Cora Harper (Official Thread)

Hey, Ashley's love. Ashley is life.

I am kind of hoping Cora is similar at least in some ways.

Agreed but then I thought both were sexy in their own ways and intelligent. After all when I first played ME Ashley seemed like a good grunt type soldier but I wasn't expecting her to start quoting poetry and Liara had her scietific knowledge to gowith her biotic powers so both had that area covered in one way or another. I just hope Cora does too.

well here's hoping we do. After all their lines have been recorded they must have decided on their looks and stuff by now especially given the game's out in 2 months They have said we'll see them before launch it's just a question of when.

ME1/ME2 Ashley was great. She was very pretty while abiding military code (hair and all). I hated what they did to her in ME3. Leave long haired fighters to fantasy games and keep modern/sci-fi settings realistic on that matter for the love of God! I could definitely get behind hair changing depending if you're on a mission or ship/fully civilian area. Keep it in a bun/ponytail for engagements and let it loose on leave.

The new Cora icon is really weird to me. I can't even imagine what her hair is supposed to be. Looks strange af.

I forgot what both icons looked like. Is the one from the gameplay video the newer one?

Nevermind I remember now. The one from the Nvidia event is the newer one.

I disliked her hair because it blocked a part of her face. When it came to Ashley, she seemed to have the worst facial animations to me. 


Compare this to ME1

I'm just not confident that Bioware can pull off long over the face hairstyles without sacrificing facial expression quality.

If they do give Cora a similar hairstyle to ME3 Ash, I hope their facial animations dept. has stepped things up a bit.

Well, the hair was issue for me, since it's just as out place as her uniform. There's a reason no military allows you to wear hair long, especially THAT long and obscuring half your face no less. As for her ME3 outfit compared to ME1 armor, the difference is her ME3 uniform holds literally zero protection value. I never had any problem with boob plates in fantasy or sci-fi settings, because there's never any doubt about them giving protection. Compare that to some spandex suit with half undone zipper, ugh. I'm really the last person to be annyoed be sexualizatin (anyone who's read ugly females thread probably knows this), but if there's one thing I put above candy-eye, it's military professionalism, and neither her hair nor her suit makes any sense in that regard. She's a fucking Alliance officer, Lieutenant-Commander no less. There's no way she doesn't break any regulations, especially before she becomes Spectre.

I really loved ME1 for maintaining military professionalism both with NPCs and Shepard's dialogue options. Admiral's inspection of ship is one of my favorite moments in the game. ME2 gave you some options in that regard (even though you weren't de facto military anymore), like your first Engineering visit ("I didn't hear captain on deck!") or with Kelly ("Let's keep it professional Yeoman.") and then when ME3 came out it was pretty much Robin Hood and Merry Company that didn't resemble military at all. Definitely not my cup of tea and I hope ME:A will allow you to maintain military discipline once you take over leadership.

I would rather she had her hair in a bun like in ME1/2. I would also have had all the females on the SR2 had their hair in a bun to keep it off the collar. But its Biowares military. They can do whatever.

I do agree her armor in ME1 was not what I would want a soldier to be wearing.

Anyways. I like to see Cora. If not, I won't lose any sleep

I'm referring to ME3.

Your Shepard may have worked for Cerberus, but mine worked with Cerberus

It's irrelevant to my point though, for/with, in either cases Cerberus isn't as strict as the Alliance.

Never said they were. My post was referring to ME3

I don't really want Cora to be a 'new Miranda' or 'new Kasumi', and definitely not a 'new Ashley'

I'd prefer if Cora were her own character who has her own unique and individual merits as a character, and stands out from the crowd of human female characters in the franchise.

Luckily, so far each have been distinct enough so that there aren't any 2.0s running around the Milky Way.

Ideally, Cora isn't just a Miranda 2.0 etc. But, if Cora were to share characteristics or traits with another human female character from the OT, whilst still standing on her own as her own character, I'd definitely like to see her eschew Miranda or Kasumi over Ashley. Even Jack.

Maybe a dash of Miranda's strength of will, with some of Kasumi's indelible wit, and a hint of Jack's badassery to bring to the boil