard all the sudden decides/discovers he gay. I'm not trying to be insulting or dismissive in any way, but I thought the current position of the gay community was that one is born gay. Wouldn't Shepard "going gay" be an insult to that community?
Twittering? Or was there some project in there with the Henry VIII and hentai derby stuff that I missed?Nirolak said:
I was making a joke that he was too busy making tentacle hentai.WanderingWind said:Twittering? Or was there some project in there with the Henry VIII and hentai derby stuff that I missed?
Unless I'm remembering wrong, they did that in Jade Empire. The princess character would only hook up with other women, and there might have even been a gay guy.TheChaos said:Bioware won't do an exclusively gay/lesbian romance because the demand isn't there or something (stupid, I know) Hope you enjoy bisexuals or nothing.
Aaron said:Unless I'm remembering wrong, they did that in Jade Empire. The princess character would only hook up with other women, and there might have even been a gay guy.
How the hell did you end up with this? There are huge communities of gay gamers for both men and women. The call for gay/bi characters are crazy big.TheChaos said:Bioware won't do an exclusively gay/lesbian romance because the demand isn't there or something. Hope you enjoy bisexuals or nothing.
TruePrime said:How the hell did you end up with this? There are huge communities of gay gamers for both men and women. The call for gay/bi characters are crazy big.
He'll one of the most well known ME 1 mods is to have a gay relationship with Kaiden forged sake. Not only that but look around at all the demand, the videos and other things to have the genetic masterpiece Miranda to show interest in both the female side.
There is certainly enough people who would like or even love a fully gay character. I won't argue and say Bioware is wrong or don't have a reason, but trying to say there wouldn't be enough support is crazy talk.
Ah. You are a humorous dude.Nirolak said:I was making a joke that he was too busy making tentacle hentai.
That said, they haven't exactly been hiding that they're working on spin-offs, so it's quite possible they will have different lead writers on different projects.
I don't need to calm down. Just pointing out that Bioware's very own community shot that theory to shit.TheChaos said:The demand quote was their words, not mine, dude. Take it up with them. The quote was that not enough people picked the same sex option for romances for the resources need to be worthwhile.
WanderingWind said:"hey, you were sorta polite to me, let's fuck immediately."
TruePrime said:I don't need to calm down. Just pointing out that Bioware's very own community shot that theory to shit.
Mr_Zombie said:You know, this is kind of unfair. How could you not be unfaithful, when the one you romanced in ME1 was either:
1) ass because you haven't called them since the attack on Normandy (because being dead for two years is obviously no excuse) and that you work with the evil organization now (that it resurrected you and is the only party interested in saving human race from Collectors is unimportant);
2) completely uninterested in you at the time because she devoted herself to hunt Shadow Broker;
So it's them that didn't want to continue the relationship, not Shepard :/
Well taking that approach really doesn't fix the problem on way or another.TheChaos said:The community makes up a very small (and vocal) part of the fanbase. Their message boards may want something, but that doesn't mean the general public will. Bioware probably did outside research on the subject. Look at how many people chose Male Shepherd (was it like 80%)
When did this happen?WanderingWind said:Yeah, Liara not really giving a shit about your return was the single most jarring thing about the second game.
I haven't played the Shadow Broker DLC. In vanilla, she hugs you, then sits at a desk and gives you 2 missions and acts as an info dump for 2 more.TruePrime said:When did this happen?
Granted I bought the Shadowbroker DLC so maybe it's different but this is not ho Liara acted at all in my first time playing ME 2.
Oh, well damn. Yeah I would have been like what the fuck? If that had been what happened.WanderingWind said:I haven't played the Shadow Broker DLC. In vanilla, she hugs you, then sits at a desk and gives you 2 missions and acts as an info dump for 2 more.
WanderingWind said:I haven't played the Shadow Broker DLC. In vanilla, she hugs you, then sits at a desk and gives you 2 missions and acts as an info dump for 2 more.
Maybe. I'm currently replaying as my Male/Ashley romance character. My real character romanced Liara, but I recall the reunion being lame there too.Aurarian said:Did you romance her? I have a faint memory that she talked a bit more if you did(maybe I'm wrong).
Thagomizer said:The trouble is is that Bioware does have competent writers on the Mass Effect team- Wrex, Mordin, Garrus, and Legion (especially Wrex, Mordin, and Legion) demonstrate that.
The problem is, those writers aren't the leads, and the main story writers are talentless hacks that got lucky with ME1 and BDtS and have displayed nothing but ultra-concentrated FAIL since then.
RedSwirl said:So the consensus here is that all of BioWare's writing talent is spent on the characters and dialogue? That's what I've been able to gather from just playing Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Do their previous games follow the same pattern?
brandonh83 said:Good, romancing in Bioware games is extremely hollow and corny as hell. Not gonna miss it.
Nirolak said:This preview mentions that 70% of people weren't faithful to their ME1 romance. :lol
They reconfirm that this will come back to bite them.
Confidence Man said:Illusive Man never wanted to stop the Reapers. He understood, like Saren, that their return could not be stopped. He used Shepard to wipe out the Collectors for their technology so Cerberus and a select number of human colonies can evade and outlast the Reaper invasion, and once they've wiped the galaxy clean of non-humans, he and Cerberus can claim the Citadel and become the absolute dominant species. Losing Earth is simply a necessary sacrifice.
RedSwirl said:So the consensus here is that all of BioWare's writing talent is spent on the characters and dialogue? That's what I've been able to gather from just playing Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Do their previous games follow the same pattern?
This amount of hyperpole is a little too much.Ickman3400 said:I wouldn't even go as far as dialogue, just characters. As I said before their games are so empty in almost every aspect now that they're basically just big budget dating sims.
Rahxephon91 said:This amount of hyperpole is a little too much.
Rahxephon91 said:This amount of hyperpole is a little too much.
Too many people making assumptions due to one line in a magazine, happy to plot out their worst fears as the most plausible scenario. Something about Mass Effect makes folks go crazy with premature negativity, even without proper context.Jarmel said:I love how everyone is automatically assuming that all of Cerberus is indoctrinated and working with the Reapers.
Whatever, I don't have time for these kind of idiotic statements. The game is'nt anywhere close to out and you're already calling it terrible and the entire dating sim thing is stupid. I don't even know if your joking, dosen't sound like it. But yes it's a dating sim first and foremost, forget about everything else in the game. Nope, just forget the games talk about new additions to combat and a return of in depth rpg elements. It's a dating sim, even though it's a part of the game that can be avoided and is largely unimportant.Ickman3400 said:You're right, it's not even an in depth dating sim. You just talk to the person a few times after main missions and then you get to screw him/her. So they didn't even get that right.
megalowho said:Too many people making assumptions due to one line in a magazine, happy to plot out their worst fears as the most plausible scenario. Something about Mass Effect makes folks go crazy with premature negativity, even without proper context.