Tag Archives: Mass Effect

Set Your Difficulty Higher…

Painful lessons seem to be the ones that teach the most, what­ever the sub­ject. Pain pro­vides moti­va­tion to find a path that leads to suc­cess. I remem­ber the first time I waved a bat as a base­ball sailed on by. It was an ugly swing. And my coach let me hear it, in front of

Mass Effect 2 Disappoints, Part 2

Story is where an RPG should shine — even a hybrid RPG like this one. The RPG player demon­strates a will­ing­ness to take things at a slower pace, to invest him­self into char­ac­ter and story, and to rel­ish the nar­ra­tive. So let’s look at the Mass Effect 2’s plot [Spoil­ers!]: Hero is killed by aliens,

Mass Effect 2 Disappoints

At the end of the day, Mass Effect’s sequel is a dis­ap­point­ment. Believe me, I know I’m swim­ming against the cur­rent here. EA/Bioware gets to put a big tro­phy on their man­tle  — a 96% Meta­critic. That’s the fourth high­est score for a 360 title, ever. So am I insane? Maybe. But as I played