Hey guys, i was playing around the idea of attempting to write a fanfic about Male Shepard and Garrus after destroying the collector base, i don't have a account on fanfiction and i'm to lazy to even make one, so i might post it here.
And damn man the garrus thread is so damn slow this week.
Garrus Love and Adoration v.2
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#15477
Posté 28 avril 2010 - 11:50
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ELE08 wrote...
Just popping in to give some Garrus love and support, and I just have to say this is the most random page to just start reading.
Fried chicken. Forumites getting drill pecked. Tapioca. And this!
Best thread on the forums. I love you guys.
Dear lord, what did I do!? D:
:crying::crying::crying:
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Posté 28 avril 2010 - 11:55
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Kotori Ky wrote...
ELE08 wrote...
Just popping in to give some Garrus love and support, and I just have to say this is the most random page to just start reading.
Fried chicken. Forumites getting drill pecked. Tapioca. And this!
Best thread on the forums. I love you guys.
Dear lord, what did I do!? D:
The nasal alcohol application allows ethanol and maraschino cherry bits to reach your brain much more quickly. THAT'S what happened. /sagenod
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Posté 28 avril 2010 - 11:59
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I see. Explains a lot. Thank the lord I had swallowed that mouthful of wine before I hit that part of the page.
At least it made me laugh after the day I had. I love you guys.
At least it made me laugh after the day I had. I love you guys.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:09
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seriously Kotori your avatar just cracks me up XD
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:12
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For those who are curious, I think I may have figured out how to determine which character will catch you when you leap on the shuttle and who you will catch from the fall during the suicide mission. Obviously, I was experimenting with Garrus in mind, trying to catch him and then getting him to catch me. I tried rotations with Tali, Legion, and Grunt, and never got it to work out right, but then I finally got it to work when I took Thane with me.
As much as I can figure, the character Shepard catches is always the one in the "dominant" position, that is on her left hand side after the last squad select scene before the final boss. What's tricky about this particular sequence is that sometimes, the person you pick first (who should be on your left) will still come up on your right. I reloaded five times, picked Garrus first twice and he came up on the right both times. Then, I picked him second and he still came up on the right both times. Then, on the last load, I picked him first again, and he finally came up on the left. Anyway, so long as the character in question is in that left hand slot, you will catch them.
Now, as far as I can tell, the squaddies have some kind of list that determines who catches Shepard as they jump for the shuttle. When I brought Tali with me, she ALWAYS caught me regardless of what slot Garrus was in. Same with Legion and the same with Grunt. Likewise, when I brought Thane with me, Garrus ALWAYS caught me regardless of what slot Garrus was in. So if you want as much Garrus and femshep saving each other's lives as you can get, a good combination for the final boss is Garrus and Thane and make sure Garrus is in the left hand slot as you start out.
Yes, I'm obsessive, I know, but I've seen lots of people asking about this, and as the romance has so little content compared to some of the others, what's wrong with milking it for everything we've got, eh?
My next mission is to try to get a video of Jacob saying that "cuttlebone" statement. Everyone wants to see it, but no one wants to actually romance Jacob to get it. I'm willing to take one for the team. Only thing...anyone have any advice for how I can get video when I only have the game on the Xbox? I can rig something I think, but some advice would be appreciated.
As much as I can figure, the character Shepard catches is always the one in the "dominant" position, that is on her left hand side after the last squad select scene before the final boss. What's tricky about this particular sequence is that sometimes, the person you pick first (who should be on your left) will still come up on your right. I reloaded five times, picked Garrus first twice and he came up on the right both times. Then, I picked him second and he still came up on the right both times. Then, on the last load, I picked him first again, and he finally came up on the left. Anyway, so long as the character in question is in that left hand slot, you will catch them.
Now, as far as I can tell, the squaddies have some kind of list that determines who catches Shepard as they jump for the shuttle. When I brought Tali with me, she ALWAYS caught me regardless of what slot Garrus was in. Same with Legion and the same with Grunt. Likewise, when I brought Thane with me, Garrus ALWAYS caught me regardless of what slot Garrus was in. So if you want as much Garrus and femshep saving each other's lives as you can get, a good combination for the final boss is Garrus and Thane and make sure Garrus is in the left hand slot as you start out.
Yes, I'm obsessive, I know, but I've seen lots of people asking about this, and as the romance has so little content compared to some of the others, what's wrong with milking it for everything we've got, eh?
