...Yeah, it says right on the infographic that the defaults handily beat every other one; they were just measuring custom names.
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# ? May 18, 2014 22:42 |
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Ah, I didn't notice that.
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# ? May 18, 2014 22:45 |
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Never underestimate the power of laziness when it comes to picking names. Especially here since Shepard's first name is apparently unpronounceable to anyone in the Milky Way.
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# ? May 18, 2014 22:51 |
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Not if you name her "Commander"
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# ? May 18, 2014 22:52 |
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I would have named him "Jack" after Lost, but I wanted to be a girl, so I named her, "Jacquelin"
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# ? May 19, 2014 00:00 |
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I had a rather fortuitous name for my femshep, Aisling. It means vision or dream in Irish.
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# ? May 19, 2014 00:25 |
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cool people name their shepards after archaic indo-European deities or "German" or "Alan".
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# ? May 19, 2014 00:26 |
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I don't remember what I called the last one (something generic I think like Harry or Billy) but the one before that was called Dickwank.
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# ? May 19, 2014 01:25 |
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Mine were Sarah and Timothy respectively. So right on the mark and way off.
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# ? May 19, 2014 05:14 |
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I have a Jack. Also a Jessica, she's an Adept. If you get that reference then congrats on being a huge loving nerd (like me).
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# ? May 19, 2014 05:21 |
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Sexcopter is the only right choice.
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# ? May 19, 2014 05:36 |
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I named my Shepard, Fiat, 'cause he's so money that no one could touch him. Well except for Kaiden. There was something about him I couldn't quite put my finger on. Then ME3 rolled around and I diiiiid.
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# ? May 19, 2014 05:55 |
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Cleatcleat posted:I named my Shepard, Fiat, 'cause he's so money that no one could touch him. Now imagining a Volus waddling up to you and trying to tell you all about space-bitcoins.
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# ? May 19, 2014 06:06 |
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Bongo Bill posted:Not if you name her "Commander"
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# ? May 19, 2014 13:12 |
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My favorite Shepard was succinctly named "Gun".
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# ? May 19, 2014 14:00 |
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Alan I get due to Alan Shepard, first American in space. What I don't get is how few people use Adrian for MaleShep. Or is that considered too ancient these days? My FemShep is Eowyn, because I'm a giant nerd.
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# ? May 19, 2014 14:01 |
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Baggins posted:Alan I get due to Alan Shepard, first American in space. What I don't get is how few people use Adrian for MaleShep. Or is that considered too ancient these days? I always felt that the Rocky movies ruined the name Adrian. I don't know about everyone else but whenever I see that name I just hear Rocky's slurry "YO ADRIAAAAAAN, WE DID IIIIIIT!"
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# ? May 19, 2014 14:08 |
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2house2fly posted:but the one before that was called Dickwank. If you've never had a "dickbutt shepard" then I don't want to know you. I also had a "Boner Shepard" in tribute to that guy who made those zelda LPs back in the day (I wanna say his name was lurkdawg?)
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# ? May 19, 2014 20:58 |
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So, who else here has never picked Udina for the council? Let me just suggest you owe it to yourself to do it at least once. I went in thinking "okay, this run he gets the Council job. Punishment detail, he has to deal with that turian rear end in a top hat nonstop." Psion fucked around with this message at 05:55 on May 21, 2014 |
# ? May 21, 2014 05:33 |
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I think I ask this every 6 months, but has The Citadel ever gone on sale? It's been $18 every time I check.
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# ? May 21, 2014 11:06 |
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Chasiubao posted:Now imagining a Volus waddling up to you and trying to tell you all about space-bitcoins. The perfect return cameo by the "biotic wind" volus...
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# ? May 21, 2014 13:10 |
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Knuc U Kinte posted:I think I ask this every 6 months, but has The Citadel ever gone on sale? It's been $18 every time I check. I ain't never seen it on sale but it's worth 50 bucks hop on that poo poo!
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# ? May 21, 2014 13:43 |
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Knuc U Kinte posted:I think I ask this every 6 months, but has The Citadel ever gone on sale? It's been $18 every time I check. That's a really cheap price for the best thing in the series.
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# ? May 21, 2014 16:15 |
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"This isn't even my final form."
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# ? May 21, 2014 17:48 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Mass Effect movie rumors are starting to spread again. Possible release of Nov 2016. All conjecture of course. When I first saw the Godzilla trailer, I saw it in another language and didn't pick up the dialogue at all, but Damned if I didn't sit up and start getting giddy when I first heard the reaper sound effect. A movie could be cool. Maybe. I have no faith in anybody in Hollywood being able to pull it off though.
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# ? May 21, 2014 19:06 |
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My Q-Face posted:A movie could be cool. Maybe. I have no faith in anybody in Hollywood being able to pull it off though. get David Lynch, Dune it up
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# ? May 22, 2014 02:31 |
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PupsOfWar posted:get David Lynch, Dune it up The flesh slurry must flow But seriously hollywood nowadays is afraid of anything that isn't a sequel or so generic as gently caress to not offend or confuse anyone that the movies barely get distinguishable. They'd totally gently caress everything that makes ME interesting up.
