Mass effect "hot" chicks
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i think because she's made of pixels, normal hot doesn't quite apply, if she was real she'd be like olivia wilde crossed with.... some one else scary hot, anyway, my point is that her model has been ruined by over exaggeration of things that would be attractive on an actual person, as a bunch of pixels she's just abit weird looking.
Edit: i like her as a character though, i think the under arching vulnerability makes her sufferable.
Also, Ashley = God. just throwing that out there.
Edit: i like her as a character though, i think the under arching vulnerability makes her sufferable.
Also, Ashley = God. just throwing that out there.
I really liked just about every character in the Mass Effect series so far, with the exceptions of Miranda and Jack. Miranda was annoyingly superior, or so she thought, and while her body made a nice decoration for the Normandy, her face spoiled it. Those cheekbones... As for Jack, not only did she not look very nice, if I was Commander Shepard, I wouldn't recruit someone who I knew was completely insane, had a very, very short temper, had far too much biotic power and was likely to lose her rag over something meaningless and start blowing holes in my ship.
Other than these two, everyone else was excellent. Mordin and Jacob were entertaining, Thane and Garrus were badasses, Tali was bright and energetic, and Liara was quiet, nerdy and interesting to talk to. Even Wrex and Grunt were the kind of lads you wouldn't mind having at your back going into a firefight, once you could keep them under control.
Other than these two, everyone else was excellent. Mordin and Jacob were entertaining, Thane and Garrus were badasses, Tali was bright and energetic, and Liara was quiet, nerdy and interesting to talk to. Even Wrex and Grunt were the kind of lads you wouldn't mind having at your back going into a firefight, once you could keep them under control.
And yet, Tali herself was willing to try and make amends with Legion after their argument over Legion transmitting her data to the Geth.evilthecat said:
I agree, they really dropped the ball one miranda. Though Ashley Williams honestly looks really human to me. Not a super model but she wasn't intended to be.
There's something about Miranda's face that is really... strange. I don't know what it is, but it kind of turns me off a bit. She's very pretty, but it's hard to explain.
That said, I always hoped Shepard would hook up with Tali, but since I play FemShep, that was not to be the case.
And my second choice, Garrus... well, let's just say he's got some calibrations he needs to be doing.
That said, I always hoped Shepard would hook up with Tali, but since I play FemShep, that was not to be the case.
And my second choice, Garrus... well, let's just say he's got some calibrations he needs to be doing.
Yay character development!Random berk said:
Still, I don't think they spent enough time on that one myself. Given how violently they'd had her react in the first game to any suggestion that her species might have been in the wrong it was a sudden U turn which I didn't see as making a whole lot of sense, but I was willing to go with it.
I still don't like her as a character, and the way things are set up I sincerely doubt that spirit of reconciliation was intended to be lasting and genuine. No doubt by the next game she'll be dead set on continuing her father's work and effectively completing a 300 year old genocide attempt so that we can have a convincing moral choice about whether to side with one or the other or convince the two to work in harmony.
See, it's moments like this when I start to understand what people mean when they talk about bioware games becoming formulaic.
The only female that I thought was noticeably sexy was my female Sheppard. For me the female Sheppard's voice was what did it for me. I mean Miranda's voice is attractive but I thought female Sheppard's voice was much more. Mass Effect 2 didn't really have any "hot" chicks. Maybe that's just cause I was never really focused on it. I was to into the game.
Actually wait, that's a lie. I thought Aria had a nice rack. She was hot in a "Bad Girl" sort of way given that she seemed to be made that way not because of a natural inclination to be an asshole but of a legitimate loss of innocence, her personality wasn't a bummer.
As a Female I kept trying to pursue a relationship with Mordin but the game wouldn't let me. I eventually settled for Garrus.
Also Kelly Chambers was pretty as well. Not sexy though, I would say.
Actually wait, that's a lie. I thought Aria had a nice rack. She was hot in a "Bad Girl" sort of way given that she seemed to be made that way not because of a natural inclination to be an asshole but of a legitimate loss of innocence, her personality wasn't a bummer.
As a Female I kept trying to pursue a relationship with Mordin but the game wouldn't let me. I eventually settled for Garrus.
