Video Games Hurrah!
So I'm not really a video gaming kind of gal. My dad plays a bunch of them and I usually sit and watch, especially if they are RPGs and have a great story. I sat through all of L.A. Noire, Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City. The only video game I ever played all the way through was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. And that was on my computer. I actually played the first game on my xbox all the way up until the final boss. But I got too frustrated to continue when the enemies kept regenerating every time I turned a corner. I'm well known for playing a game right up until the end and then never finishing. The end of Bioshock is still waiting for me.
Anyways the point is that there was one game that I was dying to play but you have to shoot things and I suck at shooting things. That's why KOTOR was so awesome in its turn based action sequences. The game I wanted to play was Mass Effect. I've watched my Dad play bits and pieces and I've even played all the way through the Citadel portion but I never got past that point. I decided that I would just power through my shooting anxiety and play the damn game and I'm so glad I made that choice. The story really was amazing (all I cared about really) and I eventually grew to love all the action bits as well. Except for shooting shit in the MACO. I hated that.
My Shepard looks totally badass by the way. I wish I had a picture of her. I swear I'm going to take a picture of my tv screen and make a new post dedicated just to her. Whatever, anyways I played as a paragon and really wanted to get through the game with no renegade points but I accidentally let a few crazed colonists die while killing the thorian creepers. Well technically Liara and Tali were killing the colonists. I didn't shoot. I played the majority of the game with Liara and Tali by the way (girl power and all that). Oh and I got major renegade points when I let the Council die at the end. Killing Sovereign was obvs the bigger problem, okay.
I've never become so emotionally invested in a game before. Like I decided to do the romantic subplot with Kaidan (same voice actor as Carth Onassi in KOTOR so I was destined to fall for him) and I could not for the life of me let him die. So Ashley the racist landed up being sacrificed. Poor girl. I never used her for any missions anyways. And during the whole end sequence on the Citadel my heart was pounding and my hands were shaking. I genuinely cared that all those people were dying on their ships. The only thing that kind of ruined it for me was that by then I had pretty awesome armor and weapons so killing both incarnations of Saren was relatively easy. I was expecting something much more difficult.
I started the 2nd game already with my imported first game Shepard and I'm not sure I like the changes. It's become more of a third person shooting game than the first one. It matters where you hit the enemies. Combat is more involved. All stuff I was never very keen on in the first place. But I'm told that the 2nd game is more expansive and the character stories more involved so my RPG love is still there. We'll see how it goes.
And that was more than I've ever written on the topic of video games. If you've played the game I would love to know your thoughts, what actions did you choose. Have you played the 2nd game? No spoilers please <3
Anyways the point is that there was one game that I was dying to play but you have to shoot things and I suck at shooting things. That's why KOTOR was so awesome in its turn based action sequences. The game I wanted to play was Mass Effect. I've watched my Dad play bits and pieces and I've even played all the way through the Citadel portion but I never got past that point. I decided that I would just power through my shooting anxiety and play the damn game and I'm so glad I made that choice. The story really was amazing (all I cared about really) and I eventually grew to love all the action bits as well. Except for shooting shit in the MACO. I hated that.
My Shepard looks totally badass by the way. I wish I had a picture of her. I swear I'm going to take a picture of my tv screen and make a new post dedicated just to her. Whatever, anyways I played as a paragon and really wanted to get through the game with no renegade points but I accidentally let a few crazed colonists die while killing the thorian creepers. Well technically Liara and Tali were killing the colonists. I didn't shoot. I played the majority of the game with Liara and Tali by the way (girl power and all that). Oh and I got major renegade points when I let the Council die at the end. Killing Sovereign was obvs the bigger problem, okay.
I've never become so emotionally invested in a game before. Like I decided to do the romantic subplot with Kaidan (same voice actor as Carth Onassi in KOTOR so I was destined to fall for him) and I could not for the life of me let him die. So Ashley the racist landed up being sacrificed. Poor girl. I never used her for any missions anyways. And during the whole end sequence on the Citadel my heart was pounding and my hands were shaking. I genuinely cared that all those people were dying on their ships. The only thing that kind of ruined it for me was that by then I had pretty awesome armor and weapons so killing both incarnations of Saren was relatively easy. I was expecting something much more difficult.
I started the 2nd game already with my imported first game Shepard and I'm not sure I like the changes. It's become more of a third person shooting game than the first one. It matters where you hit the enemies. Combat is more involved. All stuff I was never very keen on in the first place. But I'm told that the 2nd game is more expansive and the character stories more involved so my RPG love is still there. We'll see how it goes.
And that was more than I've ever written on the topic of video games. If you've played the game I would love to know your thoughts, what actions did you choose. Have you played the 2nd game? No spoilers please <3