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skull_bearer ([personal profile] skull_bearer) wrote2011-03-31 06:45 pm
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Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC

As ever, I'll let the characters speak for me:

Mirek: WTFBBQ THAT WAS THE CUTSCENE? Please tell me that was the cutscene, I cannot take any more bad news.

Me: That was the cutscene.

Mirek: Of -

Me: Ten thousand Reapers. Yes.

Mirek: I... thank you for allowing a holiday first.

Me: Thought you'd need it. You spent the entire time thinking up Reaper tactics anyway.

Mirek: So, what now?

Admiral Hackett: So we suddenly admit the Reaper threat is real after two games of ignoring it, and I want you to rescue a mate of mine who has all the evidence but as this is touchy diplomacy you have to go alone.

Mirek: ... sir, can you rethink your priorities?

Hackett: No. Piss off.

Mirek: The only time I've ever gone alone was when I woke up in Cerberus, and that was a disaster. And now, Reapers. Alone.

Me: *shakes game*

Mirek: Garrus, you're going to have to sit this one out, I need someone to run the ship.

Garrus: Understood. Fuck.

Me: Amen.

Garrus: Take care.

Me: It's not going to be the same without your romantic asides.

*Mirek goes to break out Hackett's friend from top security batarian prison*

Mirek: *takes a while to get back into top-form*

Me: *forgets where the pause button is*

Batarians: *are miserable bastards as ever. Die*

Hackett's friend: *is rescued*

Hackett's friend: So we found that the Reapers are going to be entering this ssytem in two days-

Mirek: What?

Hackett's friend: there's a relay here that'll allow them to get anywhere in the galaxy -

Mirek: What!

Hackett's friend: and we found this out because we have a Reaper artifact we've been keeping on show for the last few weeks.

Mirek: Wha- *is knocked out by indoctinated friend and henchmen*

Me: Well shit.

*Mirek wakes up, two days later*

Mirek: There is no profanity bad enough. Calm. Control. Focus.

Me: Dude! Reapers! One hour!

Mirek: You are not helping. Shut up.

Me: What would help?

Mirek: Garrus. Legion. Even Evil Thing 1# and 2#. Blast.

*Mirek wrecks station he's on. The plan was to destroy the relay by colony dropping it before the Reapers got there*

Me: Imagine if we hammered it just as a Reaper was using it, there'd be bits of Reaper from here to the Citadel.

Mirek: Considering what one Reaper artifact did here, how would this be a good thing?

Me: Point. It also says that if we smash the relay, it'll probably destroy everything in the system.

Mirek: So what? The Reapers would kill them anyway when they get here in... half an hour.

Me: Mirek, we're in the system!

Mirek: Acceptable losses. Reapers remember.

*Mirek gets the asteriod on course, Hackett's Friend turns up*

Me: Hackett needs to choose his friends better.

Hackett's friend: *monologues*

Me: Mirek, shoot her!

Mirek: The game isn't giving me that option!

Me: WTF she's right in the open and Reapers are coming! Shoot her!

Game: *Completely fails to give us a chance to shoot her*

Hackett's friend: *sabotages asteriod*

Me: STUPID GAME!

*Mirek fixes asteriod, Hackett's friend comes in a second time*

Me: SHOOT HER THIS TIME!

Game: *Finally gives us the option, in Renegade quick-time in fact.*

Hackett's friend: *dies*

Me: AT FUCKING LAST

*mad race for shuttles*

Mirek: *is stranded*

Me: Quick, the comm tower, we've got a few minutes, we can call the Normandy!

Mirek: Quick, Normandy! I need pick up, we-

Harbinger: WE ARE NOT AMUSED

Mirek: NO! That was not who I wanted!

Me: Dude, seriously wrong number!

Harbinger: WE WILL PONTIFICATE IN DIALOGUE TOTALLY RIPPED OFF FROM SOVERIEGN

Mirek: Do these creatures have a hive-mind?

Me: Fuck knows, probably the games developers were feeling lazy.

Normandy: *turns up*

Reapers: *you would have thought they'd been in sight by now, no sign*

Entire star system: *blows up*

Hackett: Fuck man what the hell happened! I sent you to rescue one person and the system goes boom!

Me: You went to Mirek. Things go boom. It comes with the territory. You don't use a nuclear bomb the flatten your garden and you don't use Reapers to make milkshakes.

Hackett: You're going to have to take heat for this, otherwise we'll have a human/batarian war.

Mirek: Yes, of course. I hate the entire galaxy right now.

Me: Can you try someone who's legally dead?

Mirek: As far as to make them actually dead, yes.

Me: Fuck.

Mirek: I never thought I would say this, but I hope the Reapers hurry up.

Me: Go and fuck Garrus or something. Break needed.

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