My next mission is to try to get a video of Jacob saying that "cuttlebone" statement. Everyone wants to see it, but no one wants to actually romance Jacob to get it. I'm willing to take one for the team. Only thing...anyone have any advice for how I can get video when I only have the game on the Xbox? I can rig something I think, but some advice would be appreciated.
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#15482
Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:14
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A certain author kind of ruined Muse for me, but I still think this is a good Garrus theme song.It's got that cowboy feel.
YES.
Hrm. I've been combing my music library to find something adequately badass for a Garrus theme, and they're not really coming to me. Evidently I'm not listening to the right kinds of music... PFF.
Though I think Marchin' On by OneRepublic feels good as a Garrus/Shepard friendship song, though I guess there are a a few somewhat romantic undertones in there.
Bah, I'll get work done eventually.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:20
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It's not badass at all, but I always thought "Losing Streak" by the Eels was a great song for the Garrus romance from his point of view. The actual song is a little too chipper for Garrus, but the words are great:
"Was I wrong about the world
It's a beautiful new place
Where else could a creep like me
Meet such a pretty face
Meeting every day with the rising sun
Looking up it's looking like
My losing streak is done
Used to always feel like
Wished that I was dressed better
Never had a lot of luck
Until I finally met her
Feeling like the weight that weighed a ton
Lifted off my shoulders now
My losing streak is done
Always felt like giving in
To the feeling I can't win
But I took it on the chin
Now I'm finally cashing in
Meeting every day with the rising sun
Looking up it's looking like
My losing streak is done
My losing streak is done
I said my losing streak is done
Did you hear me
I said my losing streak is done"
That "wished I was dressed better" line reminds me of the huge hole he had in his armor, or that yellow, green, and blue getup he wore that blended into the fish tank. It makes me laugh. And I know Garrus isn't a creep, but he does have a rather low opinion of himself following that Sidonis business.
"Was I wrong about the world
It's a beautiful new place
Where else could a creep like me
Meet such a pretty face
Meeting every day with the rising sun
Looking up it's looking like
My losing streak is done
Used to always feel like
Wished that I was dressed better
Never had a lot of luck
Until I finally met her
Feeling like the weight that weighed a ton
Lifted off my shoulders now
My losing streak is done
Always felt like giving in
To the feeling I can't win
But I took it on the chin
Now I'm finally cashing in
Meeting every day with the rising sun
Looking up it's looking like
My losing streak is done
My losing streak is done
I said my losing streak is done
Did you hear me
I said my losing streak is done"
That "wished I was dressed better" line reminds me of the huge hole he had in his armor, or that yellow, green, and blue getup he wore that blended into the fish tank. It makes me laugh. And I know Garrus isn't a creep, but he does have a rather low opinion of himself following that Sidonis business.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:22
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Haha, you had to remind me of "My beloved monster and me, we go everywhere together..." and that reminds me of Monster Garrus. AAAAGGH!! LOL
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:27
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kglaser wrote...
Haha, you had to remind me of "My beloved monster and me, we go everywhere together..." and that reminds me of Monster Garrus. AAAAGGH!! LOL
Or "Beautiful Freak." All kinds of applicable songs by the Eels.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:30
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Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...
kglaser wrote...
Haha, you had to remind me of "My beloved monster and me, we go everywhere together..." and that reminds me of Monster Garrus. AAAAGGH!! LOL
Or "Beautiful Freak." All kinds of applicable songs by the Eels.
Yeah, hehe I thought of that one too, but now I have the Monster one stuck in my head. And now I feel like watching Shrek.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:36
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Huh, they always make me think of Hellboy, but then I am a huge Hellboy fan. One reason I liked Thane so much as first because he looks so much like Abe Sapien. Then I find out, his look is based on Abe Sapien. Awesome stuff. Can't hold a candle to Garrus, of course. In a related note, does anybody know if Bioware based turians looks on anything in particular or did they just tell the artists "go draw cool aliens" and this is what they came back with?
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:38
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That's an interesting question. Personally I think the Mass Effect universe has some of the most imaginative and well-fleshed-out alien races in all of Sci-Fi...and turians are surely near the top of that list.
<---biased
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#15489
Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:40
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Alright i'm going to give it a shot right now. Don't be to harsh, my first attempt. I think if the story turns out as well as i thought it could be the title will be:
The silver chord
Neil shepard was casually limping towards the gunnery room, his mood and ego brighter than usual after single handedly destroying the collector base with a squad of 12 people, and got everyone out alive. He cannot wait to give the council the supposedly huge "I told you so" by presenting them all the evidence he gathered. Also telling The Illusive Man to shove it made him smirk quite a bit. The doors to the gunnery room opened and there stood Garrus Vakarian grinning, charismatic as ever.
