Mass Effect 3 – Looking Back on the Trilogy

As you know from my prior blog posts, I recently went through and played Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 on the PC. In fact I just finished ME3. I’d like to write a bit about my whole Mass Effect experience. I’ll keep spoiler-ridden discussion separate at the end, and mark it clearly. To recap, …

Mass Effect 2 Transition to Mass Effect 3 – A Follow-Up to my recent “Bait and Switch” Post

After over six weeks of somewhat negative feelings every time I thought about trying to continue playing ME2, I finally mustered up enough motivation and switched it back on again. I had a saved game from just after finding two of the necessary three doors that needed to be closed in the midst of my …

Bait and Switch? Or, Compulsive Behavior — My Reactions to Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2

It's about Story. I played Mass Effect and I really loved it. It looked good, and the cut scenes were good. I liked my character (John Shepard), and I generally liked the choices I was given (not so sure that my choices made too much of a difference, but oh well). I liked the NPCs, …