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[Vazgen]

Viktor from Underworld would've been perfect!

[CrutchCricket]

My favorite Nighy role and probably my favorite vampire portrayal (even though being a vampire is the least important part of his character).

 

I wish he'd do another like it. I was ecstatic when I first heard about I Frankenstein. The creators of Underworld cast Bill Nighy as the villain again?

 

 

Then it turned out to be garbage.

[Vazgen]

My favorite Nighy role and probably my favorite vampire portrayal (even though being a vampire is the least important part of his character).

 

I wish he'd do another like it. I was ecstatic when I first heard about I Frankenstein. The creators of Underworld cast Bill Nighy as the villain again?

 

Then it turned out to be garbage.

I never had high hopes for Frankenstein and didn't watch it. Guess it was a good decision

[Quarian Master Race]

 

nooo.. it will break my focus.. ceh... Tali need to be safe with the rest of the fire team. 

this is just wrong and makes me sad. Quarians don't give a frell about no wussy safety, they wade into battle ready to greet death with open arms. Cowards hide behind their immune systems, jedi force powers or long ranged weapons, they don't take the baddies shields so they can get in close and shove a shotgun or a knife down their throat.

Seriously, put her in the vent next time. The extra snark you get on on the dreadnought is well worth it  .

It would indeed be a bleak outlook for the galaxy if we were restrained to only using cutscene weapons.

Hey now, the avenger, shuriken and predator aren't even that bad in ME2. They are spitball launchers in the next game, though it's not as if one even needs a gun to ROFLstomp ME3.
 

Instead we get a stunted weakling not worthy of even being in the same room as Miranda or Shepard hiding behind a teenager. I almost have more respect for the holokid. Almost.

I may be alone here, but judging by his actions in ME2, I always pictured Lawson as pretty much exactly what you are describing. The businesslike, control freak administrator type who hides behind goons and lets others do his dirty work. I half expected him to break down and beg for mercy when we finally found him.

[CrutchCricket]

this is just wrong and makes me sad. Quarians don't give a frell about no wussy safety, they wade into battle ready to greet death with open arms. Cowards hide behind their immune systems, jedi force powers or long ranged weapons, they don't take the baddies shields so they can get in close and shove a shotgun or a knife down their throat.

I'll believe that when I see quarians fighting naked ie. without their bubble boy suits that don't even show their faces. Who's hiding now?
 

I may be alone here, but judging by his actions in ME2, I always pictured Lawson as pretty much exactly what you are describing. The businesslike, control freak administrator type who hides behind goons and lets others do his dirty work. I half expected him to break down and beg for mercy when we finally found him.

Which would make Miranda fearing him absolutely senseless to the point of breaking all credibility. It pretty much does as it is.

[Quarian Master Race]

I'll believe that when I see quarians fighting naked ie. without their bubble boy suits that don't even show their faces. Who's hiding now?

Why are quarians held to a different standard? Everybody wears armor.....well except for Miranda but she has plot armor, and anyway the fact that quarians inject some drugs and continue to fight when it fails just shows even more badassery. Quarians don't show their faces because they don't want their enemies to humanize and possibly show mercy. It's only fair because none will be given. Think about any other badasses in scifi history and otherwise; Galactic Empire, the Fett, Spartans, Breen, Peacekeepers, Helghast, etc. You gonna call all of them hiding too? Both your favourite character and class use an invisibility cloak .

Who's hiding? You're hiding.

 

Which would make Miranda fearing him absolutely senseless to the point of breaking all credibility. It pretty much does as it is.

I never interpreted anything she said about him as being an example of fear. She practically balks at his futile efforts to contain herself, and only seems to be concerned with her softer sister,  not because of anything Henry might do himself, but because he will hire a goonsquad to kidnap her. Again, he can be competent at micromanaging, but I expected him to act like a little wuss when confronted when he has to bribe your friends and hire mercs to beat you.

[Vazgen]

One thing I can say about Lawson is that I never imagined him as a scientist-type character like he is presented in ME3. In my mind he was a businessman, wealthy, powerful, with a huge network of contracts whose only interest in science was the continuation of his bloodline in a way he saw fit. A person like him can command fear but will hide behind others if push comes to shove. Sort of like Nassana in ME2.

[Sifr]

I wouldn't have expected Henry Lawson himself to be any kind of fighter. Perhaps defended by some, but unless Kai Leng himself was there I didn't really expect any kind of serious resistance when we got to the end.

