Mass Effect General Thread

Just Some Other Guy said:
Yeah......I forgot about Kaidan being gay in ME3. Sit down at a table with him to have a chat and suddenly have to go "woooooah buddy, not like this".

(Yeah, I let him live in ME1 for a change)
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I let him live most of the time soley because I find human soldier squad member boring. I do like that she's one of the few Christians in the game, but they fucked up how she looks so much in 3 I don't want to let her live

Also biotic/tech is cooler and more useful
 
Just Some Other Guy said:
(Yeah, I let him live in ME1 for a change)
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I always favoured him on principle due to his situation. He's alone with the bomb, versus Ashley fighting alongside a bunch of other elite aliens. Kaiden's potential end is more valiant, but Ashley at least has a chance of surviving with or without Shepard's intervention, at least in theory, because she has backup.
 
BlankSpaceBaby said:
Ashley's arc in the first game is redeeming herself for having abandoned her teammates when you first found her.

Let her sacrifice herself is a nice conclusion to her arc.
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Well, she wants to sacrifice talking about that topic when making the decision between them.
Kaidan too for all the story he got with the biotics training (i'm sure he killed a teammate by accident).
Both are right in their own. It's your option who.
 
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Prophetic Spirit said:
Both are right in their own. It's your option who.
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That's the way I always saw it.

Idk, I thought Ashley's conversations were better in ME1 so of course I thought that in ME2 she would be even better....oh, whoops. Shuffled off to side character status. Then by 3 I just found myself not really caring.

This of course was over a decade ago so I can't quite remember my decision making process. I just got the feeling most people let Ashley live, if anything because of romance partner status. Unless everyone actually did dislike her because of muh racist right wing Christian.

I'll be honest and say I really don't care for any of the primary (non-DLC) human squadmates in any of the games. Idk if it was on purpose but the aliens are more fun/ interesting to interact with. Usually I find myself much more interested in whatever the non-squad humans or Zaeed or Kasumi have to say about something.

Oh..idk, James was alright I guess.
 
Just Some Other Guy said:
That's the way I always saw it.

Idk, I thought Ashley's conversations were better in ME1 so of course I thought that in ME2 she would be even better....oh, whoops. Shuffled off to side character status. Then by 3 I just found myself not really caring.

This of course was over a decade ago so I can't quite remember my decision making process. I just got the feeling most people let Ashley live, if anything because of romance partner status. Unless everyone actually did dislike her because of muh racist right wing Christian.

I'll be honest and say I really don't care for any of the primary (non-DLC) human squadmates in any of the games. Idk if it was on purpose but the aliens are more fun/ interesting to interact with. Usually I find myself much more interested in whatever the non-squad humans or Zaeed or Kasumi have to say about something.

Oh..idk, James was alright I guess.
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I kept Ashley around because she's a space racist (realist). Someone gotta be the one who points out the hard truths of humanity being used by ayys.

I did find it extremely amusing that illiterates kept boiling her down to being a turbo-racist Hitler wannabe when all she did was warn Shepard against trusting their non-human allies too much, especially when they're on an Alliance ship being shanghaied to do Spectre missions.
 
Kane Lives said:
I kept Ashley around because she's a space racist (realist). Someone gotta be the one who points out the hard truths of humanity being used by ayys.

I did find it extremely amusing that illiterates kept boiling her down to being a turbo-racist Hitler wannabe when all she did was warn Shepard against trusting their non-human allies too much, especially when they're on an Alliance ship being shanghaied to do Spectre missions.
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It was also cool that she kept mentioning the big prequel event that happened in the comics: The first contact war, and summarized it so you didn't need to read the mass effect comics to understand the gist of it.

She wasn't really a space hitler. The Turians destroyed the alliance ships activating the relay and razed the colony unprovoked, then after a brief and bloody war, the council stepped in and the Turians wrote it off as a "mass effect relay incident". Its not like they tried to warn them about the Rachni. They'd just discovered mass effect technology and had no idea about other races in the galaxy yet. Her family served on the frontlines during that conflict.
 
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Noxe said:
I let him live most of the time soley because I find human soldier squad member boring. I do like that she's one of the few Christians in the game, but they fucked up how she looks so much in 3 I don't want to let her live

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It's really funny how over-the-top progressive the studio became under EA's umbrella, because in the early stages over the course of the Mass Effect trilogy, they bimbofied most of the female characters. Ashley's transformation, Liara's weird shrink-wrapped outfit starting in ME2, the camera's obsession with Miranda's ass in the same game, basically everything about Jack. And EDI's ridiculous getup in 3 (really her being in a humanoid rig at all was stupid and generic, but the stripper heels built into it was a bit much).
 
Don't forget, the banshees in the third game are anatomically correct. There are still some screenshots floating around.


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Imperial Commandos said:
It was also cool that she kept mentioning the big prequel event that happened in the comics: The first contact war, and summarized it so you didn't need to read the mass effect comics to understand the gist of it.

She wasn't really a space hitler. The Turians destroyed the alliance ships activating the relay and razed the colony unprovoked, then after a brief and bloody war, the council stepped in and the Turians wrote it off as a "mass effect relay incident". Its not like they tried to warn them about the Rachni. They'd just discovered mass effect technology and had no idea about other races in the galaxy yet. Her family served on the frontlines during that conflict.
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Ashley states one of the realest truths and its that regardless of species, they will always stick with their own tribe over newcomers or those that they have animosity with. The Council throws humanity under the bus and many other races in the series, treat humans like children or disposable cannon fodder. Shes not anymore racist than the Turian councilman who berates you for leaving colonists alive or sparing the Rachni Queen, then does the same thing if you kill the colonists or the queen. God knows they would love the opportunity to pocket nuke Earth and turn humanity into the next Vorcha.
 
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Prophetic Spirit said:
Isn't one of the origins (or first big mission) of Shepard a war hero killing batarians?
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Yeah if you pick Veteran (or something like that) as Shepard's background he got a medal for killing a bunch of Batarian slavers, it's what made him a candidate for the Spectres.
 
War hero (the goodboy option). Kill a bunch of Batarians in the Skyllian Blitz. They're very salty.

They're pretty much seethe personified so...... don't really feel bad for them. Ever.
 
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