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[DOsquareZER]

@comic rofl. Go t'soni.

[Han Shot First]

FdL_Ananas wrote...


! Beware uncovered skin ! and all that jazz ...

Awesome work, as always.

[moreeman06]

 Yuqi where do you find these little chibi effect comics i love them

Also a small update on my fic,  good news i wrote around 4k words today and finished a chapter.  Bad news,  I finished the last chapter sans epilogue and not the middle chapter of Recovery.  So I guess the question is if any of you have read the first chapter and want to take a look at the last one acting as a beta reader for me without getting a peek at the meat in the middle hit me up ( I kid I'll give you a peek at what i have for the middle chapter to because I'm considering splitting it up depending on how much more writing it takes)

edit:  also I am going to bed so if you do volunteer you prob won't here back from me till tomorrow, and Akernis I know I normally use you as a beta reader but I'm asking you to because I'm not sure if you want to read this thing out of order or not.

Modifié par moreeman06, 03 juillet 2012 - 06:13 .

[Yuqi]

moreeman06 wrote...

 Yuqi where do you find these little chibi effect comics i love them

Also a small update on my fic,  good news i wrote around 4k words today and finished a chapter.  Bad news,  I finished the last chapter sans epilogue and not the middle chapter of Recovery.  So I guess the question is if any of you have read the first chapter and want to take a look at the last one acting as a beta reader for me without getting a peek at the meat in the middle hit me up ( I kid I'll give you a peek at what i have for the middle chapter to because I'm considering splitting it up depending on how much more writing it takes)

edit:  also I am going to bed so if you do volunteer you prob won't here back from me till tomorrow, and Akernis I know I normally use you as a beta reader but I'm asking you to because I'm not sure if you want to read this thing out of order or not.

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[Theodoro]

Yuqi wrote...
@Leolein
I  frikken loved that vid! YOu did such an excellent job. I did however see it on( what I assume is your) tumblr first. Question: Where did the 'You know I love you. I always will.' come from?Is it exclusive to a new romance? (Props for picking control!)

I notice that the female shepards voice almost cracks, in all of the goodbye scenes.(The romance ones anyway.)

I agree with you, the video was very well-made and it's one of the best Liara tributes I've seen on YouTube.

As for your question, the line 'You know I love you. I always will' is from the Garrus romance version of the Normandy evacuation scene.

FdL_Ananas wrote...
! Beware uncovered skin ! and all that jazz ...
*snip*

While I agree with Aristobulus that I'd prefer if she was actually somewhere, I still really like this - it's very tasteful. Great job as always, this has to be my favorite of your Liara art.

Modifié par Theodoro, 03 juillet 2012 - 06:51 .

[kumquats]

WB for everyone and thank you for telling me about Shepard's/Liara's sex life, I needed the good news.

[lillitheris]

FdL_Ananas wrote...

Very nice! Am I mistaken in thinking that you’ve tweaked the facial proportions slightly? Whether it’s that or the lighting, I quite prefer this look to some of the earlier ones.

I’m not one for blue ladies, but that aside, you’re wonderfully talented.

…

Also, Tali should totally have used this photography studio…

[MidnightRaith]

Off topic, but I have a question regarding ME1 DLC. I just got both BDtS and PS and I was wondering if I could play them in a play through that has already started. Could I just reload a save before my fourth main story mission, or do I have to get through this play through to play the DLC in the next?

[Mavqt]

MidnightRaith wrote...

Off topic, but I have a question regarding ME1 DLC. I just got both BDtS and PS and I was wondering if I could play them in a play through that has already started. Could I just reload a save before my fourth main story mission, or do I have to get through this play through to play the DLC in the next?

BDtS is playable after the first citedel visit. Not sure about PS, someone else will have to answer that.

Edit: Spelling.

Ps.

@ Pineapple/Ananas (Whichever you prefer to go by)

Your art (Yes I will refer to it a that) is firstly, very, very good. Secondly I think they're the only ones I have seen that do Liara justice and don't make her appear ****ty and overly sexualized. classy nude could be one way to describe it, but I dont think thats a good enough description.

