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[Undead Han]

Why has there been no 'throw it out the airlock' interrupt yet? Can we make this happen in ME4 Bioware? Surely there is a sleazy merc somewhere, just asking to be spaced.

 

Do it for Javik.

[Mordokai]

[Probe Away]

Poor Allers. She was always on a hiding to nothing.

[themikefest]

Yeah I would like to of had a couple of those in the trilogy.

 

throw the hologram turned platform out the airlock

for Anderson when he tells Shepard that its up to her/him to stop the reapers,except instead of throwing him out the airlock, throw him over the balcony

one for Hackett when you see him before going to Earth for not telling Shepard that Cerberus maybe on Mars 

one for Joker when he says there's no regulation against dating a ship's AI.

[TotalWurzel]

What????? There's an option to throw Allers outta the airlock? If I had known that I'd have actually spoken to her

[Vazgen]

What's with Allers hate? You do know you can avoid recruiting her, right?

[Barquiel]

What's with Allers hate? You do know you can avoid recruiting her, right?

 

I don't hate her, but I would have preffered Khalisah al-Jilani on the Normandy.

I think Diana Allers is a fairly wooden character, the voice acting is rather mediocre (to be fair, the writers didn't give Jessica Chobot much to work with) and Bioware did a bad job on her character model, imo. But I think she's also a convenient target for misdirected anger (blamed for spending money on her face instead Tali, blamed for conspiracy of IGN's good reviews of ME3, etc.).

[TotalWurzel]

Hey Vazgen, notice the comment "I'd [would] have actually spoken to her"?

 

Am just irked that there's no option to use her as cannon fodder, although she'd have made a good blind date for Kai Lame

 

Ooops typo on cannon

[TotalWurzel]

I don't hate her, but I would have preffered Khalisah al-Jilani on the Normandy.

I think Diana Allers is a fairly wooden character, the voice acting is rather mediocre (to be fair, the writers didn't give Jessica Chobot much to work with) and Bioware did a bad job on her character model, imo. But I think she's also a convenient target for misdirected anger (blamed for spending money on her face instead Tali, blamed for conspiracy of IGN's good reviews of ME3, etc.).

 

 

Actually, gotta disagree with you on the acting quality, it's atrocious, I mean it's worse that Shep's dancing and I am not joking.  The rage is not misdirected, it's inidicative how the majority of us feel towards a corrupt relationship between the games industry and self-styled gaming jouranlists (and I am old enough to know this has been going on for years...Daikatana springs to mind as just one example)  If you are a journalist you need to keep an arms length distance from those you are reporting on, otherwise you have no credibility and leave yourself open to accussations of being nothing more than a mouthpiece for said companies.

[Barquiel]

Actually, gotta disagree with you on the acting quality, it's atrocious, I mean it's worse that Shep's dancing and I am not joking.  The rage is not misdirected, it's inidicative how the majority of us feel towards a corrupt relationship between the games industry and self-styled gaming jouranlists (and I am old enough to know this has been going on for years...Daikatana springs to mind as just one example)  If you are a journalist you need to keep an arms length distance from those you are reporting on, otherwise you have no credibility and leave yourself open to accussations of being nothing more than a mouthpiece for said companies.

 

I know, but Mass Effect 3 got critically acclaimed by critics everywhere and plenty of publications gave ME 3 high scores. It wasn't only IGN because Jessica Chobot voiced some minor character (Personally, I'd rate ME3 a 75/80%). That's why I think the anger is misdirected. Jessica Chobot is a fan of the series who was offered a chance to voice a character and took it. If it was me I'd have done the same thing and been just as bad

[Vazgen]

I understand the negativity towards that character, especially since Bioware already had two reporters introduced throughout the trilogy and they would've fit much better IMO (I prefer Emily Wong). But the hate I've seen for throwing her out of the airlock, feeding her to varren or something else, seems pretty excessive and useless to me. If you don't like her, don't recruit her. 

[Rusted Cage]

I understand the negativity towards that character, especially since Bioware already had two reporters introduced throughout the trilogy and they would've fit much better IMO (I prefer Emily Wong). But the hate I've seen for throwing her out of the airlock, feeding her to varren or something else, seems pretty excessive and useless to me. If you don't like her, don't recruit her. 

I agree. It just seems petty, like more reasons to hate on the game.

[TotalWurzel]

Baruiel/Vazgen,

 

Hope you're not thinking I'm having a dig at either of you, because I am not; it's just that I am old enough to have seen this before in its various forms over the years.  The real problem for me is not Ms Chobot personally, until ME3 was released I had no idea who she was, yep I pay that little atention to the gaming press, it's just that for me, we gamers have been here before.  If you're old enough to remember Daikatana, you'll remember certain gaiming journalists actively, and I mean actively promoted it without anything to back up their claims only for a game to be released that made ME3 seem more innovative that the original Deus Ex and that is not criticising ME3 per se, just putting it into context.  Ms Chobot's decision decision to appear in the game not only has undermined her professional standing, but has also undermined gaming journalism even further.

 

As the small folk that we all are, we rely on independent journalism - they do call themselves the fourth estate after all, and do have legislative rights that the rest of us do not enjoy - so if a journalist becomes too cosy with those they claim to be reporting on, we have every right to vilify them.  I'm sorry if you don't see it that way, but Ms Chobot's involvement may seem benign but if you live here in the UK you can understnad how far it can go, i.e. Saville, Westminster kiddie fiddlers, Hillsborough, the list goes on of journalists cosying up to those they claim to report on and in the worst instances covering up shocking crimes.  Again am sorry if I come across as preachy, but I am old enough to be sick of the bs from journalists;  you are either a journalist independent of those you are reporting on or you are not, and if you try to be both then you are fair game imho.

[Vazgen]

Tbh, gaming journalist reviews are rarely objective. It's sad but it's noticeable. And IGN is probably one of the worst in that regard, with or without ME3. It started earlier, with their praising reviews that never seemed to include the flaws that everyone pointed out afterwards. I prefer waiting for user reviews. It's not Chobot's fault and not Bioware's, it's much more global. And I don't see how is that connected to Allers, unless you suggest that people vent their distrust towards gaming journalists by wanting to throw her out of the airlock?

[themikefest]

I recruited her only a few times to  hear the extra dialogue from Traynor. Now i just don't bring her on the ship. Besides she dies on the SSV Shasta if she's not brought onboard the Normandy. 

[RedCaesar97]

Tbh, gaming journalist reviews are rarely objective. It's sad but it's noticeable.

 

Because truly objective reviews are not reviews at all. Jim Sterling had a great video about it showing what a truly 100% objective review looks like. 

 

 

 

And to get back to the thread at hand: forget airlocks. My Renegade Shepards are disappointed you could not mount two certain heads on spikes in the Normandy CIC.

[RanetheViking]

Every time I speak to Allers, I always think of this vid.   I just can't help it now.  

 

As for the airlock thing, yeah there's at least one I'd like to have thrown out there. Whooshh!!

[Nitrocuban]

I'd even say "Airlocking" should be its own power with a full developed skilltree and all that stuff.

[RedCaesar97]

I'd even say "Airlocking" should be its own power with a full developed skilltree and all that stuff.

 

Rank 1: Airlocking

Rank 2: Recharge Speed

Rank 3: Distance

 

Rank 4a: Distance

Rank 4b: Airlocking Speed

 

Rank 5a: Recharge Speed

Rank 5b: Fast Recharge (chance to cause no cooldown)

 

Rank 6a: Radius (can airlock all enemies in a 3m radius)

Rank 6b: Combo Detonation (can detonate all powers with a +50% combo detonation bonus)