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Finished my Mass Effect 2 run. Well, mostly. I have done all sidequests and gotten all upgrades except Medigel 6. Why am I always running out of Platinum?

Apparently my 46" has a failing LCD panel. I will miss you, little buddy.

About to do the Suicide Mission in ME2. Running around and buying stuff. I hope visiting Illium and Tuchanka without doing missions doesn't kill crew.

They never did that intro sequence 10 years before. It is the worst one they've ever done. I won't take it as a condemnation against the entire game Mass Effect 3, but it's nonetheless troubling.

People hating on DAO. Yeah, well I hate your favorite games too!

I can't fathom too many people buying this game just for horde mode. But I'm remarkably ignorant on how CoD sells, too. My own ignorance astounds me.

I love Shamus Young. I wish he were my DM. But I also wish I had a DM at all.

One of the three Human Revolution copies I bought was for an associate and I felt generous. One was because I wanted hats. And I also wanted feelies.

I would be flabbergasted if I hadn't just remembered I bought three copies of Human Revolution. What the heck is wrong with us? At least my Digital Deluxe for ME3 is also getting me BF3.

Steam has never sold Bioware DLC. Except with the DAO bundle.

It's easy because it's unlikely to happen. The only bundle of a Bioware game from this generation was for DAO. 1 game out of 4.

There's no DA2 bundle. There's a DAO bundle.

Krogan Soldiers can go head to head with anyone. My guy was one-shotting phantoms by level 8. They are insane. Taleroth most likely.

DLC is always a money grab. Giving people DLC they want should not be reviled more than the rest. We complain when the DLC is lame. And now we complain when it's cool. Is the DLC well integrated? Y: It was cut to steal our money. N: They're lazy. Is the DLC character neat? Y: They're ripping us off with an inferior main game. N: Not worth it. Is there DLC at all? Y: Money grubbers. N: But I want moooooore. Why do you hate money? I am frankly convinced that there is no winning.

That's more or less impossible. Far before release, you have developers with little to nothing to do. They get content locked. What do you do with them? You can shift them over to DLC or you can get them working on a new game. Either way, people aren't getting that new project for free.

I was more outraged at Exiled Prince. That wasn't even free for day 1 purchasers of any kind. Only pre-orders. Day 1 DLC is not really any different from month 3 DLC. Sometimes that's what it is from a development perspective.

You haven't met the wonder of a Krogan Soldier. Everything Vanguard does, but with better protection and faster attack. If you melee one guy to death, you can then melee everyone else with a single hit. You can two-hit Atlases with the right combo of Fortification and Rage.

I'm interested enough to play it during demo. I won't play it after release. It's just a repetitive horde mode. Krogan Soldier's pretty awesome though. Running around headbutting everyone.

Less than 5 hours? The Darkness was just shy of 6. I'm not even happy about that. I'd wait for a sale, but I don't recall hearing that Origin does many of those. Edit: Wait, what's this.

I've been hearing some rather interesting things involving earlier plans for ME2. So much missed potential.

The Hammerhead was a free DLC for everyone. But it was also included as part of Overlord, with Overlord having a new Hammerhead hub area.

The story missions with Mako were fine, but they weren't fun. They were a solid C effort. You just snipe all the geth from long range while moving an inch back and forth to dodge. That's so far from good gameplay, if it exploded, I'd reuse a joke I saw on TV last night. Wait, I think I said it wrong.

Somebody pasted together some audio-files in order to make it sound like both Ashley and Kaiden surviving Virmire? Why? Sounds too good to be a cut/paste. It looks like they may have intended, or at least considered, you to be able to save both when they did recordings. I vaguely recall hearing about it previously.

They sped it up with a patch for everyone. Then there was an upgrade to make it go faster. On the PC it's not bad.

I'll take planet scanning over mountain climbing in a fidgety dune buggy any day.