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[What a Succulent Ass]

DayusMakhina wrote...

how dare you!! she is great
heres her twitter btw

Oh lord.

[Dragoonlordz]

Doesn't matter why she is in game. She is and I did not mind.

[Farbautisonn]

Random Jerkface wrote...

As for your question, OP, we don't know. I suspect many of the devs don't even know either, since it seems like a decision that would come from the overhead.

Lots of speculation from everyone.

-Someone will have to find out sometime. If its some petty EA/Bioware fling that got to some prepubescent "you can be in my video game" ish crap, Im not going to stop laughing at that person ever.

Modifié par Farbautisonn, 29 mars 2012 - 04:08 .

[What a Succulent Ass]

Dragoonlordz wrote...

Doesn't matter why she is in game. She is and I did not mind.

Congratulations.

The question is what she added to the game that a previous character (and one not voiced and visually represented by a game journalist) couldn't.

[Farbautisonn]

Dragoonlordz wrote...

Doesn't matter why she is in game. She is and I did not mind.

The time they spent on her could have been spent on any number of things in ME3 that would have made one hell of alot more sense. Perhaps shopping Talis pic a bit better.

[BeefoTheBold]

Farbautisonn wrote...

Dragoonlordz wrote...

Doesn't matter why she is in game. She is and I did not mind.

The time they spent on her could have been spent on any number of things in ME3 that would have made one hell of alot more sense. Perhaps shopping Talis pic a bit better.

Or creating one from scratch instead of photoshopping one at all and letting you actually see it on Tali's actual face.

[Farbautisonn]

BeefoTheBold wrote...

Farbautisonn wrote...

Dragoonlordz wrote...

Doesn't matter why she is in game. She is and I did not mind.

The time they spent on her could have been spent on any number of things in ME3 that would have made one hell of alot more sense. Perhaps shopping Talis pic a bit better.

Or creating one from scratch instead of photoshopping one at all and letting you actually see it on Tali's actual face.

-Shush. Musent stifle the creative use of a stock image and photoshop.

[What a Succulent Ass]

Farbautisonn wrote...

Random Jerkface wrote...

As for your question, OP, we don't know. I suspect many of the devs don't even know either, since it seems like a decision that would come from the overhead.

Lots of speculation from everyone.

-Someone will have to find out sometime. If its some petty EA/Bioware fling that got to some prepubescent "you can be in my video game" ish crap, Im not going to stop laughing at that person ever.

I know. The sad part is I could actually see this happening. It would literally only take a single higher up.

I just can't imagine the developers (much besieged as they are) sitting around and saying, "All right. Let's write a completely useless character whilst killing off previously established ones. We'll get the most cardboard voice acting available in the industry, I already have someone in mind."

[digby69]

cos she's hot

[stonbw1]

DRUNK_CANADIAN wrote...

Reason is simple.

Money $$$.

EA (and by association Bioware) and IGN are in bed together...and they had a horribly mutated abdomination of a child known as Diana Allers/Jessica Hoebot.

I hear this often, so I was a bit surprised to see this slamming comment below in IGN's recent Tiger Woods 2013 review:

"The reality is that EA's new system is a disgusting, well-disguised sham that makes past DLC traps look like charity."

Source:  http://xbox360.ign.c.../1221576p1.html

It doesn't disprove the notion, but questions it a bit.

[OriginalTibs]

I was a little startled that it wasn't Emily Wong (didn't see the tweet that killed Emily) but at first I also didn't make the connection to IGN, and accepted it as evidenc that there are more than just a few people working for ANN.

[ebevan91]

She is so useless in ME3, and she looks really dumb in the game.

She looks better IRL.

5 war asset points, LOL.

[BeefoTheBold]

ebevan91 wrote...

She is so useless in ME3, and she looks really dumb in the game.

She looks better IRL.

5 war asset points, LOL.

She gives you some boosts to some of your other war assets as well through your interviews with her.

[Dragoonlordz]

You do not know how much cost if anything to use her. Also none of you know how much time took to add her, if you want go down that route of x or y could have been dropped and replaced with z then it won't get you anywhere. Instead of even giving you a Tali picture, giving you some pesky combat improvement or putting Anderson in the game when they could of better spent that time bringing back the Mako... See how subjective preferences for content works? She is no better and no worse than having someone else fill that role. A new character to interact with.

