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All these years after Mass Effect 3, what do you think about Fembot Edi?

PersonAndStuff

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Okay, I never got around to Mass Effect 3 because I heard bad things but I'm watching Giant Bomb playthrough it now. And I had heard about Edi's uh, change for 3. And now that I'm watching it. I know Mass Effect has never not been horny. But this feels like too much. Like it bends the fiction a little too much to quickly hand you an insanely hot robot lady.

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Phellps

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The lore sort of explains why she has the physical features of a woman, she used to be a spy robot that was disguised as an actual person.
I don't think she's that different from Cortana. In fact, I actually think she makes more sense due to the above reason. Her design would be in dire need of toning down the sexiness, though, if these games were ever remastered or remade.

The most ridiculous thing about this is the camel toe on her alternate outfit.
 
defaltoption

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I mean I like that they gave her a body but its absolutely ridiculous, its clear it was all about looking at her in cutscenes vs giving her a robot body. I do think its funny that Joker loves her even more in ME3 after basically falling for EDI's voice and personality in ME2, when I recently did my replay of the series on PC with mods I tried to find a body replacement but there wasn't anything both a good match and lore friendly.

Still my favorite story in gaming still my least favorite entry.
 
708

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She is so overtly sexualized that even my teenager ass wanted her to be better and more appropriately designed.
 
Silvergun-Blue

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Kinda cringey, but it's the same series that gave us an entire species of svelte all-female aliens that are bisexual and have a casual attitude to sex. Gotta pander to those horny sci-fi nerds.
 
Elfgore

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It's rough, especially now an actual porn game has a robot that looks absurdly close to it. I will never not find Joker's reaction to her amazing though.
 
Weiss

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It's dumb, it's shlocky, it has no place in Mass Effect, but I still liked her romance with Joker.
 
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PersonAndStuff

PersonAndStuff

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Phellps said:
The lore sort of explains why she has the physical features of a woman, she used to be a spy robot that was disguised as an actual person.
I don't think she's that different from Cortana. In fact, I actually think she makes more sense due to the above reason. Her design would be in dire need of toning down the sexiness, though, if these games were ever remastered or remade.

The most ridiculous thing about this is the camel toe on her alternate outfit.
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I think the robot hair kind of breaks that reasoning a lot for me. Like, if you're making a spy robot, you'd probably just a pop a wig on it. Not metal hair. And the facial features probably wouldn't also be metal/plastic. Something like Echo from Overwatch or even a less creepy Borg Queen feels more acceptable for this world.
 
Slim Action

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Good character, bad design.

I can't remember - in-game, is the concept that she (the original unit) was commissioned by the Illusive Man? And he's kind of a creep who wanted a fembot working for him?
 
Lyre

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Looking back at ME3 I was surprised to see how narrow the range of squad characters was; pretty much ME1 + EDI, James Vega + Javik DLC - Wrex - Virmire loss.
 
NDA-Man

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Silvergun-Blue said:
Kinda cringey, but it's the same series that gave us an entire species of svelte all-female aliens that are bisexual and have a casual attitude to sex. Gotta pander to those horny sci-fi nerds.
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Yeah... kinda my thoughts. It's super unnecessary (would've preferred a terminator knockoff skeleton bot--would've worked just as easily as an infiltrator, I'd think)… but this is the series did lean pretty heavily on their magical blue space lesbians who are totally into humans as the wise elder statesman race, and they had one of the hot cylon chicks from BSG voice EDI. We should've expected it.
 
CarlSagan94

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EDI was awesome in 2 and the idea of having her as a squadmate is great but I really hated her design with the obviously sexualized fembot. This plus Ashley's terrible redesign really disappointed me design wise.

Her (paid) alt armor was a step in the right direction but still way too much emphasis on breasts and butt

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PinkCrayon

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In the art book there's a few better looking designs, unfortunately they're all about as booby as the one we got.
 
Slim Action

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Ashley is the one I was actually upset by in 2012. She always looked odd but what the hell happened?
 
SofNascimento

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EDI was amazing in ME2, less so in ME3. The bot itself is just a result of the trend in the three Mass Effect games of more sexualization. ME1 already had the Asari and Benezia, ME2 had questionable outfits for many squadmates and ME3 had stuff like EDI and... other things.

Even though I think Mass Effect does a great job with female characters, the entire trilogy suffer from that.
 
