Mass Effect Megathread - This one doesn't have time for your solid waste excretions!
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Hey Shepherd [sic] heard I have you to thank you for getting out of Purgatory (sent a ship to round me up, but they didn't weapons-check good enough)! I'm gonna carve your name instead of mine into my next victim as thanks, got anyone you need dead (haha)? You did take a shot at me though on my way out so I have to kill you, you know how it goes. Dad taught me that you let anybody hurt you, they get ideas so you make sure to send a message, not like I'm sending now, though! See you around, the people who live here are coming back and it's showtime! Look around for your name, I'll make sure you find it before I find you! Billy…[/release]
[url]http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Purgatory#Message[/url]
Oh god, he's already on the Normandy...[/QUOTE]
Let him come. I'll be waiting.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7211550/Images/bring-it-on-bitches.png[/img]
[QUOTE=imadaman;26364317]They're building a Dyson Sphere esque station that'd house all Geth Programs. In ME2, it's been under construction for 216 or 261 years, forgot which.
Also, what's with the Old Machine pictures in Keji's Graybox?
[img_thumb]http://www.malshideaway.com/ME/sovereign1.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://www.malshideaway.com/ME/sovereign3.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
It's pictures of Soverign attached to the citadel tower. Alliance is probably studying it
I always thought I was shit at caracter face generation and that I don't know what real people are supposed to look like but when I see you guys talking about how much trouble you have makes me feel not so bad at it.
[sp]In Mass Effect 3, Shepard is replaced by John Freeman![/sp]
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;26372985][sp]In Mass Effect 3, Shepard is replaced by John Freeman![/sp][/QUOTE]
Your avatar defines my feelings.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;26374868][media]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk125/Frustratedsigh/IMG_9019.jpg[/media]
Durr hurr?[/QUOTE]
is that bruce willis
[QUOTE=ThePutty;26375105]is that bruce willis[/QUOTE]
After looking at pictures of Bruce Willis, I have to admit he bears a striking resemblance to him. This is my Space Marine Shepard, and I've been using him exclusively ever since I first made him in Mass Effect 1.
I enjoy the fact that day by day, Dubai starts to look more and more like a fucking Mass Effect city.
[img]http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/101/e/3/Mass_Effect_2_Bekenstein_by_droot1986.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2010/092501.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2010/102501.jpg[/img]
Jesus christ Dubai looks amazing.
are those real
Dubai spends shitloads of money on new and prototype buildings. Give it a bit of time and a lot of cities will look like that. The future is upon us.
I mean, shit, look at these buildings, and this is a few years back.
[img]http://www.travel-weblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dubai-Skyline.jpg[/img]
I always imagined Berkenstein as a combination of Dubai and the expensive parts of Moscow/New York.
[editline]28th November 2010[/editline]
Also, if Eden Prime is the best garden world in the known galaxy, why wasn't it colonized pre-human, and was apparently given to Humanity?
A few weeks ago, I was in Astronomy class and heard a bunch of guys nearby talking about video games. I expected to hear them talking about Call of Duty or Halo as usual. Instead, I heard them mention that they just started Mass Effect and were surprised at how good the story was.
That felt good.
Dubai will be the first city with a spaceport or something like that. Calling it now.
I forgot this was a thread about Dubai.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;26375728]I always imagined Berkenstein as a combination of Dubai and the expensive parts of Moscow/New York.
[editline]28th November 2010[/editline]
Also, if Eden Prime is the best garden world in the known galaxy, why wasn't it colonized pre-human, and was apparently given to Humanity?[/QUOTE]
Council races still hadn't and haven't explored the whole galaxy. There are still undiscovered relays and some relays haven't been unlocked because they're afraid of fighting another rachni for the next thousand years
So, now that I actually think about it, a lot of aliens tend to use the word "Years". Do they ever explain why they all seem to go by Earth years? I imagine it's the same thing as the whole "Aliens speak English" thing, where it's either just for the viewer's convenience or it's done through some sort of universal translator.
Automatic translator also translates other species timeframes to a similar figure in english.
Still doesn't explain why their mouths sync with the english though :P
E.G. Lets say turian years last 20 human months. If a turian says "5 years from now" the translator automatically converts that to 100 months, divided by 12 = 8.333 human years which would be rounded to 8 years.
