Poll: Favorite Mass Effect companion?

MiracleOfSound

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DeathWyrmNexus said:
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I'm surprised some people voted for Ashley.

She was a whining, racist, moron with an inferiority complex...

She'd fit right in on XBOX LIVE.
Yeah, I was never a big Ashley fan.
That's why she always died on Virmire.
It was her pre-mission descision on Virmire that caused me to choose her as the sacrificial lamb.

After reloading the previous save and having a word with Wrex again, obviously.
I find it odd that I never had Wrex get killed in the plot. I suppose I have a way with dangerous humanoid reptiles. I would go through and let him get shot by Ashley to see how it worked but... Fuck that, Wrex is awesome.
Indeed he is.

His awesomeness was sealed in my mind when Shepard asks him if he has any good stories and he replies completely deadpan:

'Well, there was the time my entire species was almost wiped out by the Turians, that was fun.'
 

ravensshade

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domble said:
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Here's a question though: Was Wrex cooler than Canderous Ordo from KOTOR? (Obviously they fill out the same roles in each game)
wrex lacks giant chain gun. but i don't know evenly matched for me
It's just that John Cygan had a great voice for telling the mandalorian war stories. I still remember him saying something like "my feet crunched on the superheated sand as i stepped out of my dropship, the cool air engulfing me as I prepared for conflict".
didn't hear that one i liked the one about the basilisk war things (don't remember completely)
had to do with atmospheric entry.
 

Knight Templar

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The great thing about Mass Effect is I can pick two.

Garrus and Wrex, they have good in quest conversation with me and each other.


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Jenkins. Leroy Jenkins.

It's no competition. He is the best character even though he had one of the shortest screen-time of the possible squad-mates.
Obvious trolling is obvious.

Wrex all the way.
Hey it just occured to me there that Jenkins was maybe a little in joke from the devs regarding the infamous Leeroy.

I wonder?
Leeroy Jenkins has become the name for red shirts everywhere.
 

WolfThomas

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I find it interesting all the different combination people ended up using, I was a generic soldier and I used Kaiden and Wrex, Kaiden could open doors, both he and wrex could biotics people and wrex could use heavier weapons like the shotgun.

I ended up leaving Ashley and bedding Liara, but if I could have chosen between her and Liara I would have killed Liara.

The reason I saved Kaiden and left Ashley was I felt it made a better drama to have my character's love interest die, I was into bittersweet endings at the time. I felt having to pick between the two girls while mourning Kaiden was a little offputing. This way in my game Sheppard distraught from Ashley's death finds comfort with Liara.(
 

Lonely Swordsman

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I'm still early on in the game (don't feel like playing because I keep dying a lot), but so far, it's Kaidan. He's useful in battle, and seems like the most down to earth-character so far. He has his own pain, both physical and mental, but he keeps quiet about it and tries to deal with it on his own. He also his nose out of other people's problemsif he feels they need to do the same, or if it's just none of his business. He seemed kinda bland at first but he's one of the more likeable guys on the squad.
 

ALKATRAZACAZ

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Wrex, he was a bit like HK-47(witch i loved) but now he's gone , replaced by his idiotic brain dead cousin who keeps running into people.
When you talk with Wrex you know that he's got a brain and he knows how to use it.
Brute on the other hand....
Sheppard -"Hey Brute i wanted to give you this new armor i just bought for you"
Brute - "BLOOOOOOOOOOD, BRAISSSSSSSS, GOREEEEEEEEEE.......ok,thanks"
 

Cowabungaa

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I usually took Wrex and Garrus with me, both were at least a little adept with guns (Garrus was the sniper and Wrex the shotgun wielder, while I used assault rifles) and Wrex had biotics while Garrus had tech skills.

Of course I love Wrex for his awesome cynicism, and I liked Garrus for his more-than-meets-the-eye character.
 

OMLK5150

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While Liara was like a big sexy hairless smurf, Wrex was not only the coolest, but also the most usefull.
 

Amethyst Wind

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Well I'll be taking my original team into ME2, which is Tali and Liara, but I can honestly say I like every character in the game, except Kaiden. Kaiden is a one-dimensional fucker and no mistake, everyone else has a few levels:

Wrex - Bad Ass but at the same time secretly worried for his people's future.

Liara - Utterly devoted to knowledge but at the same time socially mind-blank.

Ashley - Home-grown-warrior-which-has-lead-to-perceiving-anything-new-as-the-enemy but at the same time she's more of a guardian of what she knows rather than an aggressive bigot against what she doesn't.

Garrus - I'll admit I originally thought this guy was a total pussy and useless in a fight. Now I like him much more as I've had him in my team when I played a Renegade character, much more of Garrus' more interesting darker side comes out that way. His frustration about being forced into a restrictive security role bleeds over into everything he does.

Tali - My personal favourite character. She's torn between taking something of great value home for her pilgrimage, as is expected of her, and simply never going back, which seems to be a desire that grows every time you talk to her as she learns more and more about the universe outside of the flotilla.

Kaiden - "Oh I was horribly abused as a child but I soldier on.........for no particular purpose."


Also, besides Kaiden (fuck Kaiden), has anyone else noticed that all your companions are sort of a prince/princess character, deposed or otherwise?

Tali - Her father is the leader of her species.

Liara - Her mother was a well respected Asari elder.

Garrus - His dad is a C-Sec bigwig.

Wrex - Son of the last 'old ways' chieftain of the Krogans.

Ashley - Descended from the military leader of the First Contact war.

Kaiden - Spoon-bending migraine-milking douche.


Someone else mentioned the banter between the companions in lifts etc, I've not tried every combination yet but I have to say some of the best stuff comes from these combos:

Wrex/Garrus - Old man vs New guy, Wrex constantly rips into Garrus for being brainwashed by propaganda and not knowing the real facts.

Liara/Tali - A lot of information comes out between these two that you wouldn't otherwise find, and it also reveals Tali's fear of prejudice against her people and her relief that Liara doesn't have it, methinks these two become fast friends.

Ashley/Liara - When playing as male Shephard, oh the sexual tension and barely restrained loathing.


I have to say that this is probably the reason that Mass Effect is such a renowned success. It's not the great gameplay (it has that too), it's the fact that you will literally find something new every time you play it, I'm still kinda pissed off that I haven't found the way to convince Garrus to try re-try for the Spectres.
 

Rhayn

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I chose Tali, because I can relate to her quite many different ways.

We've both got a curiosity for all things technology, we have similar accents and we've got the same kind of upbringing and family.

Liara and me both have the same "foot-in-mouth" disease when it comes to talking with people though.
 

LockHeart

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I quite liked Ashley and Garrus, pragmatic and good footsoldiers. Also, I almost always follow the Ashley romance option as a male character so that kinda skews my judgement...
 

Et3rnalLegend64

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I want to say Garrus because he's a badass, and I want to say Liara for being a super-powered psychic, but I kinda like Tali.
 

The_ModeRazor

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Mah Spectre X Assault Rifle.
Oh, you mean characters.
Wrex, definitely. He's just badass. Or Gaarus, because he's a sociopath.