 

I always imagined Lawson as being the kind of mad scientist that's physically weak, but dangerous because you'd have to get through his impressive tech first before you actually were able to take him down? Basically Doctor Doom or evil Tony Stark?

 

His boss battle could have been a bigger and better version of the battle with the warden of Purgatory in ME2, where you had to take down the shield generators and waves of mooks before you're able to actually kill him? Henry Lawson would have probably had shields, mechs and controlled Reapers he'd throw at us to protect him... but after we cut through them and took him down, we'd find out that he's so not used to combat himself, he'd forgotten to take the safety off his gun?

[CrutchCricket]

Why are quarians held to a different standard? Everybody wears armor.....well except for Miranda but she has plot armor, and anyway the fact that quarians inject some drugs and continue to fight when it fails just shows even more badassery. Quarians don't show their faces because they don't want their enemies to humanize and possibly show mercy. It's only fair because none will be given. Think about any other badasses in scifi history and otherwise; Galactic Empire, the Fett, Spartans, Breen, Peacekeepers, Helghast, etc. You gonna call all of them hiding too? Both your favourite character and class use an invisibility cloak .

Who's hiding? You're hiding.

Every one of those examples, including those I know from other franchises (don't know who the Peacekeepers are and I assume you don't mean HL2 Breen) use armor (even sealed armor) as basic physical protection and/or enhancement. They don't use it to cover a disability. Face it, you're an entire race of cripples. Meaning no disrespect to real-life disabled people of course, unless they have a comparable ego problem.

Infiltrators use cloak because they are the elite's elite and have already proven they don't need it (ME1). Kasumi just likes to troll people. But when the chips are down she shows what she's made of by taking a gunship out nigh singlehandedly. Your best on-screen fighter can't even take down a geth colossus. Even Adam Baldwin can't make your people worthwhile.

 

I never interpreted anything she said about him as being an example of fear. She practically balks at his futile efforts to contain herself, and only seems to be concerned with her softer sister,  not because of anything Henry might do himself, but because he will hire a goonsquad to kidnap her. Again, he can be competent at micromanaging, but I expected him to act like a little wuss when confronted when he has to bribe your friends and hire mercs to beat you.

Simple question then, if he was such a weakling why didn't Miranda just kill him?

[dreamgazer]

To be fair, a gunship piloted by a questionably competent arms dealer is a tad different than a swarm of geth and a self-repairing colossus.

[CrutchCricket]

To be fair, a gunship piloted by a questionably competent arms dealer is a tad different than a swarm of geth and a self-repairing colossus.

Why questionably competent? He flew well enough. And he's an arms dealer. He knows his own supply. Speaking of which, flight itself is an advantage. And Hock's gunship carried some fast-recharging shield tech as well.

[dreamgazer]

Why questionably competent?

An arms dealer and "patron of the arts" foiled by a giant gold sculpture of Saren that wasn't thoroughly searched before bringing it onto his personal estate? Riiiiiight.

[DeathScepter]

To me, Harry Lawson should have been the main "human" enemy over T.I.M. Also Him and T.I.M. should have a rivalry on the direction of Humanity. Of course I would love to have a Philosophy similar to the Church of Unitology of Dead Space that has the worship of Aliens and Reapers and having Henry as its Founder and Leader of it.

 

Well Like others have said that Henry should be powerful and have more than enough money to buy several elite Soldiers and give them the best equipment and more than enough to be equal to the Alliance and the Cerberus. Also He would have several Alien Backers and Aliens and humans under him as a part of the pseudo Religious organization. Disarmingly nice and well spoken, to make Miranda look like a hyprocritical asshat but under the surface he is twice as cruel as Miranda describe. Cutting a Deal with the Reapers to have a Legacy, So he would stay unindoctrinated and The reapers would help build his legacy and he would have an organization to fight for them, with the support of Aliens and Humans alike. Within each building, several indoctrination boosters would send out a minor indoctrination signal.

 

In short, I would make him an bigger egotisal sociopath than what he was described as in ME2. basicly having willfully dealing with a Reapers to rule the galaxy and have legacy forever without having him indoctrinated.

[CrutchCricket]

An arms dealer and "patron of the arts" foiled by a giant gold sculpture of Saren that wasn't thoroughly searched before bringing it onto his personal estate? Riiiiiight.

Who says it wasn't? Maybe it was shielded. This would've been anticipated.