The translators are basically just a bullshit excuse not to use subtitles. Personally, I'm all for it.
Also, I don't think anything like "Turian years" would exist in the ME universe. They probably would have come up with completely different time figures. I suppose the only way to measure alien "years" would be to go by what ever they use to measure age.
Why wouldn't they?
A year is the time it takes for your planet to orbit a sun. Any planet with an angled orbit will have seasons as well, giving you a reference for your years length, and days are a measurement from 1 dawn to the next.
Humans measurements of time all have reasoning behind them. (except hours minutes and seconds. wtf is this shit)
Oh yeah, you're right. I guess anything between days and years would be different. I should have thought of that.
But still, the main point that I tend to try to get at is that the aliens sometimes don't feel alien enough. Has anyone else ever felt this way?
That's because they're going for a star trek style, aliens are mostly humanoid with different colors/facial features.
If things become too alien it becomes hard to identify with them, for example, are you more interested in talking to a Hanar or a Quarian? It's easy to tell quarian body language, but very hard to tell Hanar body language, sure you'd probably talk to both, but you'd become more personal with the quarian because you can relate to their body language.
tl;dr, aliens become too alien, nobody wants to really talk to anything but humans.
[QUOTE=Saren;26307929]I actually thought shepard knocked miranda's hand on her face.[/QUOTE]
He did. The sheer badassery of that discourse of dialogue is distressing and damning to the universe at large.
inDubitably
I think it mentions it in one of the books so I think this is correct.
Each planet has to be around a similar size with similar gravity to give creatures as similar as the ones in ME so most planets can be considered similar. Stars that can sustain life cannot give out too much harsh radiation and must be old and stable enough making them slightly limited in what they can be. Planets that sustain life have to be in a "goldilocks" zone of not too hot and not too cold. Dynamics states that for a given planet orbiting a given star at a given distance, it must be travelling at a known speed to be in a stable orbit. With the tolerances placed on this, it can be calculated that planets around similar stars to each in similar environments will have very similar years.
The Citadel council set a galactic year as an average of all races home world years and it comes up similar to Earth years only off by about 20 days. While each race has their own years, this is the council standard.
I know there is a problem with this given all the different peaks which could sustain life rather than just our one. A larger star at a further distance on a smaller planet could have the same qualities as Earth and be different but I guess it keeps it nice and neat if they are all from the same area.
[quote]11/29/2010 - Citadel to Launch Investigation into Attack on EAE Fleet
“The Migrant Fleet's place in Citadel space is today's leading debate, as the Presidium prepares to launch an independent investigation into the destruction of an Eldfell-Ashland Energy mining fleet. "That this is even being discussed is frightening," says asari diplomat Cerca T'Awnas. "There's been no time to inspect the fleet's wreckage, and no formal charges were laid. It's a blatantly premature condemnation of the of the quarian people." Public opinion on the matter, however, is more mixed. "The Flotilla is a floating scrap yard," says an entry from popular blogger Feyro Derlan. "When too many ships are beyond repair, what are the quarians going to do, take out a loan? It was only a matter of time before they turned pirate."”
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[QUOTE=Devodiere;26377669]I think it mentions it in one of the books so I think this is correct.
Each planet has to be around a similar size with similar gravity to give creatures as similar as the ones in ME so most planets can be considered similar. Stars that can sustain life cannot give out too much harsh radiation and must be old and stable enough making them slightly limited in what they can be. Planets that sustain life have to be in a "goldilocks" zone of not too hot and not too cold. Dynamics states that for a given planet orbiting a given star at a given distance, it must be travelling at a known speed to be in a stable orbit. With the tolerances placed on this, it can be calculated that planets around similar stars to each in similar environments will have very similar years.
The Citadel council set a galactic year as an average of all races home world years and it comes up similar to Earth years only off by about 20 days. While each race has their own years, this is the council standard.
I know there is a problem with this given all the different peaks which could sustain life rather than just our one. A larger star at a further distance on a smaller planet could have the same qualities as Earth and be different but I guess it keeps it nice and neat if they are all from the same area.[/QUOTE]
I read the same, Probably in Ascension. With the addition of the standard galactic 26-ish hrs day
[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;26376524]Still doesn't explain why their mouths sync with the english though :P
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The case [I]just might be[/I] that it's a game
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