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[Sinapus]

Hm. I think I'll try to not break the 5 picture limit.

Started Edward Shepard's ME2 run tonight. Thought it would be more rewarding than the ME3 MP weekend.

[LadyAly]

@merylisk  Anja   

@Ashoken - Aha - so we have soemthing in common^_^ thx for the comment - I love most the shot of her concentrated gaze a second before Samara appears. 

@SebAusFR Your Claire is drop dead gorgeous. About to discuss the deep going stuff I am just to shy to participate cause of my lack of english.  

@Jane the Pic with Jane and Jacob is so cute - He obviously didn't never realized what a precious he had with her  

f1r3storm wrote...


One that a i made for Mizz with her Shepard and Kaidan.



And both our Shepards togehter.

<3 <3 <3 SO adorable cute  <3<3<3 

@CaptainCrash  WOW - this is awesome. Very good cosplay 
@SaturnRing - Thanks - she is somesort of a ice cold Geisha - or should be  

@razviolet  *giggle* Yeah - I was thinking the same - dirty thought  
BUT - I was reading your fanfic - I love it - and yes Javik can cut through all defences very easily - and with his abilities its double time. Ther is no way to hide something if he wants ti know it - beside to kill him I suppose. 
@raziel1980 Your Claire is as cute as a button in ME1 - the pic with Kaidan  

@Sinapus - OMG Edward looks excellent in ME2 - I love her whole appearance. Tough as a nail and this *don't mess with me* gaze. Looking forward to see more from her 

side mission Pic of Chiara - I just like it. Sometimes she reminds me of a egyptian Beauty.

 

With Javik on the Citadel 

 

cocktail Time and wondering about Joker and EDI if this will going to go well 

Modifié par LadyAly, 29 juillet 2012 - 10:08 .

[Bowie Hawkins]

I finally managed to Buy All The Things in ME3, so I decided to start a NG+ of ME1, and keep a log of Hannah's thoughts as she made her way through the saga. First chapter is here:

http://www.fanfictio...s_Mass_Effect_1

"Lt. Alenko is a biotic, which should prove handy in the field. That voice, though … if I can stop picturing myself tearing off his uniform and doing things that would get us court-martialed when I listen to him talk, I think we'll do well."

Modifié par Bowie Hawkins, 29 juillet 2012 - 12:18 .

[Dragon_Claw]

Jane gets photobombed.  

[SaturnRing]

Sinapus wrote...

Hm. I think I'll try to not break the 5 picture limit.

Started Edward Shepard's ME2 run tonight. Thought it would be more rewarding than the ME3 MP weekend.

I suspect that above ^shot was directed at you. For extra incentive. Well i guess Elias Kelham had it coming(just a matter of time before she finds him and either beat or scare the c*** out of him)
 
@LadyAly: i think you should participate. I love it when we all do. My writing gets rusted over a long period of time without putting it to use. It will improve the more you use it - Although i think yours is just fine.

@Bowie Hawkins: Lt Alenko use of biotic powers isn't restricted to fighting. If you catch my drift.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 29 juillet 2012 - 07:10 .

[razviolet]

Tup3xi wrote...

@razviolet
Forgive me my dirty mind but it looks like Shep is about to squeeze Miranda's bumpers there.

I know! It was impossible to get a pic from that scene that didn't look at least a little suggestive . You know how all of her scenes are written with maleshep in mind.

@raziel1980: Thanks!

I do wonder how Shep gets anything done with how many side missions she goes on. uh-oh, another Kaidan mancer who will get their heart broken in ME2.

@Sinapus: Yay, more Edward! She looks great in ME2.

@Ashoken: Yeah, Miri, she has a habit of making everything dirty . I always appreciated how the scenes with Javik were reality checks for Shep and he constantly picked her up off her feet with words of encouragement she always seemed to need. Not to mention being a constant source of interest with his view of the previous reaper war. It's easy to forget he was in the exact same position as Shep 50k years ago.

Chiara looks as elegant as always. Maybe it's her eyes and high jaw bones that make her appear egyptian-esque.

