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trinityvixenThe thing is, when I'm playing Mass Effect, I'm usually bitching about/at it (if not aloud, then at least in my head). The constant loading, the needless slow-ups, having to go all over my enormous ship to talk to people all the time, lest I miss when they really want to have a talk, the fire fights that I still can't aim at no matter what I do...
The second I step away from it, all I want to do is to go back. I was up until an ungodly hour this morning playing, but what all I achieved for that, I could not tell you. I grabbed a few more people onto my ship, said hello to some old friends (wow, it was awkward telling off the person I went after, romantically, in ME because I'm still interested in the one I got in ME2), explored a few worlds while trying not to attract undue attention from the galaxy-ending baddies. So I did stuff. But mostly I just talked to people and did a few errand missions. They've made it more and less complicated to do what was always my favorite part of the flying around part of the game, which is mining for shit on planets. It's less work to find stuff, but it's more dangerous to try. Totally addictive.
I have to stop reading the internet, though, because despite the fact that Shepard has grown, as a character, in different ways between different folks, the second I hear something that spoils anything, I get irrationally pissed the fuck off. It's the last game in the series (or so BioWare claims; I'm a tad skeptical that they wouldn't keep going for all of my and every other fan's money), so I want to get through it without being spoiled (which is why I can't say more than I have here; respect!). Especially since every development makes me want to hug the game and squeeze it until it pops with love. If those get spoiled for me, I develop an equally passionate response in the opposite direction--I WILL KILL EVERYONE.
So, yeah, I need to finish this without spoilers. I also need to figure out why none of my avatar rewards for the game are showing up on my avatar. I want my N7 helmet and my Normandy, damn it.
The second I step away from it, all I want to do is to go back. I was up until an ungodly hour this morning playing, but what all I achieved for that, I could not tell you. I grabbed a few more people onto my ship, said hello to some old friends (wow, it was awkward telling off the person I went after, romantically, in ME because I'm still interested in the one I got in ME2), explored a few worlds while trying not to attract undue attention from the galaxy-ending baddies. So I did stuff. But mostly I just talked to people and did a few errand missions. They've made it more and less complicated to do what was always my favorite part of the flying around part of the game, which is mining for shit on planets. It's less work to find stuff, but it's more dangerous to try. Totally addictive.
I have to stop reading the internet, though, because despite the fact that Shepard has grown, as a character, in different ways between different folks, the second I hear something that spoils anything, I get irrationally pissed the fuck off. It's the last game in the series (or so BioWare claims; I'm a tad skeptical that they wouldn't keep going for all of my and every other fan's money), so I want to get through it without being spoiled (which is why I can't say more than I have here; respect!). Especially since every development makes me want to hug the game and squeeze it until it pops with love. If those get spoiled for me, I develop an equally passionate response in the opposite direction--I WILL KILL EVERYONE.
So, yeah, I need to finish this without spoilers. I also need to figure out why none of my avatar rewards for the game are showing up on my avatar. I want my N7 helmet and my Normandy, damn it.
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Date: 2012-03-13 02:10 am (UTC)I'd tried going on the "Gameplay and Builds" forum on the website to check if anyone had put up info on how a couple of abilities interacted, and saw a bunch of post titles of "ZOMG XXXXXXX HAPPENED I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!"
I've never been more grateful of my apparent ability to notice what I'm reading and stop my brain from properly registering it (at least if I know I have to do that), so I've already forgotten the specifics.
I'm quite enjoying ME3 so far. They've really powered on the 'tug at the emotions' things, and in spite of all the people going "wah wah wah why should we care", I think it's awesome.
Plus, I can finally play my "Adept with a sniper rifle"!!
Also.. props to Bioware for managing to throw in gay marriage (there may be more, I've only spoken of one) and have it absolutely not called out, referenced, mentioned or in any way spoken of as not completely normal and common.
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Date: 2012-03-13 02:17 pm (UTC)Yes, BioWare realized that, hey, gay people exist. AND THAT IS ALL THEY DID. Which is exactly as it should be. They should not be ostentatious. They have real problems and losses and senses of humor (love the fact that Cortez and James bicker like a married couple). Turns out "making them just people" works! Crazy!
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Date: 2012-03-14 12:04 am (UTC)And yes, Cortez/James bickering is done awesomely well :)
Also... just finished Priority: Tuchanka last night.
Well done bioware writers, you very nearly made me cry.
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Date: 2012-03-14 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-14 10:58 pm (UTC)And I've now done Priority: Citadel 2 as well. Blarg
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Date: 2012-03-13 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-13 02:18 pm (UTC)I should have made her eyes the zombie-white color. Damn it.