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Both Alberta people and frenchies are faggots that's why it was fun to watch both frenchies & Alberta fags seethe while were LARPing as pure toronto faggots at a random pub in Banff

Granted, the biggest problem with the premise was the fact that it is a Mass Effect game, but my point stands.

This is the real reason the game failed.

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Nobody gave that big of a shit about the premise.
Both games are shit. Anyone who gets hard over a dirty gypsy living in a suit their whole lives has issues. Asari seems like a writer trying too hard to write a race that everyone has a fetish for. Then there's the beast lovers who think thane and Garrus are hot. Degenerates, every single one of them
 

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Granted, the biggest problem with the premise was the fact that it is a Mass Effect game, but my point stands.

This is the real reason the game failed.

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Nobody gave that big of a shit about the premise.
I disagree, Tali seems like as a decent young woman (in the games, not in the picture above); and Sara Ryder (admittedly a bit boring) was the least of Andromeda's problems. Liara was just creepy.
 

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Edmonton is the opposite of french Canada.

Can't comment on Valerian claims.

I realize where Edmonton is, but we don't live in a time where people die where they were born. This is especially true in our favorite industry. If I were a French-speaking Canadian in the 2000s and I wanted to work in game dev, I would definitely apply for a job at Bioware, even if it meant changing my address.
No, you would want to stay in Quebec where people actually speak French, you are trapped due to an inherited rent control apartment, and there are 1000x more game dev jobs due to government subsidies.

Now? Probably. But in the 2000s, when Bioware was on the rise?

Oh yeah. Frenchies love Alberta and Alberta loves the Frenchies. Which is why it's arguably the most French hostile area in the entire country. :lol:

Oh yes, and I'm sure Québécoises are afraid that angry people will burn down their houses. In 2000s Canada.
 

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That's because redditors come here to voice their non-Reddit opinions. Most people here are also Redditors but we go to Reddit to share our brain-dead retarded intrusive thoughts so we can be marginally more thoughtful (and offensive) here.

Nobody cares enough to actually do this and if somebody did then their autistic ass has a lot more to worry about than what people on an obscure internet forum thinks of them.

That's because redditors come here to voice their non-Reddit opinions. Most people here are also Redditors but we go to Reddit to share our brain-dead retarded intrusive thoughts so we can be marginally more thoughtful (and offensive) here.
I know JarlFrank and Kony are redditors. Who else?
This is the real reason the game failed.
Former BSN and Reddit would be better places for you.

I prefer ifunny.co thank you very much. :-D
 
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They wanted to make Liara something of the Leliana of the ME franchise, but Leliana has something of a character to her at least. Liara is just fucking boring.
 

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They wanted to make Liara something of the Leliana of the ME franchise, but Leliana has something of a character to her at least. Liara is just fucking boring.
It's more like they wanted to make Leliana the Liara. Liara was a mary sue fetish insert from day one, Leliana wasn't at all in DAO and was only in DA2 at all for a few minutes. ME2 and 3 were even more aggressive with Liara just like DAI was with Leliana, who before its release became DA's Liara in the absolutely terrible tie in books.

Who's worse anyway, Liara or Aria?
 
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Well, you're right. Got the releases' timelines a bit messed up. But Leliana is a much better character than Liara ever was. Her becoming a mistress of the underworld felt so forced, a true asspull. Leliana being a bard always felt justified and not entirely out of character. Even with the Imoen image. I had to google Aria, barely remember her and tbh I didn't had that DLC. The asari as a whole are fucking boring tbh, and only good as porn fodder.

Seems like I have to replay ME. It's almost been a decade now, I think the last time I went through those games was like 2015 or so.
 

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Well, you're right. Got the releases' timelines a bit messed up. But Leliana is a much better character than Liara ever was. Her becoming a mistress of the underworld felt so forced, a true asspull. Leliana being a bard always felt justified and not entirely out of character. Even with the Imoen image. I had to google Aria, barely remember her and tbh I didn't had that DLC. The asari as a whole are fucking boring tbh, and only good as porn fodder.

