I think I’ll do this more, take a holiday from Azeroth.
Haven’t logged on at all today, and feel much the better for it. So I managed to get quite a bit further into ME2 and also played Trine for nearly 90 minutes. Really nice game, with a good mix of puzzles, platforming and combat. One to get a bit more playtime into I reckon.
So one more mission or so to clear up in ME2, then it’s off to the Collector homeworld. No idea how close to the end of the game that puts me, but it can’t be a million miles away.
To be frank, it hasn’t been as good a game as ME1. Some of the design decisions are completely nonsensical to me. Weapons for one. You’re living in a galaxy where weapons use no ammo, and you only need to stop them overheating in order to use them indefinitely.
So why in the name of good fuck would the entire galaxy decide en masse to start using ammo in the two years between games? If you run out of ammo (the game tries to state it isn’t ammo, but clips for the weapon’s cooling systems – and then tells you in a loading screen to remember to reload often, as you don’t want to run out of ammo mid-fight! Nnnnngh!) you’re basically fucked.
Would the enemy forces not just stick with the old system of weapons design and fight ground battles on an attritional basis?
No! Apparently they were all invited to this big secret meeting and all agreed to play fair at blowing each other’s brain matter out.
Sigh.
Listen Bioware. It’s an RPG, not Gears of War. Sort it out for ME3. Pretty please?