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halley made a friending meme! Go check it out!
(It's not fandom specific or anything, so yay!)
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I finished ME3 again today, and Zoe is now Queen of the Reapers! (I know that's not the way it's supposed to be taken, but I saw a piece of fanart describing Control-choosing Shep as that, and I LIKE IT, OK). Man, I was a ball of tears pretty much from the run to the Beam to the end of the game.
(Though honestly I think that is down to playing the game while taking antidepressants, and then while not - flattening of feelings versus all the feels, pretty much).
I still didn't manage to get the Illusive Man to kill himself (ran out of renegade persuade points ;) ), which was exasperating, because the way he was talking it would've happened. Anyway. I saved Anderson, and that was good. But sad.
Killing Kai Leng was good, as always. Stupid pastede on fake ninja.
I don't really see how the Extended Cut was an improvement over the original ending, though? *shrugs* I mean yeah, it makes getting certain endings easier (although I STILL didn't accrue enough points for Synthesis, and that annoyed me, but it's my own fault because I am scared of Reapers), and there's some extra doohickeys and whatnot but really? Nah, bro. I don't see how that explained more, to be honest (I'm so buying the Leviathan DLC, though). That didn't explain SHIT.
I have come to a conclusion about Lucas' game (I genned him in ME2 without Genesis, and he is a Xmas tree of scars already :D ) - which is that he's going to fuck Cortez into the middle of next week (and it would be fucking, and he wouldn't see it as anything more than that). I sort of promised myself that none of the Renegades would romance anyone BUT. I also think that romancing Cortez isn't fair (see below, just past the caps lock), but that Lucas wouldn't give two hoots about that (and Kaidan's too goody goody for him and he isn't into ladies or aliens (especially not lady aliens!) SO. Logical conclusion, I think).
(Also I have THE biggest boner for Steve, and obviously he isn't going to be interested in any of my lady Sheps, ever. And yeah. I could look up the scenes on Youtube, but I don't want to. Also because no doubt they'll feature Sheploo who I do not find unattractive, let's be honest, but I get fed up of him being EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE).
(UGH NOW I KIND OF WANT TO WRITE SOME SORT OF FIX-IT FIC IN THE WORST WAY. IN THAT STEVE AND SHEP GET HAPPY ENDINGS AND...YEAH). (but I can't without it coming off as somewhat skeevy to me, because that's how that makes me feel, you know).
This reminded me that I have Merrick the Rogue to play in DAII and he's going to romance Anders, and I haven't done anything with him (and I want to complete a romance to the end, because I did Isabela's wrong, and I figure Bron's relationship with Fenris won't go well).
Because we all know these games are about the romances, right? ;)
(And I had a moment where I totally thought Zoe and Liara might have kissed, and it might have gone onto something a bit further down the line. I think I had this thought in the same place with Nev, but I'm not 100% sure. All I know is dang my feelings, boom all over the place).
Talking of feelings, have I ever mentioned how much I love the geth pulse rifle? Because it is the best. Better than the shotguns. I don't even like assault rifles. It almost never runs out of ammo. It is A-MA-ZING! ♥ *happy sigh*
OH YES AND I HAD A QUESTION! PAGING
beccatoria!!!!In Zoe's final dream, she heard Ashley's voice (don't recall that from Nev's but it is a year since I last played ME3, so....dodgy memory ahoy), but also Legion's, but he was saying "help us" instead of asking if this unit has a soul. So what I wondered was: does the dream change, depending on your actions?
Because Nev was 100% paragon (apart from ME2 where she drifted into Paragade because bleuch Cerberus ick ick etc), and Zoe is 75% paragon, 25% renegade.
Imma check the wiki, but I suspect it will be as helpful as a chocolate teapot, as it always seems to be when I want to know interesting and intricate stuff.
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German phones say klingeling.
This is the best thing I have ever learnt.
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I'm going to shut up now.
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In answer to your question, shockingly, I'm not totally sure. But I do know there's a number of different dialogue choices for different characters. I think the fact that you're nearly always gonna have different combinations of people who're alive and dead is part of why there's variation in what they say. I don't think it specifically changes based on your alignment?
