That's a bit of a read there, so I'll also mention I'll be visiting family, hosting a movie night, swapping the plow for the mower on my tractor, and continuing the reno work in the great room in hopes I can finish it before my brother visits next weekend. I should have time to play games while the sealant and drywall…

I'll be playing Skyrim this weekend. I'm also adding it to my official list of games I like more the more times I play.

In the original Mass Effect, your weapon selection is based on class. Adept and Engineer had only pistols,Vaguard had pistols and shotguns, Infiltrators had sniper rifles and pistols, and Soldiers had them all. Sentinel had pistols technically, but not the pistol skill to invest points in. Fortunately (and probably by…

Call me crazy but I LOVE the early season acting challenges! The scripts are always completely awful and ludicrous, and the cast is still large enough that there's always a couple of entertaining trainwrecks, and a couple that surprise you and rise above the material.

SaGa Frontier.

Eh. Mass Effect (and Dragon Age) suffer from having a team that wants to tell stories about complex political and social environments where morality is flexible and there are shades of grey, but then they shoehorn in an incomprehensible, unambiguous evil for you to fight. The problem with Mass Effect 3 was they had…

Whoo, people who like 2 best represent!!

The review indicates there is an attempt to make the issues more ambiguous, but by making Graham's character unsympathetic, and having other characters call him a good guy, the message is muddied.

He was in a deadly car accident years ago, and has built his persona (and the early series) around his being a recovering alcoholic.

Not saying it's not true, but Peridot mentioned in an earlier episode that Pearls were not uncommon on Homeworld, usually possessions among nobility. She did say our Pearl was a fancy model.

Ugh, the rachni. Engineers are uniquely ill equipped to fight them. Normally I play biotics, which basically neutralize everything past a certain point. Fortunately, rachni are only in…four missions, I want to say? So the pain will be fairly brief.

Continuing my commitment to playing games I've already played, I'm replaying the Mass Effect series. Started the first game as an engineer, which is never a good choice. Did my normal "console to level 60" cheat too, so I've got all my powers. I'm using AI hacking quite a bit; historically I never found it useful in…

I know that's always the fear in the Fire Emblem series, but I never really found it a concern myself. Sure, I've gotten stat poor characters, and it hurts when it's your early game mage/healer/only axe user/main character. But the roster is usually large enough that everyone can be replaced, and mid game characters…

I got the same recommendation. On the bright side, now I'm thinking about what a pleasant surprise Tangerine was, so it's really improved my mood!

Playing Assassin's Creed 2 on the XBox One. I started playing just so I could see how the backwards compatibility works (I didn't expect I'd need to download the entire game!) but it's my guilty pleasure series. Well, "guilty pleasure" in that I really enjoy them all, but they generally aren't held in high esteem in…

Wow. That's basically my take on KOTOR 2, but I've never had the courage to say it.

As much talk as there is about Pearl, I feel like the show is starting to show us the cracks in Garnet as well. She's basically considered the leader by default, but her self sufficiency and future sight have given her a certain alien perspective on her relationships. As a result, she doesn't notice how much she hurt…

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Was watching with my friends, and one of them said "Why don't you want to marry him, he's amazing!" I found that her story, more than pretty much any other, was committed to making everyone involved sympathetic, or at least understandable in their motivations. It ended up making her indecisiveness work for me,…

So, kind of accidentally binge watched this whole series last night. I put on an episode for my Friday movie night with friends, expecting something more of a fiasco, and eventually everyone kept asking we watch another episode. Most everyone eventually left or went to bed, but a friend and I played an elaborate game…