15 years on the gaming industry is still unable to recreate his aura
>>720705605Shame they made him braindead in the 3rd game
>>720705605is that a white man on a chair?! and is he... SMOKING?! AAAAAAIIIEEEEEEEE THE SECOND HAND SMOKEEEEEEEE IT BURNS MY LUNGSSSSSSS
>>720705875he was indoctrinated by the reapers or whatever, but it's clear they were braindead so you're not wrong.
>>720706320it's such a copout too to make him indoctrinated, like the whole "BUT THIS I'M THE CLEVER ONE AND WON'T BE LIKE EVERY OTHER SPECIES THAT COMES INTO CLOSE CONTACT WITH THEM"they should've made the illusive man that dude. just a perfect one-step ahead type of grey character who has a great compelling argument. didn't even have to kill him either. just survives due to pure resource hoarding and s-tier planning and charismai will forever be mad
>>720705605the whole aura of Mass Effect 2 is unmatched.
>>720705605Bioware sure as fuck can't anymore, but Renoir certainly has some aura.
>>720706441>being around reaper technology can indoctrinate you .> the illusive retard with an army of human reaper hybrids Any ways round house kick a batarian into wood chipper
>>720706441i hate you but you are correct. the entire point of mass effect is people in the last cycle had figured out the reaper's idiocy, but not quick enough to solve the cycle. therefore there needed to be a character who had also figured it out this cycle, just not in a satisfactory fashion. the problem is in how in the first game, the "cycle" was an inane allegory for global warming, where FTL travel accelerated the death of the universe. but that doesn't fit with sovereign's "you can't comprehend this shit" monologue, as mass is mass and fucking with mass is pretty stupidly obviously going to accelerate the death of the universe. unless sovereign's was saying the "mass effect" wasn't going to contribute to a new big crunch, but instead a heat death, and therefore the end of everything.but no, the new writers decided ai was going to kill all organics therfore all organics needed to be killed by ai so they could be protected from being killed by ai
>>720705605he doesn't even have a fraction of the big G's aura
i remember at least two conversations where they gave shepherd a really stupid argument if you tried disagreeing with him and that really undermined it for meif the player character has to look dumb for another character to look cool, that character isn't cool
>>720707614the rightmanin the wrong, place can make all thedifferencein the worldits time to wake upwake up and smellthe ashes
>>720707614MUSTADOPTNEWSOCIALMEDIA TERMINOLOGY
>>720705605ME2 was awful and the begging of the end for ME
>>720705875>in the 3rd gameRetard
>>720705605Why did Bioware straight up do character assassination against the Illusive Man in 3?
>>720707492>ai was going to kill all organics therfore all organics needed to be killed by ai so they could be protected from being killed by aiThat's not strictly what the problem was.AI, if left unchecked, would eliminate all organic life, therefore it's necessary to eliminate all organic life that has evolved to certain technological levels to prevent AI from wiping out not only its original creators, but all life full stop.This of course is still retarded, but less retarded than the version you said.
You did read the prequel comics right? Like you read the prequel novel for ME1 right?
>>720708937bruh all ya did was make it seem less retarded, as the reapers are also ai. so the cycle is ai killing organics so organics can't make ai that would kill all organics
>>720709003No. And I deleted the message from Asari Fleet Command without opening it. You lost.
>>720709003no one has ever read a "story sold separately" ... uh, thing
>>720705605>lets take this shady black ops faction that operates in cells>make them the galactic empire, with fleets of capital warships and legions of Stormtrooperswhat were they smoking in ME3?
>>720709003I read the novel Revelation that tells the backstory between Anderson and Saren.
>>720709413Needed the fodder enemies outside the reapers
>>720709413>ME1: Mass production ships and buildings, transponders off, no markings>ME2: Behold our Glorious Cerberus Logo! We put it on all our stations, ships and soldiers!
>>720706441>i have figured out how the reapers operate therefore i will isolate myself as much as possible>oh noes i have surrounded myself with reaper tech so i am now iNdOcTrInAtEd i
>>720709161It is retarded I admit. At least in the lore though each reaper preserves the genetic material of the species upon which it is based on, that's why sovereign says each one is an independent nation. from their point of view they're like caretakers that get rid of the pests before they infest the garden, while they do kill organics they only kill the ones that are too smart for their own good.
>>720710059This is why you read the out-of-game media. He was exposed to Reaper technology and indoctrinated in the First Contact War.
>>720709413Should have just been an anti normandy or a small fleet that would pop up in key story beats
>>720710272A good game doesn’t require you to do homework to fill in plotholes left by the writer. Especially some random comic published long after the game came out
>>720705875He was a fucking moron in the second. Martin Sheen did a great job in covering for the sheer stupidity of the writing.
>>720709003>copping a feel in that fourth cover
>>720705605Elon Musk is him
>auraBraindead zoomer word
>>720710674Musk has the "aura" of Karras from Thief 2.
>>720710741Or Bob Page.
>>720709003>jack’s gf is named eva core>liara, the shadow broker who is supposed to know everything on everyone, somehow didn’t know this or even bothered space googling the name eva core when some random woman suddenly got a job at the top secret alliance prothean project on mars.
Replaying the trilogy now, on the second one and doing the dlc for the first time. All the dlc is kind of a slog honestly. I don't know what it is about dlc from this era but it always felt off. It's the same writers, basically same time of development, same workers, but it's like you're playing a different game, in a bad way
>>720706747Honestly the characters in ME2 carry the game so hard. The soundtrack is good and the combat feels great, plus the story's not bad either. They had lightning in a bottle just like Bethesda did with Skyrim and now they dont know how to replicate it.