Seems like I have to replay ME. It's almost been a decade now, I think the last time I went through those games was like 2015 or so.
Liara's a worse character overall but I think Leliana's more annoying in that her character in the later games doesn't change at all based on anything you do in DAO. She's always been one of the prime examples of Bioware slapping players in the face regarding C&C.

Convinced her to give up her old life for good in favor of the Chantry? Too bad, she's a crazy bard again and now she's an atheist.
Romanced her? Too bad, throwaway line of dialogue, no other effects.
Killed her? Too bad, Origins Leliana was just a dream the whole time.

With Liara you never had any input on her character, with Leliana they undid almost anything the players could've done in the stupidest ways to make her DA's Liara. Maybe it's just the consequence of DA originally being meant as one game without sequels. Nothing between O and I isn't retconned.
 
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Both Leliana and Liara are annoying because nothing you do with them changes, however Leliana's character is much more jarring. All the points 9ted6 pointed out with Leliana are true, and you can make those points because you had the chance to make a lot of choices in regards to Leliana. There really wasn't anything to do with Liara other than romance her so her change from shy, historian nerd to strong, independent womyn information dealer was just writers being retarded. They didn't spit in the face of the player ignoring anything with Liara other than having to restart romance with her in both ME2 & ME3.

Both characters suffered from what I speculate is a writer wanting to self insert some strong woman character.
 

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There are no sexy characters in Mass Effect. Not even Miranda.

Sex appeal was sorely lacking but that's fine since romance in BioWare games is trash.

Imagine, a whole race of "sexy" aliens that were strictly women, whose whole thing is to breed with every alien race imaginable, and they look like this:

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Uh god why, my eyes fuck.
 
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Uh god why, my eyes fuck.

Definitely agree with this point, although I did find Liara to be a legitimately attractive character. Maybe not exactly sexy, but I did like her

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It was kind of a bummer when I realised that they have sex with brain signals or whatever the fuck
Imagine Femshep's line "You're attracted to me even though we're both women?" appearing in a game today.
 

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There are no sexy characters in Mass Effect. Not even Miranda.

Sex appeal was sorely lacking but that's fine since romance in BioWare games is trash.

Imagine, a whole race of "sexy" aliens that were strictly women, whose whole thing is to breed with every alien race imaginable, and they look like this:

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Uh god why, my eyes fuck.
I never understood the Miranda phenomenon. Like her actress, she is considered very attractive for some reason, to me she looks like an aging bartender.

The only sex appeal Mass Effect had, if there was one, ended with the first part. After the scandal with the Titanic scene, Bioware was afraid to touch anything that had to do with real sex.
 

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Who's worse anyway, Liara or Aria?

Liara's worse. And it's funny considering that the whole point of the Shadow Broker dlc was to basically turn her into Aria. For her part, Aria is actually pretty good if you sidestep her appearances in the spinoff material and stick to ME2 where she serves as a Virgil-like figure for a renegade Shepard.
 

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There are no sexy characters in Mass Effect. Not even Miranda.

Sex appeal was sorely lacking but that's fine since romance in BioWare games is trash.

Imagine, a whole race of "sexy" aliens that were strictly women, whose whole thing is to breed with every alien race imaginable, and they look like this:

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Uh god why, my eyes fuck.
That remindes me of:
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She was the most ugly and annoying Asari in Mass Effect.
EW.
 

9ted6

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There are no sexy characters in Mass Effect. Not even Miranda.

Sex appeal was sorely lacking but that's fine since romance in BioWare games is trash.

Imagine, a whole race of "sexy" aliens that were strictly women, whose whole thing is to breed with every alien race imaginable, and they look like this:

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Uh god why, my eyes fuck.
That remindes me of:
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She was the most ugly and annoying Asari in Mass Effect.
EW.
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I never understood the Miranda phenomenon. Like her actress, she is considered very attractive for some reason, to me she looks like an aging bartender.
I get not finding any ME characters hot, but not even Yvonne Strahovski? You sure you aren't gay?

Yvonne is (was) fine. Miranda, however, is "Hi. I'm 35 years old, have two children from two different fathers and I want to speak with your menager".

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