Regarding the rest, yeah, I dislike the Extended Cut fairly intensely, for reasons I suspect are different in some ways (since I actually liked the original ending) but similar in others (I mean it's basically pointless, right?) Even aside from the actual stuff at the end though, I kind of think the extra scenes they inserted before hand ruined the pacing. Especially like, the ending? When the Normandy comes down in the middle of the dash to the beam? I know loads of people were upset about not saying another goodbye to their teammates, but I guess...I took that part super seriously and actually only took people with me that I knew would actually maybe die, and then, like, what? I back out after thirty seconds, decide it was a terrible idea, and put the Normandy - the only ship in the fleet that can reliably outstealth the Reapers - in terrible danger to extract them? I mean, this is basically my version of pedantic nitpicking but it honestly bugged me.
Of course, one of the reasons is probably that I took Javik and EDI with me because I figured Javik would think it fitting to die assaulting a Reaper and EDI's body is just one part of her. And then I called down the Normandy, not to save Javik, but to freaking save EDI! Who then said, "Shepard! This body is disposable!" to me. Like I think it was supposed to sound self-sacrificial and poignant? But instead I was sat there going, "Yes, EDI, I know! So why am I calling your actual, irreplacable body into great and terrible danger?!"
So you know, that was an unfortunate yet humorous addition to my Extended Cut experience. ;)
I ended up romancing Cortez with my renegade DudeShep too, actually. He was the guy who ended up with quite a bit of personality despite my attempts to prevent it (because I didn't like the male voice actor, because I was trying to harden my heart to be a Renegade, etc.)
He actually ended up with Steve because of the lack of expectation. He was a messed up, angry guy (Colonist/Sole Survivor) who'd tried to overcome his fear of committment for Ashley only to get kicked in the teeth and ran off with Miranda out of anger and a combination of not-caring/figuring she'd understand being used like that. By ME3 he was less...actively angry, and this time, when he couldn't fix things with Ashley, it felt more like his failing, more quietly sad. Like he just gave up. So when he fell into bed with Steve, it wasn't fucking so much as a lonely quest for comfort, but a brief, transitory one. It was safe because he knew he'd never be Steve's great love. Steve had that, and then he died. I unexpectedly ended up feeling like my arrogant bastard of a Shepard, who often traded on his name, found real comfort in the fact that he couldn't possibly measure up to a ghost. It could just be what it was. Two broken soldiers, there for each other, and not trying to make up for the past.
/unexpected renegade manshep feels.
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Yeah, really, I should've thought about team variables rather than morality. I'd just never heard Ashley before, so it was weird (also Zoe blew up the rogue geth, where Nev got Legion to overwrite, so possibly that was what did it, too).
Oh I dunno, I think we have similar views about the EC. I don't like it, either, but I hadn't played it, so I thought I'd give it a go before I started complaining. I HATED that scene on the run to the beam! I thought it was ridiculous! The Reaper (apparently it's Harbinger????) has been lasering you the whole time on the run but what it just stops because suddenly the Normandy's there? NAH, BRO. Also why risk the fleet's most advanced ship like that?! (And, as you say, EDI's actual body!) Yes, it's nice to say goodbye to your teammates but a) that was ridiculous and b) sometimes you don't get to say goodbye and wars are like that. That happens.
Oh god, Mark Meer's voice acting is the worst! I know Jennifer Hale can be a bit hammy sometimes, but he just...doesn't even sound like he's trying? (Also I'm not really as invested in my mansheps. I only picked up the first one recently again because I wanted to be nasty to people. but without hurting actual people and it worked really well).
Ahhhh, OH WOW. Yeah, renegade manshep feels indeed! That's awesome and really interesting :) (and I hope that doesn't sound sarcastic, because it wasn't meant to be. Although I find that the way the games are (Dragon Age as well) seem to engender the ability to build story and reasoning about your character outside of the game, and I really like that).