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[DerdarDante]

I've been searching for a thread like this, but it's hard to come by. And most of the few i find are really old.
Well, i just got bumped by the idea that noone is really discussing the villainous Reapers (like many other boards do with other game villains), which i find a little odd since the Mass Effect franchise has grown vastly popular these last few years.

Anyway,

Great success, my dear BioWare.
Despite the fact that the main villains in this franchise are inspired by other Sci-fi sagas (semi-organic, living spaceships), you have really found the perfect combination between them all (as i can see from the Demos recently released, especially the Earth-Escape).

To the artists - I salute you for using a cool concept of giant, hyperintelligent-killer-cuttlefish clearly inspired by the C'thulhu Mythos.
To the sound designers - I bow to your excellent skill of creating ominous sounds and sirens/bellows that fit these Overpowering machinegods.
Everytime i hear those WoTW-like sirens, i can feel chills run down my spine.

To the people that came up with the Reaper Mythos' itself - I simply love you.

Feel free to contribute with facts or theories to this thread, so we can atleast have one that stays alive!

By the way, as you can see on my youtube comment on this video, did the landing Reaper say something at 02.17 or 02.18?

Modifié par DerdarDante, 13 juin 2011 - 10:17 .

[JadeEffect]

Ah, yes Repears.

[Dark Star]

Reapers on left = cool and I agree with you
Reaper on right = mistake by BioWare

[DerdarDante]

Ah, yes "Turian Councillor".

[this isnt my name]

Everyone who worked on this, made THE best bad guy theme ever.

I just hope reapers win reguardless of your actions, so they truely live up to the godlike beings we dont comprehend. If they loose I wont like it, and it would just go agaisnt thier atmosphere/character/reputation.

[TheCrakFox]

I think they're great antagonists. I like the whole mysterious aspect, hopefully their motivations will not be revealed to preserve that.

The human reaper was dumb though, I cringed when i first saw it.

[Parah_Salin]

I like the Smaller Walker Reapers, those are quite cool. Any thoughts on those?

[DerdarDante]

True, thisisntmyname.

They really nailed the epic form of music.
And it would really be awesome with atleast one ending with total despair and harvesting/destruction.

By then we would know that they weren't all bull with their talk.

[samurai crusade]

Sovereign is still number 1. But it's nice to see some variation (ie. the walking Reaper from the vid. Harbinger... can't wait to see the rest in ME3)

[PsychoWARD23]

I'd get reaped any day.

[DerdarDante]

Sure, Parah.
I just hope it makes sense with their form, since there are alot of 4-legged walkers in the gaming-industry.

Honestly, i believe they're making a Rachni - Reaper, hence the quadrupal form.

Modifié par DerdarDante, 12 juin 2011 - 04:14 .

[this isnt my name]

DerdarDante wrote...

True, thisisntmyname.

They really nailed the epic form of music.
And it would really be awesome with atleast one ending with total despair and harvesting/destruction.

By then we would know that they weren't all bull with their talk.

No for me any any ending with beating them breaks that feeling. Them being killed by an inferior power would be a joke, kinda like the empire in SW.
I think the only thing choices should change is just how bad it ends up, e.g Rachni coming back gives them another reaper race, the genophage produces more krogan and more krogan reapers and better reapers allthough they can cure it just fine, the CB would just change the amount they can produce, etc.

[Wheatax]

The reapers are one of the great villians I've seen in a video game. What I like the most about them is that they don't strike as the stereotypical villain who has enormous power that hero has to overcome or what not. To me, they're more cunning than they look. They're hyper-intelligent, can use mind control through indoctrination and probably other stuffs.
It took a whole lotta human fleet to destroy Sovereign so I doubt ME3 could be the end of the reapers. I feel like the final act against them is to probably gain a way to defend against them or a way that humans and other races can survive with the reapers around and thus led to further wars in the future.

Plus Reapers make cool sounds and they make pop music good:

[DerdarDante]

Ah well, why not?
That'd be just as good for me. Just as long as it ends with a giant BANG.

[Parah_Salin]

DerdarDante wrote...

Sure, Parah.
I just hope it makes sense with their form, since there are alot of 4-legged walkers in the gaming-industry.

Honestly, i believe they're making a Rachni - Reaper, hence the quadrupal form.

I hope your right. That would be badass.

[this isnt my name]

Parah_Salin wrote...

DerdarDante wrote...

Sure, Parah.
I just hope it makes sense with their form, since there are alot of 4-legged walkers in the gaming-industry.

Honestly, i believe they're making a Rachni - Reaper, hence the quadrupal form.

I hope your right. That would be badass.

Rachni are already like reapers. The rachni queen looks like one, even the glowing eyes. And we can see they are able to mind control things, just like reapers can.

[Cosmar]

A rachni reaper would be very cool. And unfortunate, as I wanted to see some living, friendly rachni.

But yes, the reapers are incredible. Of course, there will inevitably be a lessening of the feeling of awesome mysteriousness, given we'll be fighting them first-hand now.

I actually hope we'll find out much, much more about the reapers...the mysteriousness thing works to a point, but here, "at the end of all things," I must know ALL.

I hope we'll have to fight some dreadnought-style reapers like sovereign. Is it just me, or did sovereign, at the end of ME1 on the Citadel, look big enough that one of its legs was as big as the Normandy, or bigger? *____*

[DerdarDante]

Cosmar, Sovereigns legs were bigger, alot bigger.
Imagine Normandy 2/3 the size of a Boeing.

Now try to imagine that besides 6 aircraft carriers (like http://en.wikipedia....Kennedy_(CV-67)) in line, and another 6 or more (for the width) for each Carrier portraying the length.

Yeah, i too need to know what they're all about. But at the same time, i don't want to know. I do wish it isn't forced, and that you can discover it if you want to.

Modifié par DerdarDante, 12 juin 2011 - 04:50 .

[Bobad]

We've had Sovereign and Harbinger, what about some other names for Reapers?.

[DerdarDante]

Brilliant thought, Bobad! What are the names of the other "major" Reapers?

We should definitely take this up with Casey, or any other BioWare employeé for that matter. Would actually be fun with knowing another name.

[HrznKn]

Arcian wrote...

Dark Star wrote...

Reapers on left = cool and I agree with you
Reaper on right = mistake by BioWare

You do realize the one on the right was going to end up as a cuttlefish if Shepard hadn't wrecked the Collector operation?

Lol this again....

No

[Lady Catastrophe]

Dark Star wrote...

Reapers on left = cool and I agree with you
Reaper on right = mistake by BioWare

wat.

[Parah_Salin]

I wonder if we'll find out about the "birth" of a reaper and some of the other resistance attempts. Also different "major" reapers with different tactics and specialties would be very cool.