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[malloc]

This is not a thinly veiled off topic thread but what can Bioware learn from House Of Cards? What aspects of the new season can bioware incorporate?

[ZipZap2000]

What in the name of machine gun factory's is house of cards?

[KaiserShep]

I suppose making corrupt politicians harder to shoot. 

[Fredward]

What in the name of machine gun factory's is house of cards?

 

What in the name of caticorn utopia's do you hope to invoke by referencing machine gun factories?

[Killroy]

This is not a thinly veiled off topic thread but what can Bioware learn from House Of Cards? What aspects of the new season can bioware incorporate?

 

Stop it.

[Seraphim24]

How to suck.

[AlleyD]

Hire Kevin Spacey as a VA. He could probably voice the whole cast

[Midnight Bliss]

[Lady Artifice]

Actually, lots of things. Especially dialogue. 

 

I'm working through a replay of ME1--even though I'd rather just skip to ME2--because I want to play the series again with Wrex alive. I just got to the bar area in Citadel, and the bartender informs me that the Consort is "very powerful, but also very respected."

 

Which is a ridiculous line of dialogue. Those are not contrasting characteristics. 

 

I'd forgotten about how much lines like that bother me, and then I get to the meeting with the Council, and I have similar feelings about almost every line available to Shepard. Then there's Udina, whose approach to politics is absurd. 

 

Not that I expect Andromeda to repeat the dialogue style of ME1, but it's still rare for Bioware to offer more than a simplistic "politicians are bad," message in their political subplots. I don't necessarily think they could look to House of Cards for how to depict a noble politician, but I do think they could look to it for how to make a compelling one. 

 

Even if they want to keep all of their politicians on the dark side, they could do worse than to model an antagonist on Underwood. 

 

[Han Shot First]

I want the writers to watch Lincoln before writing another politician.

 

Seriously...can we can get at least one who is competent and a shrewd political operator, without being a completely amoral scumbucket?

 

If they're going to make the politician ruthless, at least make him or her somewhat compelling. This, for example.

 

Totally O/T, but now that I've mentioned Lincoln, I want the next Alliance Councilor to be based on Thaddeus Stevens. 

[Valdez_ua]

How to push annoying immoral journalists on the subway tracks before the train. Punching is obsolete.

[ZipZap2000]

What in the name of caticorn utopia's do you hope to invoke by referencing machine gun factories?

Death the destroyer of worlds sounds like a good title.

So that would probably be good fight. Now what in the name of Hiroshima's radiated ghost children is house of cards?

[SardaukarElite]

That Kevin Spacey is awesome. 

[Remix-General Aetius]

This is not a thinly veiled off topic thread

 

Too bad, I've reported it as such.

 

Go away.

[wolfsite]

Dear Bioware:

 

   Please bring back the Off-Topic forums

 

 

XOXO

 

     Wolfsite

[straykat]

What can they learn?

 

They can learn not to overshoot the concept into full blown fantasy.

 

House of Cards was great early on.. when it was just the devious backroom politics of a Congressman (or in the Brit series, minor Parliament member). Ever since it's devolved into a story where ONE politician embodies every scandalous and dramatic event that has ever happened in politics. It's just too much drama for it's own good. It'd make sense if this was ancient Rome and Caligula, but stupid for the modern US.

 

You could say the whole concept of Shepard was bombastic too. He/she had his hand in every dramatic dealing too. How about they tone it down a bit?

[Obliviousmiss]

This is not a thinly veiled off topic thread but what can Bioware learn from House Of Cards? What aspects of the new season can bioware incorporate?

 

 

[Village_Idiot]

Do the words "political s***storm" mean anything to you?

[Lady Artifice]

I want the writers to watch Lincoln before writing another politician.

 

Seriously...can we can get at least one who is competent and a shrewd political operator, without being a completely amoral scumbucket?

 

If they're going to make the politician ruthless, at least make him or her somewhat compelling. This, for example.

 

Totally O/T, but now that I've mentioned Lincoln, I want the next Alliance Councilor to be based on Thaddeus Stevens. 

 

That would be unbelievably fabulous. Especially if there were both, a version of Lincoln and a version of Stevens, and especially if they were to inspire two characters who respect, but don't necessarily like, one another.

 

...Now that I think about it, I also want someone exactly like Mr. Bilbo in my inner circle.

 

Lincoln is a film that could also serve as an example of how to do an excellent combative friendship. Like the guy who nearly has a panic attack when Lincoln starts to tell an anecdote during a battle, but then he's standing beside him for support when they wait for the news.

 

Hell with it, can this just be Lincoln in space?

[KaiserShep]

Do the words "political s***storm" mean anything to you?

I'm a fan of the phrase fecal maelstrom myself.

[rocklikeafool]

This is not a thinly veiled off topic thread but what can Bioware learn from House Of Cards? What aspects of the new season can bioware incorporate?

They can learn the following: Ban idiots from BSN.

[N7M]

Watch for I statements. They show exactly what the speaker wants to talk about. 

 

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

what can Bioware learn from House Of Cards?

 

Cards make lousy building material for houses.

 

Which probably extends to being poor material for building spaceships, as well.

[Ghost of Abraham Lincoln]

I want the writers to watch Lincoln before writing another politician.

 

I keep pressing the "like" button but it isn't adding more "likes." This makes no sense. Who designed this internet thing? If I want to keep "liking" something I should certainly be able to. This is America. At least, the part of the world my ghost is haunting is America, and that should count for something.

[Ghost of Margie Thatcher]

 

Who is this man? He is stirring long-forgotten feelings in me...