Shades Of Twilight

Ok I’ve just completed one run-through of Mass Effect 2.

When I imported another ME1 character, I was amazed at all the bonuses the second guy got! 55k of palladium, platinum, element zero, and iridium! Man, you can upgrade half the ship with all those freebies! And ELEMENT ZERO, the rarest element of them all, I have over 55k tons of it! In the first playthrough I could never get more than about 20k tons on board, thr0ughout the whole game!

Plus, he gets a bonus power right off the bat, from a list of “unlocked” powers due to my first run through.

Now I’m on my second run, this time trying to play a bad guy. Ok maybe not a “bad” guy per-se, but a ruthless, results-at-all-costs guy. Plus, it’ll be fun when the time comes to play good-cop bad-cop in the game with an informant!

Scattered among the various parts of the adventure are funny moments. One’s here:

Just listen to the conversation – funny as heck! Also, another part you may come to on Illium, is where a male Turian and a female Quarian were discussing relati0nships. The Quarian was lamenting about how disasterous her date with a human male went, and you can actually hear the Turian saying things to try to get into her pants!

The best part is – the Quarian says she has “stimulators” built right into her suit so she doesn’t need relationships now… wahahahahah! Funny!

Ok this is a short post. Just sayin’ how cool the game is to have funny parts.

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If you have never played Mass Effect before, you should. It’s one of the rare games I actually ran through multiple times – maybe 4 or 5 times, each time trying a different path.

And now, Mass Effect 2 is here. Naturally I waited for it eagerly like other fans. In case you did not know, Mass Effect has always been slated as a trilogy. After Mass Effect 2, there will be a Mass Effect 3. Probably in 2012?

In any case, one of the BEST THING is that not only can you import your old Mass Effect 1 character into this game, but you continue him/her! What do I mean? Well the history of what happened in Mass Effect 1 are retained here. If you killed someone, that person won’t appear in Mass Effect 2. If you saved the council, the same council will still be here in Mass Effect 2.

I imported my 3 characters into Mass Effect 2 immediately. One’s “good”, the 2nd one was “evil”, and the 3rd… well he’s kinda neutral.. has both Paragon and Renegade points, and that’s the one I’m currently playing now. One thing I did remember about the original Mass Effect was that it was DAMN HARD to be “evil”. Sometimes, you have to be “good” to complete a quest, and then you get Paragon points instead of Renegade points.
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Video games have indeed come a long way since the early days of Pong. With today’s gaming graphics card having more power than CGI workstations 5 years ago (and also DirectX10 and 11), characters are now looking more and more real.

Of course it is inevitable the natural animal (and human) instincts start to rear their heads in games – sex.

The interesting part of it all is, well aside from the sex itself, is that the games depict what the current worldwide social dynamics are. Back in the 70s for example, the world “gay” meant “happy”. Well it still does mean “happy” today but a new slang has been attached to it – male homosexual activities. Similarly, Dragon Age reflects this in the way it handles sex between the player and the characters. Dragon Age allows straight sex, meaning male and female, gay and lesbian sex, to occur.

Dragon Age Origins is already rated M18, so… you know what to do – if you’re under 18, you aren’t supposed to be here

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