[SaturnRing]

@razviolet: Miri suit is at the heart of the problem. The bottom part of her suit. From my part i try to look past that. I wish we male players weren't so often reduced to libido guided missiles(by so many game makers. Bioware does a decent job at not falling into that trap most of the time. Except for Miri/Diana Allers) . Although a little sex appeal never hurts. (sorry just rambling don't mind me) 

Modifié par SaturnRing, 29 juillet 2012 - 04:32 .

[SebAusFR]

Sinapus wrote...

Love the dynamic here! But I'm not sure... Is that when launching incinerate? Or a drone?

LadyAly wrote...
@SebAusFR Your Claire is drop dead gorgeous. About to discuss the deep going stuff I am just to shy to participate cause of my lack of english.  

Thanks And you should not worry about your English! Taking part in complicated discussion is the way I made huge progress a few years ago. And I can garantee you it was not easy, since it was about politics You can only improve!

Was Chiara reasonnable abour her drinks at the Purgatory, or did she had to drow her self-doubts there?

Onto Kyla's story, at least! Go here for the story on Rannoch and pictures! I have a few additional pictures here too I'm very satisfied with the way her colours turned out on Rannoch!

Modifié par SebAusFR, 29 juillet 2012 - 04:14 .

[Ashoken]

razviolet wrote...
@LadyAly: Yeah, Miri, she has a habit of making everything dirty . I always appreciated how the scenes with Javik were reality checks for Shep and he constantly picked her up off her feet with words of encouragement she always seemed to need. Not to mention being a constant source of interest with his view of the previous reaper war. It's easy to forget he was in the exact same position as Shep 50k years ago.

Chiara looks as elegant as always. Maybe it's her eyes and high jaw bones that make her appear egyptian-esque.

I fixed that for you. I can't take credit for the awesome Chiarra. I wish I could, but she's LadyAly's. 

[Sinapus]

SebAusFR wrote...

Sinapus wrote...

Love the dynamic here! But I'm not sure... Is that when launching incinerate? Or a drone?

Neural Shock. Haven't gotten Cryo Freeze yet. Hold on, I think I have her launching a drone.
Here:


"Go, Ein!"

Incinerate:


Overload:


(It's embarassing how long it took to get through Lazarus Station and Freedom's Progress. Freeze movement, activate flycam. Etc...)

Also, Kyla looks awesome.

@Saturn Ring: I'm sure Mordin has educational information regarding other uses of biotics.

Yeah, most of my Sheps are pushy like that. That image is a flycam shot of her pointing a gun at Miranda after she shot Wilson.



Sad thing is, I was going to have Edward romance Jacob, since I thought a grown up version of the anime character she's based on might be silly enough to use those awful pickup lines for the lulz. Except in ME3 she'll get her heart torn out and stomped on if I do.
 

[Worse: The least implausible headcanon I can think of involves cloning. E.g., the one you meet is the clone, who never met Shepard and never had feelings for her. The real Jacob is in another castle, er ex-Cerberus base. Blame Lois McMaster Bujold and her Miles and Mark Vorkosigan plotline.]

[Ashoken]

Sinapus wrote...

(It's embarassing how long it took to get through Lazarus Station and Freedom's Progress. Freeze movement, activate flycam. Etc...)

You aren't alone.

[Sinapus]

Ashoken wrote...

Sinapus wrote...

(It's embarassing how long it took to get through Lazarus Station and Freedom's Progress. Freeze movement, activate flycam. Etc...)

You aren't alone.

"Shepard! Stop mugging for the camera and get moving!"
-yes, I can hear Miranda's voice saying this.

[Arathyl]

Abraham_uk wrote...

Run down of why I love the character of Female Shepard.

Bioware gets a lot of things right, and letting the player choose gender is one of their best aspects. I am not just praising Bioware games, but Bethesda games such as Elderscroll series and Fallout 3 and even Star Trek Elite Force.

