HoonDing

Reuniting with Mr Butthurt:

Jack's Shockwave just owns everything below Hard difficulty. She's proven to be the most useful team member so far, together with Miranda. One can hide behind cover all day & watch her go to work.

All aboard the Hype Train!

Fail. The only option would be playing as Blasto, the first Hanar Spectre.

I expected the plot twist only because I didn't think the game would be that short. I found it to be similar to KOTOR, where one easily kicks Malak's ass in the middle of the game, but then shortly afterwards one gets served.

I had hacked the Mech, so... 'twas cake. The fight at the end of the Warlord mission has two Mechs, a hot Blue Suns chick & a bunch of Krogans. That's kinda tough.

Leave Jade Empire alone!!

Is the Collector Beam Rifle the best weapon in the game? I picked it up yesterday and now I regret having wasted resources on researching heavy weapons in the beginning of the game. It's a heavy weapon with 650 ammo.

I tried playing a bit on Insanity & all enemies I've encountered come with multiple defenses, while on lower difficulties there are enemies with just a health bar (and who all go down very fast). To me gameplay became very boring, since I was reduced to waiting for Warp to recharge (the most effective way to reduce defenses). The problem is the global cooldown on powers. At least in ME1 one could use other powers while waiting for another to recharge. So I switched back to a lower difficulty... mooks should remain mooks, imo.

NWN, KOTOR, ME, DA all follow the hoary old premise "defeat ancient evil by going on one giant fetch quest". At least JE is different from that.

Jade Empire scores high marks with me for having an ending where the Bad Guy wins... which doesn't happen enough in games.

What tactics? Hiding behind a conveniently placed crate, letting Miranda spam overload/warp & pulling out the sniper rifle/missile launcher once the enemy's defenses are down is the win at all times.

I feel as if 90% of my playtime so far has consisted of either chatting up weirdos or scanning planets. The combat missions are way too short, even for me who sucks at anything even remotely related to shooters. Recruiting Jack took 15 minutes, Zaeed's mission, while awesome, was about the same length.

Speaking of Asari, why is that Omega chick purple? Did her mother 'melt' with a Hanar?

So, what happens if the Normandy runs out of fuel the between two star systems? Call Intergalactic 911? And on another note, where the heck is Zaeed inside the Normandy? Spent half an hour looking for him, to no avail...

Is his last name Svensson?

The Soldier's Adrenaline Rush power is ridiculously overpowered. It has only a 3 second cooldown, & combined with a sniper rifle it turns the game into Duck Hunt. The only difficulties I've been having so far are with those overgrown mechs. On another note, I salute all people who managed to find all 20 dog tags in that Normandy DLC. Most tedious mission, ever.

At this point I'm not even sure whether I'll get the expansion. I saw a character trailer the other day and I found it to be pretty embarassing.

Concerning Garrus:

The planet scanning mini-game is hilariously obscene. Shooting tiny probes at a huge globe... very subtle, indeed. At least it could've been made more entertaining by adding the voice-over from Look who's talking.

At least it has a beginning and an ending. Unlike Dreamfall...

Fahrenheit was good until the word "chroma" was mentioned.

Best dialogue so far: "Yo Shepard, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Frankenstein is the best resurrection of all time!!" - Jacob, upon first meeting him. Apart from that, the lad seems pretty boring.

At least a shower scene is already confirmed.