In the game Mass Effect you can pick and choose your away team, customizing their stats along the way. For me, there was never a mission I didn't take the Quarian super-tech, Tali'Zorah along with me. There's a lot of neat things about this character, starting with her awesome accent of course. Secondly, she's from a nomadic fleet of ships that serves as her mobile homeworld. It's a sealed, sterile environment which has forced her to always be donned in a high-tech sort of hazmat suit.
Even though you never see her face, she never takes her suit off, there's a bit of a romantic hook thrown in there too. So she's an alien with a hot accent, a strong female character, and good with pistols, shotguns, and all manner of machines. Yup, she's a Thor's Day Heroine all right.
I agree! Tali is a great character and companion with an interesting backstory and a flaw that simply helps to make her more realistic (her Geth "blindspot"). Good choice!
ReplyDeleteGeth "blindspot", heh, I like that. Yup, she was one of my favorite characters for sure, she also had that accent, which is hard to ignore.
DeleteIsn't it Tali'zora vas Normandy now?
ReplyDeleteI never really utilized her as much i guess, i was more into having biotic backup. So for me it was always Jack or Liara during the missions.
Good point on the name change, unless she died in ME2, or maybe you drove her with the whole Geth thing in ME3. I admittedly never played my away teams very smartly, I just went with who looked cool or fit the current story thread. Jack was a little much to put up with so I probably denied myself some solid biotic mojo.
DeleteLol, i only mentioned those 2 because Liara was my romance in ME1, Jack in ME2, and Liara again in ME3. I always took all females though on my teams, i guess it was sort of like me playing out "Shepard's Angels". I got used to working with Biotics i guess.
DeleteI didn't even consider romancing Jack but funnily enough romance was why i always took Tali along. Kind of like with Dragon Age, I also took characters because I liked their background dialog. I like your "Shepard's Angels" angle quite a bit too.
DeleteGreat description and picture!
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