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09-26-2009, 12:10 PM
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As part of their Tokyo Game Show demonstration, BioWare has revealed Subject Zero, a foul-mouthed female character that can join Shepard's squad in Mass Effect 2. "Now who's the badass biotic, bitch?" I mean, really? That sounds like it's straight out of an 80's flick.
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09-26-2009, 12:58 PM
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well, mass effect was made in part in homage to the classic 80s sci-fi movies like blade runner so that makes perfect sense to me! the sooner me2 gets here, the better!
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09-26-2009, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by bcfish  well, mass effect was made in part in homage to the classic 80s sci-fi movies like blade runner so that makes perfect sense to me! | Mass Effect definitely possesses some influence from early sci-fi movies, but I don't ever remember cheesy lines like the one I quoted above in anything other than the pure action flicks - Cobra, Commando, Predator, etc. Blade Runner was a far more sophisticated movie, and I'd be hard pressed to find even a few direct comparisons from it to Mass Effect.
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09-26-2009, 06:21 PM
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Saw this yesterday I'm still trying to noodle out what I think about Subject Zero. On one hand I can only think, "Another scantily clad, man-eating woman? Really, BW?" whereas on the other hand I do recall seeing early previews of Wrex and thinking he was useful only for parroting tacky dialog cliches.
I'll reserve final judgments until I play the game, but I'm leery.
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09-26-2009, 10:44 PM
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If I was actually interested in this game I would probably be pretty pissed off right about now.
But I'm not, so instead I will point and laugh. Haw haw!
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09-27-2009, 01:53 AM
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Yeah, the writing is a bit cringe-inducing, but it's usually like that for trailers. Some of Mass Effect's dialogue was cringe-inducing anyways, so it just comes with the territory. If its the same quality as the first game, I'll still end up getting it.
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09-27-2009, 02:13 AM
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ME2 really seems to be straying from the original's "flavor", if you could call it that.
As for the character, I couldn't help but think of what Jeanette (Bloodlines) would have been like if EA took Troika.
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09-27-2009, 04:08 AM
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That was a rather distasteful trailer...
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09-27-2009, 01:09 PM
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That was quite horrible  . Before watching the trailer I thought the lines Buck quoted would be funny, but alas they were said in such a serious manner that is was not.
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09-28-2009, 12:43 AM
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If I want to make a list of characters that I loathe, I can guarantee that Subject Zero will be in it. 
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09-28-2009, 01:07 AM
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That looked .... awful.
Good thing my single player video gaming mostly still consist of old games. At least it is possible to find substance in them.....
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09-28-2009, 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by DesR85 If I want to make a list of characters that I loathe, I can guarantee that Subject Zero will be in it. | Well, from what I've seen, BioWare is taking no effort whatsoever to make her endearing to the player. Quite the opposite really...
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