Also Kelly Chambers was pretty as well. Not sexy though, I would say.
Do I sense a little FemShepard/Joker? All I'll say is, she'll have to be really gentle with him.SamtheDeathclaw said:
Problems with the top... Body armor doesn't come down enough for explosives/shrapnel, no visible webbing on body armor, and insufficient webbing elsewhere (Ideal is on the back, thigh, and calf because of loading and carrying), too bulky for a good armor, even if there's thick padding underneath... Basically, to compare that to anything modern, or even ancient, it looks like a half-assed bombsuit, where people decided the best way to make it more maneuverable while keeping the protection is removing everything from the collarbone up and the 10th rib down. I've seen bullet-proof vests with more protection, because at least they will cover the whole abdomen.Kahunaburger said:Here's my question: if they really, really have to insist on turning Mass Effect into Gears of War Effect, could they at least copy GoW's decision to have female characters wear things that wouldn't be a massive liability in combat? I want more of this:numbersix1979 said:
and less of this:
Yeah, the second is problematic too, but it's not just Miranda. Look at any biotic-heavy character, including Jacob or Mordin. While I wouldn't call Mordin's a skin-tight posterior-presenter, it's not exactly armor-tastic. Because it's not supposed to be. Because of shields. I would agree, it would be nice to have something that resembles a shield belt, or something that is an obvious generator, etc.
The point is more some armor > no armor. Gears of War armor is certainly not the best armor in a video game (it actually has abdomen armor if you look at it - I just have no idea how they lug that crap around haha), it's just particularly relevant because Mass Effect is so dead set on mining GoW for gameplay elements and because it sets a very low bar that Bioware still fails to reach. Halo's a better example re: armor in a sci-fi shooter.OldGus said:
The problem with Mass Effect is that we see characters being designed for titillation rather than practicality or even for looking cool, and that's honestly really disappointing in a studio that wants us to take them seriously when it comes to characters.
I'm infinitely turned off by her potato head. Heck, she looks closer to Michael Jackson after having a different kind of plastic surgery then intended than as a supposedly "perfect" woman.The_Blue_Rider said:
Oh I hope to god he's trolling. Otherwise... I just don't know what to say.Kahunaburger said:Tin Man said:
Ah, the old "if you don't spend all of your time pointing out everything everywhere is sexist, you can't point out sexism in a particular instance" fallacy, just when I was taking your argument a little seriously. I believe I may have been trolled. If so, well played sir.
To me, the prettiest lady in the game is the one with no face! Oh Tali'Zorah, how DO you do it?
Friday, July 08, 2011 4:22:30 PM
Love interests of dubious attractiveness has been an pandemic in video games pretty much since romance has been implied in a game. Part of it is a matter of taste. I may or may not find Bandage Girl all that interesting (or attractive), but what is important is that Super Meat Boy finds Bandage Girl attractive.[footnote]That bandage girl serves the same function as Princess Peach is a different issue, not entirely immaterial to this topic.[/footnote]
By Wing Commander III, it was kind of creepy that suddenly the Carrier was manned stem to stern with hot babes, all eager to be Colonel Blair's girlfriend, especially since most of them were pretty shallow as characters go. By WC: Prophecy, Origin stopped the romantic options, and whittled the female crew down to a drunk, battle-weary technician and a cute pilot who doesn't say too much. I think the new young protagonist hooked up with the cute pilot by the end of the fish-bug war.
I'd be interested in seeing a situation in which eternal-virgin Lara Croft got to choose between Chaz, Brad or Hank as a travel partner (romantic or otherwise). This wouldn't happen since Lara is marketed to the male demographic, but we could use some empathy when it comes to being a girl playing a boy with a bevy of female romantic options [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaremGenre]. And Lara really needs to get over her (implied) daddy issues.[footnote]Those daddy issues were blatantly expressed in the first movie, (Lara's dad actually played by Angie's dad!) which may or may not be regarded as canon.[/footnote]
I think (hope) the next generation of in-game relationship subgames will see something more substantial than Milton Bradley's Mystery Date [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Date_(game)]. Something like Mass Effect[footnote]I espouse this without ever having played Mass Effect 1 or 2, so take this with a grain healthy dash of salt.[/footnote] which seems to allow for some grit is an excellent place to play on the bitter truth that love is tragic. A melodramatic model would look like this (they occur in no particular order):
~ Shepard takes girl-1 as his girlfriend. After a brief honeymoon, a fouled-up mission ends with her missing in action. He can cling on to hope she's still alive or succumb to lonliness with time. She may or may not make a late, late reappearance.
