Ashley is the perfect woman for Shepard, we all agree on this right /v/?

>>714899893 (OP)
Ashley laughed at my Shep’s tiny white pecker during the sex scene. Just like how white girls do it to me in real life…

>>714899893 (OP)
I wanted to romance her but the only option I had for the first one was Liara and the second one Kelly.

>>714900683
femshep player spotted

>>714899893 (OP)
It’s the canon romance anon. Of course we agree

>>714900683
>first one
you can definitely romance her in the first you just need to pick the right dialogue and the writers make it very obvious
>second one
why would you romance a one-off character who has no impact on the story besides getting tortured by the Collectors and then trauma dumping on you in the third game?
You romanced Liara in 1 and BioWare gave you an entire DLC centred around her in 2 and you didn't follow through properly?
For shame.

>>714899893 (OP)
I liked her when she was speciesist. I think I always dumped her for Miranda

But I'm ga.. just kidding I always kill that weird fucking dude kek

>>714901153
why do people get so mad at her speciesist remarks in ME1? Not being humanity first as a human in a world with multiple sentient alien spices is insane.

>>714899893 (OP)
Yeah she's lit lil unc.

>>714899893 (OP)
I spared Raiden instead of her and I regretted it because I killed his dumbass in 3

>>714899893 (OP)
Perfect human woman 100%
Jackcels and Mirandatranny need not respond

>>714899893 (OP)
She's a bitch so now thanks

>>714906642
>Sheperd fucking dies
>she mourned him at his funeral
>suddenly some clone created by Cerberus of all people shows up trying to pick up the romance like nothing happened
ngl I'd be a bitch too
about the only member from the first game who would fall for that shit would be Wrex

>>714901497
yeah, and humanity has only had ftl technology for several decades. they're not gonna suddenly embrace equality with aliens when they have barely a foothold in the galaxy compared to them.

What's her best looking outfit?

>>714908476
hospital one is pretty decent

>>714907095
To this day I can't get over how fucking stupid the whole Cerberus framing device was in ME2 on every single level. No idea what the fuck they wanted to accomplish with that nonsense.

>>714908624
I miss motorboating titties

>>714908771
Humans being a potentially dangerous quantity for the galactic community is one of the main threads of the series so the militant pro human group is the most sensible vehicle for that to continue. It would've come off better if you could actually side with them.

>>714909851
you can side with terra firma in ME1 but bioware was to scared to let shepard go full humanity first

>>714909851
I think he's more referring to how they killed shepard just to remove his squad. that's literally the only reason shepard dies and then works for cerberus in 2. they came up with the "I'm putting together a team" storyboard and new characters but shepard already had a squad so they killed you and scattered the squad so you could make a new one

i killed her in the first game

I just completed Mass Effect 1 for the first time in years and dived straight into Mass Effect 2. I've played it before but going straight into 2 from 1 makes me think that they either hired a new writing team or just didn't know where to go with the plot going into Mass Effect 2. Also the introduction of the new species such as the Collectors, the Vorcha and the Drell seems incredibly jarring as they all just seem to pop up out of nowhere despite having never been mentioned before, but the characters in 2 speak as though they've always been a fixture.

>>714901497
She's also the granddaughter of the only human to ever surrender militarily to an alien race. Of course she's going to be "rah rah go humanity" to compensate for the stain on her family name.

She said no to a threesome, so I let her die, tough shit for her.

