SATURDAY POST: N7 Elite at DragonCon!

I was fortunate this year to see both the N7 Elite photoshoot AND the Big Bioware photoshoot. I thought I'd miss the latter! Anyway, I took as many individual photos as I could. Enjoy them!

Actually, let's start back at the parade. I always march Star Trek, but I snuck over to the N7 Elite area:

That is, if you were wondering, Marauder Shields.

Now, the photo shoot:

double garrus all the way across the sky

Sailor Kasumi.

A Cerberus cheerleader. I like that Mass Effect is old enough that we can start to see these jokes.

This was my view during the big Bioware shoot. Hats.

No, really, that's General Victus. He says there's one other dude in Canada with a General Victus costume.

This is the best shot I could get of Kalross. Hell yes there was a Kalross.

See you next year, N7s! Especially since I already had to book my hotel room because DragonCon is too fucking big!

Mass Effect Foundations: Say WHO?

Y'all know how we do here at MSPixel headquarters: game, dlc, comic. Game, dlc, comic. Guess what it's time for!

Since I get to pick, I'm picking Foundations 1, released on July 24th, 2013. You can read more of the Foundations MSPixels here.

Foundations 1 doesn't actually start with a squad member. Instead, it starts on a mining colony, three years after the First Contact War.

I am not actually sure why there's a mining colony where little kids just, like grab rocks and move them around.

Meet the protagonist of our story. I'm not actually sure she has a name! They never mention it. But she sure does punch a lot. She asks the foreman about a mysterious figure named Roth before kicking his ass.

She takes the kid to a hospital and tells him to play sick.

While there, she shuffles through some files and picks up ... a box. It's full of ... I don't know, progressively tinier boxes. She then dresses up like a doctor.

I am super unsure about, say, the first third of this story. Like, okay, she's looking for a guy named Roth. So she asks the foreman. Cool. Then she takes this random ass kid, goes to a hospital, grabs a box full of question marks, and then asks ANOTHER guy where Roth lives? And he knows? Why didn't the story start right here, with her asking the guy where Roth was? If we still had to have the kid in tow, he could have just been, like, chilling with the guy. But she ditched the kid at the hospital. Holy hell this story could have used a second draft.

I mean, I know the answer, the answer is "they had twenty five pages to fill," but come on.

Anyway, she goes to Roth's place and encounters a guard.

whoops

Remember that this is before the events of ME1, even, so she means that big old Yahg dude, not Liara.

... wait, is this about the creation of Cerberus?

Either way, they start to beat each other up.

I have one "beat up" pose I can draw and by fuck I'm'a draw it.

Shit, looks like we're off to Earth again. Our mystery lady boards a space ship.

Oh fuck.

"Bean, this is all very well and good," you say, sighing at your monitor, or in some cases according to Google Analytics your android, "but why the hell are you telling us this story about two characters we don't know nor give a fuck about?"

Let us go to the last panels of the comic:

That little girl grew up to be Brooks, yo.

Brooks actually pops up in all the Foundations comics. I've written her out of all the other Foundation comics. See? Read here and see if you can tell where.

Hey, choice time for you, dear readers: would you prefer another comic on Wednesday, or purestrain Mass Effect? I know what I want, but I figured I'd leave it to you. Let me know in the comments.

SATURDAY POST: Mario Maker!

So it's on Sunday, let's fight.

Anyone else in to Mario Maker? I had to ground myself from it because I gave myself eye strain.

Still, want to play my levels?

Double Path Pass – 4171-0000-0026-9A43

The upper path is jumping, the lower path is enemies. You can choose which you like better, and there’s a few areas where you can switch, too. (Also a good level if you like playing as princesses, I used a lot of princesses.)

DIY Ditch Dig – 8B75-0000-002E-0A26

I’m really unfamiliar with NSMB, so after some fooling around, I made a level around the two things that I figured were special about that particular set.

Block Bust Burrough – B249-0000-002E-1BC5

Mostly I made this one to fuck with young kids who weren’t born in the 80s and never played 1-2. It should be cake if you know the trick. There’s a hidden 1 UP for old farts who need a challenge.

If you’ve made a Mario Maker level, send it to me! I want to play it. If I get enough, I really want to compile them into a blog post.

Citadel: I Drew A Shirtless Turian

There's a headline for you.

That's the best shirtless turian I got. No one promised you good art.

True story, when I first got Tumblr, literally the only thing I could get to come up was Garrus Vakarian's dick. My friends would sit on their piles of food pictures and cat videos and look upon my piles of alien porn in astonishment. I used a stopwatch to time how long it took me to get to turian dicks when I started tumblr up. I was averaging around 90 seconds.

... did ANYONE else notice Javik just chilling in Shepard's bedroom the day after the party?

Depending on stuff, you can get various messages from other squadmates who couldn't make it into the party. (Their flight got delayed, see.) I got some stuff from Mordin, let's check it out!

... in the game this is an audio file, but see, we here at the MSPixel offices remain unencumbered by such things as "the ESRB," so enjoy this one fully rendered.

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Hi, everyone, Mordin shows porn to children, of course he does, because this is Mass Effect.

Other than that, it's a fairly normal morning here at Casa de Anderson.

But sadly, all things must come to an end, and we find ourselves at the Citadel docks.

Isn't that a lovely ending? I sure could say something about the real ending, but maybe I'll just keep my mouth shut and instead invite us all back on the Sex Boat Normandy.

... wait, wasn't someone very conspicuously missing from the party?

Chawkwas! I'm shocked we didn't have to mop her ass up during the whole ordeal.

Was there anyone else?

... yeah, so, no one else. We good.