I felt the end was so hollow! I actually enjoyed the beginning because it was starting to make me feel lost and like a real alien in another galaxy, but that feeling seemed to disappear into thin air after a while. I felt some of the last tasks around Meridian, including leaving and then coming back to the station,…

Great article, ME:A sure does feel like a game that was created in an 18-month cycle. RIPIP, Mass Effect series. You’re not bouncing back from this one.

Give it some time. The grind through the endgame content was one of the most painful experiences of my gaming life.

It was honestly that bad. The lowest parts of ME1 - ME3 don’t even scrap the paint on how low MEA dragged me.

I enjoyed MEA for the first few hours and then it got worse and worse and worse.

Keep your hand down.

It gets worse in the 2nd half, trust me. It was physically painful to finish this game, one of the most excruciating endgames with very little catharsis. I wanted to get the platinum but it’s not worth it.

It underlines the game’s massive slew of problems. Jaal is one of the only interesting characters in the entire game yet gets scant screen time, and now these additions only come months after the fact.

Looks like Doom

This game put my love for the series in a fucking coffin. Who even cares at this point...

Sure looks like full 2 reps.

Could have been funny material because the whole “love your body thing” is way overblown, but Spags is, simply, not a very good writer. Portnoy is still a Man among boys, but he comes off weak and certainly had his hand forced by the higher ups.

Sounds like someone is still snorting Ambien. What a clown

This is good content.

Great episode, folks.

Anyone who’s taken mushrooms knows this just ain’t true.

Forever.

Smoking, drinking, and junk food in moderation have much less severe, proven health consequences compared to blood doping, which absolutely ups the risk of very bad things. EPO levels aren’t something to poke at.

Running in Oregon is a rockstar sport, so while the volume of these revelations are surprising their underlying nature is not. Competition begets corruption. I was never that good at XC, but a lot of my teammates trained with Salazar and folks. I wouldn’t say it came off as shady....but there was a focused, hushed…

I agree with your sentiment. It’s almost like the gruesomeness of the crime is so great that people are forgetting how this happened.