>one of three actually good character additions in ME2

That's still 3 more than 3 and 1 more than 1

>>714708314 (OP)
her aussie voice made my pp skyrocket

This is a JACK board.

>>714708587
Okay. 4 character additions

they gave this bitch a lineup for the legacy edition

>>714708314 (OP)
1. Samara
2. Zaeed
3. Jack
4. Niftu Cal (biotic god)
5. Kelly Chambers (bimbo)

>>714708314 (OP)
pic unrelated

>>714710259
Samara's an anime character

>>714708314 (OP)
>Miranda
>good

????

did they ever explain why the supposedly genetically perfect human has that face?

>>714711954
maybe it was necessary sacrifice to create the ultimate ass

>>714711954
Because shitty facescan. She's supposed to look like this

>>714712298
okay but serious question why would anyone scan that specific face?

>>714711954
No angles, lightning and makeup that can trick your eyes in a video game. Her ugly manjaw face just looks like that

>>714708314 (OP)
Legion, Mordin, Zaeed, Miranda, Jack in that order

She truly was the first of the ugly ass western females that are so common these days. What a fucking mistake

>>714711954
nobody cares about her face

>>714712346
She was popular among the nerds back then

>>714711320
face blindness is a common symptom of autism

>>714708314 (OP)
The fact that they bothered to take out MIranda's ass shots for legendary edition, but not fix that god awful face scan still pisses me off to this day.

>>714715136
thankfully a simple mod fixes the ass shot, but i know what you mean

>>714708587
>can't let Jack and Miranda kill each other in some massive biotic fight
What a shame.

>>714715313
can't fix the broken ai, broken dynamic lighting, broken animations, or just about aanything els in that mess

>>714716781
>can't let the fight go on long enough for them to kiss and have sweaty angry sex on the floor you can join in on

>>714712298
like a crimson chin?

>>714718138
>that dialogue in Citadel where you can tell them to just kiss already

>>714715136
>>714712298
They really fucked up her face scan damn

>>714718138
i could see jack being down with a threesome. miranda, not so much.

>>714715136
They made it even worse.

>>714722117
me, jack and tali dumping miranda's corpse in a ditch

>>714711954
I chalk it up to the model being off by like 15% of what the vision was and that's enough to ruin what it's going for. Like how people with really really angular faces look like models but also sort of weird for some of them.

>>714708314 (OP)
>>714708812
>>714722202
Miranda's barber gave her the Cerberus launchpad

>>714708314 (OP)
Miranda's pretty shit actually. They did nothing with her.
She should have been the Shadow Broker to challenge TIM and achieve something without him or her father.
The best characters in ME2 are Mordin, Legion, Thane, and Jack
The good are Garrus, Tali, Grunt, Samara and Zaeed
The missed opportunities are Miranda, Jacob, and Kasumi

Miranda is abysmal dogshit
Liara sucks
Tali is fine I guess
Jack is okay

>>714724253
good list. Mordin was my personal favorite

>>714711610
way cuter in this hairstyle desu, the sex hair makes her look bitchy.

>>714724594
she is bitchy though, her face helps make her look bitchy.

>>714711320
Way to actually prove yourself wrong, tardo.

>>714724665
I find it more tolerable when she looks like an office lady.

>>714725337
i guess she do look kind of weak and pathetic without glorious mane, takes the edge off.

>>714708314 (OP)
Mordin and Legion are the only good additions.
Every other new ME2 squadmate either doesn't fit the story at all or are complete trash.

>>714725728
While I say this is hyperbole, it is still somewhat accurate.
Mordin is the best written character in the series by far, and Legion bring unprecedented lore implications that few games can do correctly without seeming like a retcon.

>>714724253
>all the human characters are bad

>>714726549
you dont write scifi romance novels for your human-MC to fuck mid human women

reminder:

>>714722117
Miranda would only be okay with a threesome if you fuck her sister as well and dump a load into her so she gets pregnant

>>714726638
>when random off the cuff non-sequiturs go wrong

>>714726549
No, not all. Zaeed and James are great. Ashley's pretty good, they dropped the ball though, make her pro-Cerberus. Kaidan has gotten better over the years. Miranda and Kasumi are just one note and don't go anywhere.
I get what they attempted with Jacob, but he also goes nowhere and comes across as an asshole at times.
Though I do enjoy the only black crew member being abandoned by his father to be a serial rapist king. Based BioWare

>>714708314 (OP)
The characters are one of ME2's biggest strengths, they were all good additions.

