Mass Effect 2

So finished Mass effect 2 last night, and it wasn't as bad as Rho put it out to be. Basically the game focuses almost entirely building your team and your teams back story. The main storyline is actually really short but how thoroughly you did your side quests determine how the main storyline will progress.

Overall, I found fully exploring the characters side quests was fun. Gives it more back-story on the races and stuff rather then a long winded quest for main character.

So not really going to really break it down for this, it gets a 7/10. Nothing special, but was decently enjoyable overall.

On a side note: Vindictus should open up in a few hours, be in chat box for on spur key :O

Side note 2: Highly likely Rho and I will still be playing HON. MMOsite is hosting keys to get 10 free (no stat) matches with HON. If you wanted to try it out first.

Disclaimer note: In 10 matches you won't be able to learn the ropes fast enough and be raged on hard for feeding the enemy. Hope you like people screaming at you over chat system about how bad you are XD

~Pearz

Mass Effect

So, just finished Mass Effect (the first one) yesterday. I'm still downloading my "sample" version. Generally, ME2 has better ratings, but Rho told me it was disappointing. Apparently, the storyline is weaker in the second one, which does matter alot to me.

Story - Your initial hero creation and choices do affect your storyline as you progress. I liked that aspect of the game, and having your choices (supposedly) affect the second game too makes me go, "Ooooo~" The story is pretty decently done, but short. It created a very interesting setting.

8.5/10

Sound - Although sound is very important to have in an FPS game, it has been a while since I played a fully voice acted game. Having everything voice acted really made a difference for me. I felt this was a very important aspect. The music, as it is intended, was just background. I didn't pay attention to that.

8/10

Game Design - It is an RPG shooter. As such, they let you have skill points to assign and build your character differently, based on your own preference. I found this interesting, but there was not much variety. The focus was more on the FPS part rather than the RPG element, and seemed to lack in that sense. Travelling around the Galaxy Map for side quest was good, though. The quests were varied and each gave me a lot of reason to go out and randomly slaughter some people.

7/10

Overall - I did enjoy this game a lot. If it wasn't for the bugs and stuff, I would definitely try again with a different set of choices. It was a pretty well done game, hence why I will be playing the second installment.

8/10

Side news: I failed to be drawn as a winner in the raffles for the Soul Master CB events, although I was fast enough to be one of the first to get 30 (for my class and also within the first 50 players). I got 2 +5 gems, which aren't that great but it's still better than nothing.

Rho will be back in Toronto in a few hours; I can be less lonely here now. Maybe you might even get a blog post from Rho or Aaro.

~Pearz

Nice and short

Started playing Mass effect. So far its pretty good, my consensus is that shotguns are imba. Either way The game is unnecessarily difficult. Like all Bioware games, it is plagued with bugs. I can't manually save and rely on the autosave, also randomly my "E" (use) key stop working and I'm forced to load (coupled with the no manual save is bad). Tack on that my comp lags a bit makes FPS games much more difficult when it isn't smooth. I'm almost finished the first one and probably move to 2nd to see how it turns out.

For anime decided to watch Kannagi. Also caught up on some English movies: Salt, Date night, Tekken ( lulz they have a movie XD)

Tried another DS game before Mass Effect. Monster Rancher DS, since I played the PS version. Due inability to skip alot of text boxes and it needs to load every other thing makes it much less enjoyable. Not fun clicking boxes instead of skipping through and spending rest of time in load screens. Either way its dropped D: (could also be I couldn't find a monster I wanted to raise)

~Pearz