Canadian Delicacy - The Kaidan Alenko Thread

Citadel has:
- the best cinematics
- great music
- great level\mission design (class-sensitive content, romance-sensitive content etc)
- some great characters scenes (e.g Zaeed)
- some hilarious gag-fest scenes and dialogues meant just 'for fun'
- THE WORST IMMERSION-BREAKING AND MISFITTING PLOT EVER MADE

The latter is too critical for me, I've only played it once upon the DLC release. Prefer to think of it like 'one of those yellow press fake stories about The Shepard'.

Oh my gosh, you really do need to.  They are pretty hilarious.  The Tali one really made me laugh.

I voted in both polls and commented. But I suspect poor Kaidan will lose

Two beautiful paintings from Sathynae

I've been missing Kaidan lately, which may mean yet another play through of Mass Effect. But I'm afraid I'll start, get halfway through and stop just like the other 68 games I've done that to lately

Was looking through some audiobooks and found some of Raphael Sbarge's audioblogs (he interviewed Mark Meer, Kimberley Brooks too).


I've listened to them before but they're pretty funny when you read the transcripts.

Jennifer: My hobbies are like, rock climbing and riding horses and you know, being outside and going and traveling and doing stuff, so, yeah. Yeah.
Raphael: Wow. That makes you think of personal ads, of what people like.
Jennifer: Oh, right, isn’t that funny?
Raphael: Rock climbing … long walks on the beach…
Jennifer: “Enjoys saving the universe, rock climbing, riding horses, quiet nights at home.”
Raphael: Right. “Kicking Geth butt.” Right, yeah.
Jennifer: That’s right. “Shooting multiple legions of bad guys at once.”


Kimberly: Hey, I’m here. Hi.
Raphael: [laugh] Hey. So, through the marvel of science, technology and conference calls, we’ve brought Kaidan and Ashley to you.
Kimberly: Together, at last.


Raphael: That BioWare has created, called Veda, I guess. You know, for anyone who doesn’t know, essentially, when we walk into these rooms, we’re there, you know, essentially locked in a room with double-paned, bullet-proof glass…
Kimberly: For four hours, by yourself.
Raphael: For four hours, all alone, you and your bottle of water and your imagination.
Kimberly: With your bottle of water, or in Jennifer Hale’s case, her hot water.
Raphael: Right, right, right. Running to the bathroom, because you keep trying to keep your voice, you know …
Kimberly: Lubricated.

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and then this happened

Raphael: And who knows what could happen. I mean, I know reading some of the last lines for me were, I know, I was feeling kind of like … you just sort of feel like a wave kind of crashes over you. You go: Wow. Wow. Wow. OK. So, now we’re done. I don’t know…
Kimberly: I know, it’s a bit overwhelming because, yeah, like I said, it’s just, it’s a real world that we belong to. I mean, just like the characters in the game, you know, you don’t want to see it end.


why am I traumatizing myself again... nooo

*reads above post*

*glances at my avatar*



This is making me want to dip back into the trilogy from the beginning with a new character even though I have a run of ME3 I haven't been back to in a while... I have a character I've been thinking about (Kaidan romance, of course) and with N7 day near some replaying will be in order.

haha, no, I can't say I'm bothered by it. I don't know Howden personally, obviously, and I'm not on twitter but I don't expect every actor to be a "people person." They are not synonymous. From some interviews and fan interactions I've come across he seemed fine. He has a sorta biting snark and admitted to mouthing off on twitter more than he should -- but this was years ago.

Hypothetically (not to excuse whatever behavior you're referring to) if I was the voice of Anders, a character that is not only routinely vilified but generally accepted to be a "monstrous pile of shit" by the fandom (and yep, BioWare is guilty too), I doubt I'd be pleasant either. Hell, just being an Anders fan alone swears me off most of the fandom. Fans can be assholes too.

Besides, this is just priceless:

I recently found out that Raphael Sbarge contribute his voice narrating Melinda M. Snodgrass' Blood Ties which is a short story from GRR Martin's scifi anthology Wild Cards V : Down and Dirty. Its a story about a French-accented mind-controlling alien-doctor-Godfather trying to parent his grandchild, fight a plague and prevent a bloodbath in his neighbourhood. Very fun three hours spend on listening to the story and also appreciating how superbly talented Mr Sbarge is.

I always love how his voice can be rough, raspy and at times, youthful but I didn't realize that he have massive emotional range, do flawless French, British and Russian accents and switching between male and female characters. He could alter atmospheric intensity of the scene simply by subtly changing how he articulate each words and I even caught myself wondering "Wait, is this neutral-sounding woman Raphael Sbarge? *Raphael switch to Tachyon and his raspy voice return* oh god he's a chameleon." I love it when audiobooks were made wonderful by really talented people.

I think Sbarge took the fanbase reception to his characters as a compliment and isn't that weirded out that much (since people mostly associate Kaidan with Luciano Costa). I like that the exposure have been good to his acting career and he's still popular as Archie among OUAT fanbase.

I like them, but, the N7 stripe is on the wrong side?

Don't hate it, it's still very sweet and well done.

Anyway, it is on the correct side in the next picture.