Not at all hard if you know what to do, but you're basically guaranteed not to get it if you don't know going in.

Also three different story branches—play as the remnants of the Kingdom, infiltrate the Empire, or take the nutso Ruin branch. Five utterly different endings.

That's for hardcore players only. Rewarding on some levels but extremely long and slow-moving. And the execution of the second disc (abbreviated in production when the budget was cut to expand the next Final Fantasy) is an utter disaster.

Mark Meer. He's actually a wonderful voice actor with a wide range; MShep is his most famous work but not his most distinctive. (I think the performance is right for the character, though.)

Giving Shepard a memorable name will just emphasize the slightly absurd fact that no one ever mentions it.

The better question is why you're so irritated about it. It's not a zero-sum game where it would actually take something away from you to give people what they want. Do you think that people should just quietly accept not getting what they want, no matter how negligible the impact on other people, just because…

The slippery slope argument in a nutshell:

Really? What are you going to do with a second drive once everything is ripped? And what's the rush to get it done all these years after CDs were a thing?

If that's your attitude toward your workforce, I suspect there's not enough money in the world to entice me to work for you in the first place.

Yeah, absent specific instructions or informed advice to the contrary, business attire is always the way to go in an interview. That doesn't necessarily mean a suit per se, though; unless you're in a very traditional and conservative field with certain expectations, a blazer and tie will do just fine in the winter,…

Looks a lot like Star Command for iOS. Not a bad game, but I'd hardly call it any kind of successor to Mass Effect. And unless there's way more to it than can be seen in that promo video, it's not worth even the lowest KS tier.

Someone would have been unhappy with the Tali reveal no matter what they did. Given that it's a tiny image seen only if you complete her romance path, why should they have devoted substantial resources to it? So the Quarians, whom we will probably never again see outside their suits, look like slightly Photoshopped…

I'm getting Lisa Robin Kelly, god rest her soul.

I saw this on the same day I saw Jeremy Blaustein's new game. I guess I'll sell plasma or something.

The Kaidan romance scenes improve over the course of the game (the last few are really sweet), but a couple of them are just creepy. "And there are...benefits to that happiness." Ew.

Fair enough. She's also gratuitously nasty to just about everyone other than Shepard. It was such a relief to kill her; the next post-mission debriefing was the first one where no one interrupted with a bitchy aside.

Kaidan is the most useful squad member in ME3. No one else but EDI can take down both shields and armor, and he stays alive longer and hits harder.

If you can't deal with somebody disliking something you like, it's on you, dude.

I didn't finish FFX (out of apathy) or FFXII (out of despair of ever finishing most of the subquests), but FFXIII is the first numbered entry in the series that I abandoned only a few hours in. Bad enough to drop all hub areas and opportunities to explore off the beaten path (thus giving us zero sense of discovery or…

So no one else can. Isn't that enough?