Garlador

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PersonAndStuff said:
I think the robot hair kind of breaks that reasoning a lot for me. Like, if you're making a spy robot, you'd probably just a pop a wig on it. Not metal hair. And the facial features probably wouldn't also be metal/plastic. Something like Echo from Overwatch or even a less creepy Borg Queen feels more acceptable for this world.
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Stupid ME3 lore actually explains that her hair is composed of thousands of independent shiftable strands that can split and look like any normal human's hair. EDI keeps it a solid mass to increase defense.
Sometimes I hate knowing pointless lore.
 
SchrodingerC

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It's typical sexualized fembot shit.

Would've been vastly more interesting if EDI was in a strange or non-gender descript robot.
 
Linus815

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she is so over the top that her "sexy" factor just turns straight into cringe.

Fuck, ME3 squad mates are such a downgrade compared to 2.
 
Jegriva

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The new party members in base ME3 were a dudebro and a fembot. And the ending Mac Walters supported the most was all around making people able to fuck robots.
 
Salarians

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I don't dislike the design but the proportions and presentation are clearly so.... uh, horny-first that it's distracting and takes away from the character (then again most female characters in ME, especially by ME3, have this problem....)

it's thankfully hard to notice in game but her default appearance even has big circular "nipples" underneath the plastic coating on her boobs
once I saw them, I couldn't not see them lol
thankfully most hi-res texture mods on PC remove them

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and of course, everyone knows about her alternate cameltoe skin lmao
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her DLC skin is so much better than the other options, I wish it'd be her Normandy appearance too if you equipped it

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from a writing stand point, I really did not care for the Joker romance, or the Pinocchio-ization aspect they gave her (and Legion)
but I still love EDI, her voice actress is great and she has a lot of great moments in ME3 (like her bringing down Shepard by making them realize the difficult logistics of having the krogan fight on Palaven lol)
 
Phellps

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PersonAndStuff said:
I think the robot hair kind of breaks that reasoning a lot for me. Like, if you're making a spy robot, you'd probably just a pop a wig on it. Not metal hair. And the facial features probably wouldn't also be metal/plastic. Something like Echo from Overwatch or even a less creepy Borg Queen feels more acceptable for this world.
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She didn't wear her disguise, though. The surface of her body is what changed to become her disguise.
I'm not saying it's not silly, mind you, but there is a point to it within the lore.
 
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There's a mod you can get for the PC version that I believe puts her in the same kinds of ship uniforms as everyone else, which really nails how bizarre her official designs are, i.e. everyone's suited up except EDI who runs around naked/in a swimsuit.
 
Enduin

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It was fine, great even, except for the character model. Everything about the model was rather cringy and bad. But EDI getting a body, becoming a companion in combat, her stuff with Joker(cringy but fun cringy) was good.
 
Luxorek

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My memory is a little fuzzy, it's been a while since I played ME3, but I do recall someone calling her a sexbot in-game. Might not be one, but hoo boy you would not be wrong to think she is judging by that design.
 
dodo

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WHY did they give the robot a camel toe. i get that someone on the team probably liked hajime sorayama art (me too) but it did not fit mass effect at all
 
teague

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i LITERALLY was thinking about this this morning because my gf said "a robot can't have this cute of a butt"

so thanks for the thread, EDI getting incarnated is still weird af
 
thepenguin55

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Can't say it bothered me much. Joker's initial schoolboy reaction to fembot EDI was more of an eye roll for me to be honest.
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I think I differ on this a bit. I thought that initial Joker reaction was funny enough and had they just kind of stopped that all there it would've been fine. But instead we get the whole thing between the two of them on the Citadel and on Afterlife... which are mostly dumb moments largely because of Joker's involvement. There's some small fun moments that come from it but most of it gets a heavy eye roll from me.

Like, I think making EDI a squad member was actually an inspired and creative choice on the part of BioWare and there's some great stuff that comes of that (Citadel DLC comes to mind) but the Joker part of the equation is what hurts that a bit. I don't dislike Joker but EDI getting that body changed the great dynamic those two had in ME2 for the worse IMO.
 
Gold Arsene

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I mean being completely honest I think she's really good looking and I love robot designs like that.(I blame teenage me stumbling across Hajime Sorayama's art.)


Now if I was actually a game designer I would have kept her getting a body but give her a uniform.
 

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I found it absurd and super offputting. At least with Miranda they tried to rationalize it by having her be a genetic experiment that was designed to be super smart and hot; but EDI being in an overtly sexualized robot is incredibly stupid. I never took her on a single mission in ME3 because of it. If you're going to do fanservice do it in a less gross way.
 
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