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make me choose: venavis said: Anders or and Hawke
Anders: More Deep Roads. Why did we agree to do this again?
Varric: Because I like trouble, and you think Hawke is cute. That wasn't a serious question, was it, Blondie?
Anders: He is pretty cute.
Favorite female characters tagmeme
Rules: List ten of your favorite female characters in ten different fandoms and then tag ten people.
I was tagged by @omegastation, thankyou! as always blacklist "MJ does a meme" to hide these posts.
@venavis replied to your post “*sigh* ended up making a new Guild Wars 2 character this is character...”
I have a million sylvari and like half of them are in love with trahearne...
alksjdhjkld Trahearne, so many memories of his stupid pathfinding in Orr.
Pretty much all my mains are sylvari because why wouldn’t I play a salad??? Even though I love Charr their running animation makes me feel like I’m moving through quicksand so I just have one D:
I actually made a human this time because of the new faces/hairstyles they just added. She cute
Solas in Abelas’ sentinel armor.....i suddenly cant breathe
I second that anon, thank you for always being a positive blog in regards to MEA hype. Not that people can't be concerned or critical, it's just... a lot sometimes, especially when I want to be excited and struggle with it.
Oh man, of course! It’s honestly my pleasure.
Until release I’m def going to do my best to remind us all that a) BioWare knows what type of game we want and b) they are VERY proud of what they’ve made. And they can’t wait for us to get our hands on it.
paging @venavis!!! [x] I’ll hit two motherfuckers... WITH TWO OTHER MOTHERFUCKERS
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Pretty geometric shapes, reminds me of the golden ratio.. maybe the readout of a scan (@venavis‘s idea).. whatever it is it would make a cool tattoo.
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thoughts on the latest briefing
I guess the new briefing video on weapons and biotics training seems a lil redundant given the two recent videos in the deep-dive gameplay/combat series, but they had to keep releasing them anyway because of the 6-video structure of the unlock path for the exclusive Pathfinder helmet.
I’m looking at it like.. well, it’s the in-universe version of the same sort of information. These vids are part of a mock-up of the in-universe Andromeda Iniaitive’s “training hub” - meant to be the same sort of briefings new recruits or Sara and Scott themselves would have been given as a junior part of the AI or Pathfinder Team. I’m enjoying the alternative “in-character” way of being presented with the same information. The deep-dives are great, detailed and highly informational (not to mention needed), but a little dry. I’ll take all the extra flavor they’re gonna give.
I’m also looking at it like.. they’re spotlights on various characters, not only providing great samples of their voices but giving a little attention and insight into them. We’ve had Jien, Avina, Kallo, Cora and now Liam. Like.. Jien comes across highly ambitious, quite serious and businesslike, as you might expect from the person whose towering vision the AI is the physical reality of. Kallo is good-humored and an adorable geek, if him nerding out over tech and vehicles is anything to go by. and so on. Until this vid, at this point in marketing Liam was a bit passed-over and hadn’t had much spotlight or attention - so something with Liam front and center was sorely needed (imo). We’re still due one more video - probably on outpost establishment guidelines and first contact protocols together, since that’s the only things Jien laid out in the first briefing that haven’t yet been covered. Maybe it will be narrated by Alec? We’ve had things narrated by and featuring lines from him already - it’d be cool if the final video had someone else! Maybe the Tempest’s science officer, since xenobiology would come under that remit! Or Foster Addison, the Director of Colonial Affairs of the AI, since she oversees all colonization efforts. As-yet we’ve only got the smallest scraps of info on the science officer and Foster, particularly when it comes to official promo materials, and particularly where Foster is concerned.
In this vid, Liam’s character traits are highlighted - versatility, adaptability and skill - of course, cause only the best are selected as part of the Pathfinder Team (unless the Pathfinder is your dad lmao..). His skill and knowledge base as covered in the vid, okay, yeah, I can see why Alec hand-picked this guy. It builds on the previous details given about how he has a background in engineering but left to train law enforcement. [Edit: Something @venavis mentioned to me - it’s also apparent that the AI picked Liam for what is called “good character”. He’s got a moral center, he’s not the cut-and-dry standard-issue military type, I mean yeah, if they want a fight, he’ll give it to ‘em. but he definitely doesn’t seem like the kind of cop that’s corrupt or arrogant from his own power - despite his skill in combat he’s not shoot-on-sight, he’s a problem solver. He’s a situation-handler and crisis sorter-outer, not a shoot-first-ask-questions later guy. We are gonna need that intelligence and that moral center, not your stereotypical space marine dudebro, because we’re trying to make positive first contact and are going to Andromeda with a cadre of diplomats aboard the Nexus].
I especially liked how he told us his personal favorites out of the weapons and his preferred combat style (a bit of everything), that was a nice personal touch, makes him seem like a real guy giving a real lesson. But more than that, his personality shines through. It’s apparent how friendly and good-natured he is, he’s got a sense of fun ("jump-jets"!), he’s hands-on, he trusts people, he’s trust-worthy, his enthusiasm is there.. I love this guy! I wanna have a beer and shoot some pool with this guy. This guy’s got my back, and his attitude is infectious. We can also hear his idealism as he touches on what the AI means to him and his hopes for humanity’s future in the new galaxy. This stuff is close to his heart and he’s optimistic about it all. And maybe, a tad naive. I’m a bit worried for poor Liam when he’s confronted with the fact that the AI has defectors, splinter-groups, disagreements.. This is not what he signed up for. This isn’t what he’s here for or what he believes in. He’ll be angry. He’ll feel frustrated. I’m excited for these character moments. I am pumped
Not only characters, but these videos are giving snippets of lore and background details. Avina’s briefing about the Arks and Nexus was probably the best in this regard. But even in this one.. I’m nodding along like, yes, yes, give me all the in-universe lore explanations for gameplay features (AI weapons need to be adaptable/modifiable due to limited storage space on Arks, explaining the features of extensive customization and the crafting system), give me all the flavor details that potentially hint at plot points or character development moments (limited resources and subsequent challenges and conflicts that arise from that; also see above about Liam & splinter-groups etc), give me all the lore snippets on the guns in the Milky Way galaxy.. first thing I did when the video was over was open up the Mass Effect Wiki and look for the familiar-sounding Ariake Tech and go :D It’s those little ties and call-backs to the trilogy that are helping make this still seem like Mass Effect even in a whole new galaxy, 600 years from Shepard, 2.5 million light years away.