The reason I like strong female leads from Samus Aran to Jill Valentine, to Lara Croft and even Lightning is the simple fact that it is simply refreshing to see a female who saves the day. Doesn’t rely on some dashing knight in shining armour to save the day. She completely decimates all gender conventions in popular fiction to provide a protagonist that we actually want to root for.

I remember watching Buffy and Xena Warrior princess and wondering to myself, why are there so few female action heroes? I guess for me that was part of the joy of seeing a strong female lead. The simple fact that there aren’t that many of them. For me they also made far more interesting characters. Moping around, waiting for the hero to return, or waiting for the hero to save them doesn’t make for an interesting character.

In addition weaker female characters are also portrayed as being the budding love interest who whines and complains at the dashing hero. She doesn’t ever stop giving the hero a bad time. She doesn’t dress appropriately for he adventure and ends up complaining that she lost her favourite pair of shoes, when there are more important things to consider. This portrayal may not be sexist, but it makes me wonder what is so special about her in the first place? If she can’t fight, if she can’t help the hero solve puzzles, get out of traps, or even aid the hero in any other way, what is the point of having her as a sidekick.

Female Shepard gets the full list of roles that the traditional male hero, excels like the traditional male hero, but also has an element of femininity without overdoing it. She is no Charley’s Angel (thank goodness for that, have you seen the remake series?), but she does kick ass and she does save the galaxy twice (possibly a third time). She represents all that is good about humanity and has a somewhat alluring pragmatic and sometimes twisted edge to her. She’s dangerous and will beat you senseless if you mess with her.

Female Shepard was designed to be everything Male Shepard is, BADASS. Just don’t let some of her daft romantic lines put you off. If an unpredictable space marine who could easily kill me with her mind uttered the words “I’m more interested in talking for a bit” I’d be frightened.

wow, i couldn't have said it better! *claps* i think it's a pity that the movie will be portraying the male shep. like we haven't got enough movies where the man is the hero! (Not being sexist btw) It would just be much more interesting if she were a female.

also, how do you grab these support banners? anyone? pweaaaasseeee

Modifié par Arathyl, 30 juillet 2012 - 12:27 .

[SaturnRing]

Sinapus wrote...

@Saturn Ring: I'm sure Mordin has educational information regarding other uses of biotics.

Mordin: Voluntary convulsions, compression of carotid. Yes, feeling light headed implification of gratification...
Shepard: Really? I could do all that
Mordin: Yes. Could expand occipital resonance.
Shepard: You mean blow my mind.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 30 juillet 2012 - 07:14 .

[LadyAly]

@Bowie Hawkins Like the Diary Idea :happy:
@razviolet and SaturnRing Thankies.
Well - I guess the most of game designers are Male ?  

@SebAusFR No - Chiara wasn't reasonable. She was infact drunk to the gutter Too many bad thoughts, doubts, missing Thane, having still feelings for Kaidan, drove her just into some glasses to much. Thane was whispering in her mind to take her chance with Kaidan, cause she needs someone who comforts her sometimes ( He always was aware what Chiara's past and experience on Mindoir and Akuze had done to her, that she is more breakable as she want admitt to herself )
Wonderful Pic's of Kyla and I loved the reading about Rannoch

@Sinapus HAH - I am not even try to get flycam to work. One failed try was enough - it broke the whole game *lol*
And I'm sure I would be so addicted to it....
Excellent shots of Edward. About the romance ... well - we all know how it ends...

NOW - we are talking Garrus


You going down Vakarian - best friend or not...


WIN 

[Sinapus]

@LadyAly: ALWAYS backup coalesced. Two different places, even, as Sagequeen suggested.





"NOO!!! MY BOOZE!!!!" *sighs* "Okay, maybe I can save Joker..."

(...technically, that's default Jane, since you don't get to input a facecode until after that bit, but I made it at the beginning so I'm including it.)

[Ravii]

Awesome new pics!!!
I can't keep up with my ME1 playthrough and Jane's story for now..too much ME3 MP and reading.
I hope I can show you this week Jane's adventure on Virmire.

