Solid Snake's Pseudo-Let's Play: Mass Effect

Solid Snake · 07-15-2008, 06:48 PM

Since I need to stall this topic long enough to find a suitable solution to the resizing-screenshots issue, and since I've drawn out the Colonist VS Earthborn decision ludicrously long, let's solve this ASAP.

My original idea of naming the character "Snake" and basing the character off a certain famous MGS character was based off a hypothetical paragon-soldier or paragon-vanguard build. I also had different MGS characters planned for several other different possible builds:
Renegade-Soldier would have been "Liquid Shepard", with an appearance based off Liquid Snake.
Paragon-Vanguard or Paragon-Soldier would have been "Snake Shepard," appearance based off MGS1 Snake.
Renegade-Vanguard would have been "Ocelot Shepard" with an appearance based off MGS3 Ocelot.
Paragon-Adept would have been "Otacon Shepard" with an appearance based off our favorite Otaku, minus the glasses.

Finally, the character you selected is...
Renegade-Adept: "Mantis Shepard."

Psycho Mantis happens to be one of my favorite, and one of the most quotable, MGS characters. Also, Mantis' powers seem to mirror the abilities of an average Adept. And Mantis himself, in his death speech, seems to indicate that his life could have been very different if he dedicated his powers for the good of humanity. Nonetheless, even as an Alliance Adept I still imagine him doing whatever it takes to 'get the job done.' After all, this is a guy who joins FOXHOUND under the pretense that he can kill as many sinful humans as he can feasibly imagine.
I thought briefly about "Raven Shepard" too but A: Mantis was twenty times the better character and B: none of the Shepard appearances have Raven's bodytype.

Under this specification, Earthborn makes more sense. We can actually have our young, blonde Mantis an orphan Russian plucked off the streets of futuristic Moscow, identified as having some serious biotics potential from a young age and groomed into being our resident badass.

More of you voted for Earthborn anyway, and I just checked The Net and found no other examples of an Earthborn-Renegade Mass Effect "Let's Play" session. So let's just stick with that decision and have fun beating the crap out of everyone we can. (Exception: I'll probably stick to acting nice around the ladies. At least the human ladies. I've been toying with the notion of essentially making Earthborn Mantis a speciest -- I think that's the correct terminology for "racist against ailens.")
If there any objections, feel free to announce them. Seriously, if there's a compelling reason to choose Colonist I haven't yet heard, you don't have much time left to steer me away from this choice.

07-15-2008, 06:48 PM	#11
Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	Since I need to stall this topic long enough to find a suitable solution to the resizing-screenshots issue, and since I've drawn out the Colonist VS Earthborn decision ludicrously long, let's solve this ASAP. My original idea of naming the character "Snake" and basing the character off a certain famous MGS character was based off a hypothetical paragon-soldier or paragon-vanguard build. I also had different MGS characters planned for several other different possible builds: Renegade-Soldier would have been "Liquid Shepard", with an appearance based off Liquid Snake. Paragon-Vanguard or Paragon-Soldier would have been "Snake Shepard," appearance based off MGS1 Snake. Renegade-Vanguard would have been "Ocelot Shepard" with an appearance based off MGS3 Ocelot. Paragon-Adept would have been "Otacon Shepard" with an appearance based off our favorite Otaku, minus the glasses. Finally, the character you selected is... Renegade-Adept: "Mantis Shepard." Psycho Mantis happens to be one of my favorite, and one of the most quotable, MGS characters. Also, Mantis' powers seem to mirror the abilities of an average Adept. And Mantis himself, in his death speech, seems to indicate that his life could have been very different if he dedicated his powers for the good of humanity. Nonetheless, even as an Alliance Adept I still imagine him doing whatever it takes to 'get the job done.' After all, this is a guy who joins FOXHOUND under the pretense that he can kill as many sinful humans as he can feasibly imagine. I thought briefly about "Raven Shepard" too but A: Mantis was twenty times the better character and B: none of the Shepard appearances have Raven's bodytype. Under this specification, Earthborn makes more sense. We can actually have our young, blonde Mantis an orphan Russian plucked off the streets of futuristic Moscow, identified as having some serious biotics potential from a young age and groomed into being our resident badass. More of you voted for Earthborn anyway, and I just checked The Net and found no other examples of an Earthborn-Renegade Mass Effect "Let's Play" session. So let's just stick with that decision and have fun beating the crap out of everyone we can. (Exception: I'll probably stick to acting nice around the ladies. At least the human ladies. I've been toying with the notion of essentially making Earthborn Mantis a speciest -- I think that's the correct terminology for "racist against ailens.") If there any objections, feel free to announce them. Seriously, if there's a compelling reason to choose Colonist I haven't yet heard, you don't have much time left to steer me away from this choice. __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text.