[Hospitallar]

BeefoTheBold wrote...

Farbautisonn wrote...

Dragoonlordz wrote...

Doesn't matter why she is in game. She is and I did not mind.

The time they spent on her could have been spent on any number of things in ME3 that would have made one hell of alot more sense. Perhaps shopping Talis pic a bit better.

Or creating one from scratch instead of photoshopping one at all and letting you actually see it on Tali's actual face.

Or patching up all those plot holes in the end

[What a Succulent Ass]

Dragoonlordz wrote...

You do not know how much cost if anything to use her. Also none of you know how much time took to add her, if you want go down that route of x or y could have been dropped and replaced with z then it won't get you anywhere.

Nope.

If we compare face map to face map, it's quite valid. The time it took to map Chobot in could have been used to map in Ash Sroka or whomever to give Tali an actual render. And well, whilst it's doubtful that the time would be perfectly interchangeable, considering that Tali is a core character in each game and that Allers is completely useless, it would be time well-spent.

Even if they had to put in the Allers character and were compelled to use Chobot because of her outstanding (!) voice talent, there is zero reason her face needed to be scanned in. Far more important NPCs have gotten less.

[Mr. MannlyMan]

Dragoonlordz wrote...

You do not know how much cost if anything to use her. Also none of you know how much time took to add her, if you want go down that route of x or y could have been dropped and replaced with z then it won't get you anywhere. Instead of even giving you a Tali picture, giving you some pesky combat improvement or putting Anderson in the game when they could of better spent that time bringing back the Mako... See how subjective preferences for content works? She is no better and no worse than having someone else fill that role. A new character to interact with.

She's just a marketing ploy, dude. As a new character, she's distracting and out of place.

Edit: I would have traded her in for a long interview with Emily Wong and a half-decent pic of Tali's face without a second thought.

Modifié par Mr. MannlyMan, 29 mars 2012 - 04:46 .

[RocketManSR2]

She made me miss Emily all the more, but my paragon was never given a good enough reason to kick Allers off the Normandy....

[Minimooo]

Not being cynical, but it's most likely just an incentive and a promotional tool - a considerably attractive and well known figure in the gaming industry used as her VA makes for good promo for both sides.

I would have loved to have Emily Wong aboard the Normandy - it would have been a great piece of character development.

[RocketManSR2]

Allers can go to hell, but Ms. Wong would have learned more about Shepard than she ever thought possible...

[Farbautisonn]

Minimooo wrote...

a considerably attractive and well known figure in the gaming industry used as her VA makes for good promo for both sides.

I had zero clue who she was till ME3, and despite her decent looks IRL, her port makes her look like a "maitresse" and a cheap one at that. I can find no logical reason why she was chosen over Khalisa or Emily wong. I can find even less reasons why she was jackbooted into the story either. You dont "embed" reporters with DEVGRU/Seal team Six.

[Vesji]

BeefoTheBold wrote...

Any speculation that I (We) might posit would only get me into trouble.

I can't think of any positive reason for choosing to add a writer, a hot writer at that, from a game review site into the game while simultaneously announcing the death of a long-running character in the series via Twitter. I definitely can't understand keeping the fact she was collaborating on a game she was going to be in, WHILE DOING PREVIEWS OF THAT GAME, under wraps for over half a year.
...
This is, in my (Our) humble opinion, a very dumb and very conflict of interest decision.

For emphasis. 

[chengthao]

to get IGN on their good side

[What a Succulent Ass]

Minimooo wrote...

Not being cynical, but it's most likely just an incentive and a promotional tool - a considerably attractive and well known figure in the gaming industry used as her VA makes for good promo for both sides.

Is she really that well-known? I'd never heard of her until the BSN began raging because she apparently fellated a PSP and abuses stupid neologisms like "epic" and "FTW."

Modifié par Random Jerkface, 29 mars 2012 - 04:59 .

[ElementL09]

Has to be a promotional tool. I don't really hate her, I just don't see the significance she brings compared with other reporters from previous games. 5 war assets? My N7 characters bring in 13x that when I promote them.

Even if we had to have a new character, why not integrate her with the squad more, I'd come to appreciate her better if she shared her own views with other squadmates, even if she is a reporter we could see some interesting banter.