Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

I really liked that scene. Better than the sexual predator scenes that made up most of Shepard's flirts.

I'm not sure whether anyone is denying it, to be honest. I dropped into the thread, saw a post I seemed to disagree with and offered an alternative view. It seemed that vonuber was suggesting that this single scene is the crux of an argument. Having looked at the last couple of pages, I saw no such thing. Also, I didn't say that this single scene is cringeworthy. I said that many scenes are. That's why this one scene need not be a focus. If I'm off-topic, oops, I guess. 

I dunno.  I asked her to give me her bracelet, because that just feels...    I dunno, more personal I guess?   I dunno, it just feels like sex is just an obstacle that we have to get around, and we have varying points of view on this depending on whether we are female or male.   

For example, males always wanna see two chicks make out.   Females, I dunno.  Maybe a female can take over from here.   

Where is thisn”many people” you talk about? Considering that MET had its cringeworthy dialogue.

Mark Meer's lines were also bad. For pretty much every romance, the flirts by both John and Jane were very uncomfortable. 
As for the Sara/Suvi flirts, I found them to be rather adorable. 

1. I think I have mentioned this before but the only lines of dialogue I found cringeworthy in Andromeda, as in lol for the wrong reasons, are the whole Nilken Rensus conversation testimony thing. "Argh! Ugh! Evacuate! etc!"

I didn't think a lot of Fem or Bro Shep's lines were too cringeworthy, there were a couple of exceptions obviously...like 'talking to Jacob' made Abigail into the borderine...er flirt...she is. But I still maintain this is BioWare trying to give people different types of romances depending on who they romance. Some people just like their 'sexy' romances and some people like their super nerdy awkward romances. I seem to like romances in which the two characters have to complete and heal one another. (Miranda...Cora...Cullen...James...why was James not a romance FCOL?!)

I wasn't comparing it to the MET. Hanako did that. I spoke of MEA on its own. I happen to agree that the trilogy had some facepalms. They just weren't as bad or plentiful as MEA's, for me.

Do you truly disagree that many feel MEA had too much cheesy dialogue? You've spent enough time here, and maybe elsewhere, to know that many do feel exactly this way. I'm not sure why you'd even dispute this. Acknowledging it doesn't invalidate your own opinion.

I'd think that would make it worse. Everyone has, at some point, embarrassed themself. I'd not wish my moment on another, nor wish to see it reproduced in a video game. I definitely don't want the protagonist being undermined by too many facepalms. 

To each their own. Like I said, it's not just that one scene. There are lots of silly moments. They don't sit well with some of us. I like the game, and will likely start a new PT this week. I still cringe over far too much of its writing and VA.

“Who said anything about love? I’m juat trying to get you in bed.”

Yeah, space opera is about adventures in space but much urban fantasy is really light, light hearted, not really serious, with a wise cracking protagonist even when dealing with dark subject matter. Cheerful. That's just my impression of a lot of UF and Andromeda.

Also the awkward romance scenes remind me of the romance scenes in a lot of urban fantasy (which much of the time can blend into the paranormal romance genre. Like "Unwed and Undead" sometimes called paranormal romance sometimes urban fantasy.)

Good points. I'll try to view it through that lens during my next PT. (It will feature Scott, though, so less cringing in general.)

I wasn't ready to pack up and leave just yet, but you know me pretty well. As long as it's a productive conversation, and not a negative argument, I'm always willing to stick around until I get bored or exhaust my value to the discussion.