>>714726641
>cropping name
who

>>714724665
Funny how that audio log says she is an ice queen cold hearted bitch but that really is only the case in the tutorial mission. Once you board the normandy that completely disappears.

>>714727774
that is because she's playing you

Yvonne Strahowskvi (however the fuck) is mid.

>>714727258
remember when kasumi referred to jacob as one of the good ones?

>>714728603
Gross

built for anal

>>714729528
this thread is about miranda, not the illusive man

>>714708314 (OP)
There are more good characters introduced in ME2 than bad ones

>>714708314 (OP)
>three
They're all good except Jacob. ME2's cast is stacked as fuck, to the point where the companions are the main reason to even play it.

>>714727537
LeToile

>>714729694
Illusive Man is built for having a whiskey with.
Miranda is built for having cock in her ass.

>>714730284
facts

Is me2 better than me1

>>714730875
not in any clear distinct way, its better in some ways and worse in others. me2 has some of the greatest characters but also fucked over half the series cast.

>>714708314 (OP)
She should have been a squadmate in ME3. Wasted so hard.

>>714732494
She was supposed to be a squad mate in 3. She was cut to pander to the tumblrettes who hated her.

>>714730875
No. It's the worst game in the trilogy by far.

>>714732637
lots of people hate her

>>714732689
Only fags and women, which BioWare started pandering to exclusively with ME3.

>>714732916
at least ME3 had bimbofied ashley and big booba liara

>>714712298
Yep, she looked like THIS
I don't think her ass was used for miranda model

Ass.

>>714730875
story is worse, art design is worse, music is the highest highs and lowest lows, game mechanics are the worst in the trilogy, game design is the worst in the trilogy, but Suicide Mission is the most complete mission in the trilogy.
ME1 > ME3 > ME2

>>714736824
femme fetale alcohol syndrome

does anyone think niftu cal took red sand by boofing it?

>>714738601
the eclipse girls did it to him so hopefully

Zaeed and Samara are the only good ME2 characters.

>>714730875
>ME1 guns have infinite ammunition by shaving slivers off a block and launching it at high speed, you just have to manage heat
>ME2 guns have the same technology, except the "hear" is tracked in discrete per-shot units that don't auto-degrade, instead, you have to eject the heat sink and put a new one in, functionally becoming magazines
I am mad about it to this day.

>>714708314 (OP)
martin sheen carries the entire fucking game

>>714730875
only retroactively after they killed the reaper plot in 3

>>714743114
i dont hate it at all, in game justification for cerberus garbage tech is fine. i liked they brought back exactly 1 infinite ammo blaster with citadel DLC in 3 thouogh.

>>714741673
>surprise futa

>>714724594
Why would you ever get rid of the sex hair?

>>714717246
Yes you can.
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1127?tab=description

>>714745016
there's no mods in there that restore the botched combat ai, lighting, orignal teztures, original animations, etc.
the modders spend more time on Restore Caleston than actually fixing the game

>>714743198
ME3 as well

>>714712298
>>714712346
>>714721918
They didn't use face scan tech. They let her sit for some pictures from multiple angles and eyeballed it. It was just incompetent modelers. Notice all the ones they tried to approximate a real woman (Liara, Miranda, Diana Allers) were all goblins.

I'm a great fan of her body of work.

She was pure sex on Dexter.

>>714711954
>"genetically perfect human"
>Shepard outclasses her in skill, strength, competence, biotic ability, charisma, likability, attractiveness, and pretty much every other measurable category.
The only thing Miranda is "perfect" at is being a cheerleader and secretary.

>>714751338
>mentions Shepard
>posts Samantha Traynor with a dye job
>talks about Shepard's attractiveness because he's into dudes

>>714730875
If you're a casual player then yes

>>714708314 (OP)
but that's Miranda, not Mordin, Samara or Legion?

Why are they like this?

I only don't like Jacob and Kasumi, Everyone else I check up on, pretty solid lineup.

>>714708314 (OP)
space yennefer

>>714708314 (OP)
>one of three actually good character additions in ME2

Miranda, Mordin and Zaeed?

