Thursday, March 21, 2013

Game dad: Ronald Taylor


This is Ronald Taylor, Jacob's father in Mass Effect. In the 2nd installment, he is the focus of one of the more bizarre quests, in which he almost solidifies himself as the shittiest father ever.


Ronald was an officer aboard the MSV Hugo Gernsback when it crashed on a lush planet full of poisonous vegetation. Ron became the first officer after all of his superiors were dead, and his first order of business was to hoard all of the ship's food stores exclusively for himself and the other surviving officers. The rest of the crew were forced to eat the planet's dangerous plants, which caused their minds to decay and they eventually went feral. So....Ron Tay decided to start raping these brain-dead women and keeping them as pets, ensuring his alpha male status with security mechs that killed all the other boys.


What's extra fucked up is that the entire time, Ronald refused to activate the distress beacon that could have saved himself and all of the other survivors, instead preferring his life of unlimited food and sexing. FemShep and Jacob arrive when the beacon is finally activated, (Ronald Taylor only did that when he felt he was in real danger), and we put a bullet in his dumb brain. Hooray!

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  1. One of the few loyalty missions I still remember from that game. I believe I had him arrested by the alliance, but yeah he didn't deserve it.

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    1. I really liked this one, it was different, but Grunt's loyalty mission was imo, the best one. Krogans fighting thresher maws, it was so math.

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