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Offline Ashrak

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And you heard that where?
Casey Hudson said so in an interview.
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Offline Luis Dias

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He didn't say ME3 wasn't about the end of the war, as far as I can remember. He did say ME3 was a closure for Shepard.

 

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They are gonna put the creator of the Commander Shepard song in gamescon, apparently debuting a new song.

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Offline TrashMan

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The script probably something like "a newborn reaper with human features". If you look at the actual concept art, there were a number of designs for that thing. Whatever made them choose that particular design, it came only after the script was written, and thus after the writers had pretty much done the majority of the work they had to do.


Liquified human goo.
Your points are now invalid.

the writes for Me2 suck donkey balls.
AGAIN with the organic horror alines and redicolous bio-science that makes no sense at all. SUPER-FAIL!


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Offline Luis Dias

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Liquified human goo.
Your points are now invalid.

How come? Shouting that things are stupid don't make them so. Just makes you noisy.

 

Offline The E

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Trashman, if you don't like Mass Effect, why don't you do us all a favour and stay out of this thread? I think that we are pretty aware of your preconceptions by now, unless you got something new to bring to the table (that is, something that we haven't discussed pages ago already), please refrain from posting.

And you heard that where?
Casey Hudson said so in an interview.

Would have been nice to have a link to that interview, you know.
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the writes for Me2 suck donkey balls.
AGAIN with the organic horror alines and redicolous bio-science that makes no sense at all. SUPER-FAIL!
No matter anyone's opinion of them, at least the Bioware writers can write in coherent English.
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the writes for Me2 suck donkey balls.
AGAIN with the organic horror alines and redicolous bio-science that makes no sense at all. SUPER-FAIL!
No matter anyone's opinion of them, at least the Bioware writers can write in coherent English.

Cheap shot when he's not a native english speaker.

However, I agree that liquified human goo being used to create a machine is ridiculous. Not in terms of if it had been rendered down into some kind of nano-assembler feedstock, no, but the fact that it somehow transferred the essence of the species to the newly-made Reaper.

That was particularly bad pulp sci-fi. Which ties into my problems with ME2 - great character arcs, godawful overarching plot. At least ME1 did a space opera epic well, ME2 was the bad "dark and edgy" sequel in terms of it's "main" plot.
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Offline The E

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See above re: Points already discussed a few pages ago.
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Summary of debate for those of you joining us:

"Human goo is terribad."

"No, what Bioware did with the Reapers in ME2 makes them scary."

"No, the Reapers were scary in ME1 and the human goo made them impossible to take seriously."

"No, the Reapers were Cylon wannabees in ME1. In ME2, Bioware brilliantly set up the Reapers for their role in ME3."

"My opinion trumps your opinion."

"My opinion trumps your opinion."

"Refer to what I said ten pages ago."

"Refer to what I said ten pages ago.

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Offline Luis Dias

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Except no one said that the Reapers in ME2 were "scary". I mean whatever. You guys tried to paint ME2 plot as "ridiculous" because "terminator" and "goo". My reaction is, whatever. If you are so easily distracted by those kinds of irrelevant details, that's your loss, not mine.

 
Okay, not "scary," merely "Cthulhoid monstrosities." I stand corrected.

 

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Liquified human goo.
Your points are now invalid.

How come? Shouting that things are stupid don't make them so. Just makes you noisy.

If you can explain to me how liquified humans somehow transfer the essence of a species...please, I'm all ears.
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Offline Scotty

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You brought the claim, you substantiate it.  Tell us, in detail, if possible, how it's stupid beyond "I don't like it."

 
I was never bothered by the terminator, really. I was too enraptured by all the events going on and trying to make the right choices to get my crew through it all.
I did have to smile to have it's weak points labeled as such. Seeing people get liquefied to goo was particularly gruesome, especially to think how it's been visually hinted and in dialog itself that they made a huge milkshake out of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians for their pet project. Hints at what some/all of those Reapers represent, and how much potential data on destroyed species is lost after you kill a Reaper. Wonder if you can collect data such as history, memory, technology from the DNA of another species though...seems like a decent plot point.
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Offline Ravenholme

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Wonder if you can collect data such as history, memory, technology from the DNA of another species though...seems like a decent plot point.

About the best you could do, with a transcendent knowledge of biology, is look at the DNA of a species (term used loosely, it's unlikely that xenos would actually have DNA, but whatever their genetic carrier code is [assuming they have some]) and chart roughly what evolutionary forces were acting on them.
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Offline Luis Dias

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Must I quote Arthur C Clarke?!?

 

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Must I quote Arthur C Clarke?!?

I'll do it if you want.
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Offline TrashMan

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You brought the claim, you substantiate it.  Tell us, in detail, if possible, how it's stupid beyond "I don't like it."

Because memory is not stored in the DNA or in meleted goo.
Nothing makes sense.

Not the reapers, not their cores, not their practices.

If you're claiming the story and writing are excellent, maybe you'd want to substantiate that?
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