this may become a review of my own, as I have spent a dozen or so hours with this since buying it. For now, a few things roiling around in my head. This game is deserving of the praise it's getting. It may be the best thing I have played this year, combining an interesting premise (powerful-feeling ninja stealth), smooth and versatile controls, and extremely well integrated UI with Klei's styli...
Miranda's getting antsy, so we should roll on her loyalty mission, which involves keeping her sister away from her dad - apparently Miranda's family is southern or something. She's needed on Ilium, and we will have bigger fish to fry there soon anyway, so here we go. Miranda ran away from he old man, who genetically altered and trained her as some perfect human, I guess for espionage or fightin...
No matter how many times we try to send his calls to voicemail, or ask Jacob to tell him that we aren't here, we have to talk to The Illusive Man. When I realized that conversating with him would immediately send us on the next mission, I reloaded and tried to keep going somewhere else, but the game forces your hand. Fine. The Man tells us that there's a Collector Ship disabled in space, and we...
Edit: I wasn't happy with the ranting blocks of text, so I split my previous entry into two pieces. I'm just happier with it split like this. Oh, god, we never should have come here. It's all bad. Ok, I'm exaggerating. Overlord is a damn good piece of side story, with some rough combat, and my first exposure to the Hammerhead, which, while it has it's Mako moments of frustrating vehicle-ness, i...
NOTE: I realize the last few entries, and this one specifically, are way, way too long. I will be chopping them up into shorter pieces after this one. Sorry. Edit: I split the original entry in two. It looked even stupider than it's contents. Shepard is now running with a pretty heavy crew: We've got everyone except Tali, A mystery profile that we cannot access yet, and this Justicar person, wh...
This is what I did today in PA. A hickory smoked beef brisket, with a north Carolina style spice rub. No sauce needed. Delicious. My girlfriend bought her dad a smoker for Xmas, and I gave it it's maiden voyage today with a 4lb. hunk of goodness. The whole process, from setting up the smoker, to curing it by using it once without cooking anything, to getting, prepping and cooking the meat - too...
Illium. Wish we could see more of it (and maybe we will a bit later with the Shadow Broker missions), but it['s still every bit as cool a little area to run around in as the monstrous Citadel was in the first game. Illium has everything, lots of shiny lights, multiple merchants selling high-priced gear (we'll be broke almost immediately again - Shepard needs a credit account - he's the savior o...
Having clashed with the Collectors at Horizon colony, we are now flush with cash, and feeling good about saving (a few) of the colonists. But now we're without a clear direction, other than being reminded by the Illusive Man that our team was going to have to be a well-oiled machine to survive, which is the game indicator that loyalty missions for the crew are going to begin opening up. And the...
Hey, wait, this isn't Space Vegas, or even Space Fortune City! This is a gross, brown garbage dump of a place. someone must have gotten lost, or Joker didn't get the memo. Ok, we're on Korlus to recruit a Krogan Doctor, which seems like an oxymoron. He's apparently being either held captive, or in league with some Blue Sun mercenaries, who we seem to run into everywhere so far, so they should e...
When last we left our hero, he had stolen some machinery that had previously resided in a criminal's brain from another, worse criminal, in order to secure the trust of a third criminal, and was now fighting his way out of previously-mentioned worse criminals house, destroying priceless artifacts, ruining facilities and killing staff, since we gained entry under false pretenses. Shepard is the...
Garrus lives! Well as much as he every has. He's been dead inside for years. He's now going to be set up for the next however-long in the ships gunnery area, typing away at his console there. See you later buddy. Lets check in at the Citadel. We have to pick up Kasumi Goto, the master thief, tell everyone that Shepard isn't dead, and do some shopping for ourself and the crew. Dropped into Zaker...
After getting Mordin set up in his new digs, getting some upgrades to medi-gel capacity and weapons, and talking to Kelly (Sure, I'll call you Kelly, if you call me Dadd- Shepard, call me Shepard), it's right back off the ship and onto Space New Jersey, otherwise known as Omega. We have someone else to pick up here, and I will be damned if we are going to go all the way across space to pick up...
After a side trip to the crash site of the Normandy 1, where Shepard reflected on old times, found his old helmet, some free element zero, and the Dog Tags of his old, dead crewmen, he headed to Omega, hive of crime, dirt and vorcha. It's basically space New York City, but nicer, and with less Yankee fans. Did the talking thing with some of the locals, including the enchantingly scary Aria, got...
i think the first Insanity attempt I made, I didn't make it out of the Project Lazarus area without several deaths. This time, no dying, but I've got red lines all over the screen most of the time. Already thinking I should have gone with an extra shield ability instead of Reave, but I'll have to wait until the Normandy to possibly adjust that. Some sort of compulsion makes me go through as man...
I've thought about doing an ME2 Insanity playthrough for a while. I've even started. Twice, actually, I think, but a combination of my lack of 3rd person cover-based shooter skills, and my choice of Vanguard as my first playthrough class have conspired to make this hard. What is inspiring me to give it another go is all the DLC that was on-sale over Xmas. I played through both Overlord and Kasu...
Sh*t my girlfriend says would be an awesome blog/twitter, but if whe ever found out about it, she'd probably kill me in my sleep. Or when I was awake. Either way, it wouldn't end well.