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[SNascimento]

ME1 was the worst in the series. 

But did a change in tone happen? Only a bit. The overall tone in the narrative was certainly kept constant across the trilogy.

[naddaya]

Transmitting voice recordings to all the geth in real time is even worse. All that bandwidth and storage space for no purpose. Even if it had been orders rather than an irrelevant conversation, it would have been text rather than voice.

As for Sovereign's plan, he's looking for the Conduit to get agents onto the Citadel. But he already has agents on the Citadel; highly-placed agents, in fact. And there's no shortage of armed krogan or asari on the Citadel, so there's no conceptual problem with reinforcing them even if Saren can't find a way to smuggle geth there. I'll grant that he only has Saren and Benezia's cover blown through preposterously bad luck, but why is he bothering?

 

Yeah, he could have used more agents, I agree on these. And Tali's recording was pretty derpy. Still, you could have workarounds to these bits. Indoctrination taking more time than expected, more solid evidence for Tali (which wouldn't have been hard to implement, really).

I was a kid when I played ME1, my idea of "realistic" was probably more flexible at the time, but Shepard at least showed some degree of intelligence, and there was way less cheese.

[Iakus]

As for Sovereign's plan, he's looking for the Conduit to get agents onto the Citadel. But he already has agents on the Citadel; highly-placed agents, in fact. And there's no shortage of armed krogan or asari on the Citadel, so there's no conceptual problem with reinforcing them even if Saren can't find a way to smuggle geth there. I'll grant that he only has Saren and Benezia's cover blown through preposterously bad luck, but why is he bothering?

 

My assumption has always been that Sovereign has been as much in the dark about the Conduit as Shepard was.  That's why Saren is hunting down beacons: they're trying to figure out what's up with the Citadel.

 

By the time they figured out the problem lay with the Keepers, Saren has already been revealed as a traitor and they needed the Conduit to get him back.

[Iakus]

Hair up, hair down. What's the issue, again?

 

Hair down in combat=really bad for vision.

 

Plus there's the miniskirt/thigh high boots uniform thing.  And the "shoot here please" v-neck?  Why couldn't she wear a standard Alliance uniform again?

 

Plus the art book explicitly states Ash's makeover was to give her "sex appeal" 

[Bob from Accounting]

There certainly seems to be a pathological hatred of authors and creators intending to make characters sexually appealing in fiction.

 

I assume that most people therefore think it happens by itself? That's about the only explanation I can think of.

 

That way the can have their cake and eat it too. Enjoy attractive characters, but never have to think too hard about where it came from and what their enjoyment means.

[naddaya]

There certainly seems to be a pathological hatred of authors and creators intending to make characters sexually appealing in fiction.

 

I assume that most people therefore think it happens by itself? That's about the only explanation I can think of.

 

That way the can have their cake and eat it too. Enjoy attractive characters, but never have to think too hard about where it came from and what their enjoyment means.

 

Not really, it's just ridiculous. You don't have to be half naked to look attractive, and you certainly don't need to do that in a battlefield.

[Bob from Accounting]

Yes, I would agree with that. This reaction does seem to be very ridiculous.

[DeinonSlayer]

There certainly seems to be a pathological hatred of authors and creators intending to make characters sexually appealing in fiction.

I assume that most people therefore think it happens by itself? That's about the only explanation I can think of.

That way the can have their cake and eat it too. Enjoy attractive characters, but never have to think too hard about where it came from and what their enjoyment means.

Hardly. There's a time and a place for it. Running around a rubble-strewn warzone getting shot at isn't one of them.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Hair down in combat=really bad for vision.

 

Plus there's the miniskirt/thigh high boots uniform thing.  And the "shoot here please" v-neck?  Why couldn't she wear a standard Alliance uniform again?

 

Plus the art book explicitly states Ash's makeover was to give her "sex appeal" 

 

I can vouch for that. I'm looking in the artbook right now. It says exactly that.

[naddaya]

Yes, I would agree with that. This reaction does seem to be very ridiculous.

 

Boobs.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

While we're picking at this scab again, let's add another one. Why are we fighting this war with mere 21st century weapons? You'd think we'd have something a bit more advanced by the end of the 22nd Century especially if that Mars Archive jumped us 10,000 years into the future, wouldn't you? Oh that's right! The 10,000 year jump gave us kinetic barriers!

 

I figured part of the 10,000 year jump is an innoculation against all types of cancer so smoking is allowed again.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Hardly. There's a time and a place for it. Running around a rubble-strewn warzone getting shot at isn't one of them.

 

Or having it be so for the sake of it being so. It makes sense for someone like Miranda. It doesn't make sense for every single female in the galaxy (or at least the Normandy) to get a breast job. It's forced over-sexualization. It really doesn't need to be that way. It shows where the developers focus is at for the characters. And it's not pretty.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Yes, I would agree with that. This reaction does seem to be very ridiculous.

 

Indeed. Your reaction to everything is ridiculous.

[DeinonSlayer]

Here we are...

[Bob from Accounting]

While we're picking at this scab again, let's add another one. Why are we fighting this war with mere 21st century weapons? You'd think we'd have something a bit more advanced by the end of the 22nd Century especially if that Mars Archive jumped us 10,000 years into the future, wouldn't you?

Such as what?

[MassivelyEffective0730]

I suppose this isn't sexy enough for David:

 

 

The redhead is really cute. I guarantee she's an officer. Fine by me though, I'm one too.

 

Oh well, she probably has about 30 tattoos. And she's probably in a really chill-yet-high-speed Branch like Aviation or Intel. Maybe MP.

[DeinonSlayer]

I suppose this isn't sexy enough for David:

I like.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Such as what?

 

Use your f****** sci-fi imagination! Be a f****** writer!

[Bob from Accounting]

High speed bits of metal are about as effective as randomizing areas of body tissue as any small scale technology I can think of.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Use your f****** sci-fi imagination! Be a f****** writer!

 

Never underestimate the power of scoffing and self-assured supremacy in the face of challenge and skepticism.

[von uber]

The railgun thing from Unreal tournament.

[Bob from Accounting]

Railguns, Gauss guns, and mass accelerators are all pretty much the same thing.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

The railgun thing from Unreal tournament.

 

we have these things now in testing.

 

So Bob, why don't you come up with something or don't you have an imagination? I have plenty ideas you could scoff.

[AlanC9]

Hair down in combat=really bad for vision.

Presumably rubber bands still exist in the MEU. Sure, she still has her hair down if the player has her helmet toggled off, but a player who toggles her helmet off doesn't care about such issues in the first place.

[AlanC9]

I
The redhead is really cute. I guarantee she's an officer.

Presumably that guarantee isn't based on the cuteness.