Warning! Screengasm ahead!
So last night I just finished my fourth-ish (third and a half, I guess, technically) run through ME1 with Jessica, with the idea of playing through both games back to back and capping it off with my first playthrough of LotSB. I don't know what it was about this playthrough, maybe I know her and her backstory in more detail now, but the emotion of this playthrough just grabbed me in a way it hasn't before. I also got a buttload of assorted screenshots, and out of the hundreds (I now have over 3000 just for this playthrough) I felt like I wanted to share the coolest or most emotional that I found among them (or at least where Jessica looks pretty).
VIRMIREJessica Shepard just went through the most tumultuous and trying 72 hours of her life. It all started on Virmire, of course. Assaulting Saren's main base was sure to be difficult and dangerous, almost what one might call a suicide mission. And yet it proved to be a textbook operation... up until she got crucified by yet another beacon...
"Ouch."... and ended up talking to an actual Reaper itself:
"Well this was unexpected."Yet even with all that, the mission seemed to be going along without too much of a hitch, they even got the bomb planted without interference... and then Kaidan radioed in that he was pinned down and the evac point was out of reach. Murphy strikes again. And then, as she is going to extract him, a geth dropship goes over pins down Ashley at the bomb site... and Jessica knows she can't be in two places at once.
"God help me."Kaidan's with the STG team and an officer, and someone needs to stay and keep the geth off the bomb... and even though Ash is the sister she never had, the cold warrior part of her brain chooses the many over the few. Even so, she barely gets to the landing platform in time; everything's on fire and geth are all over it.
"Suppressing fire!" (On a side note, I love this screenshot, the composition is perfectly aligned to the Golden Mean, and the colors and the fire and the geth laying all over and Jessica's expression and... it's just really cool)And then just when she thinks things can't get any worse, Saren shows up. Saren throws her around with biotics. Then he does something that she will never forgive...
Nobody looks good when they're being choked out.Jessica is yanked back to that one time when she was a teenager back on Earth, and she panics...
"Not again not again not again..."Desperate, she clocks Saren, he drops her and leaves, and the Normandy comes in just in time to get them away.
Jessica forces herself to watch the nuclear fireball that kills Ashley as punishment.
"..."Thus ends Virmire, quite possibly the toughest day of Jessica's life. At least things can't get any worse.
To Be Continued...
Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 04 octobre 2010 - 01:48 .