>>720709413it also makes the setting even more human centric. we're supposed to have joined the galactic stage 30 years ago and we're already the main good guys and main bad guys.this is like some Native American tribe gaining guns, steel and horses in 1720, then by the 1750s they've got a global empire almost as strong as the British and are fighting on both sides of the 7 years' war.they really should have set the series 300 years after first contact.
>>720710272you mean the shit the third writer made up after the first and second writers were fired?
>>720710761Page was a psychopath, Musk is an autist.
>>720709413ME2 and 3 was a mistake.
>>720706747>demasterout
>>720710941>comics and ME2 were both written by Mac Walters>Drew Karpyshyn went to work on SWTORWell, speaking of making shit up: your entire post
>>720711103>mac waltersso the third writer
>>720709413I keep forgetting and remembering about that sword cringelordIt's like my brain refuses to acknowledge he was there
>>720711046correctsamara is the only good thing in 2 and javik is the only good thing in 3
>>720710913Humans only joined the Council stage 30 years ago. Before then, humans had unparalleled room for expansion, properly shackled AIs to speed development, and a very complete Prothean data store to mine for information. Then we showed up and fought the strongest galactic power to a standstill, to the point where the Council HAD to step in to pacify humanity for fear that a Human-Council war would destroy the galaxy. The only lore not from ME1 here is the Martian Prothean data store. The games were sucking off humanity hard from the first game.
ME2 > ME1 Simple as
>>720711171>he doesn't know the full extent of his power
>>720711528NOOOOOOOO
>>720711528THE CEREAL KILLER STRIKES AGAIN
>>720711598
>>720711528Is this where that famous comic meme comes from?
>>720709003Yes but I remember jack shit from it. I also read three out of four books, the one telling saren's and anderson's story was nice, the others not so much.
>>720707676Wake up and smell these asses
>>720707614holy fuck is that the guy from skibidi toilet?
>>720705605A coma would have really helped that sentence's comprehension.>15 years on, the gaming industry is still unable to recreate his aura
>>720711346>Samara is the only good thing in 2But I love my punk trash healing story waifu.
>>720711670G-ManParTy inRio
>>720707614skibidi toilet, dr freeman? is it really that bad?
>>720709161It's retarded because the Leviathan DLC boiled it down to a programming oversight made by lazy giant squids who wanted a jannybot to stop their slaves from accidentally Skynetting themselves.
>>720707970They needed someone to distract you from the fact that you weren't fighting Reapers in the Reaper war.
>>720712863it feels like me3 was written by someone who was forced to write about the reapers after he almost completely forgot to put them in me2, but he just put the reapers in as little as possible and focuses more on his cool and edgy terrorist faction instead
>>720713121Bioware had always said that you can't fight the Reapers. They said it after ME1, they said it after ME2, they said it in promos before ME3.And then they made a game about fighting the Reapers. And then, the game they made about fighting the Reapers, they made it about fighting Cerberus, because you can't fight the Reapers. So what was the point of fighting the Reapers in the first place?
>aurawhy is this new age bs getting a resurgence?what's next? healing crystals?
>>720713265all the old gay stuff will inevitably become new gay stuff again
What the fuck is aura? I thought that shit was reserved for new age hippie chicks with crystals and essential oil.
>>720713265Just another part of zoomers having retarded slang they stole from previous generations.
>>720705605Aura deez fucking nuts, faggot.
>>720705875well if he is correct in 2 then they would have to write a grounded military thriller narrative and not the corny deus ex machina child of ass effect 3 he was killed just kile Ashleys racism by a bunch of faggots
>>720707614No one cares about half life slop
>>720716007demonstrably false, i cared enough to post about it and you cared enough to reply to it. qed you are a faggot who sucks cocks
>>720709161the idea is that in a long enough time frame, an AI will eventually kill all life in the galaxy, not just space-faring sentients but flora and fauna too. it doesn't make any sense, but according to the reapers that's how things always go.so the reapers kill 0.0001% of lifeforms that can make AI (humans, asari, etc.), to save the 99.9999% of life in the galaxy that will never invent AI (space bugs, space trees, space amoebas, etc.)it's a textbook misanthropic universalist argument>humans are like a virus!>humans do war and pollution!>humans are self-destructive and need to be contained!westerner media loves to batter people over the head with this idea.
>>720705875They accidentally made him too based.
>>720705605Sole survivor or very moral paragons being willing to work with Cerberus is still one of the most retarded things in the series.Playing as a supportive Shep on the second game just for him to do an 180 the second the third game starts is almost as frustrating.
Do you made her cry, anon?
>>720705605>a washed up actor shoehorned into the game saying some lines while sitting on a chairThe original chungus
https://youtu.be/3rf65FRgHt4?si=7Z-ymQXfP0O-mwrs
>>720707712>newholy uncaura is not "new"
>>720705605i assume anyone who uses "aura" this way is underage and uses tiktok.please lurk until you're 18.
>>720705875>he thinks TIM was well written in 2Retard
>>720715856>a grounded military thrillerYeah nothing screams grounded like curing death, painting your logo all over your walls and clothes and hooking an autist up to the internet with meat tubes on his arms
>>720719009Yeah, out her pussy. Teardrops gushing everywhere.
