Favorite Mass Effect 2 Harbinger quotes and moments?

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Sean Hollyman

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What are your favorite Harbinger quotes and moments from Mass Effect 2?

My favorites are 'ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL' and 'If I must tear you apart Shepard, I will.'

And taking a Harbinger on one-on-one on Insanity us fun.
 

Radoh

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I liked the part where he was an ineffectual, ineffective, and bland villain that never got taken seriously because he tried too hard to sound threatening.
 

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"We are the Harbinger of your perfection" Or my personal favorite rewording: "I am the Harbinger of your destruction" which, while sounding more badass, actually isn't a Mass Effec 2 quote at all, but rather was used by Leet World before the first game came even came out. Inspiration anyone?! Anyone?! No? Nope, okay....
 

OmniscientOstrich

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None of them, because Harbinger is an absolutely alexithymic, vacuous and utterly worthless excuse fo-ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

I like doing that a lot. :)

It's kind of become the new Candlejack in that se
 
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Radoh said:
I liked the part where he was an ineffectual and bland villain that never got taken seriously because he tried too hard to sound threatening.
Yeah. He also failed to be threatening after I set him on fire about 500 times in a row.
 

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Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
Radoh said:
I liked the part where he was an ineffectual and bland villain that never got taken seriously because he tried too hard to sound threatening.
Yeah. He also failed to be threatening after I set him on fire about 500 times in a row.
That was implied when I said ineffectual. Wait, do I mean ineffective? Dang, I do mean ineffective.
Ineffectual too, but it appears I chose the wrong wording the first time around.
TO THE EDIT!
 

Rawne1980

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It was okay the first time he did it I thought "hang on here, he may make a decent challenge" and then he died.

And did it again.

And again.

And some more.

And it got old.
 
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Radoh said:
Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
Radoh said:
I liked the part where he was an ineffectual and bland villain that never got taken seriously because he tried too hard to sound threatening.
Yeah. He also failed to be threatening after I set him on fire about 500 times in a row.
That was implied when I said ineffectual. Wait, do I mean ineffective? Dang, I do mean ineffective.
Ineffectual too, but it appears I chose the wrong wording the first time around.
TO THE EDIT!
Uh...You do know I was just agreeing with you, right?
 

Radoh

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Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
Radoh said:
Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
Radoh said:
I liked the part where he was an ineffectual and bland villain that never got taken seriously because he tried too hard to sound threatening.
Yeah. He also failed to be threatening after I set him on fire about 500 times in a row.
That was implied when I said ineffectual. Wait, do I mean ineffective? Dang, I do mean ineffective.
Ineffectual too, but it appears I chose the wrong wording the first time around.
TO THE EDIT!
Uh...You do know I was just agreeing with you, right?
Of course I knew that silly. It just looked like you were adding on a point to something I already stated when I thought I already said that but it turned out I hadn't.
 

OliverTwist72

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Not gonna lie but I thought of this when I saw this thread:


But to the OP, isn't that his entire dialogue? Other than his emo I'm dying speech that I didn't really care much about.
 
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First off, I have to point out that Harbinger is a Reaper. Seems obvious, but people seem to think that Harbinger is whatever Collector he is possessing...which are still Collectorss, just buffed.

As for my favorite quote, just for the sheer understatement factor: "Shepard, you are becoming an annoyance." Note that he says this after you have killed Sovereign/Nazara, destroyed the Collector base, and prevented the Reapers from invading through the planned mass relay. Yeah, he is just now upgrading you to "annoyance". Bit delayed.
 

The Shade

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Sean Hollyman said:
What are your favorite Harbinger quotes and moments from Mass Effect 2?
Can it wait a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrat-ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.

 

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Harbinger was pretty dangerous on Insanity. He pretty much instantly possesses any other collector in the field if he's not the only one left, and spams fireballs and his singularity attack over and over to dislodge you from cover. Perhaps he was at his most threatening when he was supporting the final boss too.

My favorite ingame moments with him are when I was losing fights. I know ME2 was touted as having enemies fighting as organized squads against yours but it didn't feel that way too often. But when Harbinger showed up and he was flanked by a dozen Collector drones+assassins, it was pretty stiff. I tended to get a strong feeling of "Oh shit, I'm fucked" when my allies drop and Harbinger taunted "Your allies have fallen, Shepard. We fight as one!" And then, Game Over. I thought he was a pretty fun villain, but a bit redundant and could've used more variety to him.

My other favorite moments were moments of hilarity, particularly when playing as an Engineer. I noticed that AI seemed to react very strangely to those combat drones you can summon, and basically anyone would instantly turn away from you to violently attack that stupid glowing orb annoyingly zapping their behinds. It worked on everything. Harbinger, Krogan Bosses, Scions, Geth Primes, everyone would just completely ignore you and attack the drone when it appears. And since it has an extremely short cooldown, you could basically spam it over and over and lock anything in place and order the rest of your team to tear it apart. Any fight against Harbinger went like this:

"ASSUMING CONTROL"
*lol combat drone*
*Harbinger turns around*
"...I WILL SHOW YOU TRUE POWER!"
*harbinger unleashes powerful explosive attack and destroys drone*
*lol combat drone*
"....MY ATTACKS WILL TEAR YOU APART!"
 

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The Shade said:
Can it wait a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrat-ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.
You just made my day. You put together my favorite Harbinger and Garrus quotes into one.
 

Nackl of Gilmed

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Well since there's not much else that he actually does in ME2, I'm gonna have to go with the moment where he releases control of the Collector boss guy in the final cinematic, and you realise that it was probably actually a Reaper the whole time as this spider creature just stares bleakly at the oncoming explosion.

Harbinger, you and I have unfinished business.
 

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Radoh said:
I liked the part where he was an ineffectual, ineffective, and bland villain that never got taken seriously because he tried too hard to sound threatening.
Don't forget that you are forced to take him on-and defeat him-countless times. Removing any sense of threat that the character had.
 

Jazoni89

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It was cool the first couple of times I fought him, but then it just felt like he was only in the game to pad out the combat.