Modifié par mavqt, 03 juillet 2012 - 09:52 .

[cohina]

Aristobulus500 wrote...

http://ferretbrain.c...les/article-876

Don't know if this article has been posted, but it's pretty interesting.

Kind of a late reply but that's only cause you guys have a bad habbit of posting a lot everytime I'm sleeping .
So anyway, that was a good article, interesting to read. The author had a lot of good points even though I might not agree with every single thing. Thanks for sharing Aristobulus!


@Karmen, Ananas, Yuqi and the rest of you

Thank you so much for the warm welcome, feels good to be back here! Just make sure you save some of that scotch for me too, can't drink while at work you know . Started my third ME3 playthrough yesterday, I know the endigs are going to make me really sad again but I just can't get enough of the characters and the universe *sigh* Guess that's what the scotch is for.

[rubynorman]

Speed drawing: Matron Benezia in Art Noveau style by *StellarStateLogic

[Akernis]

^ that is a nice pic of Benezia.
@ Karmen & cohina: Great to see the two of you again, it has been too long

Theodoro wrote...
I agree with you, the video was very well-made and it's one of the best Liara tributes I've seen on YouTube.

Agree here, the tribute is amazing, I just can't bear watch it as it ends sad

Theodoro wrote...

FdL_Ananas wrote...
! Beware uncovered skin ! and all that jazz ...
*snip*

While I agree with Aristobulus that I'd prefer if she was actually somewhere, I still really like this - it's very tasteful. Great job as always, this has to be my favorite of your Liara art.

I agree, even if I would prefer a more natural feel this is exceptionally well done

Modifié par Akernis, 03 juillet 2012 - 10:37 .

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

adneate wrote...
I'm more cynical than most in that I thought the series, as it was originally intended, basically died with Shepard at the opening of ME2. The feel of the two games is so radically different in structure and design that I'd almost put Mass Effect 2 down as one of the worst follow ups in the history of fiction. It discarded nearly everything from Mass Effect, it dumped the cast, the style pretty much every single aspect that defined Mass Effect as a slow plodding Star Trek style of sci-fi in a grounded universe with clear rules and logic.

Now suddenly you're working for a Bond Villian who wears an evil suit, sits in an evil chair in his evil fortress of evil. People run around in cat suits with plunging necklines and have literal magical powers where they can drain people of life force or wirelessly transfer energy. You spend the entirity of that game either trying to get back what you lost at the beginning (Liara) or wasting time with this pointless side mission involving a non-threat known as The Collectors. Then the game ends on the exact same note as the first "The Reapers are coming and I'm going to find a way to stop them."

Shepard's death and reconstruction is absolutely wasted to the point that they actively downplay and make light of what could have been a genuinely interesting and thoughtful look at mortality and transhumanism. Instead it's just cheap one liners like "I got better" and the total flat out refusal to look at the effects of any of the extensive and radical augmentation you read about in the Research Terminal. It instead being just reduced to +10% Health per upgrade, with no thought to what would be complex concepts such as losing your humanity or even transcending the limitations or bonds of the human race as it exists and whether or not that is a geniunely deseriable state of bing.

So after all that wasted potential I just kinda resigned myself to the fact that ME3's story would rely on a Deus Ex Machina to resolve the Reapers since they wasted the second game not finding a way to beat them and the plot would be really weak and stupid. Though they did shock me with how horrible the endings were, I must admit I didn't see that coming since I assumed they'd play it safe and add some pretty generic endings. I really only bought the game because FemShep and Liara would be in it and Liara would be back in the squad, I didn't buy it for the plot.

I don't know exactly what the point of all this was other than it seems like a lot of people are also lamenting what could have been, just at different times. At one point or another we all had real hope that this was a series that could really be special and it all just slowly rotted away over time. To the point where we had to fight to just be content with the ending to the game as opposed to bitterly disappointed and angry. I bet we'd all have been shocked if you told us months ago we'd have to fight this hard to get something as average as the EC, that we'd all be hoping the series didn't end with Shepard dying for no reason and the galaxy being either trashed or changed beyond all recognition or comprehension.

