Conservative Douchebag hates on Mass Effect

[Charla]

it does piss me off that when playing a female character your only romantic option leading to sex is with Liara whereas Kaidan is not.

Maybe I misunderstood but I just wanted to point out that the female lead can have sex w/ Kaidan, and has a hilarious comment about him finally getting to "serve under her" in the process.

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Whoever is making this fuss is ignorant. Using a 10 second clip to summarize a 30 hour game is hilarious. It'd be like saying Titanic was just about Kate Winslet disrobing.

It's only 30 hours? I would have guessed closer to 70 from all the talk about it.

I got about 150ish out of Disgaea 1, maybe 90-120 on Disgaea 2 (didn't check quite so much), and I'm at 50+ on Persona 3 and only up to October. First playthough on all 3 that is.

[Akiyama]

To take a valuable quote from the fun loving show, Shin Chan..

"LEEEESBIAN!"

[Kazen]

Your maybe 2/3 dones Persona 3, you have a bit to go on a pretty epic game 8)

But yeah, this thing over mass effect is retarded lol. I'm just kinda surpised Thompson didnt start it first.

[Elesirdur]

it does piss me off that when playing a female character your only romantic option leading to sex is with Liara whereas Kaidan is not.

Maybe I misunderstood but I just wanted to point out that the female lead can have sex w/ Kaidan, and has a hilarious comment about him finally getting to "serve under her" in the process.

Oh really? I stand corrected then. However, I've only played as male Shepards because I can't stand the female Shepard's voice actress. She was great as Bastilla in KOTOR but I think she takes the husky thing a bit too far in ME.

Regardless, this guys comments almost border on libel and I kind of hope that a PR rep from BioWare gets authorized to make a statement in response to these flat-out lies regarding what I feel is an amazing game and storytelling experience.

[Alleya]

I think Tycho over at Penny Arcade said it best.

I don't like to advocate violence, because it argues against the thesis of the site, but Jesus Christ. This man should be loosed naked into the savannah, where wild animals - drunk on his heady bouquet - will attempt to drag him in different directions simultaneously. I'm clearly in the wrong line of fucking work.

[Cephius]

it does piss me off that when playing a female character your only romantic option leading to sex is with Liara whereas Kaidan is not.

Maybe I misunderstood but I just wanted to point out that the female lead can have sex w/ Kaidan, and has a hilarious comment about him finally getting to "serve under her" in the process.

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Whoever is making this fuss is ignorant. Using a 10 second clip to summarize a 30 hour game is hilarious. It'd be like saying Titanic was just about Kate Winslet disrobing.

It's only 30 hours? I would have guessed closer to 70 from all the talk about it.

I got about 150ish out of Disgaea 1, maybe 90-120 on Disgaea 2 (didn't check quite so much), and I'm at 50+ on Persona 3 and only up to October. First playthough on all 3 that is.

It took me 20 hours to get through the game the first time. I did a fair amount of side quests, but not all of them. I got 490 achievement points from the first playthrough, you'll need to go through it at least 4-5 more times to unlock everything. The classes are pretty different in the powers and weapons that you use, and its so much fun to play as an asshole after playing through as the "nice guy"

I actually like the female voice acting, but feel the male leaves something to be desired. The emotion in his voice (or lack thereof in some cases) makes him seem really awkward in a lot of the conversation, whereas the female voice actor seems to pull things off very well. Also it may just be distortion from listening to YouTube, but the voice in those videos sound different than what my guy sounds like... did they use multiple voice actors or just one?

[Charla]

Oh yeah, relevant webomic!

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-12-29

[Xavier]

30 hours is pretty much one full completion, but most people are going to be playing it several times.

[Egon]

I'm a huge conservative and I have never eaten a baby.

[Elesirdur]

30 hours is pretty much one full completion, but most people are going to be playing it several times.

I'm on my third full play through, second time on my second Shepard trying to hit 60.

[Correction]

Oh yeah, relevant webomic!

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-12-29

Even more relevant webcomic!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/15

Treat this man like Jack Thompson. Just ignore him. He's feeding off this press right now like the graceless parasite he is.

[Charla]

That's not fair! I thought they only posted comics on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...

[Kerberoz]

Feminist bitch spreads more lies about Mass Effect:

Video here:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/01/vid ... ox-on.html

Gamers from shitloads of gaming forums are raiding her book on amazon giving her 1 star reviews here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159921 ... roduct_top

Surprisingly EA comes to the defense of the game: http://kotaku.com/348187/ea-calls-fox-o ... accuracies

more info here: http://news.filefront.com/gamers-strike ... on-amazon/

and of course

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/CooperLawrence

[Xavier]

I just saw the story picked up on 1up.com, pretty awesome on the part of EA. They're a pretty huge company by their own right, so its natural that they'd be quite vocal against such blatant lying.

[archibaldcrane]

For some reason that Fox News dogpile really boiled my blood more than I expected it to.

wtf does "full digital nudity" even mean?

[Michuru]

Must have been a slow news day....

[Leonock]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L13Ct40cFIU

ugh.

[Correction]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L13Ct40cFIU

ugh.

While I get the intended sarcasm in the youtube description,

In another excellent piece of journolistic skill, Fox News showcase the horrors of Mass Effect with it's full screen pornography!!!!

So according to Fox, if Xbox dosn't turn your child into a fachist, xenophobic Nazi, it's now going to turn them into a lecherous sexist pervert!!!

I find it hard to swallow bagging on someone else's journalistic ability when this is the best English they can throw together before patting themselves on the back a hundred times for getting most viewed/rated all over youtube UK.

[Blarg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L13Ct40cFIU

ugh.

While I get the intended sarcasm in the youtube description,

In another excellent piece of journolistic skill, Fox News showcase the horrors of Mass Effect with it's full screen pornography!!!!

So according to Fox, if Xbox dosn't turn your child into a fachist, xenophobic Nazi, it's now going to turn them into a lecherous sexist pervert!!!

I find it hard to swallow bagging on someone else's journalistic ability when this is the best English they can throw together before patting themselves on the back a hundred times for getting most viewed/rated all over youtube UK.

All that shows is that even idiots know how dumb fox's journalism is.

[Xavier]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165622

Fox News: Fuck off EA, fuck off.