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[GoldenGail3]

Wtf this thread.

[ZipZap2000]

Sips my quad and runs.

 

What a tease.

[Lady Artifice]

I would actually really like to be able to play a protagonist with a more pronounced hourglass figure. 

[SKAR]

They need to allow me to have my flabby non aesthetic physique in story. It just doesn't feel organic when "my character" looks better than me when he takes off his shirt.

Some of us were not blessed by the genetic lottery.

If you're unsatisfied with your appearance get off the couch and workout. not saying this to be a jerk but the only one who can do anything about you is you. You want to look like a beast you gotta take the bull by the horns and make it happen.

[SKAR]

Sips my quad and runs.

What a tease.

*silently mutters* You enjoyed it.

[ZipZap2000]

You enjoyed it.

 

At the time, maybe. But after that I felt dirty. I'm a dirty little Krogan.....

[Teabaggin Krogan]

I would actually really like to be able to play a protagonist with a more pronounced hourglass figure. 

 

That would be nice as long as they stick to believable standards. Some developers take the hourglass term too literally.

 

Love your avatar btw, that red is very striking. 

[SKAR]

At the time, maybe. But after that I felt dirty. I'm a dirty little Krogan.....

Don't worry my friend. I'm sure there are some Asari out there who'd love to get acquainted with you. Everyone's crazy for a little blue am I right?

[SKAR]

I would actually really like to be able to play a protagonist with a more pronounced hourglass figure.

sure

[TheN7Penguin]

I feel that this would go against the lore a little bit. With surgery and the like, I'd assume people could just look exactly how they wanted to, regardless of diet or disabilities.

[SKAR]

I feel that this would go against the lore a little bit. With surgery and the like, I'd assume people could just look exactly how they wanted to, regardless of diet or disabilities.

No you're right. Maybe they'll have a plastic surgery thing. Like in DAI. The face changer.

[TheN7Penguin]

No you're right. Maybe they'll have a plastic surgery thing. Like in DAI. The face changer.

 

Yep. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have a disabled character or anything, but they could make it a personal choice. Perhaps someone who had participated in a war, but was caught in the radius of a grenade detonation, and they had to have their foot amputated? Perhaps they could have refused an artificial limb and kept the injury as a reminder of what to fight for? Even if they are not combat proficient, they can always help out with technology, or medical assistance - something like that. Having it a personal choice would provide character motivations, and give a reason for a particular hatred or other towards a group of people.

[SKAR]

Yep. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have a disabled character or anything, but they could make it a personal choice. Perhaps someone who had participated in a war, but was caught in the radius of a grenade detonation, and they had to have their foot amputated? Perhaps they could have refused an artificial limb and kept the injury as a reminder of what to fight for? Even if they are not combat proficient, they can always help out with technology, or medical assistance - something like that. Having it a personal choice would provide character motivations, and give a reason for a particular hatred or other towards a group of people.

I'm curious. What with all this disability stuff? Is it because joker was so cool and he was disabled?

[TheN7Penguin]

I'm curious. What with all this disability stuff? Is it because joker was so cool and he was disabled?

 

The Joker was just crazy. I have no idea what you're referring to.

[SKAR]

The Joker was just crazy. I have no idea what you're referring to.

yeah you're a real comedian.

[TheN7Penguin]

yeah you're a real comedian.

 

I wasn't actually joking XD I was talking about physical disabilities, which the Joker doesn't really have unless you count being skinned alive in the New 52 (if I remember correctly).

[SKAR]

I wasn't actually joking XD I was talking about physical disabilities, which the Joker doesn't really have unless you count being skinned alive in the New 52 (if I remember correctly).

My bad. But he was disabled. And I was talking about Joker, not THE joker.

[TheN7Penguin]

My bad. But he was disabled. And I was talking about Joker, not THE joker.

 

Ohhhhh... that makes more sense. Sorry, I misunderstood. Always getting them two mixed up. They're just so alike.

