Long time no see and PURE AWESOME (Mass Effect Style)

So, yeah, long time no post.  Lot of crazy shit's happened in my life in the last six months but we'll skip over that to something completely awesome: MASS EFFECT 3 IS OUT!!!!

So I didn't wind up playing until long after it was out, but for a while I was a major Mass Effect fangirl.  The summer after my third year of college was spent playing through both 1 and 2.  The theme was also my ringtone.  I hadn't gotten that into a game in a while.  Now, 3 is out and I'm pretty excited.

I love that they did FemShep trailers for this one.  This trailer is a. amazingly atmospheric and cinematic, and b. features an ass kicking  female Shepard.  I've probably watched it at least half a dozen times so far.

Despite it's release, I have not yet played even the Demo for ME3.  Why? Because I've decided that before I can touch it, I am going to replay 1 and 2 so I can have a continuity when I go into 3, as opposed to just loading a save file from two years ago and picking up in the middle of the story.  Mass Effect is an amazing game.  It has a lot of things going for it, the gameplay is fun (both 1 and 2 though I know people who will argue one over the other pretty vehemently), the storyline is awesome, and it is wonderfully immersive.

I'm the type who's pretty consistantly hooked up to chat and all sorts of other internet distractions whenever I'm near a computer, but when I'm playing ME I tend to shut everything else off.  Most games I play, League of Legends, Old Republic, etc, I'll still be carrying on chats on the side or checking up on things etc.  Sometimes while I'm running around doing Uncharted World side quests, I'll have other things open, but as soon as I get to a plot world that's it.

My advice if you're going to play something like Mass Effect, or Dragon Age for that matter (still need to finish that...), is to play when you have a couple of hours to yourself when you can be pretty sure that you won't be interrupted.  It's the kind of game you'll get the most out of if you really let yourself get into it.  

Working on-call and thus not incredibly consistently, at least three days last week I spent multi-hour chunks of time on my Mass Effect 1 play through (I'm being a completionist).  I was talking to a friend of mine and I told him "ME is taking over my life again."  He responded with, oh, Masters of Education (this is actually my degree program).  I laughed and replied no, no I meant Mass Effect.   This probably makes me an irresponsible person.  Oh well.  I'm off to Noveria, see ya!

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