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-2 it's an intense true-love relationship until she perishes in the field. Shepard spends the forseeable future depressed and self-medicated (e.g. in a drunken stupor).
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-3. Having lost too many lovers to the field, she gets really possessive / protective of Shepard, driving him crazy.
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-4. She gets captured during a mission and tortured to insanity before a rescue. After that, she's just not the same person.
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-5. She just won't emotionally invest into him (or anything), so it's really kind of a fuck-buddy thing (which may be all he can stand after 1, 2, 3 and 4). Eventually, the lack of meaning bothers him more than it bothers her.
~ Shepard can swap out between the characters to keep his morale up (in the real world, this is called honeymoon surfing), but he develops the rep of having commitment issues, and no one takes him as serious partner material, at which point all he can get is the other commitmentphobes.
~ Shepard can also choose to live with his current situation (missing in action, crazy, shallow, whatever) and the morale penalties that come with it.
As I said, this is a melodramatic model (and a cynical, tragedy-heavy set of scenarios that are appropriate only in, say, a high-attrition war). But assuredly, the characters would be more than the pretty face and a disposition. Rather sexual affairs would be a reflection of the state of the war.
238U
Love interests of dubious attractiveness has been an pandemic in video games pretty much since romance has been implied in a game. Part of it is a matter of taste. I may or may not find Bandage Girl all that interesting (or attractive), but what is important is that Super Meat Boy finds Bandage Girl attractive.[footnote]That bandage girl serves the same function as Princess Peach is a different issue, not entirely immaterial to this topic.[/footnote]
By Wing Commander III, it was kind of creepy that suddenly the Carrier was manned stem to stern with hot babes, all eager to be Colonel Blair's girlfriend, especially since most of them were pretty shallow as characters go. By WC: Prophecy, Origin stopped the romantic options, and whittled the female crew down to a drunk, battle-weary technician and a cute pilot who doesn't say too much. I think the new young protagonist hooked up with the cute pilot by the end of the fish-bug war.
I'd be interested in seeing a situation in which eternal-virgin Lara Croft got to choose between Chaz, Brad or Hank as a travel partner (romantic or otherwise). This wouldn't happen since Lara is marketed to the male demographic, but we could use some empathy when it comes to being a girl playing a boy with a bevy of female romantic options [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaremGenre]. And Lara really needs to get over her (implied) daddy issues.[footnote]Those daddy issues were blatantly expressed in the first movie, (Lara's dad actually played by Angie's dad!) which may or may not be regarded as canon.[/footnote]
I think (hope) the next generation of in-game relationship subgames will see something more substantial than Milton Bradley's Mystery Date [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Date_(game)]. Something like Mass Effect[footnote]I espouse this without ever having played Mass Effect 1 or 2, so take this with a grain healthy dash of salt.[/footnote] which seems to allow for some grit is an excellent place to play on the bitter truth that love is tragic. A melodramatic model would look like this (they occur in no particular order):
~ Shepard takes girl-1 as his girlfriend. After a brief honeymoon, a fouled-up mission ends with her missing in action. He can cling on to hope she's still alive or succumb to lonliness with time. She may or may not make a late, late reappearance.
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-2 it's an intense true-love relationship until she perishes in the field. Shepard spends the forseeable future depressed and self-medicated (e.g. in a drunken stupor).
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-3. Having lost too many lovers to the field, she gets really possessive / protective of Shepard, driving him crazy.
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-4. She gets captured during a mission and tortured to insanity before a rescue. After that, she's just not the same person.
~ Shepard hooks up with girl-5. She just won't emotionally invest into him (or anything), so it's really kind of a fuck-buddy thing (which may be all he can stand after 1, 2, 3 and 4). Eventually, the lack of meaning bothers him more than it bothers her.
~ Shepard can swap out between the characters to keep his morale up (in the real world, this is called honeymoon surfing), but he develops the rep of having commitment issues, and no one takes him as serious partner material, at which point all he can get is the other commitmentphobes.