 

Well, the OT mentioned disabilities, didn't they? So I said that it would probably break the lore in most cases, unless it was a personal choice.

[Spacepunk01]

I think it would be hard to find people with physical disabilities in the Mass Effect Universe. Think about how often you see physically disabled people today.. unless you work in the health sector it can't be very often. Now imagine living in the Mass Effect Universe. I expect that most traditional diseases and ailments could be easily cured. We're already tinkering around with genetic engineering. In the future you could basically remove/add undesirable/desirable traits in the fetus and thereby increase the chance that the child grows up to become both healthy and successful.

[Solas]

The Joker/Joker mixup  lol

[sjsharp2011]

The Joker/Joker mixup  lol

Indeed 

[Spacepunk01]

THE Joker..

 

[Han Shot First]

Story lines involving disabled characters could be interesting if used for world-building. We know gene therapy has eliminated most genetic disorders, but how much of Earth's population gets it? Is there universal health care? Are some of the poor, or people living in less developed nations, left out? What about spacers or colonists on remote frontier worlds? Do they have access to the same resources?

 

Any disabled characters in the series would have to be NPCs that aren't part of the crew however, and would be a better fit for a Milky Way game. Disabled squad mates would strain suspension of disbelief, and if you're going to be sending people out on a risky several hundred year journey to colonize another galaxy, you're also probably going to select people who are young, healthy, and fit and exclude the elderly, infirm, or people who may pass on genetic abnormalities to descendants. I can't imagine there'd be many disabled persons at all about the Ark, unless they're the 23rd Century version of Steven Hawking, and their extraordinary intellect makes them an asset despite physical handicaps and medical needs.

 

Although it would also be a better fit for the Milky Way setting, it might be interesting to run into human spacers who can't tolerate the gravity on Earth or Earth-like planets. That would be a disability of sorts. The Sci Fi series The Expanse has something similar as part of it's universe. Humans who are born in mining facilities in the asteroid belt, known as belters, have become physically weaker than their Earth-born cousins due to being born in low gravity environments. They find Earth's gravity crushing and oppressive. It's used to torture a belter terrorist in an early episode:

 

 

The technology in the ME universe is a little ahead of that in The Expanse, which is probably closer to where the humans were before finding the Mars cache and the Charon relay. As such the people of the ME universe are probably better suited to adequately simulate Earth's gravity on space stations and such. But would that also be universal? I could see some fly-by-night mining operation out on the Terminus for example, with little or no Alliance oversight, operating on a shoe-string budget and reduced gravity.

[DarthLaxian]

I think it would be more interesting to have characters with not standard-perfect body type, and even charachters with disabilities, and why not, (since it is not possible for our teammates to die) at least to make the injuries much more marked and drammatic, like the lost of a limb, or permanent blindness and such...that would mitigate the artificial feeling of ''my teamates cannot die''.

The fights have to bring a sort of heaviness to the gameplay, consequences, this is very important in my opinion.

Also  perfect bodies are somewhat not very interesting, a character with phisical flaws is more interesting and memorable...this can also pushed to psycological flaws....that could be much more interesting and realistic.

What do you think?

 

No way (I don't want my team disfigured - even less in a science fiction (or fantasy!) universe where they have better medical equipment (or in fantasy: healing magic!) and artificial limbs (or cloned ones!) that look and work just like normal ones (so why would someone not use them?) do (or better in some cases!), same for the eyes (come on Sheppard uses artificial eyes after Project Lazarus, so we know those exist and work!))

 

greetings LAX

[Heimdall]

One of the problems with portraying someone with a genetic disorder in this setting isn't just that Mass Effect has the technology to deal with that.

After all, if I was selecting people to board a lifeboat for the next Galaxy, I would select those without any genetic disorders (Or correct the disorder before letting them board). Building from a small population means even a recessive gene in one individual could become a significant problem in a couple generations.