KevinK

At any rate, I'm pretty much indifferent about Allers, I didn't know she was "somebody" until after I finished the game, and she's still not worse than "Stargazer". Also she's completely optional. This thread is pointless.

So, I did some Googling and I guess they don't even show her having sex with Shepard. 
 
I guess because it's basically Jessica Chobot (voice, face and body) that they don't want gamers "taking delight" and watching Mass Effect Jessica Chobot getting with male Shepard or female Shepard. 
 
That makes the whole thing more pointless. 
 
I wish they did show it, just so I could see the inevitable YouTube machinima where Allers has sex with a Volus.

The Cerberus Hammer is very powerful. It's a full auto version of the M-96 Mattock that doesn't lose any accuracy. 
 
The Krysae Sniper Rifle (Turian anti-material rifle) is also crazy overpowered. My Shepard with the Cerberus Hammer, plus AI Garrus with the Krysae Sniper Rifle is almost too overpowered for the normal difficulty. We're crushing the Cerberus Atlas Mechs and Harvesters in like 5 seconds. I'm also level 41, so that may have something to do with it.

I didn't know Allers was based on Chobot. That makes it 100x times worse. 
  
I do agree that her writing is terrible, but I don't think Chobot does it any favors. Her voice acting is terrible. Allers inherits Chobot's IGN spunkiness and it seems out of place for a war reporter covering a war where basically millions of people are being abducted and killed by the minute. 
 
I mean, the people on the Citadel in the game are ignorant of the war too, but at least they're not being exposed too it. I assume that by being on the Normandy, Allers would hear stories about what Shepard and company are seeing on their adventures and it would kill her mood. "Up next on BattleZone, who has better color-coordinated armor? The turians or the krogans? Stay tuned to find out!" 
 
Now that I think about it though, I wonder if she wasn't included just to include Chobot as a big tongue-in-cheek nod to gamers. Because Chobot = IGN = videogames.

I thought Leviathan is good. The detective stuff is kinda neat. Not too deep, but kinda ok. Plus, some cool setpieces later in the DLC.  
 
It's interesting how BioWare seems to have gotten more original voice acting in the DLC for the ME3. One of my biggest complaints about ME2's DLC is that aside from Shepard's two voice actors and Lance Henriksen as Admiral Hackett coming back for Arrival, nobody from the original cast had new voiced lines in ME2's DLC. They tried to hide it by repeating some lines in some spots, but it was pretty obvious. But, in ME3 DLC, the characters will actively comment on the shit going down. 
 
Here's the big question, did they get all the voice actors back to record new lines, or did they record them in advance during the original development for ME3? Considering that it's public knowledge that DLC is planned in advance for almost all games nowadays, I bet they had the voice actors record them in advance. It would probably be hard to get "big" names like Carrie Anne Moss and Freddie Prinze, Jr. back for DLC. 
 
That will only fuel the "DLC is just stuff cut from the game!!!!" fanatics, but I wonder if they just recorded the lines during ME3 development although the actual art and programming work wasn't done until post-ME3 launch. 

When I played through ME3 back when it came out, I didn't let Allers on the ship. She seemed like only to be there for an extra character to bang. I had a thing with Ashley, and for roleplaying purposes, I don't think Shepard would let her on the ship. 
 
So, with some DLC out, and Brad talking about ME3, I've decided to play through it again. To see more stuff I missed, I'm letting spunky reporter on the ship.  
 
So, is there any point to her character? She's a complete dolt, devoid of anything interesting to say and completely obnoxious. She isn't even likable. From what I hear, the culmination of her romance subplot isn't even that interesting.  
 
I don't need her 5 War Assets and I really want to kick her off the Normandy. Although, I may just keep her around to see if she redeems herself. If not, maybe I can get Garrus to stuff her ass into the torpedo tube and we can shoot her at the Reapers.

Does everyone who thought it was correct think they're completely idiot now for believing in it, now that it was proven false?

I remember the evidence presented for why it was right.

"All of the bodies look like dolls"

"Where'd you armor go?"

"Why do you have infinite ammo with your pistol?"

"Why can't you shoot the keepers?"

Didn't it ever cross anyone's mind that Bioware just didn't want to model a destroyed armor bit for every piece in the game? Or the fact that there were so many bodies, to have them super hi-res like the models you play as would lag out the game? Or the fact that if you ran out of ammo during their linear cinematic line up it'd ruin what they were going for. And keepers have never been able to be shot throughout the entire game. Does that mean you were dreaming all of ME1's citadel scenes too?

I'm just curious what proponents of the theory are thinking about it. Post extended endings it seems no one is talking about it. I think everyone is embarrassed that they so adamantly clung to the indoctrination theory and discovered it was wrong. It's funny how quiet and indifferent people get when they look so stupid.

I think "cock-up before conspiracy" is a term everyone should become acquainted with before the next Bioware game.

The Gibbed save editor isn't that complicated. I was disappointed when Brad was on the podcast and was like (paraphrasing) "Oh, it sooo hard." Granted, I have a college education in software engineering, but I think gibbed has made the tool pretty simple with all the checkboxes. You don't have to mess with the hex values or whatever if you don't want too.

That's right. Not a Wii U - a Wii. 
 
I am primarily a PC gamer but I also have a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for my Halos and Uncharteds. I had zero interest in the Wii throughout its run, save for the Silent Hill: Homecoming and the Virtual Console - which is what this thread is about.  
 
Virtual Console seemed like a cool collection of old games. I lived in a Sega house growing up, so I never had a NES or SNES, so I missed all those games. Virtual Console always seemed like a cool way to play not only that stuff, but relive some hot Sega Genesis action as well as dabble with the TurboGrafx stuff on VC. 
 
I was considering getting a Wii U, but since none of these games are in HD anyway and the Wii U is literally emulating a Wii for the VC stuff, I don't see the point in paying more for a Wii U, especially when there could be some clearance sales on the OG Wii after the holidays.

If there was a new Star Trek, where would it go? The syndicate stunt used by TNG and DS9 wouldn't work in today's environment and Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise were used as anchor's for Paramount's attempt at network TV (UPN). CBS has the rights to Star Trek today and it's hard to imagine them airing a new Star Trek on the flagship network CBS programming. Wrong demographic for The CW and I don't think it would survive as a premium adult drama type deal on Showtime.

Unless New Star Trek came back and was distributed exclusively by a little CBS property called Giantbomb.com.