>>714909851
It's more about how they had to backtrack not just the way Cerberus was portrayed in ME1 by handwaving some bullshit excuse about independent cells, but they also knew that players wouldn't want to work for Cerberus, so not only did they a) kill Shepard, a fact that is actually kind of immaterial to the story outside of providing the rails along which to road the player into having to repay Cerberus, and b) backtrack a huge chunk of ME1's story development in order to make the story of ME2 happen.
Broadest strokes, ME1 unfolds like this:
>the Council doesn't believe you about the Reapers
>humanity is on its own!
>collect allies to combat the threat only you know about
>big Reaper battle
>"Gee Shepard, those Reapers sure are a legitimate threat, we better be prepared for them"
In order for ME2's dumbass story to happen, they had to undo half of ME1, dumb down the Council to cartoonish levels, and kill Shepard, only for ME2 to unfold like this:
>the Council doesn't believe you about the Reapers
>humanity is on its own!
>collect allies to combat the threat only you know about
>big Reaper battle
>"Gee Shepard, those Reapers sure are a legitimate threat, we better be prepared for them"
It's fucking infuriating. It's so transparent that some faggy half-wit writer had the bright idea of "Whoa, what if Shepard had to like... work for the bad guys? To fight the Reapers?" Except the story didn't support this bullshit twist in its second act at all, so they just fucking ignored most of ME1, only for the overarching story to end exactly where ME1's did. I hope whoever wrote this game got crotch rot.

>>714910158
Its hilarious because just having shepard be catatonic on life support while Cerberus catapults the medical field to get him back into fighting shape would have worked and been less retarded.

>>714907095
Cerberus is hardly more terrible than literal globohomos.

>>714910406
>they also knew that players wouldn't want to work for Cerberus
Why wouldn't I?

>>714910242
They had no plan and just made things up as they went along. ME2 was made in just under 2 years so obviosity they didn't have time to think the plot through to much

>>714910242
Collectors are stated as near mythical in their rarity throughout the game.
Drell are a dying species with no real purpose beyond serving the Hanar as combat troops.
Vorcha are space vermin and rightfully kept out of civilized regions and only exist on omega as pets of the Krogan.

>>714910158
Shepard was killed to save some of his crew members from erasure and to be enticed with a new ship. He's in the same metaphysical position as the Prisoner in TES series.

>>714910316
ME1 Ashley is the best written character in the series and it's not even close.

>>714910417
My favorite version of ME2 would've been to just drop the retarded Cerberus faggotry, have Shepard get crushed by Sovereign debris at the end of ME1 and put on life support while Chakwas puts him back together, and after two years in a coma, you pick up where you left off. You can even put the old squad exactly where they are in ME1, explain it with them wanting to push forward the cause while you were out, so they embarked on their own endeavours with mixed success. You can even have all the ME2 companions the same way, get your dossiers through Spectre channels to subcontract miscellaneous experts to combat the new Collector thread that the Council is currently ill-equipped to handle. You can even do the same "bury the truth about the Reapers" shit by just saying the Council is keeping it hush-hush so the general public doesn't panic, but everyone high enough on the totem pole knows the truth, but you still gotta act behind the scenes. It's really not that hard.

>>714910316
>to compensate
That's a funny logic leap to make.

>>714910549
I should've specified "sane players who aren't retarded idpol fags", my bad. Mostly because the way Cerberus was portrayed in the first game was cartoonishly evil with zero redeeming qualities.

>>714910560
imagine there was a time were decent scifi RPGs could be made in a reasonable timeframe

>>714910850
How is it a leap at all? She explicitly says people distrust her family because they think they are weak on aliens, citing her grandfather, so she is overtly anti-alien.

>>714910868
cerberus in ME1 is basically team rocket

>>714910981
It's not, that anon must be illiterate

>>714910868
Are you so brainrotted by the internet that you think in terms of labels, imageboarder?
"Cartoonish" evil is a stupid term, evil is evil, not a thing for manchildren to scoff at.
Cerberus in 1 is no more evil than any other IRL rogue but patriotic spook element. They sure aren't any worse than one particular Japanese military unit in WWII or US and Israeli specops that went rogue and made cartels.

>>714911053
Except with way more human experimentation resulting in senseless death, half-assed sticking their dicks into Rachni, and assassinating military officials to cover their asses. And that's just what I can remember off the top of my head.

>>714899893 (OP)
Acted like a stupid bitch in 2 and 3. Jack is the best

>>714910981
She could've been overtly anti-alien even if Williams didn't surrender. It's simply smart.

>>714911238

>>714911238
"Cartoonish" is an adverb used to denote something taken to excess to the point of ridiculousness, you pompous fag. And how does that strengthen your argument that working for Cerberus is not informed by some /pol/-brained idiocy of "hur hur humanity first"?