>>714752143
kasumi had some of the most useful powers

>>714751716
When's that from Me3? 2012? This problem has been going on a lot longer than I realised.

>>714752526
2011 from when you could vote on the canon femshop appearance. I was trying to find pics for a shitpost and came across this instead lmao.
Also apparently the current femshep wasn't an option. They made the winning blonde one a redhead because of this seething.
It's no wonder she won because all the others looked like shit.

>>714752143
Kasumi is kind of annoying yeah. Replaying the trilogy I just found her a bit pretentious and donut steel-y. Her loyalty mission is fun especially the second part, but minus the boss fight.

Not matter how hard I try, no matter how many times I replay the trilogy, I cannot help but look like picrel every single moment Kaidan is speaking. Thank God he's only in 3/4 of 1 game

>>714752682
She's barely even a character. Has 1 mission and then just has dumb one liners the rest of the game. Same with Zaeed but at least he's just an action hero oneliner machine so it makes sense. Still, wasted opportunity.
Also Samara should have been a romance option.

>>714753065
Considering ME3 it's the right thing to do anyway. Put him out of his misery before he becomes a fag.

>>714753094
They were both DLC characters so they didn't bother to make real conversations.

>>714753298
>oh you want DLC characters to have more interactions? No problem!
>makes day 1 DLC out of Javik :^)
God it's crazy to think how shit the gaming industry already was 15 years ago

>>714753065
me except with Liara

>>714753094
Samara technically can be romanced but they cockblock you hard out of actually getting to sleep with her because of her loyalty to her mission bullshit.

Vega is easily the most underrated character in the series. Dude's actually got a lot of funny lines and his bants with Cortez is great. He and mudshark Ashley (my sloppy seconds) make a great couple too

>>714751716
>>714752675
There was always going to be a hair color xontest
I know because I voted in both contests. With bot accounts. Because I wanted my redhead Shepard to be canon

>>714753792
That's nice and all but unfortunately you'd have to play ME3 to experience it.

>>714737212
Hee hee ha ha ho ho

>>714726641
Reminder of what you dumb tart?

I've still never done a playthrough as Femshep. Tried once but it just felt lame. I find her voice kind of cunty and her face has a bit of that white trash phenotype imo. Am I crazy?

>>714754229
>I've still never done a playthrough as Femshep
>Tried once
>Am I crazy?
I've never even thought of playing as femshep

>>714726641
Did he just deadname Trick Weekes? Just wait until I inform Them of this.

>>714754315
That makes you straighter than me, I must admit. I just wanted a fresh angle on the series but it was hard to feel immersed. Reddit kind strangers were hyping up femshep so much and saying how much better Hale's performance was than Meer's but I didn't see it that way at all

>>714754096
ME3 is awesome, although admittedly playing it at release without the dlc's and with the original ending would have made it way flatter an experience. If you're a ME1 purist and don't like 2 or 3 I totally get that, but you're not allowed to like 2 and hate 3. It's an invalid opinion

>>714752675

>>714754789
Sorry anon but the ending is so catastrophically bad it invalidates whatever merits ME3 might have had.

>>714754025
Nope, blonde shep was meant to be it but they made an extra hair colour vote after the Gypsy rabble complained

>>714753792
Vega is trash and only retards like him

>>714755184
Then again arguably red is even whiter than blonde so it's a kind of funny result regardless.

>>714755243
t. chud who was bullied by Vegas like me in high school. Sorry Loco

>>714755271
But the goyim have been agitated against blondism, it was a victory for the jews

>>714755370
It’s not that he’s a "bully", its that he’s an ugly homosexual who has AIDS and who contributes nothing to the universe or story

>>714755371
At least BioWare is finally dying like it deserves so some justice was done.

>>714730875
I'm playing through the series for the first time now (albeit I picked up a bunch of story through osmosis and diving into Indoctrination Theory) and I'm about halfway through 2, I've got 5 more loyalty missions before Reaper IFF. I think 1 is better, all the main missions are pretty well crafted and substantial, the characters range from great to getting the job done, and I actually enjoyed the side content and combat way more than I expected.