~ Shepard can also choose to live with his current situation (missing in action, crazy, shallow, whatever) and the morale penalties that come with it.
As I said, this is a melodramatic model (and a cynical, tragedy-heavy set of scenarios that are appropriate only in, say, a high-attrition war). But assuredly, the characters would be more than the pretty face and a disposition. Rather sexual affairs would be a reflection of the state of the war.
238U
Admittedly, yes. There is a part of me that not so secretly hopes when Mass Effect 3 comes out, you get the ability to have Joker awkwardly ask you out if you spend enough time in the cockpit. Hell, you've been fighting together for years, he's saved your life when he could use the ship as his own particular scalpel, you've saved his life when that ship went massive internal bleeding. And hell, the way you guys joke, its like you'd grown up together too.xXxJessicaxXx said:
As far as the bit about Tali, I will admit that it seems the discussion there is more or less over, but a couple of notes. 1, the Geth were not just a big threat to the Quarians, they were a big threat to everyone. As I remember, they're the ones who attacked the Citadel. Of course, I could be remembering that wrong, that's just what the humans I've talked to in ME2 seem to say. 2, Its not just a war from 300 years ago that was completely finished with a surrender/treaty/whatever. Its a war that is still going on. I won't say the Quarians aren't doing their share to keep it going, but there are Geth cells that attack on their own as well. 3, the Quarians are very, very obviously based off of a certain Middle Eastern religion/people, that lives in a certain area that is still in dispute. The only difference, really, is it's kind of like a futuristic version where they were ousted by their toasters and industrial equipment scrubbers. Not that accidentally making a tool sentient, then trying to kill it, and enslaving an already sentient race before trying to kill them are not equally bad.
Actually, they do kind of not sound equally bad... ANYWAY! 4, the entire purpose of the Geth/Quarians in this game, as evidenced by Legion, is the (possible) redemption of the Geth. Not their redemption with all Quarians, but their redemption. The point being, this game is supposed to show how all Geth in future games will be treated by all people based on how Commander Shepard handles their introduction. Yes, Tali freaks out when a member of the state actively fighting with her state attempts to send important information about her state to their state. However, after that, if handled correctly (and there's more than one way to do that), tensions cool, they see each other as equals, the steps towards acceptance are taken, and this is all, mind you, very shortly after she just finds out her father was killed by Geth in a laboratory.
Maybe what I'm really trying to say is, yes, you can call any Quarian racist towards Geth at the start of the game. You can call everyone on your ship racist towards Geth at the start of the game. However, once one of them actually starts reacting to you in a way other than with bullets, that's when You the Player are given the option to remain racist or to move on and get the rest of the crew to move on with you.
Really long, so TL;DR, I like Tali because at least she's open minded enough to get used to it. Honestly, its like convincing an Israeli to accept help from a Nazi, ex or otherwise, and regardless of whether or not said Israeli was involved in that war. Yes, the situation is different, but two sides need to talk before reconciliation can begin, and at least Tali is willing to try that (with encouragement.)
How about a truce on this, a middle ground as it were? ...At the very least, making the shield generators visible. Not like glowing light visible necessarily, but at least like "This crazy belt is obviously your generator, while those pathetic water-wings are really your emitters." Maybe combined with moderate webbing for holding weapons/tools/thermal clips.Kahunaburger said:
It's not that I'm saying that the Geth are angels more that Tali's attitude makes me a little unsettled sometimes. I don't think the Quarians are at all squeeky clean at this juncture.OldGus said:
I think that it would be better for the Quarians to let the Geth have thier homeworld then try and establish a peace with the Geth somehow.
War never did anybody any good and neither does holding onto the past which admittedly I'm guilty of myself.
I actually find Asari boring becuase the game just seems to focus on them for the majority of the time. But then again I am a straight female. lol.Durgiun said:
I personally see them as scary.Durgiun said:
Think about it... a society of only one gender, and that gender just happens to look female. Technically, because it is one gender, there is no gender. However, they insist on referring to themselves in the female gender, and taking titles such as Matriarch. Which to me indicates that at one time or another, their society did have more than one gender.