Memes / BioWare

The video game developing company BioWare is notable for their Trope Overdosed games—which produce quite a few memes.

The following series have their own pages:

• Mass Effect
• Dragon Age

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Baldur's Gate

• You must gather your party before venturing forth. ^Explanation A message that plays, often multiple times, whenever you attempt to have one party member leave an area and the rest of the party isn't close enough.
  • Recycled in Knights of the Old Republic, with a variant in Jade Empire. Nodded towards in the Dragon Age series. Also added in Pillars of Eternity and even Divinity: Original Sin, which has no connection to BG whatsoever.
  • You have been waylaid by enemies and must defend yourself!
• Go for the eyes, Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!! YAARGH!!! *squeak* ^Explanation Minsc's original battle cry.
  • Recycled for Tali's little Attack Drone. "Go for the optics, Chatika!"
  • In Mass Effect 2, you can buy a "Miniature Giant Space Hamster".
  • Also shows up as a loading screen hint in Dragon Age: Origins.
  • In the Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3, Shepard tells his/her space hamster to "Go for the eyes." after the Normandy is hijacked.

Knights of the Old Republic

• Ironic Statement: Look alive, meatbags! ^Explanation A combination of the phrase assassin droid HK-47 uses to describe humans and his distinctive phrasing.

The Old Republic

• 29:30 ^Explanation Comes from a leaked 90-minute video of early beta footage. Around the 29:30 mark is a scene with a Jedi being injected with a sedative that renders him unconscious, despite the fact that Jedi are generally trained to resist poisons. There's also the fact that the Jedi is standing completely still and not offering any resistance as all this is happening. Additionally the graphics were of less-than-stellar quality. Comes from /v/.
• Dell gaming mouse ^Explanation From a forum poster that had connectivity problems and submitted a list of the specs from the overkill gaming computer he bought just to solve this issue, including irrelevant components such as the aforementioned mouse.
• [Shock Him] ^Explanation The Sith Inquisitor very oftenly has an option to use Force Lightning during conversations with NPCs.