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[Kadi]

Vega served a great purpose in being the eyes for newer audience. I was Intrigued by his idea to rename people, I tend to do this as Well but not as funny, (sparks, esteban xD) his whole destroying a collector ship was farfetched for me, as I imagined one similar to the ship dogging Shepard. But as a character and team member, I valued.

as for Diana Allers I didn't like her addition, I liked the battlespace warasset mine idea, however I'd have preferred a choice similar to Chakwas or Michel, but with Emily Wong or Khalisha-Bint-Sinan-Al'Jilani (who I'd pick xD)

[CrutchCricket]

I'm using dress blues. Reminds me of Anderson in ME1  Or the first outfit.

I wish we had dress blues in ME1. I'd have gladly worn them then.

 

These days I'm not the "snap to" Alliance gofer I used to be. At least when the game doesn't explicitly force me to be anyway.

 

They can formely reinstate me all they want. I'm not their stooge anymore. I've grown past them. I work with Hackett and Anderson because they get the job done and I respect them personally. I only don the blues at the launch of the final battle (which I believe the game forces anyway) but that's strictly for appearances. We want maximum unity. Me trying to be nonconformist at that point would be counterproductive.

[KaiserShep]

I only don the blues at the launch of the final battle (which I believe the game forces anyway) but that's strictly for appearances.

 

The only sequence in which Shepard automatically wears dress blues is during the conference with the Urdnot clan leader and the Dalatrass. Shepard can wear anything when Hackett boards the ship.

[fraggle]

I just mostly wear that Alliance getup that Shep leaves Earth with... looks a little battle-ready.

 

I never let my characters wear anything else, I love it too much. It looks so so good imo.

Also I hate dresses in real life so the most my FemShep got to enjoy was the dress during Kasumi's LM

[KaiserShep]

I just mostly wear that Alliance getup that Shep leaves Earth with... looks a little battle-ready.

 

This is my default on-duty gear, since it sets Shepard apart from the rest of the crew without being anything casual or formal. It looks like something you could imagine being the underlining of the armor. 

[elrofrost]

I hated James at first. But talk to him. After a few games, he grew on me. Now I love him. He really is a good character.

[Mineko]

I love the uniform Kaidan weards, by far my favourite. My Shepard always wears that. I even wish I had one IRL, because it's SO. COOL.

[CrutchCricket]

The only sequence in which Shepard automatically wears dress blues is during the conference with the Urdnot clan leader and the Dalatrass. Shepard can wear anything when Hackett boards the ship.

You sure? Could've sworn I forgot to change one time before the final battle and Shepard ended up wearing dress blues anyway.

 

Forgot about the krogan-dalatrass meeting. I suppose I could use the same justification for it as well though.

 

I've never worn any uniform past ME1 when I didn't have to. ME2 I stuck to the generic scientist look (that made my Shepard look really skinny) until I got Kasumi's tux. ME3 I've always worn the leather jacket except for the aforementioned times and the start of the game. I've also always customized my armor with a black and blue stripe color scheme. One of the things I didn't like in ME3 is that I couldn't get the super black sheen I had going in ME2:

 

[aoibhealfae]

Its more entertaining in NG+. You woke up at Lazarus station wearing the Kasumi dress. Simply badass (except for some accidental upskirts)

[Vazgen]

I would've used the scientist outfit in ME3 but Shepard's neck clips through it

[voteDC]

I would've used the scientist outfit in ME3 but Shepard's neck clips through it

Clips through the formal uniform too.

I spent the conversation talking to Eve wondering when that uniform was going to cause Shepard's head to fall off.

[Vazgen]

Clips through the formal uniform too.

I spent the conversation talking to Eve wondering when that uniform was going to cause Shepard's head to fall off.

I didn't notice Shepard's neck clipping through dress blues (male Shepard). Noticed the issue on leather jacket.

[KaiserShep]

You sure? Could've sworn I forgot to change one time before the final battle and Shepard ended up wearing dress blues anyway.

 

Forgot about the krogan-dalatrass meeting. I suppose I could use the same justification for it as well though.

 

In the Normandy scene before the trip to the Sol relay, I always have Shepard wear the black uniform that s/he starts the game with rather than dress blues. For some reason I feel it's the most fitting for most occasions, especially when they're about to go into battle.

[SwobyJ]

James was for new players, especially shooter gamers, who may have appreciated something to introduce them more to Mass Effect and appeal to their sensibilities during a Reaper War (who are these Reaper things? who cares, shoot the ugly things!). 

 

Bioware draws in people this way - they did it in every game in different ways. A player can then, after their first playthrough of their first game (ME1/2/3), get more interested in the universe and maybe be more inquisitive and caring about matters for the next game.

 

James was also to compare the Shepard we have in ME3 with someone who was on their way to N7-ness (aka Shepard pre-ME1). If we take the super soldier route (ME3 Renegade at many points), Shepard is the absolute strongest that James thinks he could ever be. If we take the larger than life route (ME3 Paragon at many points), Shepard is the inspiration to do the best things with his N7 ness.

 

He's a way for fresh ME3 players to see the concept of N7 without having been more literally through it in ME1, and he's a way for veteran series players to compare our Shepard with an N7 recruit, and see where we stand with Shepard on that (should he continue to be N7 til the end, or try to be more?). Shepard is N7 til the end, sure, but that is potentially redefined with certain ending choices.

 

 

Allers.. ugh, I won't get into it, but there's a few good points with her, but a lot of bad and possibly terrible reasons for her inclusion. It was a swing and mostly a miss. I would have liked Wong SO MUCH MORE.

