Far be it for me to defend ME3 at this point, but they probably chose London entirely out of symbolism. The oldest governing body of humanity still in effect, the symbolism behind Parliament, all that jazz that I honestly don't have the credentials to really explain.
Also, BioWare- a Canadian company- get to watch their creations- the Reapers- nuke the bloody hell out England's most iconic city. Take that as you will!
Why was London so important?
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 03:27
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Piarath wrote...
Also, BioWare- a Canadian company- get to watch their creations- the Reapers- nuke the bloody hell out England's most iconic city. Take that as you will!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Canada have close relations with England?
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 03:31
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xEden wrote...
Piarath wrote...
Also, BioWare- a Canadian company- get to watch their creations- the Reapers- nuke the bloody hell out England's most iconic city. Take that as you will!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Canada have close relations with England?
I'm not Canadian. I can't tell you. I'm just repeating the joke from Canadian friends. But hey, America has close ties with England and we still rag on them, so I kinda get it.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 03:31
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xEden wrote...
Piarath wrote...
Also, BioWare- a Canadian company- get to watch their creations- the Reapers- nuke the bloody hell out England's most iconic city. Take that as you will!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Canada have close relations with England?
In a sense yes although to some they'd rarther it not be the case lol especially in Quebec where it's quite anti-England.
Canada is a former colony of England and since gaining it's independence still kept close ties with the English as part of the commonwealth and have a strong feeling towards the English motherland from their colonial past probably more so than many of our former colonies do.
In two world wars many Canadians gave their lives to protect England and i like to think part of that is because of the strong ties and a feeling that even if they are independent of England they were still born from it and have a strong feeling towards it.
If that influenced Bioware or not to make London such an important part of the game who knows.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 03:35
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 03:37
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The Angry One wrote...
*Reapers attack Scandinavia*
Harbinger: We are the Harbinger of your..
Viking 1: FUSRODAH!!!
Viking 2: *shoots Harbinger in the knee*
Harbinger: OOOOWWW!!! Retreat! Retreat!
Yes I went there.
Nice one sir, but where is Harbingers knee???
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:08
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The Angry One wrote...
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Just to point out you don't ever see Big Ben in Mass Effect.
www.youtube.com/watch
1:00 onwards
What's that in the background? A novelty sex toy?
That's St Stevens tower, Big Ben is the bell in the clock.
Back to the topic it is probably because London is the most multicultural city on Earth and the Reapers wanted to process us because of humans diverse genetics.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:09
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:30
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That it was never explained why London was somehow special is further evidence that the game and ending was rushed to release. It was just never answered.
They follow all the normal foreshadowing that there is some sort of critical thing in London--some sort of artifact, maybe--that the Reapers are after or that they are defending.
I thought this was going to be the original lynchpin of the epic ending--maybe a good explanation of why the reapers harvest organics or the key mechanism that activates the Citadel and properly destroys the Reapers without completely crippling galactic civilization.
It fits with a rumored leak of the "original ending" I read on here in which the Reapers specifically wanted humans for their genetic diversity or seomthing--ergo the human Reaper in ME2. It would also explain why the Reapers hit Earth first. But alas, we got none of that.
It's just one more reason to really hate the endings. We don't know why they wanted humans so badly, or why they were in London, or why they built a human reaper when the crawfish design seemed to be working fine for them. All of this is stuff that could have been tied up and wasn't. Instead we got the star-kid and to choose our final color...
They follow all the normal foreshadowing that there is some sort of critical thing in London--some sort of artifact, maybe--that the Reapers are after or that they are defending.
I thought this was going to be the original lynchpin of the epic ending--maybe a good explanation of why the reapers harvest organics or the key mechanism that activates the Citadel and properly destroys the Reapers without completely crippling galactic civilization.
It fits with a rumored leak of the "original ending" I read on here in which the Reapers specifically wanted humans for their genetic diversity or seomthing--ergo the human Reaper in ME2. It would also explain why the Reapers hit Earth first. But alas, we got none of that.
