London: The Gray Parade

... it's different drawing stuff in the present day instead of 200 years in the future.

Speaking of,

This occurred to literally no one else?

And now, it's Bioware Story Time.

So the story goes, Bioware didn't want a final boss for Mass Effect 2, but EA forced the final human/reaper hybrid fight on them. I don't know how much of that story is true beyond "we don't want a final boss, but here it is," but such is the rumor.

For, uh, for better or worse, they got to end Mass Effect 3 their way, meaning Mass Effect 3 doesn't really have a final boss.

It instead has this fight.

Like, whatever, we've fought reapers before, right?

Yeah, but ...

Look, I could sit here and draw reaper forces all day, but I'm not sure I can overemphasize how FUCKING HARD the last push of Mass Effect 3 is. There's just ... there's just so much! And it can all kill you!

I have beaten a lot of games in my life, and Mass Effect 3's ending is probably the hardest, excepting maybe the time Secret of Mana glitched out on me and I had to use a game genie code to get that done.

Oh, and don't fucking expect your squadmates to be useful.

They will spend the fight dead.

Actually, it's one of the things I like about the ending! If you're not going to do a final boss, go big or go home, right?

(Hey, don't forget that E3 is next week. I'll be here, poorly drawing all of your favorite E3 coverage! Bioware, I'd better get my Andromeda trailer this year!)

London: EDI The Unfailing

It is worth noting that I am actually worse at Geography than art.

At a small diner in Cincinnati:

While that horse shit is going on, let's check in on London.

So what was it that they were supposed to be defending, anyway?

This:

(Did that bother anyone else? Hey homie, you been in all three games and also you narrated every time Ken Burns took a squat, we know who you are.)

After mowing down eight or nine of those, this goes down:

Alright, EDI, shoot them reapers!

Dem missles! This is happening!

Light that reaper up, EDI!

Yeah okay so those missles just sailed right the FUCK over the reaper's head.

sing it shepard

Wednesday Post!

HA HA OKAY SO HERE'S WHY I'M AN ASSHOLE

I had this lovely post typed up, set it to post, and then somehow SAVED IT IN MY DRAFTS. It's an announcement about Wednesday night streaming.

"Bean, have you been streaming to literally no one this whole time like some kind of jackass?" Oh hell yes.

So, uh, Wednesday night streaming. See y'all tonight. Here's the announcement in full, from I don't know a fucking month ago.

Some of you noticed that I haven't been posting on Wednesday. Hilariously, it isn't laziness.

With Andromeda coming out in 2017, I cannot tap dance any more waiting for that release. So, for one, you're getting Mass Effect on Fridays now just to give me some time. I don't know that I can bump up the ending to Mass Effect 3 right with Andromeda's release day, but this gives me a more fair shot if that makes sense.

But I still want to give you all some mid-week content, because I like you all. Another game isn't totally off the table, but I'm keeping my mouth shut on that front and instead doing this:

You should join me for some streaming! Go check out https://www.twitch.tv/mspixelblog. Tonight at 8, me and Husbando~ will be on doing the Star Fox 2 prototypes. I felt it timely.

(Our plumbing is busted, so Husbando~ may or may not be there, but he sure wants to be.)

Also I wanted to do Star Fox and couldn't think of a way to draw it. That's a game you really need to see and hear to understand!

Here's a twitch hint: if you have an account, you can hit the little heart to follow me. That way, you can get email updates and even smart phone notifications when I'm on!

See you tonight, can't wait!

London: Horsin' Around

You should know, before I did MSPixel, my first MSpainting gig was drawing comics with myself and my pal Butterchops there. I've had friends ask me if Butterchops was coming to MSPixel ever.

So, yes.

#truefacts

You should know that our cat actually works like that.

Let's check on what's going on in London.

I feel like making some combat jokes, so I think I will during our trek through London.