>>714900479
>Ashley
>white

>>714899893 (OP)
>be pro human
>flip out when she finds out you work for pro human group who brought you back to life
Shes a dumb cunt.

>>714911617
>christian

>>714911681
accurate woman character

>>714911357
objectively the most beautiful video game woman.

>>714911681
You're not working for a pro human group, you're working for a terrorist group that does not balk at murdering humans by the score by pumping them full with some wacko gas just to see what happens. A group you've had dealings with in the past, always involving some heinous shit.

>>714910619
>Shepard was killed to save some of his crew members from erasure and to be enticed with a new ship
that's not how writing works. the new ship is narratively identical to the original. it does nothing from a plot standpoint. the generic crewmembers shepard dies saving could just as well have escaped on their own or not existing at all. the question you should be asking is not "why did shepard stay to save the crew" its "why is the normandy getting one shotted in the prologue" the answer is to create a pretext to do the team building thing with the 10 new squadmates, which is the entire premise of mass effect 2

>>714911907
>if a public toilet or highway underpass was a person

>>714911520
Had you ever been tortured or seen it in practice in innovative ways, your whine would collapse in a few seconds. Your assumptions on what is ridiculous or not either have no basis in reality, or they do, in which case you're a two-faced degenerate past that so-called point of ridiculousness yourself.
>how
By not caring about /pol/ or knowing it even exists. They're one of the only observed pro-human forces, and unlike the actual melting pot that is SA they are at least willing to play dangerous. Only an idiot such as yourself would think other players will not play cloak and dagger on their own.
Whether Cerberus is on its own or is in cohorts with SA, such organizations are a must.

>>714911681
She can still have ethics while being pro human. The group you met in the first game was turning people into zombies.

>>714899893 (OP)
If you squint she looks like a Western-made Sugimoto

>>714912135
You're a cartoonish idiot.

>>714911914
>>714912138
You'll cowards don't even modify humans for betterment of the species

>>714899893 (OP)
Missing the times when games had soul

>>714908476
Why was she such a bimbo in 3?

>>714910316
General Williams was a FUCKING COWARD

>>714910363
Liara was canonically fine with it

>>714911914
And Systems Alliance, a supranational pan-humanity globalist government, with all the scales, bureaucracy and likely corruption totally didn't murder any humans when it deemed it necessary in its entire history? And it totally won't try to crush any polities after the plot of 3, right?
After it squashed entire human potential into a homogenized mess, gimped military into the same Reaper paradigm as everyone else, no less.
And it always responded appropriately to threats like Batarians or others too, right?
You play a literal trained killer, flying an overpriced tactical bucket that for some reason was given under command of VIPs like Anderson 2 (two!) times. To whom is this moral grandstanding supposed to appeal? Ex-Bioware forum visitors? Fanfic writers?

I loved seeing her get her head slammed by the robot but even more than that I loved blowing her brains out when she sided with udina.

>>714908476
I hate the Jersey shore look she has in 3 so much its unreal

I'm fine with the way ME2's story was framed, but only because I could ignore it and just enjoy the smaller stories involving the characters. It was kind of refreshing to go from the noble (if sometimes arrogant) Alliance Officer to someone quietly dealing with the underworld to get shit done.
2 is best enjoyed by not thinking too much about the overarching story.
Fuck 3, though, seriously.

>>714910737
Even with the glazed look and the helmet she looks better here than she does here >>714908476
the botox lips just kill it

>>714910242
I can understand the drell and collectors but the vorcha have to be exterminated in places like omega because there are so many of them

>>714913164
yea ME2 is best viewed as a collection of short stories. Main story I just enjoy the visuals and Martin Sheen

I have no idea who ashley is
I know Liara, Wrex, Thug? (the other frog guy), Garrus, the other alien girl, legion, the AI robot girl with the cameltoe, and the michael jackson girl

>>714913164
agreed. if you turn your brain off to the framing and enjoy the compartmentalized stories it's good. one of the things they said they were trying in 2 was to really contrast the feel of the terminus systems with council space where shepard mostly remains in 1. I think they accomplished that part of it quite well

>>714913417
>Thug
ayy lmao
You've just offended all Thane romancers. Nice.

