Archive for December, 2007

Mass Effect

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

A strange thing happened to me yesterday. There I was, late at night, proud to have just finished Mass Effect. For the past few days I had already been planning my next character, since the game rewards multiple playthroughs not just with an Achievement, but also with the potential for new experiences. I knew I wanted to make a character who would be a contrast to the one I’d been playing as, to try and give myself as much room for variety as possible. So, I started a new game, played around with the sliders and settings to create the right face, and let the intro to the game play out. Then things got weird. Shepard, the guy on screen that I had just taken my time carefully crafting, spoke. But it wasn’t him. It was an impostor.
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