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[Applepie_Svk]

Actually why was Jessica Chobot in the game? I just assumed someone at BW was banging her.

 

cookie for this one

[DebatableBubble]

Why are people so hung up over her? She is 100% able to be ignored unlike some other characters who are far more deserving of hate.

[Pee Jae]

Probably because we already had two much better options.

[Treacherous J Slither]

"As time goes by Jessica Chobot slides ever deeper into obscurity."

.....Who? Do you mean Jessica Rabbit? She's still relevant. Mostly. Wait. Do you mean the character or the porn star?

[SharableHorizon]

When I first heard that we would have a reporter on the ship, I got really excited about the possibilities. I thought that we might be able to choose who reported on our missions and how. Maybe Emily Wong with a more balanced, paragon approach would help inspire the Galaxy after saving some civvies from the reapers. Or I could choose Al jilani with her high strung, renegade approach to shame the council into doing more.

Instead we got Allers. Bioware, it's very rare that I am disappoint in you, but that made me disappoint.

[Jeffonl1]

And here is Emily Wongs last report:

http://masseffect.wi...etwork/SolComms

[MichaelN7]

I liked Diana Allers.

I liked how agreeing to her interviews helped shape the galaxy's view on various topics and would grant additional war assets.  Plus it gave more insight into Shepard's actions and enriched the role-playing experience.

 

I think a part of it was the fact that Mass Effect 3 is many people's first experience with the Mass Effect series, (it was for me), so bringing in an "old friend" would have been weird, since for us the player it's our first meeting.  It put BioWare in the awkward position of trying to do justice to the veterans of the series while still allowing for newcomers to join the fun.

Whereas bringing in a "new" character enables you to be flexible in the writing, since you don't need to include call-backs that would at best confuse new players and at worst mislead them.

 

But I agree with several posters here, in that she is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL.  If you really hate her THAT much, then simply don't recruit her and wait for the email saying her ship was destroyed, you monster.  Or recruit her and then never speak to her.

[voteDC]

The problem for me was that this was the final installment of Shepard's story and tailoring it to be friendly to folk new to the franchise was a bit off putting. The best example, of how bad it got, was the encounter with the Rachni where references to the encounter in ME1 was so badly added that it felt like an afterthought.

Bioware seemed so desperate to grab people new to the franchise that they forgot about the people who had been playing from the start. They did the same thing with Dragon Age, so it's not something I can blame the Mass effect dev team for.

[Pee Jae]

Exactly. Logically, it makes no sense to start at Part 3. Would you watch Spider-Man 3 first? How about Return of the Jedi? Revenge of the Sith? Superman 4? The Dark Knight Rises?

 

Because if you answer yes to any of those, I have to think there's something wrong with your wiring.

[Dabrikishaw]

I wouldn't have such a problem with Jessica Chobot being in the game if it didn't mandate the arbitrary death of Emily Wong. Why not include both and give us the option to choose one?

[niniendowarrior]

I am not opposed to the concept of having a new journalist in tow, but Diana Allers' lines were delivered so horribly that Chobot's inclusion was really annoying.  If she wasn't tied to war assets, I wouldn't have bothered, but she is.  She freaking is! lol.

[goishen]

Well, about her being in ME3, they wanted to show that A) reporting on dangerous situations was actually dangerous, they also wanted to show that some reporters can't get the story that they want, even if it's needed, and C) that there are more than two reporters in the Milky Way galaxy. 

[mybudgee]

Exactly. Logically, it makes no sense to start at Part 3. Would you watch Spider-Man 3 first? 

Maybe if there a few "Spidey-q u e e f s"

 

[BioWareM0d13]

Actually why was Jessica Chobot in the game? I just assumed someone at BW was banging her.

 

Someone thought it was nerd bait that would get people hyped, similar to casting Felicia Day in a Dragon Age DLC. 

 

It sort of worked prior to release, but backfired after. I had no idea who Chobot was but there were some people in full fan mode about her being cast in the game. She even had a LI thread (LOL!) prior to release.

 

It backfired when people discovered she couldn't act and that her character was both poorly written and suffered from terribad face mapping. That Emily Wong was killed off screen only made the fan blowback worse.

[Akrabra]

And here is Emily Wongs last report:

http://masseffect.wi...etwork/SolComms

Imagine this as the intro for Mass Effect 3. Instead of the crap that is there now. And then we get the Mass Effect 3 across the screen, BOOM!  Poor Wong.

[gothpunkboy89]

Imagine this as the intro for Mass Effect 3. Instead of the crap that is there now. And then we get the Mass Effect 3 across the screen, BOOM!  Poor Wong.

Would have made a good commercial for the game if nothing else.

[Paz Cadash]

I don't like her. I I don't really know who Chobot is and have never seen her so it's not because of the celebrity casting itself.

 

I just don't like Aller's face in the game and I don't like her ugly spandex dress. She sticks out in a bad way and looks like she belongs at a wrestling match, not in front of the camera as a reporter. I think the codex entry used the word "titillating" so perhaps there is some in-universe justification but either way, not on my ship. (I hate Shepard's dress almost as much but at least it's black. Really don't know what the idea was there, would have been a hundred times better if it had just been regular material and less... "shaped" around the chest.)

 

As for her face it's just one of those that came out really bad and looks like it doesn't belong. Had some similar trouble with Miranda but perhaps not so much that her face looks out of place as it just looks weird and squashed and doesn't come anywhere close to a proper representation of Strahovski's beauty, which kind of undermines the whole "genetically perfect Cerberus cheerleader bosh'tet" thing.

 

Perhaps I'll have a look to see if there are any good mods that change Aller's appearance if I replay it in the future, though I really hate using custom content mods in games.

[Sriep]

I did not know who Chobot was before reading this thread. I will probably quickly forget.

As for Diana Allers she was kind of annoying, but that's the norm for reporters. I thought the character made sense.

 

Besides I alwasy feel guilty for stealing her hair.

[rossler]

Bioware catering to newcomers makes sense. They are their target audience after all. 

 

Gaming industry is a little different than it was 20 years ago when companies could afford to pander to every one of their fans' wishes and not worry about bringing in newcomers. With the rising cost of game development, that's simply not possible anymore. Where before it might have been 90/10 fan to newcomers wishes, today, it's probably 90/10 newcomers-fans, because that's what keeps companies in business. It's not really rocket science.

 

I didn't have any issues with Allers. One playthough I kept her on the ship. Another, I invited her, cut her interview early then booted her off. Very satisfying.

[CronoDragoon]

Her character actually makes more sense if you don't know it's Chobot. It being Chobot is the really confusing part of it all. Otherwise Allers is just a flat character, which isn't particularly noteworthy.