>>714913401
ME2 is a visual master piece

>>714913401
>>714913784
Indeed, that was very nice. TIM's theme too.

>>714913401
God the Illusive man convos are just pure KINO

>>714913784
>*puffs cigarette*
>Shepard... I've received information about a dry cleaner out in the Terminus Systems. Apparently they do a good job... I need my suit pressed and ironed. The cleaners are found on Omega... I think you're familiar with it. Don't disappoint me.

Why didn't they get Charlie Sheen instead of Martin Sheen

A reminder that Shepard groomed and raped Tali, a minor

>>714914260
she groomed herself

>>714914260
and then sided with the geth to hide the evidence
grim

>>714913979
>Just what the hell were you trying to pull back there?!
>What do you mean Shepard?
>You put me and my whole team on the line at that dry cleaner!
>You made it out didn't you?
>Barely. You could've told me the place was owned by the chinese.
>I was confident in your squad's abilities to handle the situation, and I was correct.

>>714914534
>You die now! Aaahhhhhh!

Was this biowares last decent game

>>714911907
Jack is at her best, when pitted against Miranda in a "best fuck" competition.
Always ends in a tie.
Always gets a rematch.

>>714915109
They'd never hatefuck each other

>>714914879
That’d be Dragon Age Origins.

>>714908476
>>714908624
Nah, it's the first armor she wears.
>>714908771
>No idea what the fuck they wanted to accomplish with that nonsense.
That's simple. Bioware mentioned that in their concept art books for 3.
Basically it goes like this: _______________Good. You opened this message. This isn't actually asari military command. They're busy tending to what's left of their planet. So you survived our fight on Thessia. You're not as weak as I thought. But never forget that your best wasn't good enough to stop me. Now an entire planet is dying because you lacked the strength to win. The legend of Shepard needs to be re-written. I hope I'm there for the last chapter. It ends with your death.____________________________________

>>714899893 (OP)
Ashley is a fucking racist bitch

>>714915249

>>714909735
I miss video games

>>714915365
oh yea the aliens which design are all based on animals by the way, this is somehow a controversial statement

>>714915365
I say the same about sh*tskins. I can’t tell the difference between brown “people” and chimps

>>714915485
was a good time anon, a good time

>>714899893 (OP)
Kaidan might be a faggot but he's still less insufferable than Ashley. Virmired each time, every time.

>>714915727
you are morally obligated to disintegrate Kaidan on Virmire in order to save him from becoming a sodomite in ME3

>>714915163
Of course not.
They take that out on the aliens whose cocks they milk, in an effort to outslut the other.

>>714915485
You're not going to get any from Bioware, that's for sure.

>>714915892
>becoming a sodomite in ME3
explain

>>714915727
>>714915892
Idk about all that. Kaidan is a biotic and an officer so I obviously assigned him to bomb duty. Ashley was assigned to Operaton Salarian Shield. Then, Saren’s goons were going to compromise said bomb. I think saving Kaidan was the obvious choice if you’re roleplaying

>>714916193
They made a gay romance option for him.

i let kaidan die on virmire so vega can have someone to hook up with

>>714912471
Modifying humans is anti-human, it rebukes our inherent superiority.

>>714911907
I can fix her

Ashley is nice but me2 has tons of good romances while she isn't present so obviously you cheat and are you then really going to flip-flop again in ME3?
Not to mention that you'd have to play ME3.

>>714916372
except he's kaidan

>>714917169
cheating on her feels really good though

>>714917015
Transhumanists are just as mentally ill as any other tranny.

>>714915365
Considering she's mainly only been on garrison duty in human colonies she probably hasn't seen many aliens let alone work with them

>>714915365
BABABABAYASED

>>714910089
The line you can give about supporting human rights might be the funniest punchline in the series.

