The biggest problem with Mass Effect's dialogue

You played for ten hours and don't even own the game.

Why are you so obsessed?

You having a good weekend?  You seem a little bit obsessed with me too.

Did you like the jokes that (to some people) seemed out of place based on the peril(s) Ryder was in?

Man, I laughed more about the sitcom laughter chiming in in this video than the 'jokes' in MEA. And I agree with everything the guy in the video says. The premise of MEA is too much of clash with how the characters behave. There's a time and place for jokes, but MEA overdid it.
Someone commented that they must've made MEA this way after seeing how well received Citadel DLC was, and it sure feels that way. The thing is, Citadel works for many people because we spent so much time with our characters, but in MEA it just feels wrong.
I'm glad people like MEA, but for me, it is the one BW game I never got invested in due to the dialogue and how everyone behaves.

The fuck? Really?!

OP, you never played beyond first 10 hours of ME:A and yet discuss for months in 100's of posts about this game?!
Jesus Christ, actually complete the game if you'll put so much effort with your nonsensical arguments.

Has noone here ever bothered to watch a single video of military on deployment? You'd think they don't ever joke with what you people are saying.

Meanwhile, "Mind your head, low flying RPGs" is about the tamest joke I've heard from them.



Military folks are fucking funny to the point of you being unable to draw breath from how hard you're laughing.
You'll be hard pressed to find a better community than a bunch of guys who like the military, have served, and/or like guns.

Oh, wait. Cora has served. Ryder twins have served. Liam's crisis response was along similar lines in terms of people. Drack has a millenia of combat experience. Jaal is in active service.

On top of the video author being a known anti-BioWare troll, y'all need to work on your sense of humor.


Did he actually admit that?

I don't think the people in charge of the military are like this.  Did the trilogy's more serious tone get it wrong then?  Would it have been better if you could put a laugh track into most of its dialogue?  i know Citadel was like that - YY addresses that in the video.

That kind of speech is what happens in this scene - except  they squeeze in as many one-liners and jokes as they can.  I don't know - I just really didn't like that.  Every wise-crack takes me out of a scene like this:



I'll add a poll to this thread out of curiosity.

It's not like the jokes disappear if you don't choose casual - and oftentimes your companions will joke regardless (and then there's the constant banter jokes...)

Just a thought (an unrealistic one), but it would be amazing if we could alter the personalities of our companions based on how we talk to them - like if I just talk seriously with Liam, he turns into a serious hardass instead of... whatever he is now.

Could you add "Depends on gameplay"? Skyrim had some epic glitches, which were ruining the serious mood from the start. Some FPS and strategy games, when you can (and will) fail, work better with less jokes and more informative dialogues.

You know what's weird though? I watched this great video on tone last night. It talked about bathos. Ie the art of making light of seious situations. Ie what people complain about in MEA.

Just the MET also had bathos up to the hilt...every time you had a renegade option.

You can't really compare a renegade dialogue option with the comedy in Andromeda... If you could, the renegade option should have been just as divisive and reviled by a chunk of the fan-base.  The renegade option more than not was just Shepard being a bad-ass, which sometimes happened to be hilarious, but not all the time.

that's the problem. Shep is PERCEIVED as being a bad ass when making some grandiose YEEEEAAHH joke and Ryder is PERCEIVED as being a weak spineless twerp despite...doing roughly the same thing.