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[JerkyJohnny14]

Nice "The Illusive Man" is yet another Reaper puppet. Well at least I gave him the middle finger by destroying the collector base at the end of ME2.

[Fiery Phoenix]

It's an interesting recap for those who haven't gotten their hands on the novels and comics.

[Nightdragon8]

so its considered cannon then?? that sucks Unida as counselor despite putting Anderson in there

[ThePwener]

They forgot #0: SHEPARD

The man in the center of it all.....

[pablodurando]

 I happened to have just bought the 3 books, but I couldn't resist myself.

The wild speculation that I am now thinking because of this article.

• TIM is actually a good guy.
• F the Alliance, I'm totally a cerberus guy now.
• Gillian would be a great squad member.
• Aria will have a huge 3 way conflict between TIM and Shepard.
• The council and udina have to be replaced if all this occurred without anybody getting suspicious
• Shepard is going to be so confused half of the game when he meet these novel characters and the stories they have.  "Really all this happened, how come no one told me".

[BiO]

AcidRelic wrote...

elarem wrote...

I skimmed the headlines: the problem is I don't read comics/books that tie-in to a video game which supposedly has no 'canon' story and in which my choices were supposed to matter. Now it appears ME only has a 'no canon Shepard story' - and I'm seriously beginning to doubt even that!

I agree with comrade8472's first point :
1 Anything affecting storyline in a game should be IN Game
.

I agree, what about those who don't buy or don't have time to read books or comics?  I am a avid book reader but I like certian styles of writing and certian genres of books so I haven't spent the money on either the comics or books. I like ME3 but to me it is a Game and I should be able to get all the infromation about it IN game and not have to spend money elsewhere to get the whole story.

If the book and comic don't affect the storyline in any way thats great I'm all for it. Take movies for example, If I watched the first 2 movies of something and them there were books about it and then the 3rd movie refrenced the books but I didn't read them I would feel confused and ripped off. PLEASE if you put infromation from the books or comics in game please at least explain whats going on somehow, not leave people confused because they didn't give you more money.

You know, you can read all that stuff from the wiki. I personally find books more exciting if they progress the main story of the source material, not when they do little side stories that won't have any impact on future source material media.

I would agree with you if not for the wiki and the interwebs. You could also post a question on the forums, there's bound to be someone who has read all the books and comics and gives you the simple rundown.

[Confused-Shepard]

Sanders and Shepard should totally have a Mary Sue meets Gary Stu romance!
Just kidding. She's pretty young right?

I would have read the novels had the hardbacks been available in India.

[Inspectre]

O Tucker wrote...

Just read it all...Very interesting ..
and may i just say.. the Mass Effect world kicks star wars and star
treks ass in story!!!! XD Can't wait till ME3! Aria will kick
ass!

Ah, the childlike fanboi. So annoying, yet so cute.

Confused-Shepard wrote...

Sanders and Shepard should totally have a Mary Sue meets Gary Stu romance!
Just kidding. She's pretty young right?

She's 50ish.
Spot on, otherwise.

Mdoggy1214 wrote...

When talking about Kahlee Sanders, it lost me when it said:

"She
is a perfect example of how women are taken seriously in the Mass
Effect universe, and as good an argument for Shepard being female as
any."

People still don't understand that there is no canon Shepard and could be male or female depending on the player.

That statement is retarded for two reasons;  Kahlee Sanders might get 'taken seriously in the Mass Effect universe', but she was a ****** in the books.  She was so stupid.



Overall, I give that article a 2/10.  The writer bugged the crap out of me, but it gets pros for telling you what you may have missed.  A heavily opinionated and misleading article of stuff you may have missed, but still.

Modifié par Dragon XIX, 05 août 2011 - 04:03 .

[Confused-Shepard]

Good lord reading the list, I can imagine Shepard going, "Wait! While I was playing therapist, all this cool stuff was happening behind my back?"

Mass Effect 2 feels even more pointless now. Also, Gillian is a saner Jack or Jack 2.0
Kai Leng is a cartoon character and should be given a mustache to twirl. Now half of Mass Effect 3 will be people explaining to Shep who Sanders, Gillian, Paul and the rest of the Scooby gang are while some players are like, "I know this! Stop talking!" while others are like, "Why wasn't all this in Mass Effect 2?"

Concerning Saren. So is the secret in Kasumi's greybox basically the illegal AI research that led to the discovery of Soverign? And all these plot points seem rather confusing. And I thought Metal Gear was complicated. 
Happily awaiting the eventual 3-way boss battle between Shep, Aria and Kai Leng inside Afterlife 

Modifié par Confused-Shepard, 10 juillet 2011 - 09:01 .

[dantares83]

so are all these info confirmed? if so, I believe that the new book will have something to do with ME3...

[AcidRelic]

BiO_MaN wrote...

AcidRelic wrote...

elarem wrote...

I skimmed the headlines: the problem is I don't read comics/books that tie-in to a video game which supposedly has no 'canon' story and in which my choices were supposed to matter. Now it appears ME only has a 'no canon Shepard story' - and I'm seriously beginning to doubt even that!

I agree with comrade8472's first point :
1 Anything affecting storyline in a game should be IN Game
.

I agree, what about those who don't buy or don't have time to read books or comics?  I am a avid book reader but I like certian styles of writing and certian genres of books so I haven't spent the money on either the comics or books. I like ME3 but to me it is a Game and I should be able to get all the infromation about it IN game and not have to spend money elsewhere to get the whole story.

