thedeadparrot

I got through Mass Effect 3! I have so many good feelings about this game and its blatant emotional manipulation. It felt like the last season of a good TV show, trekking on through a bunch of old dangling plot threads and getting some resolution to them, getting to revisit old friends and old enemies.

The apocalyptic wartime ambiance of the game is pretty amazing, I think. It hangs over everything you do, every choice you make, every place you visit. I love the little moments where you can carve out little pockets of happiness amongst all the darkness. It's kind of weird to admit this, but I don't think I particularly cared deeply about the story of this series until this game. You run around doing all this stuff, and it's supposed to feel urgent and personal and connected to you and your character, but it doesn't, not entirely. I am usually pretty good at doing pure paragon and pure renegade playthroughs because I don't care enough about the choices to make a huge decision. On the other hand, this one punched me in all my feelings everywhere. I'm not sure I could do a renegade playthrough. It would be too emotionally painful.

Anyway, I'm guessing you're here to talk about the ending (if you've gotten there).

( HOO BOY GIGANTIC ASS SPOILERS )

I have more feelings if you want to talk about them! ALL THE FEELINGS.

Meme seen around my network:

If you were asked to pick one scene, one shot, one detail, one moment of some kind out of all the things I've made and say "This, this, for whatever reason, I remember, this is something that struck home with me, that I wanted to keep," what would it be?


ALSO, the Mass Effect 3 trailer came out, and I am drooling over everything ever. Fuck, I want this game so very bad. Man, the setting here. I can't get oooooover it. WHY IS IT NOT NEXT YEAR YET.