That was a good watch. Very well said. My rage is kind of burned out at this point, but I'm in agreement. This is getting ludicrous.Alpha Centauri said:Oh day 1 DLC, if there was only a way that i could explain my loathing for you, possibly with a British Accent, oh wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0vrJ-y2zM&feature=g-u-u&context=G269b4efFUAAAAAAAAAA
But why would such a cryo-pod exist? I highly doubt there would be time to prepare such a device during the Reaper invasion.rolfwesselius said:It is possible.
a giant water wheel in an underground river,a solar power plant that's still active,etc,etc could probably power a single cryo pod.
Yeah, I'm intrigued about having a Prothean in my squad but also uncomfortable. As you said there's no real way (that I can see) they can introduce the character that doesn't contradict their previous lore. In Mass Effect 1, Vigil turned off their life support on Ilos and in Mass Effect 2 one of the biggest reveals was that the remaining Prothean's were actually implanted with tech to make them a labor force for the Reapers (aka the Collectors).CounterAttack said:From a lore standpoint, I do not want to believe this. The Protheans were entirely wiped out in the previous cycle of genocide. Vigil stated as much in the first game: after the Reapers left, only a dozen scientists remained on Ilos, not enough to repopulate. Vigil killed most of them out of necessity, and the last of them died of starvation.
It makes no sense to have a Prothean character in Mass Effect 3. If this legitimately does exist, there had better be a damn good explanation for it.
How long would it take to jury rig a cryo pod into the power network of a solar power plant?CounterAttack said:But why would such a cryo-pod exist? I highly doubt there would be time to prepare such a device during the Reaper invasion.rolfwesselius said:It is possible.
a giant water wheel in an underground river,a solar power plant that's still active,etc,etc could probably power a single cryo pod.
And the horse they rode in on. I wont even buy that shit with a stolen credit card.Dorkmaster Flek said:It means I don't buy your game until there's a discount bundle with all the DLC a year from now. Fuck your day one DLC and online passes EA.
Listening while reading the article LOL. Nice to me another member of the Cynical Fleet!Alpha Centauri said:Oh day 1 DLC, if there was only a way that i could explain my loathing for you, possibly with a British Accent, oh wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0vrJ-y2zM&feature=g-u-u&context=G269b4efFUAAAAAAAAAA
It was a long time ago that I played Mass Effect and I have played a lot of games since then.Irridium said:The race the Reapers wiped out 50,000 years ago.JasonBurnout16 said:I've played mass effect 1 and 2 and read three of the books.
But what the hell is a prothean? I have no clue! (I did read, and play the game,a long time ago.)
You go to one of their worlds at the end of ME1 (Ilos), meed a Prothean VI, and learn about their last moments from him.
In ME2 you learn that the collectors are heavily modified Protheans.
They're... pretty integral. Kind of surprised you don't know about them.
The blue women are called Asari. And Thane, a drell, is more reptilian than fish. Moist atmospheres are deadly to them.JasonBurnout16 said:It was a long time ago that I played Mass Effect and I have played a lot of games since then.Irridium said:The race the Reapers wiped out 50,000 years ago.JasonBurnout16 said:I've played mass effect 1 and 2 and read three of the books.
But what the hell is a prothean? I have no clue! (I did read, and play the game,a long time ago.)
You go to one of their worlds at the end of ME1 (Ilos), meed a Prothean VI, and learn about their last moments from him.
In ME2 you learn that the collectors are heavily modified Protheans.
They're... pretty integral. Kind of surprised you don't know about them.
I remember the main aliens - turians, krogans, Quarians, the blue women, thane (Cause he was a green fish) and the geth. But there is little chance of me remembering something as small as one level.
I willing to bet that because this squad member looks like a Collector, the explanation is going to be something like this. Some scientists capture a Collector and "biologically reverse engineer" it's genes or some shit and now it's a Prothean again.CounterAttack said:From a lore standpoint, I do not want to believe this. The Protheans were entirely wiped out in the previous cycle of genocide. Vigil stated as much in the first game: after the Reapers left, only a dozen scientists remained on Ilos, not enough to repopulate. Vigil killed most of them out of necessity, and the last of them died of starvation.
It makes no sense to have a Prothean character in Mass Effect 3. If this legitimately does exist, there had better be a damn good explanation for it.
That could never happen. The Protheans that were turned into Collectors were mutated through Reaper technology, already marking them. They also have no intelligence of their own, because they're indoctrinated and have been for so long. Because of the indoctrination damaging their mental functions, they were also given Reaper cybernetics, another method of control (remember Saren at the end of ME1?).Mydogisblue said:I'm willing to bet that because this squad member looks like a Collector, the explanation is going to be something like this. Some scientists capture a Collector and "biologically reverse engineer" it's genes or some shit and now it's a Prothean again.
It does surprise me too that someone could play through ME1 (especially) and ME2 and not know what the Protheans are. After all, in the first game, the Prothean Beacon (and the visions Shepard gets from it) are basically one of the main driving points of that games plot.Windu23 said:The blue women are called Asari. And Thane, a drell, is more reptilian than fish. Moist atmospheres are deadly to them.
And it wasn't just a small thing on one level. It was a pretty big revelation that was heavily discussed for the majority of the latter half of the game.
But this is all rather new for me, so the memory might be fresher.
Also, don't take any of that personally. People fudging details, purposely or not, is a pet peeve of mine.