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My Mass Effect adventure!
Jul. 28th, 2013 06:09 pm(As I type this, I have some epic cat bites and a mildly sprained wrist. It's a slow process. I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS.)
I've been playing Mass Effect for a few weeks now, and I'm totally enjoying it. So much so that I finished my first playthrough of the first game, then turned around and took that same Shepard (female, colonial soldier, war hero, paragon) back to play again, this time with all the side missions I skipped.
(I am quite in love with my Shepard, who has red hair in a tight bun, cheekbones that you could cut yourself on, a long mouth and a long, thin neck. Sadly, screencaps don't seem to work, presumably because Steam knows I am am a fake gamer girl. Or something. Hence my Chell icon here. Use your imagination.)
(I do keep thinking how much better ME would be if Shepard had a portal gun, although I'm not sure Portal would be improved with Geth.)
ANYWAY, on this second playthrough, I'm having trouble deciding what I want to do with the love interests.
See, first playthrough, I was basically flirting with Kaidan with the intent of sending him to die on Virmire. Only I quite got to like Kaidan, and at the same time got really tired of Ashley's space racist routine. Then Ashley went and shot Wrex, and I had to play that scene, like, three or four times before Wrex came out of it alive, and I began to hold a grudge against Ashley. I REALLY LOVE WREX AND I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT KROGANS.
The problem with all this was, once Ashley was dead, I started having massive guilt about keeping Kaidan alive just because he's my pixellated love interest and also less racist than Ashley. So a certain amount of resentment crept in as I felt bad for making a potentially unethical choice involving the lives of tiny pixel people.
(This is why my Shepard is a paragon. Sometimes I accidentally make a choice that leads to some renegade points, and I feel really bad! And I like that my Shepard is quite professional and not a horrible bully.)
MEANWHILE, there's Liara, who's pretty great, and Shepard is partially responsible for her mother's death, which is apparently a kind of shipping kryptonite for me, I don't even know. And I do enjoy a socially awkward centenarian, but I'm not sure if Shepard is really feeling it.
(I'd love for Shepard to hook up with Gianna Parasini, the internal affairs agent on Noveria. BUT NO. STUPID GAME, WHY DO YOU THWART ME?)
I've been playing Mass Effect for a few weeks now, and I'm totally enjoying it. So much so that I finished my first playthrough of the first game, then turned around and took that same Shepard (female, colonial soldier, war hero, paragon) back to play again, this time with all the side missions I skipped.
(I am quite in love with my Shepard, who has red hair in a tight bun, cheekbones that you could cut yourself on, a long mouth and a long, thin neck. Sadly, screencaps don't seem to work, presumably because Steam knows I am am a fake gamer girl. Or something. Hence my Chell icon here. Use your imagination.)
(I do keep thinking how much better ME would be if Shepard had a portal gun, although I'm not sure Portal would be improved with Geth.)
ANYWAY, on this second playthrough, I'm having trouble deciding what I want to do with the love interests.
See, first playthrough, I was basically flirting with Kaidan with the intent of sending him to die on Virmire. Only I quite got to like Kaidan, and at the same time got really tired of Ashley's space racist routine. Then Ashley went and shot Wrex, and I had to play that scene, like, three or four times before Wrex came out of it alive, and I began to hold a grudge against Ashley. I REALLY LOVE WREX AND I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT KROGANS.
The problem with all this was, once Ashley was dead, I started having massive guilt about keeping Kaidan alive just because he's my pixellated love interest and also less racist than Ashley. So a certain amount of resentment crept in as I felt bad for making a potentially unethical choice involving the lives of tiny pixel people.
(This is why my Shepard is a paragon. Sometimes I accidentally make a choice that leads to some renegade points, and I feel really bad! And I like that my Shepard is quite professional and not a horrible bully.)
MEANWHILE, there's Liara, who's pretty great, and Shepard is partially responsible for her mother's death, which is apparently a kind of shipping kryptonite for me, I don't even know. And I do enjoy a socially awkward centenarian, but I'm not sure if Shepard is really feeling it.
(I'd love for Shepard to hook up with Gianna Parasini, the internal affairs agent on Noveria. BUT NO. STUPID GAME, WHY DO YOU THWART ME?)
