The real tragedy is that it wasn't even an "abortion" - the awesomeness of that universe was toddling when they decided to snuff it out in ME2. (Unless you believe in, like, eighth-trimester abortions...)

I disagree on the dialogue - but agree with your general sentiment. (This submits that "the writing" includes the overall storytelling, which was pretty brilliant. I just don't much care for how Bioware's dialogue trees got handled.) The first Mass Effect was a beautiful example of what sci-fi can do to explain…

Thorn16 kinda said it, but there's some hate because:

Eh. You could. Really, though, Mass Effect (the first one) had a better story than ME2. It had some serious issues with it, but I thought it was much more exciting as an entry in the series.

It's Harry Potter all over again... I get that people love these works of art. They hold very strong places in these people's hearts, and that emotional connection is worth something. However, that doesn't mean that the recent slew of popular art products (the MEs, Harry Potters, Uncharteds, Hunger Gameses, &c. of the…

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

I wonder if trolls ever get tired of trolling. I mean, I get tired of eating sandwiches - and I really love sandwiches. It just seems like they're all... inexhaustible. There's got to be the potential for an organic energy supply somewhere in there.

It's an RPG 101 guide for sure. Pretty well-written on that, though - covers a lot of important ground. I do kinda suspect, like Realityflaw pointed out, that this and, like Poddington pointed out, the review are both meant to address newer gamers more attracted to a site like Kotaku solely on the basis of ME3…

Yeah - I wasn't particularly pleased with some of the autodialogue that occurred in ME2. (I might have nostalgic amnesia, but I don't remember it being that bad in ME1.) I swear I'd make some sort of decision while thinking one thing would happen/be said, and my dumb-as-rocks Shepard would basically say or do the…

1) Do your dialogue choices actually impact the emotional tenor of the conversation, or do they just copy-paste your dialogue trees like in ME1 and ME2?

It's funny - everyone's been complaining about the frag rounds on the auto-shotguns, but I don't remember being killed by one yet. I've put a good number of hours into the game, and I really haven't been frag-round-spammed yet. From what I've heard, though, I'm going to count my blessings on that one.

Yeah - you might want to stay out of Austin if you're a Sooner. It gets a little crazy.

Yep. Joining a BF3 game with a squad full of friends is a nightmare on PS3. We're lucky if we're in the same game, we're even luckier if we're on the same team, and it's a bona fide miracle if the matchmaking features actually work they way they're supposed to.

This comment spam happened when my browser went to plain text and I tried to refresh it. So... negligent at worst.

This and this some more.

Agreed. I was way, way too reckless playing Borderlands as a Siren. Compared to how I play Diablo, Borderlands almost seemed to champion the idea that someone in your party should just rush into the fight without thinking and everyone else should stand back and pour on the fire. Gotta have more vicious penalties - for…

Agreed. I was way, way too reckless playing Borderlands as a Siren. Compared to how I play Diablo, Borderlands almost seemed to champion the idea that someone in your party should just rush into the fight without thinking and everyone else should stand back and pour on the fire. Gotta have more vicious penalties - for…

Agreed. I was way, way too reckless playing Borderlands as a Siren. Compared to how I play Diablo, Borderlands almost seemed to champion the idea that someone in your party should just rush into the fight without thinking and everyone else should stand back and pour on the fire. Gotta have more vicious penalties - for…

Somewhere between the fried chicken tacos at Torchy's and the Alamo Drafthouses surrounding me, I couldn't possibly disagree more. This place is like heaven - despite the awful drivers, the insufferable hipster migration during SXSW, and the summer heat.

It's less laughing-more crying as you've realized that you've made a Missouri-Texas drive too many times. Oklahoma: it's just awful.