Shepard.
>>732343331>humanity should consider what's best to itself>"this guy is the villain actually"
>>732344081>conveniently doesn't mention all the other fucked up stuff
>>732343331>Shepard, the Shadow broker file....the Azure...y-you see, at time the human male must sacrifice his body for humanity. I ask you, could you do the same?
>>732343331hes in the epstein files, isn't he?
>>732343331Having replayed the entire LE trilogy recently I really hated how even a Paragon Shepard is forced to work for Cerberus in ME2 after all the fucked up shit they did in ME1.I get that they were the only one trying to stop the collectors but I honestly would have prefered if they asspulled a new morally grey organization instead and leave Cerberus as this comically evil side quests terrorist organization
>>732343331My HERO!!!
Is this THE thread?
>>732344081>kills human admirals>experiments on humans>lures human soldiers into thresher maw nests because they wanted to know what would happen (lol)>invades political capital of galaxy and kills a bunch of humans>invades human colonies and presses the colonists into slave labor>turns their own soldiers into zombiesYeah, they definitely have humanity best interests in mind
>>732346894>>732347458>the only representative of the human first position also just happens to be irredeemably evilPhew, that was close. We almost had to consider another viewpoint.
>>732343331Maybe YOU see them as human.
Grunt.
>>732347768>the selfish, megalomaniac fucker turned out to be a selfish, megalomaniac fuckerThere was never any other viewpoint
>>732347768
>Shepard, I know you've been reading my files on the Shadow Broker's ship. I just want to make it clear that my relationship with Matriarch Trellani is strictly transactional and the benefits from our partnership have been incredibly lucrative. So what if I have to choke my heat sink between big blueberry tits every once in a while? It's a sacrifice for the sake of human advancement. Can your asari or your quarian get you tapped in to exclusive Thessian markets? Didn't think so. Don't you judge me, Shepard.
Wrex.
>Shepard. It seems I got indoctrinated somehow, but you are perfectly fine even though you've been quite literally having sex with everything that might have legs right on top of reaper tech.
>>732350687Absolutely based
>>732343331Wrex
>>732350687/our/ HERO!!
>>732347768There was the Terra Firma guy in 1, and Ash Williams
>>732350687Yt boi.
>Infiltrator>earthborn>sole survivor>saved the rachni queen>saved wrex>romanced nobody in ME1>romanced nobody in ME2>romanced nobody in ME3>everyone survived the suicide mission>cured the genophage>destroy endingYup, only the mission matters.
ME2>is fully aware what the Reapers are>actively schemes against the Reapers>supplies Shepard with a ship and crew so he/she can fight the Reapers>gleans technology from the Reapers to use against the Reapers>basically bankrolls the ONLY anti-Reaper movement in the entire galaxy while the Alliance was busy gaslighting themselves>helps destroy a major Reaper operation in the center of the galaxy that was abducting and killing human colonistsME3>bioware realizes they made a based White man who is subversive to evil and power>he's now Le Bad Mustache Villain>was secretly controlled by the Reapers the whole time (?) despite actively killing them in the previous title, to the point he resurrected the one person to ever beat them in order to beat them again
I also romanced no one.
>>732350687
>>732350687he bangs okay ?
I never realized how pathetic ME2 is when you actually use the sniper rifle. If something doesn't die, it gets stunned, and every scope shot has slowmo.
>>732352604Its a console game, it had to be made for babies
>>732350687Man, Shepard can't dance for shit.
>>732347350The Illusive Man is just space Epstein
>>732347350>asari hagHuh?
>>732348759>>732347458all of that happened in 3 after his character assassination by the other writer.
idk how I feel about game characters that are literally just digitized versions of actors in design. like you can call him the Illusive Man and talk about his intentions but that's just Martin Sheen.
>>732353074But what are Martin Sheen's true intentions for humanity?
>>732347228Just replaying 1, where do I find cerberus quests? Never really caught their activity in previous playthroughs
>MC literally called Shepard>control ending with paragon Shepard basically makes you jesus
What's his ethnicity, I'm afraid the game didn't make it clear enough.
>>732353363The Admiral complaining about his missing men in the Council tower will eventually lead you to taking out a major Cerberus operation, and this side quest is directly referenced many times in ME2 by the ME1 cast that reappears.They tried to create their own Thorian husks (out of human test subjects) and tried to breed the Rachni back into existence as mass-produced combat troops.
>>732353524Vega is a homie.
>>732347768Ashley is the actual reasonable take.
SHEPURD
>>732353524Jersey Shore / Italian juicehead gorilla
>>732353524>VegaBoricua
>>732353426Any ending except Destroy makes you dead.
