goddamn I forgot just how beautiful that game is sometimes. What a wonder that game is.
Cruisin' Thru Mass Effect
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 On 03/17/2013 at 03:36 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Last week I finally finished the main story line of Mass Effect 1. It was an incredible ride, one that took me over five years to finally get to. The one complaint I have was having to get down with Ashley just before the final confrontation with Saren. In my playthrough she killed Wrex and I was quite pissed about it. I was trying to talk him down from joining with Saren's forces when she just up and shot him in the back. I thought, man, why did I ever keep you around. Oh yea, that white space suit. Well, from then on I was pretty much wanting to ignore her. I could've sent her on the suicide mission after that, but I didn't. Maybe I just wanted a pretty face around or maybe I just disliked Kaiden more. Who knows. All I know is that when the romance scene started happening later in the game, I was dead set against doing anything with the woman who'd killed Wrex, the toughest member of the team, and in the back no less. But guess what, I couldn't get out of it. The dialog just inevitably led me to her and me in bed on the Normandy. This game gives you a lot of choices, but sometimes you are just too deep in a situation to get out of it. Anyway, I much rather fancied Tali or Liara who were my main team members throughout the game. Maybe I just botched something in the way I played the game, but I got stuck with the wrong partner at the right time.
Today I finsihed the first DLC Bring Down the Sky and took the screen shot you see above. I love the way the game takes lots of recent astronomy and puts it into the game. The idea of redirecting an asteroid has been much talked about recently. There was even a dialog option that basically told you details of what would happen if a large asteroid hit a life bearing planet.
It wasn't a very long mission but it took all afternoon and it was a lot of fun. Funny thing. I have been using nothing but my pistol this whole time. I am an engineer and I still haven't used my special abilities. It's not obvious which button activates them. It took me most of the gave just to figure out how to change weapons. There wasn't a controls diagram I could look at in the settings, so I've been just jabbing buttons trying to figure out which does what. Mostly I'm just playing dumb though to keep things simple, but I should figure out how to use my special skills. Pistol shooting gets a bit boring after a while.
Tomorrow I'll dig into Pinnacle Station. I actually downloaded it already and started to go there, but decided I'd better get Liara the biotic on this my second playthrough first. Then I will have Tali and Liara in my party just like I did on my first playthrough. Maybe I'll not be so lazy and look up how to use my other skills or maybe I'll just continue to use nothing but my pistol. Ah it's fun to just leave it all be sometimes and just take in the view along the way.
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