>>714914260
she groomed him

>>714899893 (OP)
No, Shepard is built for big asari cock

is Tali the only female party member you can romance in all three games?

>>714920694
>Tali
you can't romance the space rat in me1

>>714920694
No, she can't be romanced in 1. Liara is the only one you can romance in all 3 games but only with 2s dlc, she's also worst girl.

>>714920694
You can't technically romance any girl in all 3 games. Technically I guess you can with Liara but her situation in 2 is weird

>>714921154
miranda is worst "girl"

>>714921169
I meant to only say technically with one of those I can't remember which

>>714921205
No it's Liara without question.
>forced on you constantly with no way to stop it
>can only die at the end of the 3rd game making it a no stakes relationship
>refuses to help you in 2 despite knowing you're in the right
>instead you have to help her take some space nigs job, and she's worse at it in every conceivable way
>literally impregnates herself via your mind at the end of 3 if you talk to her before the last mission no matter what
>guaranteed to only give you space jew daughters *hits red sand*
Miranda actively helps you in both games she can be present in, Liara actively doesn't help in two of three games she is present for.

>>714921586
Bioware was so confident that Liara would be popular that they locked away all her content behind her romance in 3. If you don't romance Liara she basically doesn't have any unique cutscenes or dialogue there

ME2 sucks
ME3 sucks
MEA sucks
ME4 will suck

>>714921779
This is an Andromeda board

>>714922027
more like andromeda bored me to tears

>>714921720
Even if you romance her she doesn't really have any specific interactions in me3

But that's because they expected everyone to romance her as the canon option I guess

i don't understand how people think she looks like a bimbo in me3

>>714912514
AHHHHHHH IS THAT SOMETHING N-N-NEW?!?!?!?! I'm GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAANEEEEE

>>714899893 (OP)
Is there a mod to make her not ugly

>>714925173
She got the call

His crush was wearing a vibrator the whole time talking about her ex.

>>714926178
her HUMAN ex at that

>>714911617
She's some sort of italian or spanish mixed with white. She isn't wrong about putting too much trust in aliens

>>714926178
That bar has so many great things.
>the asari dancer discussion
>Conrad
>the bartending matriarch
>this
Can't think of another place with as many magical moments, at least off the top of my head.

>>714921720
It's almost as if she has no personality aside from being in love with you.

>>714910242
>think that they either hired a new writing team or just didn't know where to go with the plot going into Mass Effect 2
The frustrating part is that there IS clearly a great setup for a sequel but the writer(s) of ME2 just bulldozed over it for some reason
>The reapers are coming and we need a way to stop them
>One (1) reaper completely buttraped our entire fleet so clearly we cant win through brute force
>There are magical prothean ruins out there that have ancient secrets that will help us, however
>Conveniently, shepard is the only person in the known galaxy that can interface with prothean tech so he's the best man for the job
>There are also tons and tons of un-opened relays across the galaxy meaning there's plenty of new stuff to find and explore so we can go find new relays
>In the background there's tons of political tensions between humanity and the aliens
>Also vigil says that there are probably plenty of other Reaper agents across the galaxy and Saren was just the most visible
There's literally infinite ways you can take the setting after ME1's ending. We could have gone on an epic quest into uncharted space to find some lost prothean tech, we could have contacted a new species and oversaw their integration into the galactic community, had political intrigue between humans and the council and the other reaper agents. But instead we had to blow up the normandy and make shepard work for Cerberus because ???

>>714914260
Reminder, you are gay

>>714927109
>But instead we had to blow up the normandy and make shepard work for Cerberus because ???
because think of the new players that didn't play the first game! they won't be invested enough to buy DLC!