Bah I don't know who should be the VS!?!?!? This question bothers me all the time. HELP.

[SaturnRing]

Started a new Deirdre ME1 run.


kiitos, Tup. And thanks to raziel.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 30 juillet 2012 - 07:52 .

[Bowie Hawkins]

SaturnRing wrote...

@Bowie Hawkins: Lt Alenko use of biotic powers isn't restricted to fighting. If you catch my drift.

Oh, I definitely do. As does Hannah, which is part of why she's having to keep forcefully reminding herself of the regulations for awhile.

@LadyAly: Thank you! I was originally planning to have chapter 1 go at least through Hannah's first meeting with the Council, but the lateness of the hour and the realisation that the timeline I'd written up for her had only gotten as far as the first mission to Eden Prime made that the natural stopping point. Have to get laundry done when I get home tonight, so I'm hoping to get caught up before bedtime and post chapter 2.

[Dragon_Claw]

[NM7]

Dragon_Claw wrote...

Jane gets photobombed.  

That's actually a screenshot of my Adept, Lenneth, not Jane Shepard. I thought she and the shot looked familar.

Modifié par Akari Tenshi, 30 juillet 2012 - 11:00 .

[SebAusFR]

Sinapus wrote...
*Snips*
Also, Kyla looks awesome.

Nice frozen action there. Don't know why, but I just realised that Incinerate was a tech power, damn? <_< And thanks about Kyla!

LadyAly wrote...
@SebAusFR No - Chiara wasn't reasonable. She was infact drunk to the gutter [smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/pinched.png[/smilie] Too many bad thoughts, doubts, missing Thane, having still feelings for Kaidan, drove her just into some glasses to much. Thane was whispering  in her mind to take her chance with Kaidan, cause she needs someone who  comforts her sometimes ( He always was aware what Chiara's past and  experience on Mindoir and Akuze had done to her, that she is more  breakable as she want admitt to herself )
[smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie] Wonderful Pic's of Kyla and I loved the reading about Rannoch

Well, maybe she should take her chance? There's not much time left. But we all know how it will end . Thank you, I actually have another update on Rannoch up now, here!

And that blue light... <3 I notice she lost her scars again (2nd time already). Using the paragon persuation to save both the Geths and Quarians might have offset my fragile paragade balance... Kyla will have to be naughy for a few times to get the scars back. 


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SaturnRing wrote...
@SebAusFR: i hope i'm not too offf topic, but i'm curious to know how  you think a concept such as the catalyst fit in ME world?

That's a bit OT, to be honest, but nevermind [smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/tongue.png[/smilie] If its too OT, I'll move that somewhere else! (a blog post, maybe?)

As a concept, I have nothing really negative about the Catalyst. A super-advanced IA is not something that seems out of place in ME. The Geths might have achieved something very similar if they had had the time to finish  building their megastructure (the Dyson sphere).

My view on it is not completely virgin now, since I've read a few debates here and there on the forums, but I actually like the idea that the Catalyst is a form of IA that has taken its mission way too seriously, to the extremes. It has a strange and revolting logic, from a human point of view, but it was designed eons ago by an alien  intelligence, so that is not out of place. And what it is trying to avoid (the singularity, the absolute domination of machines over organics, etc.) is not something that is incompatible with ME either. We have a time frame of 3 years in-game, and the current civilisation is only a few thousands years old. Not everything has been solved/discovered yet. So, I think there are reasons for it to be incomprehensible from our side...

Of course, the execution at ME3's ending, the way it is presented to the players, could have been done better. I didn't dislike the ending that much, but I saw it felt rushed...

Modifié par SebAusFR, 30 juillet 2012 - 01:52 .

[Ottemis]

Logic is often considered revolting because emotions are both obsolete and almost always cloud judgement.
Mistaken as cold is just plain calculated, he can't do more because he was programmed to logically assess the situation and respond accordingly. Much like vigil. Ashley, when you take her, responds emotionally when he says nonessential personnel went first, but honestly, it's nothing more then logical and the best course of action. To that extend, it can't really be a corrupted process, and honestly I've never seen the catalyst as being a corrupt entity, while I know many do.