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# ? May 22, 2014 03:17 |
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Seriously, listen to the Dune Main Theme around 1:50 in and tell me that doesn't sound a little Prothean Beacon-y.
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# ? May 22, 2014 03:34 |
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Knuc U Kinte posted:I think I ask this every 6 months, but has The Citadel ever gone on sale? It's been $18 every time I check. A few months back the Xbox 360 version went on sale for half price and I bought it then.
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# ? May 22, 2014 05:41 |
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Tirranek posted:Seriously, listen to the Dune Main Theme around 1:50 in and tell me that doesn't sound a little Prothean Beacon-y. Reminds me more of Sovereign's Theme at 1:50.
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# ? May 22, 2014 08:41 |
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Police Automaton posted:The flesh slurry must flow Yeah, they'd take and put modern SF guys jumping out of airplanes together into it somehow, and throw in a few F-22s and M-4 rifles.
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# ? May 22, 2014 16:29 |
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There's a new mod out that removes Diana Allers from ME3. These people are doing God's work.
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# ? May 23, 2014 04:38 |
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I modded her out of my Xbox 360 copy, by not talking to her. Actually that isn't true. I wanted to ignore her but I couldn't stand to miss out on Content
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# ? May 23, 2014 05:12 |
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I just took the route the devs seemed to want you to anyway - tell her to bugger off. It feels like she was forced in there by some executive decision, and everyone else just incorporated her in a pretty passive aggressive way.
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# ? May 23, 2014 05:20 |
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Jessica Chobot has like 3rd or 4th billing in the credits -_- Anyway, there are a few good sci-fi directors in Hollywood that I think could do good things with this franchise Danny Boyle (though he swears he'll never direct sci-fi again) did a good job with Sunshine and had fun playing with some Mass Effect-y themes. At least until the third act. Always wondered whether that might have been forced by the studio. Duncan Jones would be a great pick. Drew Stanton did a solid job turning a completely irrelevent property (edgar rice borroughs books) into a bland-but-functional boys' adventure movie (John Carter). I wouldn't say he's a great choice, but he'd be better than most, and if nothing else understands sci-fi grandeur and atmosphere as something other than a function of raw polygons. Blomkamp could pull the hell off of a First Contact War movie, though I wouldn't want to see his ME1 adaptation. Problem is Hollywood isn't going to give any of those guys (if they were even interested) the project. Not with enough budget and latitude to make it work, anyway. None of the stereotypical Big Stupid Movie dudes (your Bays, your Emmerichs, your Peter Bergs) are probably gonna end up with it either, but Hollywood will dredge up a knockoff version of those guys who'll toe the company line. PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 06:38 on May 23, 2014 |
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Tirranek posted:I just took the route the devs seemed to want you to anyway - tell her to bugger off. It feels like she was forced in there by some executive decision, and everyone else just incorporated her in a pretty passive aggressive way. yeahhhh no. this was straight up a 'Nerds will LOVE this poo poo!', dollar-signs for eyeballs type of idiotic move. And given that Bioware isn't (and has not been for some time) some kind of small start-up company, the idea of 'everyone else' treating it differently than whoever decided she should be in the game is probably wishful thinking.
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# ? May 23, 2014 06:34 |
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PupsOfWar posted:Jessica Chobot has like 3rd or 4th billing in the credits -_- After Hale/Meer it's alphabetical by character's last name. "Allers" is second in only to "Alenko" by that ordering.
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PupsOfWar posted:Jessica Chobot has like 3rd or 4th billing in the credits -_- No, it was obviously part of the original intention. Sunshine makes me think Chris Evans could be a neat Shepard. Practically looks like him. quote:None of the stereotypical Big Stupid Movie dudes (your Bays, your Emmerichs, your Peter Bergs) are probably gonna end up with it either, but Hollywood will dredge up a knockoff version of those guys who'll toe the company line. If you don't want a Michael Bay Mass Effect film series there is something wrong with your brain. "SAREN, GIVE ME YOUR FACE!"
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# ? May 23, 2014 06:56 |
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Only if Wahlberg and only if Full Renegade Shep The Rock can show up and play Kaidan. etjester posted:After Hale/Meer it's alphabetical by character's last name. "Allers" is second in only to "Alenko" by that ordering. Oh. Welp, that explains a lot
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# ? May 23, 2014 07:00 |
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JawKnee posted:yeahhhh no. this was straight up a 'Nerds will LOVE this poo poo!', dollar-signs for eyeballs type of idiotic move. And given that Bioware isn't (and has not been for some time) some kind of small start-up company, the idea of 'everyone else' treating it differently than whoever decided she should be in the game is probably wishful thinking. I'm not trying to convince myself one way or the other, it's just she's worth practically nothing and you're offered the chance to shoot her down at numerous points throughout the game. It's really easy to get rid of her and it just made me think if that would have been the case if it were Wong on board.
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# ? May 23, 2014 07:22 |