"First the saren and now the collectors. Remind me to never get on your bad side shepard."
Neil chuckled "Well garrus you know me, i don't think i'd ever need to remind you."
"Right, so what now commander. We are just going to sit back and relax before the real...uh, whats that human phrase? ****storm arrives?"
"Hell garrus, i wish that was the case all the time. But i need to try to convince the council to open up their eyes and accept that the galaxy has a real threat on its hands."
Garrus growled, which suprised Neil since he rarely sees garrus angry. "Do we really need to entangle ourselves in damn politics again shepard? I know what your trying to do but its hopeless! All politicians, the council included, are a bunch of blind, pathetic, arrogant and oblivious wastes of life. We already have a kick ass team, a ship, krogan, geth, rachni, and possible quarian allies what else do we need?"
Neil frowned at this, slowly sitting down. Garrus slowly began to frown as well thinking if he said something wrong.
"Well...thats the thing Garrus. I have a bad feeling the the council won't do anything you know why?"
Neil paused for several seconds, rubbing his fingers against his goattee.
"I think i am unintentionally turning into the person that i hated 2 years ago. I have a army of geth, a rachni queen, krogans, quarians. Christ Garrus! I think i'm even worse then saren. On top of that, i was working for some damn pro-human terrorist group. None of this is going to make me look good when i present myself."
"Shepard, listen to yourself talk! What the hell are you saying? Saren was selfish and a coward. He was the one who gave in to the reapers, killing many people of your kind along with innocent lives on the citadel for his own ideals."
Garrus's mandibles twitched while he crossed his arms.
"Are you telling me that the only damn friend i have left in this galaxy is a monster and a traitor?"
Joker chimed in. "Commander we are 30 minutes out till we hit the citadel"
"Good joker. Tell the crew that i will allow a two day shore leave starting immediatley when we arrive.I think we all deserve it."
Neil smirked "Also tell them to party responsibly, i don't want to drag out some poor drunk passed out basterds from C-SEC holding cells."
"Gotchya commander."
Neil turned his head to Garrus. "That includes you to Garrus, enough of your damn callibrations and get a little sloppy for once. I can handle the council myself."
Garrus was about to protest when Neil interrupted him. "Don't worry about me, i'll catch up with you at the Dark Star and we'll have a couple drinks. How does that sound?"
Garrus rolled his eyes "Yes commander"
(2 hours later)
Garrus was getting worried about his commander. He was sitting alone at the Dark star, still annoyingly sober, and Shepard was nowhere in sight. He sighed under his breath and decided to go back to his bunk the catch some sleep. Everyone on the ship was out on shore leave except for thane meditating in his room. He entered the Normandy's elevator when he heard a loud shattering crash on the upper levels of the ship.
(Shepard's cabin)
Commander Shepard. We decided that there was not enough credible evidence for us to acknowledge the existence of the reapers
Neil was sitting on his couch staring deeply at the model ship of Sovereign.
Anyone with a fascinating and insane imagination could make up this data. You are no exception.
Shepard ran his hands through his hair. Remembering what Anderson said to him.
Damn political bullcrap! I'm sorry shepard, those three won't know a threat even if its shoved up their ass. I am still here though and i believe. I will do everything in my own power to assist you. Though it won't be much i will always be right behind you.
"Dismiss this you poor sacks of ****!!"
He then grabbed Sovereign's model ship and then chucked it as hard as he could toward his collection of model ships encased in a wall of glass.
The silver chord
Neil shepard was casually limping towards the gunnery room, his mood and ego brighter than usual after single handedly destroying the collector base with a squad of 12 people, and got everyone out alive. He cannot wait to give the council the supposedly huge "I told you so" by presenting them all the evidence he gathered. Also telling The Illusive Man to shove it made him smirk quite a bit. The doors to the gunnery room opened and there stood Garrus Vakarian grinning, charismatic as ever.
"First the saren and now the collectors. Remind me to never get on your bad side shepard."
Neil chuckled "Well garrus you know me, i don't think i'd ever need to remind you."
"Right, so what now commander. We are just going to sit back and relax before the real...uh, whats that human phrase? ****storm arrives?"
"Hell garrus, i wish that was the case all the time. But i need to try to convince the council to open up their eyes and accept that the galaxy has a real threat on its hands."
