I've studied species Turian, Asari and Batarian
I update less than I used to. I think this is because I do more stuff that isn't on the internet than I used to. I hope this is the reason.
This post is mostly about Mass Effect 2. It doesn't really contain any spoilers but if you had a birthday recently and some kind and sexy people bought you a copy of the game you might not want to read on.
I've been playing Mass Effect 2 and it's great but it's designed for HD screens and on Standard Def you can barely read most of the writing. So I bought a 24" HD monitor with an audio output port and have moved my computer speakers downstairs until replacements arrive. It looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful.
When I played Mass Effect, I thought it was one of - if not the - best games I'd ever played. A couple of years later and Bioware brought out Dragon Age: Origins, which was I think maybe slightly better. Mass Effect 2 is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else I've ever played. Sure it still has issues. AI not always being the brightest of beings, A couple of minor glitches here and there, nothing game breaking. Oh, and planet scanning. Fucking planet scanning. A nice idea one of the developers had that got stuck in before being properly thought through. Still, I guess it's an improvement over the Mako.
But the story, the writing, the sheer depth of the game world. It's fantastic. Talk to one of your companions enough and you can get him to sing a Mass Effect parody of The Major-General's song. I unlocked the last companion tonight and there's not a single one I don't like. You can take two with you on any mission, I want to take them all every time. That's not to say I personally would get on with most of them, but they're all rich in backstory.
A few posts back I mentioned not caring about starting the game with one of my ME1 characters. I take all of that back, it is lovely. I meet people in main-plot missions that my current character saved in the previous game. My other ME1 character either chose not to save or perhaps outright killed some of these people. I can't wait to see how the game changes to accomodate this.
Best of all though, better than anything else: The man who gives you the main plot mission, the man you answer to who's so likely to betray you sooner or later, is voiced by Martin Sheen. It's President Bartlett telling me what to do! Except maybe Patrick Stewart or David Bowie, I can't think of a finer choice.
As of my last save I have been playing for roughly 40 hours. All side quests are complete now, I think. I predict maybe five more hours of gameplay, which will likely all happen tomorrow morning while I'm waiting for my new speakers to arrive. By comparison, Dragon Age: Origins took me just over 60 hours to complete.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm watching Alice In Wonderland (in glorious 35mm 2D, the way films are meant to be played) and I Love You, Philip Morris. And in the evening oh hey guys WORLD OF DARKNESS COLOURS OF MAGIC IS BACK ON. That's the game Mary runs alternate monday evenings. It's pretty rad. My character has plans to start wearing a sheet with eye-holes cut in all the time, to try and get into the mindset of Being A Ghost. Also Mary just had a birthday. Happy Birthday, Mary! There is a clue in the second paragraph as to what James, Harriet, Ben, Lizy and I got her.
This post is mostly about Mass Effect 2. It doesn't really contain any spoilers but if you had a birthday recently and some kind and sexy people bought you a copy of the game you might not want to read on.
I've been playing Mass Effect 2 and it's great but it's designed for HD screens and on Standard Def you can barely read most of the writing. So I bought a 24" HD monitor with an audio output port and have moved my computer speakers downstairs until replacements arrive. It looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful.
When I played Mass Effect, I thought it was one of - if not the - best games I'd ever played. A couple of years later and Bioware brought out Dragon Age: Origins, which was I think maybe slightly better. Mass Effect 2 is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else I've ever played. Sure it still has issues. AI not always being the brightest of beings, A couple of minor glitches here and there, nothing game breaking. Oh, and planet scanning. Fucking planet scanning. A nice idea one of the developers had that got stuck in before being properly thought through. Still, I guess it's an improvement over the Mako.
But the story, the writing, the sheer depth of the game world. It's fantastic. Talk to one of your companions enough and you can get him to sing a Mass Effect parody of The Major-General's song. I unlocked the last companion tonight and there's not a single one I don't like. You can take two with you on any mission, I want to take them all every time. That's not to say I personally would get on with most of them, but they're all rich in backstory.
A few posts back I mentioned not caring about starting the game with one of my ME1 characters. I take all of that back, it is lovely. I meet people in main-plot missions that my current character saved in the previous game. My other ME1 character either chose not to save or perhaps outright killed some of these people. I can't wait to see how the game changes to accomodate this.
Best of all though, better than anything else: The man who gives you the main plot mission, the man you answer to who's so likely to betray you sooner or later, is voiced by Martin Sheen. It's President Bartlett telling me what to do! Except maybe Patrick Stewart or David Bowie, I can't think of a finer choice.
As of my last save I have been playing for roughly 40 hours. All side quests are complete now, I think. I predict maybe five more hours of gameplay, which will likely all happen tomorrow morning while I'm waiting for my new speakers to arrive. By comparison, Dragon Age: Origins took me just over 60 hours to complete.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm watching Alice In Wonderland (in glorious 35mm 2D, the way films are meant to be played) and I Love You, Philip Morris. And in the evening oh hey guys WORLD OF DARKNESS COLOURS OF MAGIC IS BACK ON. That's the game Mary runs alternate monday evenings. It's pretty rad. My character has plans to start wearing a sheet with eye-holes cut in all the time, to try and get into the mindset of Being A Ghost. Also Mary just had a birthday. Happy Birthday, Mary! There is a clue in the second paragraph as to what James, Harriet, Ben, Lizy and I got her.