Gorgon

Sortof.

That's all well and good, but we switch perspective in the final cutscene. That wasn't intended to be doubious.

How do you know. You still have a 0.5 multiplier.

It's like Alien Ressurection.

The readyness level is the multiplier. if its stuck at 50% for those who don't do multiplayer or any alternate platform thingie you lose half your military strengh, and so on.

That's unsurprising. The US probably sees a lot of alternative use for an ex cold war strategic alliance against the Russians. The member states, not so much. The UN can't take up the cause of spreading democracy across he globe either, not all its member states are democracies. Besides, if it was as easy as defeating the Taliban and having someone else sort out the rest we would have been done a long time ago.

That's true enough, but what we are propping up is corrupt as hell. Lesser of two evils.

He went bat****, happens in combat. Not sure there is anything to learn from it.

These people are idealists. They believe they are fighting the good fight, same as wikileaks. That doesn't fit particularly well with trying to sell a load of credit card information for instance.

Not just the consequences, they went through all the trouble of placing an type character at the very end of the game, you kinda expect to be able to engage in a philosophical discussion at least rivaling . This was pretty banale. A quick once over of what has been done much better several times already.

The file format is heavily protected. Wouldn't want people to create content that would compete with their plan to suck as much profit out of their creation as humanly possible.

Game of the decade, really ? The gun action was excellent, especially if not ruined by singularities. The plot started out good, got better, and then kinda petered off into medium towards the end. I was still positively surprised. It's a good game, overall maybe an outside chance of being in the top ten.

Hold on, wasn't he an FBI informant while all this was going on ?. There was an ongoing investigation and several high profile attacks were ostenisbily allowed in order to follow communucations between the group and wikileaks, and to see if they tried blackmailing anyone etc.

Question : can you still gather war assets after you have been detected. I have tried speeding back in and pinging for a second or two but I never seem to get a hit out of it.

Kinda disappointing yes. So much you counldn't do in the ending, either because you didn't play the previous games, didn't do multiplayer, didn't do all the fed ex quests, didn't have the right paragon/renegade scores... So you wind up with the bare minimum and a binary choice. All the while thinking really, is this the angle. It has been a theme sure, but not a hugely comprehensive one. No satisfactory explanation is given as to why Shepard

I find sleep quality varies a great deal. I can be completelty rested with 4 hrs or tired with 8.

Sabotage and Hack were largely useless. Only usable when shield and armor has been stripped, by which point why not just kill it off instead of having to worry about it again when the duration runs out. Overload hits instantaneously, stuns and removes barriers. Very useful even against organics.

For me, weight restrictions made the first two pea shooters I got the only ones I used, those and the rapid fire sniper rifle since most opponents are staggered my multiple hits. I also dislike how they handle weapon kick. In ME2 your reticule would snap back to its immediate previous position after a hit or long burst, without it, those constant small adjustment are a pain to make with the mouse especially since I use a rather slow setting for maximum accuracy. This makes any weapon with a strong kick undesirable.

I have always had a hard time detecting irony in type.

A bit harsh

Yeah go for SSD, I couldn't live without it now.

Rainbow six is kinda pointless as another generic cover based shooter. The first few games set up the action extremely well and even let you plan out the entire mission with waypoints. The briefing was a major component. Now it's more or less terrorists have attacked ..whatever... go there and duck behind tables while you wait for them to reload.

Free time kinda implies that you are alive to experience it.

No wait, that's deep space nine. Anyway it still sufferes from being a sci fi series from before they could convinicingly make them. The effects and design are painfully bad.

You forgot Babylon 5, which is probably the biggest influence on Mass Effect. Nobody watched Babylon 5. Well maybe the Mass Effect writers. Anyway I tend to group it with Star Trek, same makeup artists. In terms of the setting, tone, and story, Mass Effect has a lot in common with Babylon 5. You have humans being newcomers to the galactic community but becomes powerful very quickly. Every race in the galaxy use FTL technology left behind by an ancient unknown race. A lot of advances in technology is gained from reverse engineering tech left by alien races. There's an intergalactic UN but unlike the Federation in Star Trek, there is a lot of conflict and backstabbing between the various factions. There's a pro-human/earth conspiracy backed by powerful shady corporations. Aliens tampered with the evolution of various species across the galaxy. There's an ancient evil that sows chaos and destruction across the galaxy every few thousand years. The protagonist tries to convince all the races to unite and combat the threat but everyone is too concerned with their own problems to care. Various people want to exploit the technology of the ancient evil, including secretive human factions and corporations. This is also met with disastrous results. Voyager had a cameo though, and I remember seeing an Enterprise style dish starship. Isn't it the Star Trek universe wth a few extra species thrown in.