tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625171860671748699.post7459522690277471780..comments2024-01-30T18:06:40.312-08:00Comments on Up late talking games & writing? You're...: Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth...Brad Gallawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09452185302281177580noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625171860671748699.post-55350775384335998072010-01-31T11:24:48.315-08:002010-01-31T11:24:48.315-08:00"Right now I feel like I’m a truant officer c..."Right now I feel like I’m a truant officer collecting rogue children who didn’t turn up for school."<br /><br />No doubt. It kind of sucks that there's nobody who just -wants- to go with you to help. Everyone makes you jump hoops first.Ann Aguirrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09076423626210129278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625171860671748699.post-1387911185174612812010-01-31T05:34:42.747-08:002010-01-31T05:34:42.747-08:00I've still got a fair way to go towards "...I've still got a fair way to go towards "collecting them all" and at the moment Mass Effect 2 feels like it's suffering as the middle part of a trilogy.<br /><br />Technically I think it's better made that the original and some of the basic improvements to combat are certainly to my taste.<br /><br />I also like how they have broadened the palette of each race, with a number of characters who don't conform to the stereotypes they set up for particular species in the original: Krogan scientists, Asari that are mature and not simply naive space pixies.<br /><br />Yet it seems BioWare are focusing more on opening up the world than on doing something with it, the overall conceit of the narrative has potential but it feels like everything is just waiting on Shepard’s actions. Which isn’t rare for game narratives, but BioWare have done better at mitigating that in the past. I wonder if in the grand scheme of the Mass Effect trilogy Mass Effect 2 will make more sense in terms of those efforts to gain characters trust coming back to affect things in the grand conclusion. Right now I feel like I’m a truant officer collecting rogue children who didn’t turn up for school.CrashTranslationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176358723290784600noreply@blogger.com