Andromeda Initiative briefings (6/6 Golden Worlds and Settlements)

Brief response:  Ideally, it would be great if we did have a body shape and height adjuster. Maybe there will be body mods created after the game releases, as modders have done for DA:I.


I am hoping RyDette, in game, has those same exquisite curves though, and a nice butt (subjective*). Maybe it's shallow and selfish of me, but I like when women look like me in games, and I am just sad she won't be as short as I am. Everyone is so tall in the future.


Also, what are noodle arms? I have arms that don't look muscled and don't have flabby wings. I just call those normal arms, and they suit me just fine. 

*Please BioWare don't make the butt saggy




Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement for combat catsuits or stilettos.

The worse offender is the left handed salute seen in the trilogy. If I was never in the military, I most likely wouldn't notice the inconsistencies in the game

The left-handed salute is like a digital punch to the face. It should appear jarring to a lot of people who haven't served. It's by far the most obvious to me, as someone who has not served. I notice a lot of errors, but that one causes me squint and make a sour face every time I see it. I grumble at Kaidan when it happens with Shepard and him in ME3.

I can't lie, my characters are always attractive. They may not be classically beautiful, and it even annoys me that the CC forces this look upon me, but they are each attractive in some fashion.

I don't mind playing an unattractive character (I'm looking at you, Geralt); I just struggle to create them. I'm not sure if it's instinct, or BioWare's CCs set against me. The CC seems designed to churn out beautiful people (with crappy hair).

This isn't as much a stink over idealized main characters as a stink over main characters reduced to only one type of over idealized body shape and features, and the lack of options. What you want and like isn't what someone else will want and like. For me Cassandra >> Miranda (not that I dislike Miranda, mind you), and I find overly muscular men grotesque and kind of outright repulsive, physically speaking. I like attractive characters like any one else, but what I define as attractive may be quite different than your own definition, including when it comes to protagonists. 

See? That's what was talking about. DAI cover is working. Among the three players in discussion (you, me BansheeOwnage ) Two players see a female, one player is positive that it's a male. Everyone's happy.  

1) Ranks in a military are not symbolic... it has a purpose.  If Hackett passed command of the entire fleet down to a commander, he heeds to tell the fleet so that they will listen to those commands.  Otherwise, they would view firing when Shepard tells them to fire as "breaking ranks" and there in jeopardizing the mission.  There should have been a simple one-liner "order" from Hackett... "all fleets fire on Shepard's command."  As it is, one has to put that line in using their own imagination.

2) It is an assumption has to how complex the design of the ARKs really is... we haven`t yet been told anything about them.

3) I was just showing that it is indeed possible for something large to be built near earth (near Arcturrus actually) and not have everyone on the Citadel noticing and commenting on it being built.

Cassandra is one of the best love interest that bioware created in their games, and a really interesting character too.

if people can't figure if that's a woman or a man then they have bigger problems then who on the cover...it's painfully obvious that it's a female......maybe the artist was hired to do the job 1 or 2 years ago and the magazine editor gave the artist the choice to choose between male are female Ryder before Bioware release any official information that the Ryder on the cover was going to be daddy Ryder...and the magazine editor just didn't have enuff time to hire a new artist to do the job....it happens all the time so this cover probably has nothing to do with any story when it comes to mass effect andromeda.

Since it's N7 Day tomorrow (today for a lot of people) among other reasons, I'll skip out on my previous discussion for now. I've said (most of) my piece anyway. However...
Not until you come up with a better nickname for me than "BO" But honestly, I don't actually like making huge multiquotes, but I don't really have any other options when I want to respond to a few people after the thread moves on, since I don't have as much spare time as I used to for keeping up on the thread(s). I'm not going to spoiler each of my responses in the multiquotes, but I do spoiler images. Anyway:

I feel like, once again, I might be coming across as more argumentative than intended, judging from your response. Either that or you didn't read mine correctly. Because I used phrases like "I may not remember correctly" and "is that the reason?".



I appreciate the passive-aggressive insinuation that "Most people, like you, didn't notice" the inconsistencies in the codex Not sure why you're assuming I didn't notice them. So yeah, obviously I hope they pay attention to their own rules in ME:A as well. But that's the thing, their rules about the universe, not ours.

I feel like people aren't reading my posts. Hey, maybe that's my own fault since they're long, but what can you do? Anyway, best not to get too worked up about the salute for the reasons I stated. Saluting etiquette in the Alliance wasn't explained, so the only reason you think a left-handed salute is wrong is because you're transplanting contemporary military etiquette onto a fictional one that we already know operates under different rules. For all you know, left-handed salutes are perfectly acceptable in ME. Again, it was probably just an inconsistency, and I also did a double-take when I saw it. But it doesn't bug me because there isn't actually a reason for it to.

Fair enough and thanks for the serious reply (not that you weren't being serious). As mentioned, I'll cease and desist for now on that topic (though I hope to hear good news about it tomorrow). I actually don't remember that thread, but I have a lot on my mind right now and it kind of all blurs together

One person's "minute detail" is another's close-to-home detail or simply important one. Therefore "blowing them wildly out of proportion" is completely subjective. And that applies to many, many things. I think it's fair to say that people are allowed to be passionate about different things, no?

1. Yes, I'm perfectly aware ranks aren't symbolic, I simply said it was a symbolic gesture, and one I could totally see Hackett making. Should he have done it with the caveat of telling the fleet to listen for Shepard's order? Sure thing. I just don't think it was totally unbelieveable given the circumstances.

2. Yes, I was assuming the Arks would be complicated, though I think that is a fairly grounded assumption. Still, as I reiterated in that post, even if they were simple, the scale alone means the effort to construct them must have been just as colossal.

3. Problem is I wouldn't classify Arcturus as "close to Earth" for the sake of this discussion. Relatively close, for space travel? Absolutely. But Arcturus being 37 lightyears away sort of removes is from visual range of Earth, unlike the Arks we see in all of the promotional material, which would be easily visible from Earth and therefore impossible to keep secret. So all I'm saying is the Crucible doesn't work as a precedent for building something "close to Earth" in a secret manner.


Anyway, now I too will strap in and prepare for whatever is revealed on N7 day. Hopefully good stuff!

Do you write single digits in day/month by any chance?

While I find Yvonne Strahovski very attractive, physically speaking, I can say the same for Cassandra. I find them both physically appealing, in their own way.

That's what people are advocating for. More options, not taking away pre-existing ones. It's anyone's choice to make their protagonist as attractive or ugly as they can with the cc, but for that we need the cc to give us these options. I wouldn't have been happy looking at my male-Shep all game long, if he had been as bulky as Vega. Fortunately for me, he wasn't, but I totally understand if someone wanted Shep to look like him.