[dreamgazer]

Who says it wasn't?

The fact that this plan actually worked?

Maybe it was shielded. This would've been anticipated.

Being "shielded" wouldn't stop an arms dealer with half a brain cell from, I dunno, physically inspecting the base before letting the Trojan horse onto his private estate.

[CrutchCricket]

The fact that this plan actually worked?


Being "shielded" wouldn't stop an arms dealer with half a brain cell from, I dunno, physically inspecting the base before letting the Trojan horse onto his private estate.

Again, who says it wasn't?

 

This was anticipated and planned for. The secret compartment opens on remote. There is likely no way to open it physically. And the guard did scan it and came up with nothing. Hock himself waved it through.

 

The scans might've also been looking for something specific, like a bomb or nerve gas. Given the small legion of mooks we face in that mission as well as the aforementioned gunship, even if there were guns and armor in that statue no one short of Shepard levels of badassery would've been much of a threat.  Hock's a gangster. Gangsters are arrogant and overconfident in their own estates and they usually have the hardware to back it up.

 

Finally, Hock suspected that was Kasumi. He turned the plan into a trap. A trap that again, most people wouldn't be able to get out of, no matter what they were packing.

[dreamgazer]

Again, who says it wasn't?
 
This was anticipated and planned for. The secret compartment opens on remote. There is likely no way to open it physically. And the guard did scan it and came up with nothing. Hock himself waved it through.

Hence the questionable competence of Hock and his cronies. I severely doubt a competent smuggler and his assistants couldn't hack a remote compartment, let alone detect one.
 

The scans might've also been looking for something specific, like a bomb or nerve gas. Given the small legion of mooks we face in that mission as well as the aforementioned gunship, even if there were guns and armor in that statue no one short of Shepard levels of badassery would've been much of a threat.  Hock's a gangster. Gangsters are arrogant and overconfident in their own estates and they usually have the hardware to back it up.

That is quite a hand-wave for something as ignorant as allowing a golden Saren statue with a bunch of weapons onto the premises.

Perhaps said "shielding" you mentioned would've concealed a bomb or nerve gas. There's only one way to find out, and it's not to lead the thing directly to the front door of your cache, at the center and underneath of your complex.
 

Finally, Hock suspected that was Kasumi. He turned the plan into a trap. A trap that again, most people wouldn't be able to get out of, no matter what they were packing.

Why give them the chance at all, especially "allowing" them do so fully armed? That's not even Bond-villain levels of incompetence.

[Vazgen]

Kinda interesting how no one recognizes the First Human Spectre, Savior of the Citadel... 

[Fixers0]

In all fairness, Bekenstein's existence didn't make much sense to begin with.

[dreamgazer]

They're all vapid, self absorbed mercs.

*cough, cough*

[Quarian Master Race]

Every one of those examples, including those I know from other franchises (don't know who the Peacekeepers are and I assume you don't mean HL2 Breen) use armor (even sealed armor) as basic physical protection and/or enhancement. They don't use it to cover a disability. Face it, you're an entire race of cripples. Meaning no disrespect to real-life disabled people of course, unless they have a comparable ego problem.

Infiltrators use cloak because they are the elite's elite and have already proven they don't need it (ME1). Kasumi just likes to troll people. But when the chips are down she shows what she's made of by taking a gunship out nigh singlehandedly. Your best on-screen fighter can't even take down a geth colossus. Even Adam Baldwin can't make your people worthwhile.

Not a disability, a biological difference, and anyway at least two of those do use it do so for similar reasons (Helghast need it to breathe and Breen (from ST:DS9) for body temperature differences).

Are you really comparing a crappy gunship (of which we kill like 2 others almost as an afterthought during the game) piloted by an incompetent bond villian complete with hilarious accent to an entire Company's worth of geth and their 20m tall self repairing murder tank? I'm sure if Reegar could have "won" by punching in a few buttons on an omnitool he would have. Or, he would have continued to fire rockets and shrug off gunfire despite a supposed "disability" because the Hero of Haestrom, the man they call Kal, ain't about no tech solutions to problems better solved by Vera, such as a couple hundred synthetic bastards.

 

Simple question then, if he was such a weakling why didn't Miranda just kill him?

Maybe she didn't really want to until after she had already run away and he started trying to control her sister as well, by which time he was already surrounded by too many flunkies and privy to Miranda's hostility.