Ugh. Vega. He's just another blah space marine. I tried talking to him as much as possible and just got nothing. Killed it for me at least. Why not Garrus?!
Since SXSW outlawed music over a decade ago, the annual conference/festival has ended up focusing on a wide range of entertainment, internet stuff, and nonsense. This includes the first look -- kinda sorta -- of the Mass Effect anime from Funimation and Production I.G. The video shows some of the concept art, and reveals the main focus is a character from ME3 that I've heard no one mention, positively or negatively, since the game's release. Still, maybe this shit will be exciting to a few of you.
Question: Am I the only one who think the Dragon Age anime should have been traditional 2-D and the Mass Effect anime should be CG? It just seems to make more sense to me. (Via Japanator)
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Why is there this need to make everything into anime?
I mean, you don't often see a Japanese game being translated into a western-style comic book (MARVEL PRESENTS: THE LEGEND OF ZELDA!) or movie (AVATAR notwithstanding) but every single big hit western-style game (and many movie and comic franchises, too) gets the anime treatment.
I can understand a Zelda anime, or a Final Fantasy anime. But why take a cool, totally western game and replace all the things that make it cool with the things that anime fans prefer?
I just don't get it. I think for this reason alone, the anime fans deserved Shyamalan's version of Avatar, and they'll deserve the inevitably bad Akira, too.
Can't the Japanese and anime fans just enjoy Mass Effect as it is, in it's original style?
Avatar's American, but I'd still call it Anime. Maybe you have a stricter definition that I do.
The first poster was talking about Japanese adaptations of American stuff and vice-versa, and the Last Airbender movie was an (awful) American adaptation of an American show, so it doesn't fit with their point.
And if we're defining anime by anything other than country of origin, how to we define it? Certainly Avatar looks like a lot of anime, but if we're going by a specific style, then would The Boondocks be anime also? Would The Big O and Panty and Stocking not be anime because they're stylized like Batman: The Animated Series and The Powerpuff Girls respectively? What sort of stylistic trait is there that Akira and K-on have in common that would define them both as anime?
i wonder how they will incorporate the Bioware fuck you to the fans.......will they have a Bioware logo jumping up and down sticking its tongue, waving a fan of 100 dollar bills and laughing??????
Vega is okay if you can get past the fact that he's voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr.
Speaking of voice acting, when Jessica Chobot does her interview/news segments, does she sound like she does when she's voicing Diana Allers? If so, how is she popular? Do people like her ironically? I've heard oak trees give less wooden line reads.
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I haven't been a fan of Vega and it saddens me that he's the star of the anime. He's easily the most uninteresting character in all of Bioware products. He was so obviously put in the game as a pander to new fans. The whole time I had to interact with him in ME3 I cringed.....because I have this gut feeling he's going to be the star of a Mass Effect spin-off/Gears of War rip-off.
No, Rob. Just no. 2D anime >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the new 3D CG bull crap.
Call me an old fashioned old codger, but that's just how I see it.
I actually really liked Vega. He actually seemed like an Alliance Marine. Sure he was a meat head, but it just so happens that I've met a lot of real life marines who are good-natured lunks. :)
Sums it up for me, too; I was kind of "meh" about him until I wandered through a room once where he was swapping stories with Garrus, and since then he's grown on me a lot. At the very least, whoever wrote him had a decent sense of humor.
Swapping stories with Garrus, and the joke scene between him and the prothean character (if you were as weak-willed about DLC as I was) were probably my favorite 'hidden' scenes in the whole game.
Got shown the Krogan art last night - looks more like someone shoved a Krogan in an Eva suit.
As for Vega, I didn't mind him. Used him more than Kaidan, that's for sure.
Though it sounds to me like some people hate him. But then, that's Mass Effect for you - it's so player-driven it's easy for people to love or hate things.
It seems like in every Bioware game there's this one character lots of people hate.
Carth in KOTOR; Kaidan in ME; maybe Jack in ME2; Alistair in DA: O; Carver in DA2; now Vega in ME3.
I actually ended up liking the entire cast of all of these once I got to know them. Except Carth.
I send him into the vents and choose Zaeed or Tali as the first fire team leader. Jacob takes a rocket to the face....its fucking hilarious.
How do you kill him? I ignore him as much as possible. Everything else is so wonderfully done. I know characters can die at the end but it doesn't really matter there, 'cause it's over.
Oh, I forgot about Jacob... That pretty much descibes my feelings about him, actually.
Jacob Taylor - whoever voice acted that did a poor job with a poor script, clearly a filler character, worst squadie from 2
I actually liked Kaidan. Ashley's alright, too. They're both kind of flat if you don't romance them.
What I found hilarious was if you talk to Kaidan enough, he'll actually say "I just don't want you to think that I'm, you know, a whiner."
Your logic has no influence on me. Dragon Age should be CG 3D! and Mass Effect should be still drawings with moving lips super imposed on them when they talk.
