…..Well now you do!

*** MASSIVE JADE EMPIRE SPOILERS ***

If you follow the evil path and manage to take control of Death’s Hand you have the option of mind raping er, spirit binding your followers that disagree with your decision, making them fully aware of the actions they are taking but unable to do anything that you don’t want them to do.

That seemed pretty “actually” evil to me.

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My main gripe with Mass Effect is that the good and ruthless paths are so similar I gave up early into my second playthrough, because I wasn’t seeing anything different.

Should’ve gone ruthless first playthrough I guess.

Those narratively empty sections are almost entirely optional, side stories. Some side missions don’t reach a satisfying conclusion. The “Bring Down the Sky” downloadable content left me cold, apparently they only brought in the original voice actor for the two Shepards (male/female) and no one else, so don’t expect to spend some more quality time with your Krogan buddy or that wonderfully dorky Quarian chick.

I think it’s a good game but it’s definitely not the second coming. It has some excellent moments but it’s not the best open-world RPG ever. Their focus on making a trilogy has seemingly aborted any real effort toward expansions.

Certain classes were definitely disadvantaged in combat and especially frustrating. I played through as a straight soldier my first time, a shooty character with heavy armor and durability is ‘easy’ mode and focused Biotic / Tech users are just necessary support classes. Nice to have them as your allies, but as your allies lack the aggression necessary to be proper shooty-types, it’s best to fill out that role yourself unless you’re looking for a particularly challenging playthrough.

You could also drift into especially hard missions without any warning. They’re between a rock and a hard place on that one, they can’t very well make every class as good at combat or someone will complain they’re all the same, and they can’t make every fight equally challenging per your level or it’ll take the same heat Elder Scrolls: Oblivion did.

Just for the record, not everyone likes Battlestar Galactica. I find it relentlessly depressing, a universe I /don’t/ want to visit. Perhaps I’m just in it for escapism rather than a reflection of our own, disturbing times. Guilty as charged, bring me more blue women!

Where has the daring Bioware gone, I wonder? It better be working on Dragon Age.

I expected a mediocre experience and got a damn fine one that gripped me through to the end (rare – i still haven’t completed bioshock tbh).

I also enjoyed the action-orientated RPG combat, and found it far more enjoyable than the KOTOR system.

No chance of playing it on PC though, as Mr Vexor points out, there’s a certain city that needs to be liberated around that time…

As etho points out, if you don’t get “over-hyped” the game is pretty solid. Even my gf played through it (4 times!).

A disclaimer: I liked the combat. I think I’m the only one, but then, I’m the only one that hated the combat in KOTOR, so there you go.

The 360 is a wonderful beast, when it’s not being deeply shit…

Trying not to spoil anything (probably failing so look away now) the endings AFAIR fell into those categories as well. Though in the game as in the ending the Greedy is somewhat evil.

“. . . ”
“What are you doing?”
“He’s having sex.”
“. . . ”
“This is stupid.”
“I’m doing it for the orbs!”

Also: STE? More like STD! Hot damn, I’m on a roll today.