>>732353162Being really bad fathers who spawn gay aids riddled drug addicts with Tiger blood. The ultimate life form
>>732353565Lol, I just went to him. Get out of my head
>>732353363Admiral Kahoku in the citadel tower
>>732353565>Banes?
>>732353065ME2 is the one that retconned shit tho.
>>732353942Kek.
>>732353942He is a big guy.
>>732353949Drew Karpyshyn wrote ME1 and everything that makes up the ME universe, then he was slowly replaced by Mac Walters until he quit during development of ME3 over the endings.
>>732354632A crime how pretty Strahovsky is and what Miranda ended up looking like in comparison.
Jack is for PARAGON COCK!!
>>732354435The easiest and laziest cop out in the world for fat balding millenials is "people I don't like have never contributed anything good, people I do like have never contributed anything bad"
>>732354920Good post
>>732347228yeah. they tried to explain that me1 cerberus was just a rogue offshoot or whatever but it was hard to buy it. but they butchered cerberus in me3, like they couldn't possibly have a morally grey, humanity first faction that actually had some good points
>>732354695almost like it's hard to recreate a real human face in a 3d video game without it looking a bit uncanny valley
>>732356015Vanderloo was translated basically perfectly.
>>732356015NTA but how was it they recreated the likeness for both default maleshep and Jack from their face models and look fine but with Miranda it suddenly became an issue?
>>732355539>notice pattern>"i-it's gotta be deeper than that..."no, it isn'tsome people are just untalented and unskilled but placed in charge of important things, it's what happens.people who know what they are doing get pushed out because they get too much personal power from their usefulness.
you manatee
>>732354695>>732356195I'll defend Miranda in that she's meant to be a hardass military woman, so she was given a strong jaw rather than looking like a literal supermodel soldier.
>still no space opera KINO like mass effect
>>732356387Except she wasn't and was in fact literally meant to be genetically perfect, including her looks.
>>732348759>There was never any other viewpointand that's why the writing was shit
>>732357054i tried to roleplay as a humanity first, based shepard but the writing makes it really hard since you gotta turn of all your braincells to do it and pretend that shepard is a mindless, low iq goon.
https://youtu.be/ZYnjoRbODfQ?si=cmpEARymi6-mtvvz
>>732356387>she's meant to be a hardass military womanIs she? Her entire career has been espionage and project management with her only military experience working for Shepard who treats the suicide mission like an Alliance operation. Yes she can lead the second fireteam but that's thanks to her time spent as a project manager so she knows how to micromanage and dictate others.
>>732357340KINO.
>>732357352Kek.
>>732352450Hot.
>>732353949>talking about Illusive Man>yeah but what about [thing that isn't Illusive Man]?>gets BTFO by >>732354435>has a melty >>732355539lol
>>732344081He kinda went too far.
>>732357340As another anon said, kino. Literal chills when the music started in-game.
>>732357340Come home white man.
I wonder how weird human culture must look to aliens, it has to look batshit insane
Am I the only one who thinks the Reapers serve an important and worthwhile function? I once killed a lightbulb by turning it on and off in quick succession. I wouldn't trust me around advanced machines, and I was one kid with a light switch. Imagine the damage us organics would do to synthetics. It's cruel and heartbreaking. Imagine what tolls the synthetics would exact upon us for our foolish transgressions. They would obviously kill us all and we would deserve it. I'm grateful the Reapers are here to help us ascend into a new Reaper form and stop us from allowing the death of all organic species.Would anyone like to join me for dinner tonight? We can eat by this fun sculpture I found at a Goodwill.
>>732352450Built for tickle fights and winning a war to give a home
Hanar are SHIT.
>>732344081Yeah hes like prototrump from the future. Like trump he uses masks humanity great again then uses Cerberus like ice abducting refugees and experimenting on them. Wannabe dictator prick.
>>732362365Lmfao get this Reddit scum off my website
>>732361819The Reapers could have been guides to help lead organic life to a better future and protect them from greater existential threats. Instead they're just A.I. stuck in a loop killing trillions to wipe the slate of all knowledge clean rather than let anyone really learn to be better.
>>732362580Because synthetics don't actually believe in hope, they aren't programmed to see the brighter day. It's a uniquely organic phenomena (IMO)
>>732362462>rich billionaire >creates a wannabe cult of followers Cerberus in trumps case maga>hates the democratically elected government >abuses refugees >uses dumb boomers nostalgia of the past to gain more power>huge ego and narcissistic refuses to admit hes wrong >takes advantage of people and throws them aside when they are no longer useful It’s crazy how similar they are even you have to admit.
What a fucking game series, as bad as ME3 was and the shitshow of an ending, I still remember the fucking amazement I felt every time Shepard talks to the illusive man in ME2 while this blastshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLOvSb56Vc
>>732363619They don't make em like this anymore.