Someone pass the Scotch and make it the good stuff.

People often say that it was the last 10 minutes of ME3 that killed the series, but in retroperspective, the first 10 minutes of ME2 was when the whole thing started to go off the rails. Its clear now that they had no real goal and just made it up as they went alomg. I think ME2 was perhaps treated as some sort of writing playground by Bioware, where they could do and add whatever the hell they wanted to the story and franchise, which is why we winded up with a complete new cast and catsuits in space, all while not really thinking about the series long term viability. And because of all this, the quality of ME3 suffered for it. It had to pick up the pieces and conclude the main-plot which was not advanced in ME2, it also had to juggle with the 16 squadmates and provide them satisfying screentime and conclusions. Something it obviously could not hope to achieve, leaving fans of ME2 feel left out.

As for the bolded part. Spot on, it always infuriates me seeing people saying ME2 had the best intro. Aside from the ME3 endings I think M2's intro is the worst thing Bioware has shat out yet.

rubynorman wrote...
Speed drawing: Matron Benezia in Art Noveau style by *StellarStateLogic [smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

Wow. Amazing art work!

Modifié par Lizardviking, 03 juillet 2012 - 10:46 .

[Akernis]

If it was not for LotSB I would have considered ME2 a weak and inferior part of the series compared to the two others. I prefered its gameplay and some of the mechanics to the first one's but in terms of story it did not really have anything that I did not think the other two did better.

@ Moreeman: you said you wanted Crazygreggy's new story link: http://crazygreggy.d...t.com/#/d55sky4

Modifié par Akernis, 03 juillet 2012 - 11:23 .

[Pineappletree]

Aristobulus500 wrote...
Your work is certainly talented, Pineapple, and it's very tasteful - especially this new one. Not really my style though, it's too artistic.

[...]

Yeah, I know you prefer a different style. And I can understand it, no prob. I'd not even say I generally prefer the "artsy" stuff over other styles myself.

It's just the concept of the picture series to be all about playing with elements of analogue b&w photography, about light and shadow and plasticity and almost extreme contrasts (and naturally all that brings quite a bit of abstraction with it as well).

But as I told Akernis recently on DA, it would certainly be a shame to confine the radiant blue of Liara's eyes to the b&w "corset" permanently, so let's see what the future will bring ...

karmensandiego wrote...
FDL ANANAS!!!!!  HOW YOU DOING BUDDY????  *hugs*

[...]

Hey you! *hugs back*
Still trying to read every single post of the thread?
However you managed to arrive here, great to see you on the current end of things again!

Regarding the EC, I think I'm pretty much fine with it.

We allready knew, the endings wouldn't change too much. And while I generally agree with the article and the many problems - old and new - it discusses, the EC did manage to bring some sort of emotional satisfaction to the trilogy's end. I guess that's what it's all about for me ultimately.

I tend to take a very "relaxed" approach to game's stories in general because gameplay and technology and production will allways demand a certain degree of sacrifice. And there was enough evidence for that in ME even before the desaster of an ending, just not of the same scale. So as long as it doesn't get toooo bad and there is some other form of payoff I'm willing to fill holes myself and don't think too much about the "what could have been" but concentrate on the good.

And there's certainly enough of that in the EC to motivate me to return to the "ME1 - ME3 with a new character in one go" playthrough I started ages ago, to make fanart again and peek in here ...

moreeman06 wrote...
OMG Karmen's back *gives Karmen hug then
throws a blue baby at PMC for old times sake*   and Ananas too.  where
the hell did you two go?

[...]

Moreeman! My partner in PETA propaganda crime! How's the business going?

And even more to read soon! And thanks!

moreeman06 wrote...
yeah it does... I haven't seen Hollow at all around here either lately.  Oh well *removes himself from grouphug
long enough to pull out a crate of ryncol*  a toast to our fallen
brothers.[smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/smile.png[/smilie]

Talked to him on Origin the other day. Seems he's quite busy and doesn't really have the time to hang out here but he's still around.

