Mass Effect 3

[tmp]

Oddly enough i found the broken ending quite fitting, given the nature of the protagonist and where the final actions take place (and what leads to them) It's like some sort of surreal "they're all dead or getting there and it's no longer real world" sequences that aren't too out of place for "epic story" finale.

[Simond]

What he said. I was really pleased with K2 until the ending that didn't happen. Friday must have come early.

Essentially, EA rolled up said "Yeah, you know how we said 'end of Q2 next year' for KOTOR2? Change of plan. Have it done by the holidays. Yes, I know that's only two months away".

[Ingmar]

EA wasn't involved.  You mean LucasArts.

[Simond]

Oops, yeah, I was thinking of everything Bioware's released in the last few years instead. 

[Reg]

Bioware hasn't released anything even close to Obsidian levels of rushed out the door shittiness.

[Nonentity]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfvo5ueKJY8

Video 'revealing' the voice actors for Mass Effect 3.

Jessica fucking Chobot is a character on your ship. They even modeled her character after her.

I'm... FUCK. FUCK HER. WHY.

[HaemishM]

Who is Jessica Chobot and why should I care?

[sickrubik]

The nerds like her because of things like this:


I think she works/worked at IGN or something. I dunno.

ah, yes, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Chobot

"Jessica Chobot (born Jessica Lynn Horn) is an American on-camera host and staff writer for IGN. She is best known for hosting the IGN shows IGN Strategize and Weekly Wood, which also runs on Xbox Live and used to present the IGN Daily Fix."

[TripleDES]

It isn't so much Jessica Chobot, as that Bioware/EA/whoever is trying to pander to nerds. Because as of now, she has the skankiest NPC in the game. All NPCs up until now where fully covered, including the table dancers in the bars. At most uncovered arms. With the exception of those romance scenes I guess. But then she comes along and gets to run around in a thin-strap minidress. So not obvious.

[Nonentity]

That picture of her licking a PSP went viral and she got into the industry because of it. Y'know, proper credentials.

[sickrubik]

Can we take a moment to admire Keith David's shirt?

[tmp]

But then she comes along and gets to run around in a thin-strap minidress. So not obvious.

She is simply dressed all proper to take care of your fish.

[caladein]

Firstly, it can't be worse than creepy-square-faced Felicia Day.  Secondly, that Vega guy doesn't seem so bad now.

Thirdly, all Non's raging reminded me of is the kit car episode of Top Gear where Clarkson says something along the lines of, "We three are extremely well qualified for this as I trained as a local newspaper reporter, Hammond as a local radio DJ, and James as a pianist."

[tmp]

Supposedly her character is some sort of news reporter.

as seen on the official forums:

CAN I PUNCH IT

I SAID, CAN I PUNCH IT

seriously. no reporter escapes.

 

[HaemishM]

IGN. Really. An IGN show host is somehow a voice actor for a video game. Really? REALLY? I weep.

[Ingmar]

Supposedly her character is some sort of news reporter.

as seen on the official forums:

CAN I PUNCH IT

I SAID, CAN I PUNCH IT

seriously. no reporter escapes.

 

Emily Wong already escaped!

[tmp]

Well, shit. That calls for a DLC.

[Trippy]

That picture of her licking a PSP went viral and she got into the industry because of it. Y'know, proper credentials.

Licking things *is* one of the job requirements:

Site NSFW

[UnSub]

Because as of now, she has the skankiest NPC in the game. All NPCs up until now where fully covered, including the table dancers in the bars. At most uncovered arms.

Jack.

[TripleDES]

Oh right, forgot. Intentionally.

Anyway, here's another fun one, which I somehow missed back when the story leaked:
 

[Merusk]

It isn't so much Jessica Chobot, as that Bioware/EA/whoever is trying to pander to nerds. Because as of now, she has the skankiest NPC in the game. All NPCs up until now where fully covered, including the table dancers in the bars. At most uncovered arms. With the exception of those romance scenes I guess. But then she comes along and gets to run around in a thin-strap minidress. So not obvious.

Beyond Jack this is just taking the Body Paint pandering of ME2 at E3 and tossing it in game.  Gamers like to be pandered to, we pay money for all sort of jiggly bits and ridiculous outfits.  You just happen to take offense to this one because for some reason this woman triggers nerd rage in large portions of the internet populous.

[Paelos]

I don't know who she is and don't care.

I've always found the sselective geek obsession with Liara annoying.

[Stormwaltz]

Anyway, here's another fun one, which I somehow missed back when the story leaked:
 

Comments:

[Bunk]

You make it sound like they actualy feel a need to stick within the canoniacal/technological framework you helped create. You don't really believe that do you?

"Let's give Edi boobs!"
"We can't sir, it would break all the rules established by canon in the first two games!"
"Screw that - boobs! Nerds love boobs!"

Ok, maybe its not that bad. And we do actualy love boobs.

[Lakov_Sanite]

RE: EDI

[TripleDES]

RE: EDI

[Lantyssa]

RE: EDI

[Lakov_Sanite]

She is, fully functional.

[tmp]

RE: EDI

[TripleDES]

RE: EDI

[tmp]

Back to shameless nerd baiting for a moment, looks it goes a step further, too

Chobot's character one of the romance options

have to say finding it personally a step right into the "ugh" zone.

[Ingmar]

I've never heard of this chick, so I guess I don't really see why I should get all pissed off. I'll judge it on execution.

[tmp]

I've never heard of this chick, so I guess I don't really see why I should get all pissed off. I'll judge it on execution.

I'm not familiar with her either, so similar to how Felicia Day's lookalike was put in Dragon Age DLC this mostly makes me wonder what's the developers' opinion on the strength of their game, if they feel the need for such marketing gimmick. To some extent there's also   at the Blizzard-like A POP CULTURE REFERENCE SO WE CAN HAVE A POP CULTURE REFERENCE that i feel dillutes the focus/writing.

Making such lookalike of actual person though when they're virtually fuckable by the player's AV, can't help but /facepalm and go "Really, BioWare?" at it. Although i suppose that ship has already sailed with Yvonne Strahowski in ME2...

[Ingmar]

Making the character look like the voice actor isn't really tremendously odd, I don't think. They've definitely done it with ones where you wouldn't really call it pandering as well - the Illusive Man, for example. Some others I'm less sure about but seem possible.

[tmp]

Making the character look like the voice actor isn't really tremendously odd, I don't think.

I think it's practiced (though not too frequently, yet) but odd to me since it's willingly giving up on one of the advantages games have over movies -- being able to fully control/customize appearance of the cast. And because these characters could just as easily look entirely different, it feels like it's done pretty much for the sake of having a constant 4th wall breaking reminder, "hey look! hey look! hey look! it's this famous person you know from those movies, that provides the voice!"

... i'm just not a fan.