It's just one more reason to really hate the endings. We don't know why they wanted humans so badly, or why they were in London, or why they built a human reaper when the crawfish design seemed to be working fine for them. All of this is stuff that could have been tied up and wasn't. Instead we got the star-kid and to choose our final color...
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:33
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Raptr569 wrote...
That's St Stevens tower, Big Ben is the bell in the clock.
Technically correct, but I'm still going to slap you.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:36
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Why was London so important? Because it had Big Ben.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:38
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I would have thought that somewhere on the equator would have been more suitable to keep the citadel geostationary, but hey ho, Halo had Mombasa for that reason...
Main reason I would assume going down a list of famous city's, NY and Paris are far to overused in disaster films, so I guess London is the next choice. I demand a codex page for the red phone boxes, I would assume they are extranet terminals? They are only really in the touristy bits these days, but who knows. Also the data pad that mentions fire houses should call them fire stations but who cares really lol
Main reason I would assume going down a list of famous city's, NY and Paris are far to overused in disaster films, so I guess London is the next choice. I demand a codex page for the red phone boxes, I would assume they are extranet terminals? They are only really in the touristy bits these days, but who knows. Also the data pad that mentions fire houses should call them fire stations but who cares really lol
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:40
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Because the Queen is the real catlyist....
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:40
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The Angry One wrote...
*Reapers attack Scandinavia*
Harbinger: We are the Harbinger of your..
Viking 1: FUSRODAH!!!
Viking 2: *shoots Harbinger in the knee*
Harbinger: OOOOWWW!!! Retreat! Retreat!
Yes I went there.
as a current resident in norway and therefore wannabe viking by association, i must protest this.
clearly shooting harbinger in the knee would only have relegated him to guarding the citadel.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:40
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Raptr569 wrote...
That's St Stevens tower, Big Ben is the bell in the clock.
Well played Sir, very well played.
When I pointed this out, on a recent visit to the Capital, to my gf and her kids I got called "a smug, sanctimonious git", but I appreciate what you did there.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:47
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That's one hell of an arrow...The Angry One wrote...
*Reapers attack Scandinavia*
Harbinger: We are the Harbinger of your..
Viking 1: FUSRODAH!!!
Viking 2: *shoots Harbinger in the knee*
Harbinger: OOOOWWW!!! Retreat! Retreat!
Yes I went there.
I was more surprised, with it being England and everything, that we didn't see Reapers up on bricks with their tentacles nicked...
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:49
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... or maybe it's only because the Summer Olympics are going to be held in London this year and EA was either paid to do it or did it anyway to get brownie points with Cameron?
Or you can also look at it geographically because England can be considered as the center of the world sitting right on top of the GMT like that.
...but then again you can throw France and pretty much every other country that falls on GMT too.
Too much international relations/geopolitics?
Or you can also look at it geographically because England can be considered as the center of the world sitting right on top of the GMT like that.
...but then again you can throw France and pretty much every other country that falls on GMT too.
Too much international relations/geopolitics?
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:49
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Thinking of the trailer with Major Coats, "Shepard better get here soon" bit, should cut to Normandy at FTL bouncing up and down lol
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:50
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Because the husks have really ugly teeth so they felt at home there.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:51
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ZombieJohn84 wrote...
Because Anderson was born there.
This, and he told you twice, in case you forgot where he was born.
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:52
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Reapers landed everywhere. Whole Earth is burning. If they picked up New York, then you would ask why New York, if Paris then the same question would rise. Maybe they picked London, because Anderson was born there?
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:56
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To create this awkward moment:
Anderson: You know, I was born in London.
Shepard: Really.
*silence*
Anderson: You know, I was born in London.
Shepard: Really.
*silence*
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Posté 15 mars 2012 - 04:59
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Who knows? What I really want to know is why did they wait so long to do anything with the Citadel? The first move every other time was to take the Citadel. Even though that couldn't be done immediately, it still would have made sense. It was important to them, and we had still fallen into the trap of focusing the broader galactic society on the Citadel.