Anyway, here's to our fallen brothers and sisters, wherever they may be!
*swings his glass wildly in a semi-drunk toast*

lillitheris wrote...
Very nice! Am I mistaken in thinking that you’ve tweaked the facial proportions slightly? Whether it’s that or the lighting, I quite prefer this look to some of the earlier ones.

I’m not one for blue ladies, but that aside, you’re wonderfully talented.

Thank you! No changes to her face model other than what was needed for her expression. The
lighting is a bit softer this time around though, that might make the difference. Or maybe it's even just the angle.

lillitheris wrote...
Also, Tali should totally have used this photography studio…

Well, she still might do so in the future ...
(No promises though, don't know yet how far series will really go.)


Also, thank you doozer, PMC, Han Shot First, Theodoro, mavqut, Akernis. I appreciate it!
(And hopefully didn't forget anyone)


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And great find, rubynorman. Love it, amazing art!

Modifié par FdL_Ananas, 03 juillet 2012 - 11:44 .

[cohina]

Lizardviking wrote...

rubynorman wrote...
Speed drawing: Matron Benezia in Art Noveau style by *StellarStateLogic [smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

*Snip*

Wow. Amazing art work!

I second this, that is a beautiful picture.


@Akernis

Good to see you too! Nice to notice you guys still remember us peeps who have been absent for some time .

[Theodoro]

frudi wrote...

Huh, seems like I've walked in on some kind of a reunion. Well, the more the merrier, even if us (relative) newcomers will be left scratching our heads at all your private jokes for a while

Haha, my thoughts exactly!

I'm probably one of the most recent newcomers here, but regardless, welcome back to the thread, cohina! Glad to have you here with us.

[Yuqi]

By the wonderful : HumanGrotesque

[TheDonk95]

Akernis wrote...

If it was not for LotSB I would have considered ME2 a weak and inferior part of the series compared to the two others. I prefered its gameplay and some of the mechanics to the first one's but in terms of story it did not really have anything that I did not think the other two did better.

@ Moreeman: you said you wanted Crazygreggy's new story link: http://crazygreggy.d...t.com/#/d55sky4

Agreed. LotSB made ME2 turn from an incredible game into an absolute masterpiece, in my opinion.
I consider LotSB to be my favorite DLC of all time. 

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

Yuqi wrote...



By the wonderful : HumanGrotesque

Dragon age armor ruins it.

[Y3Y00]

I lurk a lot and not contribute all that much, but I thought that you guys would want to read this: http://www.forbes.co...of-mass-effect/ Sorry, I don't know hyper-linking on this site.

[cohina]

Yuqi wrote...

*Snip*

By the wonderful : HumanGrotesque

Not really a fan of that armor, but other than that a great pic!


@Theodoro

Thanks! And don't worry if you feel like a newcomer, I still consider myself a newcomer in this thread even though I've been around since the page 193 or something. Some people have been around since the ME2 Liara thread (maybe even longer), if I've understood correctly. They're the real "old members" in my books. Plus no matter how long you've been posting here, in this thread we're all equals .

Edit: TOP

Modifié par cohina, 03 juillet 2012 - 01:05 .

[noxiuniversitas1]

Jeebus this thread moves fast...

karmensandiego wrote...
*peeks in*
Uh hi
*waves*
{sic} *snip*
*hugs Liara thread*

Oh, hi! I'm Jen; fairly new to the thread.. Only been popping in for under 100 pages Are you the same Karmen Sandiego who left such awesome suggestions for Forever as One? If so, apologies for not getting back to you just yet - overseas on vacation atm, but just getting down to answering reviews now. Have to say - I love your suggestions, and one of them in particular (*cough* wedding *cough*) has been a ridiculously popular request! I actually have it written, lol, but have been sitting on it for over a week.

Oh and if you're not the Karmen requesting those things - apologies anyway

J