Cowboy Bebop and Mass Effect

Cowboy Bebop + Mass Effect = Perfect Duo

Now I want to simultaneously play Mass Effect and watch Cowboy Bebop.

The next ME3 recruit squad anyone?

Dragon Age 2 Demo - First Impressions

You know you're a true badass when you're flanked by a dragon

My blog is full of BioWare love. I can't deny it. I love Dragon Age: Origins and the Mass Effect series. But what happens when two beloved series combine into a mesh called Dragon Effect? Well, there are good and bad aspects.

Let's start with good and work our way down.

Good:

• Aveline looks incredibly kick ass.
• The rogue and mage abilities seem refined; spells seem more robust and rogue abilities feel more, well, roguish. Not just a hack off the swordsman's abilities.
• For the most part, I like the voice actors picked. I like the choice for male Hawke, but female Hawke's voice is a little soft for me and sounds familiar to Bethany's VO. However I love the picks for Fenris and Sebastian (sure they weren't in the demo, but hot damn. Sebastian's VO alone made me glad I pre-ordered.) Isabella's voice actor is still strong and I like Aveline's VO as well (I kinda wish it had been Hawke's...)

Limbo:

• The new Final Fantasy looking experience/attributes/skills system. I realize that the old system didn't give much room to pick different abilities and traits, but I feel like I'm playing FFXII every time I look at it.
• Female Hawke's swaying ass when she runs as a mage. It was... distracting.
• Varric narrating the story. I like Varric as a character, but it's off putting to be pulled out of the storyline at a moments whim. I can only hope it's in better integrated into the actual game. And what's up with Varric having the ability to lie about events? Am I playing the real story of Hawke, or am I just being fed shit?

Bad:

• The font. It looks like ants have creeped onto my television set. I have to be in make-out position before the text is readable. There was a similar problem for people in ME2 that consumers complained about, which BioWare said they'd fix in ME3. And yet we get even smaller print in DA2. Fix it.
• Funny graphic rate. I'll say that it's the demo's fault for now, but on my Xbox, the frame rate seemed sluggish at times and white lines kept appearing out of knowhere. It even froze once while I was playing mage Hawke and kicked me out.

The rest of bad is under cut for SPOILERS.

MASS EFFECT 3

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.

Dudes, I know the synopsis sounds way too ME 1 & 2, but YESSSSSSSSS. I have been waiting to hear news about ME3, so a little blurb is better than nothing. (And the blurb makes it seem like Shepard might be travelling home... *fingers crossed*)

Now I just need to see a release date...

(News taken from http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/10/mass-effect-3-outed-on-ea-store/)

I had a dream...

Canada once again has proven to me that it is a brilliant place to live.

A professor at Concordia University in Toronto, is adding Mass Effect to his classes "reading" list. I believe Red River should follow in its magnificent footsteps. Or it should at least let us play Little Big Planet to adapt and create an Aesop fable. (Oh, how jealous I am of you Quest to Learn students. I got nothing but eraser dust and a broken computer to play with at my high school. No fun interactive programs for me. No LBP either.)

Thane Krios: Futuristic Lover & Blasto: The Hanar Spectre - Mass Effect 2

Okay, this vid is way too much fun. And it makes me like Katy Perry. Just a little bit.

Can't say I did the Thane romance option, but damn. He does know how to kickass. (Thane is a great squad member in ME2. I used him alot along with Garrus, Tali, Legion, and Mordin).



This is one Hanar on a mission. "Enkindle this."