Another Mass Effect-y post
Aug. 30th, 2011 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eponymous_roseBit of downtime research-wise, so! I got the Kasumi and Shadow Broker downloadable missions, and played through both. SO COOL. Semi-spoilery vague ramblings follow:
The Kasumi one was incredibly entertaining - yes, yes, what ME2 was really missing was a wacky heist mission. With hilarious commentary and a little black dress. Kasumi's awesome. I futzed around in the vault way longer than I had to, just to hear her little cutting remarks.
The Shadow Broker one? Amazing! Love that Liara gets this whole epic character arc, and her banter with Shepard was golden. Also, and I cannot stress this enough, HIGH-SPEED CHASE IN FLYING CARS. Yes, more of that in ME3, please. "What kind of weapons does this thing have?" "It's a taxi. It has a fare meter." Also: "Truck!" "I know." "TRUCK!" "I KNOW!" They are so hilariously panicky and snarky in that whole scene. The crazy angles of the fight on the ship were really disorienting, which kinda worked well. I'm getting super-reliant on the Magical Radar Button, though - I would've been lost for ages otherwise.
Getting access to all that extra personal info/chatroom logs/etc. about the squad at the end was awesome, too. Plenty of angst to go around, but lots of hilariousness, too. Of course Legion is a hardcore gamer. And Grunt's search history cracked me up. "dinosaurs" and "sharks". Yes, Grunt. Earth is pretty awesome. And Jack, well, of course she'd get kicked out of every message board there is for violating TOS. "bypassing worksafe filters". Oh, Jack.
Anyway. The Shadow Broker mission in particular was really, really good character-wise and continuity-wise. If this is a sign of things to come in ME3, it'll be awesome. AND MORE FLYING CARS PLEASE.
To sum up, here is a really nifty and well-edited fanvid that shows off how pretty this game is: You're the Conversation. Nice to see something more contemplative and character-based - it's hard to do a Shepard-centric fanvid, since everyone plays her (or him) a bit differently, but this one gets right to the core of the character. Cool song choice, too.
The Kasumi one was incredibly entertaining - yes, yes, what ME2 was really missing was a wacky heist mission. With hilarious commentary and a little black dress. Kasumi's awesome. I futzed around in the vault way longer than I had to, just to hear her little cutting remarks.
The Shadow Broker one? Amazing! Love that Liara gets this whole epic character arc, and her banter with Shepard was golden. Also, and I cannot stress this enough, HIGH-SPEED CHASE IN FLYING CARS. Yes, more of that in ME3, please. "What kind of weapons does this thing have?" "It's a taxi. It has a fare meter." Also: "Truck!" "I know." "TRUCK!" "I KNOW!" They are so hilariously panicky and snarky in that whole scene. The crazy angles of the fight on the ship were really disorienting, which kinda worked well. I'm getting super-reliant on the Magical Radar Button, though - I would've been lost for ages otherwise.
Getting access to all that extra personal info/chatroom logs/etc. about the squad at the end was awesome, too. Plenty of angst to go around, but lots of hilariousness, too. Of course Legion is a hardcore gamer. And Grunt's search history cracked me up. "dinosaurs" and "sharks". Yes, Grunt. Earth is pretty awesome. And Jack, well, of course she'd get kicked out of every message board there is for violating TOS. "bypassing worksafe filters". Oh, Jack.
Anyway. The Shadow Broker mission in particular was really, really good character-wise and continuity-wise. If this is a sign of things to come in ME3, it'll be awesome. AND MORE FLYING CARS PLEASE.
To sum up, here is a really nifty and well-edited fanvid that shows off how pretty this game is: You're the Conversation. Nice to see something more contemplative and character-based - it's hard to do a Shepard-centric fanvid, since everyone plays her (or him) a bit differently, but this one gets right to the core of the character. Cool song choice, too.