>>732363619I miss scif fi
>>732352313>>gleans technology from the Reapers to use against the ReapersAnon, indoctrination was explicitly a thing in the first game. Whatever positive accomplishments The Illusive Man had were simply because he was less exposed and deteriorated slower than Saren
>>732364140>Illusive Man was just Saren again, someone being slowly indoctrinated by the Reapers that it is better to serve them forever than die while having their biomatter replaced with machinerylol i hate ME3
>>732363619I wish we got more rpgs set in original sci-fi settings.
>>732365425has there even been a new, exciting AAA rpg ip in the last decade? gaming seems really dead nowadays, the mass effect trilogy was released over a span of like 6 years. the same with any series we love, they were made very quick compared to games nowadays
>>732365885Exodus and Expanse coming out near the same time after such a long dry spell is interesting
>>732362349Sounds like someone got cucked by an actual tentacle monster
>>732366225both are chasing extremes imoExodus is way to fantastical, Andromeda territory with nothing tying it down, sort of boring looking polygonal schlockExpanse is way too paramilitary/non futuristic in it's projection of the futureNeither captures that pulpy Starship Troopers meets Blade Runner vibe of the OG Trilogy
>>732366225haven't heard of exodus, what is it? and the expanse isn't an original ip, even though it looks promising
>>732362852The Illusive Man is way too smart and competent for this analogy. Just stop.
>>732365885CRPG wise the weren't any new IPs, most were existing IPs or have been out for more than a decade, I think Pillars of Eternity was the last original setting which was 2015. RPG wise we haven't had any original settings, I don't count Cyberpunk as it wasn't an RPG nor an original setting. The industry has for the most part stagnated. I was talking to some of my friends about this, Bioware was capable of releasing banger after banger. We had KoTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age Origins and before that Baldur's Gate. Now we have inflated dev cycles where games are focused on being services instead of just selling a single-player roleplaying experience. I was hoping BG3 would lead to a genre revival but it seems devs are too retarded or maybe there's a time lag.
>>732366517it is kinda funny that three separate sci fi video game franchises and their studios all decided to make antivillain antagonists based off of the same guy
>>732366407Starship Troopers and Blade Runner are both completely "non-futuristic", the way you use that termMass Effect is basically Star Trek but with a Chosen One/Savior of the Universe protagonist
>>732367263>Starship Troopers and Blade Runner are both completely "non-futuristic", the way you use that termclearly you don't understand the way I used that term and your second point is retardedOnly thing Mass Effect and Star Trek have in common is the symbols of the human factions look kind of similar
>>732367083it's kinda sad. but at least i don't have to spend big money on a new computer since all new games suck. my ten year old rig is actually enough because i only play old games
imagine there are people who didn't play with default Shepard
>>732367263We need more TOS and TNG Star Trekish sci-fi.
>>732367626Yeah, trannies.
>>732344081literally just garden variety means justify the ends
>>732367389Blade Runner is basically just modern Earth but with the human-like robotsStarship Troopers is basically just modern Earth but with faster than light spaceships and bug aliens Star Trek is a proper future with technology that has transformed society into something very different from ours.Same with ME
>>732368524wrong on all counts.also tng has fuckin balsa wood paneling everywhere and every star trek is abhorrently modern in it's dialogue. The whole point of the show is everything is rhyming with whatever the geopolitics/ social issues are.
>>732368172obsessed
>>732366438Exodus is an upcoming RPG where the gimmick is that you're apparently expected to make important choices before dealing with the time dilation of space travel. The idea being that settlements and crewmates that you choose to leave behind end up changing over long time-skips while the protagonist has barely aged.Also there don't seem to be aliens in the traditional sense. More-so that humans and animals have spread across the galaxy and have been apart for so long that they've basically evolved into separate species.
>>732367626>>732368172>game lets you customize the MC>I'm not actually supposed to use that featureSorry, I guess?
>>732369084Aren't all the character designs really ugly?
>>732367626i tried to make custom shepard just because i've never done it and it's hard to make him look good because you can't change the lighting or the perspective in the creator. many games have this same problem
>>732369398I thought the normal humans just look really generic for the most part. Cowboy Johnny Silverhand and mecha girl look alright.
>>732369084>time dilation>time-skipsimma pass, i've never liked this trope, especially not if it's central to the whole game
>>732368865Are you just going based on aesthetics? And Mass Effect is a video game which means it's not going to have the exact same plot structure as a TV show, I'm talking about the worlds, ME is a prosperous space future where humanity is in a government with all the other aliens, like Trek
>>732369397Tranny.
>>732352224Based celebate sniper autist
>>732344081Based.
>>732344081He was indoctrinated.