2 just feels weird, there's like 3 actual main missions and everything else is "optional" because who's really going to jump into the finale without doing as many loyalty missions as possible but at the same time, the game has to account for you not even recruiting people in the first place and among those recruits are admittedly some standouts but also some who gives a shits, it makes the Normandy feel crowded and empty in a weird way that I'm sure people could leverage towards 1, but 2 seems to revolve 80% of itself around the idea. Then on top of that you have a pretty middelling TPS and no meaningful way to break open the system like you could in 1. The upgrade system is alright but pretty basic and annoying that they can be missed, it just becomes busywork running around levels to make sure you don't miss an upgrade. The weapons all feel bad or in the case of shotguns, you get the best one 2 hours into the game and none of the others are worth using. I don't hate 2 and I inadvertently saved most the good LM for last and still have the finale to do but I don't know why it's so loved to some people.

>>714754229
I tried her but I prefer default male, playing as anything else makes you look like a clay person like the NPCs. Nice to see decent amount of people are into her on modding sites and yt though.

Story content aside, she's kind of a basic bitch compared to other girls

>>714756252
Do butts like this feel as amazing as they look?
Videogames

>>714756383
no, those cheeks would be implants irl

>>714755184
>>714755371

you were 5 when this was happening.
It was a facebook contest, two rounds. I voted in both of em. There wasn't some culture war thing going on, in fact the polygon articles of the day were condemning bioware for "male gazing" femshep or whatever with the redhead bimbo thing

>>714756016
It was the entry point for a lot of people, and where a lot of the rougher edges were sanded making it more palatable to people. 2 is a much more refined game compared to 1 in almost every way, and it hits a lot of notes that could make you fall in love with a game. Tldr its the normies pick.

>>714756252
She's a cool hot(ice cold) spy bitch. Hardly vanilla.

>>714756653
> you were 5 when this was happening.
It was a facebook contest, two rounds
Yeah was a second round because of complaints about the blonde Shepard winning, here you can see after the blonde Shepard was initially picked, it was definitive. There was no second round planned.
https://kotaku.com/fans-picked-the-blonde-in-a-controversial-video-game-be-5826702

> There wasn't some culture war thing going on
Retard, here’s a PC Gamer article from the time literally titled "Death to Blonde Shepard"

https://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-3-death-to-blonde-shepard/

> "The modern day world is already so much more culturally diverse than yester-year, so why don't future representations reflect this? Isn't it about time that the cliché of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed pin-up was phased out?

>>714757308
again, you're debating history with someone who lived it

>>714708587
Jack has canonically received raw prison guard cock and it's strongly suggested she was also fucked by dirty space pirates. She has been filled with genetic material of the quality and quantity that can only be found in the lowest shittiest parts of somewhere like Omega.
Jackfags should be greeted only with uproarious laughter.

>>714758712
I’m not debating anything because there is no debate, you mental retard. I’ve posted facts with evidence and you’ve posted confabulations.

>>714759485
you've posted misappropriations from websites you've already conceded are agents in a culture war, ya goober

>>714759713
There’s no misappropriation possible on the first point, and on the second, if they’re agents in a culture war that means there is a culture war. Your brain is gone, end your life, now!

>>714745586
>botched ai
lolwut? what bad AI?
>original textures/animations
you're playing a fucking remastered version of the trilogy, why would you want that lol.

>>714759845
yeah you've already demonstrated you don't know what the fuck you're talking about

>>714760691
You are my slave

>>714761387
seems like you're the one slavishly keeping this convo going

>>714761515
It’s not a conversation, it’s the necessary castigation of you by me.

>>714761708
huh?

Miranda is kind of a mess as a character desu. Too many ideas were put into her writing, but none of them were given the room to breathe and develop.

>>714763509
the first time I played ME2, I didn't even realize you could romance miranda because of how bitchy and hostile she is presented early in the game

>>714764912
>she's a super closed off ice queen
>drops this in five minutes
>shep is her personal project
>never really brought up
>people look down on her because she's a test tube abomination
>literally no one ever brings it up but her
>loyal to cerberus
>abandons cerberus even without her loyalty quest
>longs for a normal family
>fine, this has been brought up here and there but never really explored
>seen more as a tool than a person by powerful men in her life
>never really explored in how this makes her feel about herself or her relationship to shep
>also she's infertile
>just one easy to miss entry in a DLC