Garrus growled, which suprised Neil since he rarely sees garrus angry. "Do we really need to entangle ourselves in damn politics again shepard? I know what your trying to do but its hopeless! All politicians, the council included, are a bunch of blind, pathetic, arrogant and oblivious wastes of life. We already have a kick ass team, a ship, krogan, geth, rachni, and possible quarian allies what else do we need?"
Neil frowned at this, slowly sitting down. Garrus slowly began to frown as well thinking if he said something wrong.
"Well...thats the thing Garrus. I have a bad feeling the the council won't do anything you know why?"
Neil paused for several seconds, rubbing his fingers against his goattee.
"I think i am unintentionally turning into the person that i hated 2 years ago. I have a army of geth, a rachni queen, krogans, quarians. Christ Garrus! I think i'm even worse then saren. On top of that, i was working for some damn pro-human terrorist group. None of this is going to make me look good when i present myself."
"Shepard, listen to yourself talk! What the hell are you saying? Saren was selfish and a coward. He was the one who gave in to the reapers, killing many people of your kind along with innocent lives on the citadel for his own ideals."
Garrus's mandibles twitched while he crossed his arms.
"Are you telling me that the only damn friend i have left in this galaxy is a monster and a traitor?"
Joker chimed in. "Commander we are 30 minutes out till we hit the citadel"
"Good joker. Tell the crew that i will allow a two day shore leave starting immediatley when we arrive.I think we all deserve it."
Neil smirked "Also tell them to party responsibly, i don't want to drag out some poor drunk passed out basterds from C-SEC holding cells."
"Gotchya commander."
Neil turned his head to Garrus. "That includes you to Garrus, enough of your damn callibrations and get a little sloppy for once. I can handle the council myself."
Garrus was about to protest when Neil interrupted him. "Don't worry about me, i'll catch up with you at the Dark Star and we'll have a couple drinks. How does that sound?"
Garrus rolled his eyes "Yes commander"
(2 hours later)
Garrus was getting worried about his commander. He was sitting alone at the Dark star, still annoyingly sober, and Shepard was nowhere in sight. He sighed under his breath and decided to go back to his bunk the catch some sleep. Everyone on the ship was out on shore leave except for thane meditating in his room. He entered the Normandy's elevator when he heard a loud shattering crash on the upper levels of the ship.
(Shepard's cabin)
Commander Shepard. We decided that there was not enough credible evidence for us to acknowledge the existence of the reapers
Neil was sitting on his couch staring deeply at the model ship of Sovereign.
Anyone with a fascinating and insane imagination could make up this data. You are no exception.
Shepard ran his hands through his hair. Remembering what Anderson said to him.
Damn political bullcrap! I'm sorry shepard, those three won't know a threat even if its shoved up their ass. I am still here though and i believe. I will do everything in my own power to assist you. Though it won't be much i will always be right behind you.
"Dismiss this you poor sacks of ****!!"
He then grabbed Sovereign's model ship and then chucked it as hard as he could toward his collection of model ships encased in a wall of glass.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:42
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That's an interesting question. Personally I think the Mass Effect universe has some of the most imaginative and well-fleshed-out alien races in all of Sci-Fi...and turians are surely near the top of that list.
<---biased
I was just currious as they have explicitly stated with Thane that his look was based on Abe Sapien. Makes me wonder if they based other characters or races on some characters in particular or if they just used animals. (Hence, all the comparisions of turians to cats, dinosaurs, birds, dragons, and everything else known to man.) I already said a few pages back that turians seem to have a lot of Todd Lockwood dragon in them, and that's makes sense. If you remember the dragon models from Neverwinter Nights, they strongly resemble the sketches in the 3rd addition D&D Monster Manuel and those sketches were all done by Lockwood. So I'd think the Bioware artists would have some experience with Lockwood drawings. Maybe it was just subconscious, but I still think there is a resemblance.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:44
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@Mr. BlazenGlazen
I enjoyed reading it, please write more!
Even if it interferes with tapioca production.
I enjoyed reading it, please write more!
Even if it interferes with tapioca production.
Modifié par kglaser, 29 avril 2010 - 12:44 .
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:46
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Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...
