I'd rather start it on a Wednesday, just for neatness, plus another thing or two I've got up my sleeve. Which is okay, because we've got another piece of media, one that I actually like! This is high praise, because it's a comic book, and I fucking hate comic books.
Mass Effect Conviction was a free 10 page digital comic book meant to bridge directly to Mass Effect 3, so it's a great choice for today. It starts with James Vega sitting in a bar listening to a newscast.
One reason I like Conviction is that it's not asking you to give a shit about bit players. Didn't see too many Desolas cosplayers at DragonCon this year, jussayin'. I mean, here's Vega right up front, and we'll run into a couple more players in a second.
If you've forgotten, the newscast is referring to the events of Arrival.
And if you recall from Paragon Lost, Mr. Vega dearly loves Shepard.
See, batarians don't. They're still pissed over the gazillion or so batarians that Shepard killed. Whoops!
Vega et all get in a pretty impressive bar fight. Luckily, an old friend comes by to pick him up off the floor:
... fuck me, is that Anderson? And is he actually black!?
Okay, so. From here on out, Bioware got out a brown crayon and gave Anderson an actual skin color. So yeah, I've had fun, but I'm going to be actually respectful and color him brown now.
Anderson takes Vega to Earth, to a very familiar ship.
Wait, hang on, shit, let me try that again.
And on board?
Hold on to something, I'm telling you.
Holy shit, Shepard, I missed you. Don't ever go away again.
What? You fucking go fact check me, THE actual factual Commander Shepard, born April 11th 2154, died 2183, kind of not really reborn 2185, shows up in this comic book, really for real in the flesh.
And thus, that's where we are in the time of Mass Effect 3: Anderson is on Earth, Vega is guarding Shepard, and maybe we shouldn't discuss what Shepard spends six months doing.
Anyway, I'll shut up about media. Next time is real, honest, 100% pure uncut USDA Certified Mass Effect 3. Holy SHIT I'm going to be so glad to get back to playing the games, y'all will never know.
NEXT TIME: We discover that Anderson actually isn't the best CO.
I was actually upset that Vega wasn't a romance option. Because I'd hop on that train so fast Kaiden's head would spin! But not Garrus'. He's too cool for that business.
ReplyDeleteIf Vega was a romance option I would have played ME3 again just for that.
Deleteat least in the Citadel DLC you had the option to have a one night fling with him
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