I find it conceivable, especially after the EC, even though I personally didn't need the catalyst to be explained the AI created by the first race to endeavor stopping the organic / synthetic conflict, it's still nice he's no longer 'godchild' which half breaks with at least one cliche. The whole concept of the end is that the situation is much larger then we are capable of comprehending and / or have a realistic perspective on. As Bioware does, this is a real-world dilemma and consideration.

Leaves you with the choice to roll with it and accept it to be conceivable that organic - synthetic war is inevitable, because in all honesty, we can't claim it is or isn't with any certainty. Or, you reject the idea, and this leaves you with your choices. Depending on your personal outlook the viability of each ending is pretty much decided by itself.
The choice you make here is a very personal one and says much more about the player then it does about Shepard, that is, for those overly invested in the franchise. The ending would be a lot easier to swallow if it wasn't a constant battle between what fits your particular Shepard, and what you yourself believe. Though exactly this, that the moral dilemma is so personally tainted and so grim, is what makes this so recognisable for Bioware to me.

As to the endings themselves, as the Catalyst was 'playing God' in a sense, with your intervention you do the exact same. Any of the choices have long-lasting severe consequences one way or another, as doing nothing does all the same.

The catalyst acts purely as our mirror in a way, and speaking box providing information.
He's just a tool, in the end, to get a message across. Everything else is on us.

The implication of being able to provide the galaxy with long-lasting peace should be a happy concept, whatever the personal cost.This wouldn't be a Bioware game without sacrifice, and whatever I might think of the deliverance, they did stay recognisable in that regard, the reason I both love and hate them.

While I also believe the endings could have been a lot more polished, and it might even have been better if they had never gone with this concept, I can accept it, and in it's own grittyness I can even see some beauty.
I like how we come full circle on the consideration of "what's right" in therms of the Geth and EDI, and how you yourself feel about their evolution. For some, this dilemma makes the ending-choice particularly heart-wrenching.
I also like how we come full circle in regards to our own finity and insignificance. Even if we are capable of breaking the circle, it's not without emphasizing this fact. We are not the masters of the universe.

However cliche things end up becoming, which easily happens when you start tackling real moral dilemma's in a game, I think they are generally quite succesful at these things. As much, as videogames are supposed to be an escape from life, Bioware has never (in my eyes) be one to deliver happy endings in their grim and grey settings.

tl;dr
Anywhose, yes. I think the Catalyst fits in the ME world. It's sci-fi after all, and the concept of it is nothing out of the ordinary in that particular genre. It's also nothing not preciously hinted at through the series. Nothing 'immersion-breaking' about it per say. What I do think is that it's most definately a rushed concept, such heavy unravels in a series need to be thouroughly made plot-hole proof, and seeing this is not the case, well.
Suspention of belief.

To close it all off, have a Marie

Modifié par Ottemis, 30 juillet 2012 - 03:03 .

[SebAusFR]

Ottemis, very interesting post here! For the records, I'd just like to clarify that I also accepted the ending and thought that Shepard's sacrifice is very appropriate. I'm not part of the "happy-ending-at-all-cost" folks, but I respect their right to wish for one. I just feel an ending requiring a personnal sacrifice by Shepard is more interesting than an happy for ever and after type of ending

Also, I don't necessarily require the Catalyst to be corrupted, or have flawed logic. Its solution is extreme to us, but has been built upon much more data and experience than any current civilisation have. Bring new data (the crucible, Shepard) and it can change its assessment.

Hum, Marie does look annoyed by our OT discussion...

Modifié par SebAusFR, 30 juillet 2012 - 02:55 .

[Ottemis]

Yes I think our view on the Catalyst is pretty much the same Seb =)
Also, don't mind Marie, annoyed is her regular state of being, no saying what set her off =P

Modifié par Ottemis, 30 juillet 2012 - 03:15 .