I was just currious as they have explicitly stated with Thane that his look was based on Abe Sapien. Makes me wonder if they based other characters or races on some characters in particular or if they just used animals. (Hence, all the comparisions of turians to cats, dinosaurs, birds, dragons, and everything else known to man.) I already said a few pages back that turians seem to have a lot of Todd Lockwood dragon in them, and that's makes sense. If you remember the dragon models from Neverwinter Nights, they strongly resemble the sketches in the 3rd addition D&D Monster Manuel and those sketches were all done by Lockwood. So I'd think the Bioware artists would have some experience with Lockwood drawings. Maybe it was just subconscious, but I still think there is a resemblance.
I wonder if they got like 6 concept artists together and told them each to contribute something, then they put it through a computer program to meld the ideas together...or something like that...
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:51
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Found this song that I believe suits Garrus pretty well. Depends on when exactly it's fit, either after the Normandy is destroyed, his time on Omega etc. www.youtube.com/watch
Why can't you see what's in front of you? Because you took a rocket to the face, silly.
And yeah I like this song...downloading it...
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:51
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kglaser wrote...
I wonder if they got like 6 concept artists together and told them each to contribute something, then they put it through a computer program to meld the ideas together...or something like that...
Well, this was their process for Thane, though I don't know whether it would be considered typical for all of the game's character designs. Nonetheless, voilà.
Also, Garrus.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:54
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Evander wrote...
Well, this was their process for Thane, though I don't know whether it would be considered typical for all of the game's character designs. Nonetheless, voilà.
Also, Garrus.
Wow, cool...thanks for that
And I would have liked to see Thane with those three metal rings on his ear (or whatever) but oh well.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:57
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kglaser wrote...
Evander wrote...
Well, this was their process for Thane, though I don't know whether it would be considered typical for all of the game's character designs. Nonetheless, voilà.
Also, Garrus.
Wow, cool...thanks for that
And I would have liked to see Thane with those three metal rings on his ear (or whatever) but oh well.
I also find it really funny that the whole "Jude Law" thing was supposed to be the fangirl net, but the net that caught me was actually Abe Sapien. That's pretty funny. Women are pretty hard to predict apparently. What do you think the Bioware reponse was to the very first "I want Garrus for LI" thread? Probably some guys facepalming or looking imploringly up at the heavens or just sitting there slack-jawed wearing WTF expressions. I bet it was funny, whatever it was.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 12:59
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I have to agree that the Turians are the best designed aliens I've ever seen.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 01:00
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I think I remember hearing them say that they never expected people liking a "cricket" =p It's a good thing that thread was around, otherwise there would be no Garrus romance probably.Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...
kglaser wrote...
Evander wrote...
Well, this was their process for Thane, though I don't know whether it would be considered typical for all of the game's character designs. Nonetheless, voilà.
Also, Garrus.
Wow, cool...thanks for that
And I would have liked to see Thane with those three metal rings on his ear (or whatever) but oh well.
I also find it really funny that the whole "Jude Law" thing was supposed to be the fangirl net, but the net that caught me was actually Abe Sapien. That's pretty funny. Women are pretty hard to predict apparently. What do you think the Bioware reponse was to the very first "I want Garrus for LI" thread? Probably some guys facepalming or looking imploringly up at the heavens or just sitting there slack-jawed wearing WTF expressions. I bet it was funny, whatever it was.
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 01:01
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That Thane thing was pretty cool. Also, props to the designers for consulting the women staff. Just like the 'Garrus needs wine!' bit.
Sadly, I'm trying to be healthy this week, so instead of wine, chocolate soy milk. Can you hear the excitement in my voice?
Hmmm...normally I don't play on weeknights, but I'm kind of in the mood now...
Sadly, I'm trying to be healthy this week, so instead of wine, chocolate soy milk. Can you hear the excitement in my voice?
Hmmm...normally I don't play on weeknights, but I'm kind of in the mood now...
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Posté 29 avril 2010 - 01:02
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Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...
I also find it really funny that the whole "Jude Law" thing was supposed to be the fangirl net, but the net that caught me was actually Abe Sapien. That's pretty funny. Women are pretty hard to predict apparently. What do you think the Bioware reponse was to the very first "I want Garrus for LI" thread? Probably some guys facepalming or looking imploringly up at the heavens or just sitting there slack-jawed wearing WTF expressions. I bet it was funny, whatever it was.
Yeah, haha...they spent all this time and energy on Thane (who was conceived first and foremost as an LI) and then all the Garrus love...I have actually grinned ear to ear in the past trying to imagine a bunch of baffled writers breaking out in a sweat trying to figure out how to incorporate it. LOL!
Once again, I'm overwhelmed by BioWare fangirlosity
(but even more by Garrus fangirlosity)
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