>>714899893 (OP)
>be rude to both liara and ashley
>ashley still gets jealous
>tell her she can join in a threesome
>starts seething and storms off
yeah she's the perfect woman to bully

>>714911681
she's also unironically racist but seethes at terra firma for being a racist party, because they also happen to shittalk her grandpa for surrendering to aliens

SHE WAS ONY 106 YOU SICK FUCK

>>714927109
The idea of working with Cerberus and engaging in the nitty gritty third world of the galaxy is fine. Even blowing up the normandy and doing a timeskip is fine.
>Normandy gets ambushed and taken down
>Shep goes catatonic in the event
>2 years later Shep finally wakes up, intro mission is the same
>TIM convo largely unchanged except Cerberus glownigger was supposed to be there
>Cerberus is still an Alliance black op
>Alliance Brass wants this shit done on the down low
>Joker, Chakwas, Normandy all return, VS is MIA since shep "died"
>aliens weren't invited since Alliance wants it done in house
>whatever colony with Tali tutorial mission has cerberus guy working with collectors
>TIM gives Shep the carte blanche to do whatever it takes
>Harbinger assumes direct control of cerberus guy as the final boss a "human reaper"
>collectors are turning humans into reaper slaves like themselves
>Cerberus Op guy is just a further continuation of Saren's reasoning melded with Cerberus' human supremacy motto
>The only way for humanity to prevail is to join with the reapers
>arrival dlc doesn't happen since it completely undercuts 1, instead we find out there's back up plans in case of sovereigns failure, Harbinger is one of them
>game ends with the knowledge that harbinger the ship is still out there somewhere

>>714927109
That's all kind of vague. If the first game is any indication you need a direction to go in straight at the beginning. Having another Saren might have felt like a rehash, and I don't see what other Prothean macguffin you could have that would be more interesting than the one they already had in the first game, a back door into the Citadel. There's a big problem in the fact that you already discovered the Protheans' last ditch strategy in the first game, so the idea that there would be even more secret shit scattered about is a bit of a reach. The main reason they blew you up was to make another squad, otherwise the game can't follow a normal trajectory and you would either start with the same roster you ended with, or have to dump a bunch of time into explaining why they all went off again. Just saying "political intrigue" over and over doesn't give an angle on a story.

>>714899893 (OP)
Only if you want to 100% the achievements.

Just played LE for the first time
Why is Jack blonde in ME3?
Was she always supposed to be blonde?

>>714930480
It's dyed. her roots are dark. Jack's VA had the same hair.

>>714899893 (OP)
i liked her and samara
emily wong was cute too

>>714916962
How many times did you think Steve tried to roofie James so he could suck his dick?

>>714899893 (OP)
I played ME2 first and the game chose to kill her off before I even started playing

>>714932296
STEEEEEVE would never, he's too busy whinging over his dead boyfriend.

>>714932468
Why'd you play a girl?

>>714915945
>aliens
They share futa femshep's dick

Skipper

>>714899893 (OP)
LOL, as IF!

>>714899893 (OP)
I let her die

>>714933967
need to kill her one more time

>>714933967
her name canonically goes on the memorial wall

>>714901497
The average human is a 70iq brown “person”. Surely the greatest species!

>>714899893 (OP)
She hates aliens? And rightly assumes they'll abandon humanity the second trouble comes around? You bet your top dollar she's wife material.

>>714916962
Based

>>714933967
AI aren't sentient beings. They're answering machines with more complicated responses.

>>714899893 (OP)
>grandpa gets btfo'd by aliens
>cries like a little bitch and carries a massive chip on her shoulder for her entire life
Nope, Shepard is a survivor, a hero, he doesn't need her baggage.

>>714926946
I can't remember if it's in the same bar but this conversation was hilarious and also horror inducing if what they're saying is true:
https://youtu.be/JLSjR_-hgD8?si=SWrnCJe2wW8IeTcI

>>714932564
>futa femshep

>>714936135
getting revenge for your grandpa is called family values and thats necessary for having all my babies.

>>714936205
>if what they're saying is true
But it is true. You see all the parts they are talking about. They are merely focusing on the parts that are common with their own species. The part that they have appearance altering mind powers is wrong, though.

>>714910363
kek i just played through the trilogy for the first time and this is exactly why i ended up fucking Liara the first game

>>714915409
This image is forever associated with the thumbnail for that "Everyone Dies" Suicide Mission vid, the one with Commander Mr. Clean. You know the one.

>>714899893 (OP)
that's a man