If the book and comic don't affect the storyline in any way thats great I'm all for it. Take movies for example, If I watched the first 2 movies of something and them there were books about it and then the 3rd movie refrenced the books but I didn't read them I would feel confused and ripped off. PLEASE if you put infromation from the books or comics in game please at least explain whats going on somehow, not leave people confused because they didn't give you more money.

You know, you can read all that stuff from the wiki. I personally find books more exciting if they progress the main story of the source material, not when they do little side stories that won't have any impact on future source material media.

I would agree with you if not for the wiki and the interwebs. You could also post a question on the forums, there's bound to be someone who has read all the books and comics and gives you the simple rundown.

That's cool and I understand but I'm not just talking about me, some people don't use the internet and wiki's, not many grant you, and some people don't have the internet. What about those people and the ones who just haven't read the books or comics? They get referance material that they won't understand, UNLESS they give explination IN game. Why should they have to get on the internet to understand what's going on in their game?

Me personally will probably get the books and MAYBE comics before the game comes out but if I don't have the extra money that wouldn't be fair to have to buy them to understand whats going on or be fair to have to look it up instead of having a good explanetion presented to me IN game.

[They call me a SpaceCowboy]

Interesting. If it turns out that TIM was indoctrinated the whole time, I'd like to find out why he was trying to stop the Collectors/Reapers in ME2. I assume that will be dealt with in ME3

[comrade8472]

BiO_MaN wrote...

AcidRelic wrote...

elarem wrote...

I skimmed the headlines: the problem is I don't read comics/books that tie-in to a video game which supposedly has no 'canon' story and in which my choices were supposed to matter. Now it appears ME only has a 'no canon Shepard story' - and I'm seriously beginning to doubt even that!

I agree with comrade8472's first point :
1 Anything affecting storyline in a game should be IN Game
.

I agree, what about those who don't buy or don't have time to read books or comics?  I am a avid book reader but I like certian styles of writing and certian genres of books so I haven't spent the money on either the comics or books. I like ME3 but to me it is a Game and I should be able to get all the infromation about it IN game and not have to spend money elsewhere to get the whole story.

If the book and comic don't affect the storyline in any way thats great I'm all for it. Take movies for example, If I watched the first 2 movies of something and them there were books about it and then the 3rd movie refrenced the books but I didn't read them I would feel confused and ripped off. PLEASE if you put infromation from the books or comics in game please at least explain whats going on somehow, not leave people confused because they didn't give you more money.

You know, you can read all that stuff from the wiki. I personally find books more exciting if they progress the main story of the source material, not when they do little side stories that won't have any impact on future source material media.

I would agree with you if not for the wiki and the interwebs. You could also post a question on the forums, there's bound to be someone who has read all the books and comics and gives you the simple rundown.

: And Wiki is reliable how anyone can put stuff on it or edit it?

^*Still in Favor of having the Comics be DLC instead /or also. >or just left out. but it would make good DLC though.

[LeVaughnX]

Can we use Biotics to "Push" the stupid news reporter in the third game? Maybe let Wrex eat her?....

[DarkSpiral]

BiO_MaN wrote...

Am I the only one who wants Kahlee Sanders as a romance option in ME3?

I'm pretty sure she's taken.  You can discuss it with Captain Anderson though

[DarkSpiral]

Nightdragon8 wrote...

so its considered cannon then?? that sucks Unida as counselor despite putting Anderson in there

Don't take speculation from an outside company as fact.  Thay may in fact be correct, but until Bioware confirms it, it's only a guess.

On a related note, I discovered that having Udina as Counseler was pretty satisfying.  After I had my Spectre status restored, Anderson and I took turns pointing out to the backstabbing twit that we'd just doen his job better than he could have.

[DarkSpiral]

AcidRelic wrote...

That's cool and I understand but I'm not just talking about me, some people don't use the internet and wiki's, not many grant you, and some people don't have the internet. What about those people and the ones who just haven't read the books or comics? They get referance material that they won't understand, UNLESS they give explination IN game. Why should they have to get on the internet to understand what's going on in their game?

Me personally will probably get the books and MAYBE comics before the game comes out but if I don't have the extra money that wouldn't be fair to have to buy them to understand whats going on or be fair to have to look it up instead of having a good explanetion presented to me IN game.

I agree with you in principle, though I don't actually mind having stuff occur outside of the game myself.  However, I would point out that ME2 DOES explain the events that become relevant to Shepard.  Tali and her squad tell you (when asked) what Cerberus did to the Flotilla, and Tali once you recruit her will fill in the details that she's aware of.  Liara tells you about the important bits of her comic series in Lair of the Shadow Broker.  Yes, I know that was paid DLC but it was really damn good paid DLC.

Storytelling has never been the flaw in a Bioware game.  I'm confident they'll weave things in that become important.  And if events in the books never become important enough that they impact Shepard's immediate life, then they aren't important at all.

[BatmanPWNS]

Damn Shepard missed alot out.

[Quole]

I absolutely HATE number 9. It drives me insane. WHY DID THEY DO THAT?

[Inspectre]

fibchopkin wrote...
 I felt like the books spent alot of time on unneccessary description and tended to hit me over the head with info that I was perfectly capable of discerning all on my lonesome.

That's how Drew Karpyshyn writes.  He is pretty unprofessional, trying to fill up the word count like that, but I guess Bioware likes him because he's cheap.

[Quole]

All the novels/comics were awful anyway.

[ThePwener]

Yeah they were.