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[Mir5]

I don't like using the word "badassery".
Makes me think of a trashtalking idiot kid.
I don't like seeing "badassery" being just slapped on a character.
Look at that certain well-selling scifi shooter series about a green cyborg.
The main character in the first installment was truly badass. Didn't talk much. Just did what he saw best, and didn't afraid of anything. No show, no glitter, ESSENCE.
But as the series went forward, his awesomeness was replaced with crappy one-liners and behaviour that served more for visual wankery than purpose. All flash and bang but no soul. Hell, even his armor was upgraded to look like a superhero costume instead of a high-tech military suit.

And Mass Effect. Look at Jack.
Even as she's constantly going about how she hates everything and is a crazy cold-blooded killer,
she sure likes to whine about her past and else then cry against your shoulder.
That is a very bad kind of "badassery".

But you can also destroy good "badassery" by doing something like Samara's or Miranda's outfits. Jack had his nakedness justified, she is supposed to look badass primal killer, but Samara and Miranda, it would seriously serve their characters more if they actually had some kind of armor that doesn't leave the chest exposed. That's why I like female Shepard over many other female gaming protagonists: full armor. Hell, you even get to give her a real military haircut. Believability achieved.

[Mr.BlazenGlazen]

Wrex, Garrus, Liara (ME2), Zaeed, Kasumi, Grunt, Thane.



These people are my definition of badass thank you very much.

[KOKitten]

Unit-Alpha wrote...

See, I prefer the more subtle type: ME1's Wrex, Tali, Liara, Garrus. They didn't need to be compensating for something with their appearence or attitude. They just were, through subtle hints, very much a more "badass" group than ME2's. They didn't need to show it; they just were.

Honestly I don't think there was anything subtle about Garrus in ME1.  He was a loose cannon which you could either reign in with Paragon dialogue or egg him on with Renegade dialogue.  When he tells you his "Dr. Heart" story he mentions how he had to "question" suspects.  A Paragon can tell him that's unacceptable or a Renegade can tell him that he did what needed to be done.  By the end of the game if you take the Renegade route with Garrus, he's pretty much ready to tear Saren's head off by himself.

Ashley was a soldier, through and through.  A lot of her stories dealt with how she and her sisters had to be tough.  There's nothing wrong with that.  She was just telling it like it was.  But she definitely had a tough attitude.

Wrex was a mercenary and bounty hunter in ME1.  When you first meet him he's threatening C-Sec agents.  Right there it pretty much sets up Wrex as a tough character.  From there he tells you right away that he's going to shoot Fist and, if taken along, follows up on that promise.  His merc stories and Zaeed's were fairly similar. 

I do think that both Wrex's and Zaeed's stories are much less gory than Grunt's. 

[Captain Iglo]

I gotta go with Samara...because shes a badass without any actual intention to be one...shes perfectly calm and deadly in the same second.
And I personally beleive she would win a Deathmatch of all squadmates.

Modifié par Captain Iglo, 09 septembre 2010 - 08:21 .