ZOMG MASS EFFECT 3
Mar. 13th, 2012 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrSo I've been playing Mass Effect 3 pretty solidly for the last few days. And I LOVE it. I get the feeling it is going to smash my heart into a million pieces by the end, there's a lot more melancholy reflections on death and the nature of war and sacrifice and less sexy romance and silliness. But it has pretty much everything I wanted to see that hadn't been explicitly ruled out beforehand (like Tali being into girls ;_;). I got stuck on a mission early on and found myself bitterly wishing for cheats...only to realise I was playing on normal difficulty! The rest of the game has been quite doable on easy, the combat is fun and moderately varied (not the waves of identical bad guys in identical locations there was in Dragon Age 2). The gameplay is very much like ME2, but the music and plot/style is more like ME1. It's effectively epic and intense.
In general they've done great job of tying together all the choices and relationships from the previous two games. When you bump into an old friend it FEELS like bumping into an old friend (I wish there were more "hug old friend" paragon interrupts) Lots of moments when choices you made a game and a half ago have sometimes really major effects that tie together into an epic and satisfying ongoing story. I am REALLY curious to see where it goes next.
I decided to stick with Thane because dumping a chronically ill partner would cut a leetle too close to home (*glares at Cam who dumped Thane for Liara* Admittedly, he did spend all of ME2 pining for her) I did the "dump Thane for Kaidan" scene just to see what it was like and Thane was so fatalistically noble about it. Kaidan was pretty sweet when you dump him for Thane, too. Such adorable woobies those boys are. And Liara is being very femslashy for someone I dumped in ME1, it's making me wish for a Liara/Shepard/Kaidan option even more than I was in ME1.
ANYWAY. Since I'm not trying to start any new romances (or rekindle any old ones), and haven't bonded all that much with the new characters, (though I do like them), I'm enjoying just talking to people because I like them and find them interesting rather than because I want to Make Them Like Me or gain points or something. I'm mostly focussed on saving the galaxy, which feels like what I should be focussed on! ME2 felt a bit random, going around making lots of friends without a very complex story arc underpinning it.
NO SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS. Not even vague ones. Not even for stuff you're sure I've seen. I will make a spoilery post when I am done, and we can have a spoileriffic conversation then.
In general they've done great job of tying together all the choices and relationships from the previous two games. When you bump into an old friend it FEELS like bumping into an old friend (I wish there were more "hug old friend" paragon interrupts) Lots of moments when choices you made a game and a half ago have sometimes really major effects that tie together into an epic and satisfying ongoing story. I am REALLY curious to see where it goes next.
I decided to stick with Thane because dumping a chronically ill partner would cut a leetle too close to home (*glares at Cam who dumped Thane for Liara* Admittedly, he did spend all of ME2 pining for her) I did the "dump Thane for Kaidan" scene just to see what it was like and Thane was so fatalistically noble about it. Kaidan was pretty sweet when you dump him for Thane, too. Such adorable woobies those boys are. And Liara is being very femslashy for someone I dumped in ME1, it's making me wish for a Liara/Shepard/Kaidan option even more than I was in ME1.
ANYWAY. Since I'm not trying to start any new romances (or rekindle any old ones), and haven't bonded all that much with the new characters, (though I do like them), I'm enjoying just talking to people because I like them and find them interesting rather than because I want to Make Them Like Me or gain points or something. I'm mostly focussed on saving the galaxy, which feels like what I should be focussed on! ME2 felt a bit random, going around making lots of friends without a very complex story arc underpinning it.
NO SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS. Not even vague ones. Not even for stuff you're sure I've seen. I will make a spoilery post when I am done, and we can have a spoileriffic conversation then.
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Date: 2012-03-13 01:10 pm (UTC)I've only been able to play it the last few days, and I have to share with two others, and balance that with not playing around one of them so as not to give spoilers.
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Date: 2012-03-13 01:18 pm (UTC)Luckily our PC is in a little room by itself I can avoid fairly easily, and Cam wears headphones. But I keep absent mindedly popping in to say hello and glancing over at the screen before quickly looking away. I've yet to spoil myself, thankfully.
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Date: 2012-03-13 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
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