Reply to a comment on my mass effect video -

“there not thinking with there upstairs brain is why & there isn’t much I there upstairs brains to begin with there idiot virgins basically living with there mothers lol”

This is adding on to a comment of a guy who thought I just wanted Samara to be fuckable and was one of those people who wanted every character to be so.

Maybe if I just repeat this enough times it’ll get through -

“People seem to have trouble actually listening to what I’ve said, on multiple occasions. I don’t want Samara to be fuckable. I don’t want a full blown romance. I don’t want them to even kiss. But it’s made clear there is mutual feeling and in this instance, it wasn’t addressed in a way I felt was fitting with Samara. It should have been more direct than a line so subtle that most of the people who got it missed it entirely. THAT is why I say it’s lazy, because they didn’t write her correctly.”

That one particular scene, in the original game, NOT counting the Citadel DLC content. That was not done correctly. I didn’t expect a big flashy romance cutscene, I didn’t expect them to get all fluffy and amorous with each other. I just wanted it to be addressed. I wanted it to matter that my Shepard, having being alone for 9-12 years after the nightmare that was Akuze, fell in love with and tried to pursue Samara.

And that even after that attempt failed, she didn’t just give up and go after someone else. It wasn’t a throwaway decision to try and mend her own wounds, she genuinely loved Samara.

So to not have it properly addressed it that moment, to have it be condensed into a line so vague and subtle when Samara is a direct person in such matters - it was out of character. It was lazily written.

JFC I wish I could just link youtube people to a post. Not that I think it would help because you need a drill to get through skulls that thick.

electrikfeather:

What if instead of putting up with everyone’s bullshit in ME3, Shepard had just been like… “I have literally saved the actual physical ass of at least one person on every planet in this galaxy all y’all motherfuckers better fall in line or so help me…” and if anyone disagreed or tried to make her run a stupid errand, she’d just sort of stare at them until they started crying? I think that probably would have worked.

Then the rest of the game could have been spent blowing reapers out of the sky from day one, and going for space ice cream with the Normady crew.

Traynor, the only romanceable option my Shepard was interested in. He’s a guy.

She’s gay. Ffffff

Please, tell me more about how difficult it is for you that a character you’re interested in has an incompatible orientation.

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crogamer002:

Why is there a mod to make Traynor romancable for ManShep?!

I came out of BSN hibernation JUST for this.

Special occasions, don’t ya just love ‘em?

Totally don’t want to get my hopes up about that “rekindle” romances part of the new Citadel DLC.

But apparently this is the last DLC for ME3? Pretty much making the rest of the DLCs pointless because if they weren’t building up to an ending where we won under our own steam (seriously, wtf difference is Omega or the Leviathans going to make?) then what was the point?

The point was EA having dollar signs for eyeballs.

I’m never not going to be bitter over this travesty but at least I’ve got my own endings written down. 

God damnit, Bioware

bamfbugboy:

protheanwardencommander:

sinnesl0schen:

spicyshimmy:

galacticdrugdealer:

majorbioticbutt:

What if Mass Effect 4 is based post Reaper war.

And they have statues of Shepard, and in an area you can see the Normandy out of commission, docked, worn from lack of use and from the weather?

how do you expect me to play it if i can’t see through these tears

there’s the jeff moreau scholarship fund for aptitude placement tests and summer school flight lessons. the thane krios memorial hospital. the legion omnitool app for kids ages five and up to understand the geth better than anyone ever did in previous generations. there’s a mordin solus memorial beach, too.

and the normandy’s a galactic treasure. for fifteen hundred credits—six hundred for seniors, five hundred for kids under thirteen, free for school groups if you reserve in advance—you can take a tour of the old ship. you can see joker’s cockpit, steve cortez’s shuttle bay, james vega’s chin-up bar.

an empty hamster wheel and empty fish tanks. you can step inside the private terminal and close your eyes and, over the speaker system, there’s a simple recording: hackett out. 

there’s garrus vakarian’s calibrations. the old memorial wall, gilding on the letters starting to peel and fade. an empty bottle of serrice ice brandy in a glass-front cabinet in the med bay. 

the model ship collection is missing, donated to a museum a long time ago as per commander shepard’s wishes, with express instructions that it’s going to be an interactive exhibit. anybody can play with them. 

every day, the gift shop down the way sells out of normandy keychains and spectre patches. kids with wide eyes walk away really believing in the same hope that lived through plenty of yesterdays. 

and, long after the graying major vega stops stopping by, the shadow of a hardened turian cast over the neighboring ground fading from view, the glint of light off a quarian’s mask winking out, an asari still visits every year on april 11th. some days, she’s joined by two krogans. 

the rest of the year, people stop now and then when they walk by—until they’re so used to the old relic being there that it becomes a part of their shared horizon, just another shape set against the sky. 

this is not ok jfc