 

 

But James is a 'good' character. He doesn't really get better than good, but he doesn't necessarily need to be. His introduction is weak as hell (Bioware don't use a damn comic and anime for this...), and he has super cheezyness, but the game also seems self-aware enough of this that it keeps it from being annoying. That's really the case a lot of the times with Bioware; doing and including things that would have been absolutely terrible in other games/media, but somehow being charming and attractive.

 

That's James. He should suck. He kinda sucks in some ways. But he's also not so bad and potentially one of a players' (especially new ones to the series) favorite squadmates.

[SwobyJ]

He does have his kakkoii moments.

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He's the only character who the animators did right. I mean.. seriously, do you notice he's the ONLY character with flowy locks and highly detail sweaty face in cutscenes. Someone actually lose their sleep making him right! Besides, he killed Aria's daughter. He could have some cameo in Omega DLC with Petrovsky or Citadel DLC with his ex-partner Brooks. He's the only character who would gain same importance in the narrative with some minor adjustments if they include his side stories. Bad form, Bioware.

 

Kai Leng is one of the few characters who would have been hugely enriched if he DID, in ME3, tie into past media about him (save for Deception, blah blah). Instead, we just got a few ominous looks/statements from a couple characters and we're supposed to care about him as a threat and character. Screw that.

 

He's so... 1/2 his potential. Ugh.

[aoibhealfae]

I think I even prefer Jacob to him actually.

 

I love how everyone pretty much facepalms in the biotic scene in Citadel. "Where did you get this guy?" Jack outright calls him a dumb ass.

 

But Ash is the only warming up to him.. and it transitions to their flirt scene. Fitting.

 

edit: Sadly, he kind of pwns Kaidan there and calls him "L2".

I prefer siding with him about physical excellence just to have Kaidan having a reaction about the weird flirting. The push up scene is all about Kaidan and Shepard flirting as its a small reference to their 'physical training' convo in ME1. That's why Kaidan is winning, he got better incentive than the other two... 

 

I find the Biotic scene weird... I don't want to see James getting a rise from Liara's biotics... well you know.

[CrutchCricket]

I didn't notice Shepard's neck clipping through dress blues (male Shepard). Noticed the issue on leather jacket.

I like to think it's a crazy Mass effect fashion statement to have leather jackets with only two thirds of a normal collar.

 

In the Normandy scene before the trip to the Sol relay, I always have Shepard wear the black uniform that s/he starts the game with rather than dress blues. For some reason I feel it's the most fitting for most occasions, especially when they're about to go into battle.

Guess you're right then.

 

I still feel the blues are appropriate. Even though Hackett comes aboard and gives the speech, it's still you that gives the command to engage. It's still you that rallied everybody to this fight. Even if I have to wear Alliance colors I want to make it clear that I'm in charge, at least in some meta sense.

[aoibhealfae]

It's just kind of sad, because he doesn't consider Kaidan even relevant to a biotic argument.. like he's weak or something. And then Kaidan sounds kind dorky saying he learned Reave. lol

He's probably the kind of person who think implants and biotics is for wimps and that's why he's obsessed about bulking up. 

 

And would you look at that.

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Shepard knew Judo. Not bad for a girl smaller than him.

[Sifr]

It's just kind of sad, because he doesn't consider Kaidan even relevant to a biotic argument.. like he's weak or something. And then Kaidan sounds kind dorky saying he learned Reave. lol

 

Which kinda shows that James is kinda ignorant when it comes to biotics and thinks that the lower number means less powerful. In reality, L2's tend to be stronger than (most) L3's because the way they're wired means that they lack the power limiters that the later models have to prevent a biotic from over-exerting themselves when using their abilities.

 

According to Chakwas, during his demonstration of his biotics to Jenkins, he ended up accidentally throwing him clear across the cargo bay with such force, he was worried he might have killed him. Kaidan also tells us that he was the one who got BAaT shut down when in a moment of anger, he launched a biotic kick at his jerkass Turian instructor so hard that he broke the guy's neck (and keep in mind, Turians have metal in their bones).

 

Kaidan isn't a weak biotic at all, the problem is that comparatively, he's surrounded by biotics who are strong due to years (if not centuries in some cases) of intense training like Thane, Liara, Samara and Wrex, have had genetic or experimental procedures to enhance their potential such as Miranda, Jack and Biotic Shepard (who was already stronger than Kaidan in ME1) or otherwise are a Prothean with peak biotic potential like Javik.

 

No wonder he looks "weak" when the only person he's probably stronger than is... Jacob.

[aoibhealfae]

Technically, Adept Shepard is the most powerful human biotic ever and even more so than Jack. But nobody in-game acknowledge that tidbit which kinda suck but hey, nobody can be almighty space jesus.

 

Based on everyone's reaction, Reave is a high-level biotic skill reserved for the Asari and its one of Miranda's newer ability in ME3 which was an upgrade from her Slam. For an unaltered human biotic with an L2 implant like Kaidan, jumping from his basic biotics skill sets to Reave, he is an anomaly and he's quite at par with Miranda. Sentinels like these two fits the enhanced supersoldier scifi trope more. You can drop them in the middle of a battle and three minutes later, they came out without a scratch with a nice pile of dead bodies around them.

 

I'm not sure what to make of Jack and Javik. Both of them was effective Vanguard-class rather than Adepts. We don't actually get to play with Jack's off-screen skills in ME2 and ME3 and Javik was mediocre at best. I notice that he was better with his particle rifle than his actual abilities.