Unimpressed with Origin, EA

I am a HUGE fan of Bioware games (excluding Dragon Age 2 but we won't talk about that) and I have been so excited for so long to play Mass Effect 3. I have been babbling about it online for months, hinted at making my own nerf gun modifications based on ME guns, and even hinted at a cosplay. When the release date came upon us, my plans on showing up at a midnight release were ruined by a 103 degree fever. Then, after I happily purchased ME3 from the comfort of my own home (I decided to go with the Digital Deluxe Version from Amazon) it took the regular 6 or so hours to download. At the end of that download time, an error window popped up telling me a file was corrupt and I had to start over. Frustration, anger, disappointment. This meant I would have to wait yet another day before I could play. Not only that, but Origin, EA's new 'groovy' way to play with friends is somehow tied to another EA account that I could not for the life of me remember the password for. Through the Origin client, it was failing to send me an email to reset my password. I had to go to the EA page and reset the password from there, only to discover it STILL wouldn't install because of some shittery or another and it expects me to re-download AGAIN. So when I try to do so, Origin crashes. Every. Single. Time.

For one, EA, I do not want your shitty social platform for gaming. I already have Steam which links to my facebook and whatever else I could possibly want it to link to (I have a PC, I don't want my asshole XBL friends to see me on Steam to be completely honest) and your attempts are making it so I cannot play a game that if you had not put up so many barriers I could have just freakin installed and played. So you could say my first impressions of Mass Effect 3 have not been good. Maybe if I just bought the CD version I wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble, but I'm a PC gamer. I like to just buy my games off Steam and then off I go.

Redheads are always the tough ones

After much arguing, Bioware has announced that female shepard for Mass Effect 3 will be a redhead. For a while it looked like the blonde was going to win (super lame) but redhead was the one that pulled out at the end. I would like to say that my Shepard has always been a redhead and will continue to always be a redhead.

Female Shepard Wins (and Fox approves)

Whenever given the opportunity I will play female characters. I am female and I LOVE it when female characters are actually portrayed in a positive way in video games. Bioware gets huge brownie points with me because of their strong female characters. They are one of the only companies who make it easy to be either gender and do not have any fallbacks of being female, as well as their flexibility in romance.

It was just announced that FemShep will be a more prominent thing in Mass Effect 3, with this article here http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/220454/femshep-mass-effect-3-salutes-you/ talking about how persistent fans got Bioware to cave.

All I know is that I'm buying the special edition of Mass Effect 3 and probably re-doing the sound of the femmeshep trailer. So excited!

Mass Effect 3

Although Dragon Age 2 was a bit of a disappointment for me, I am excited for Mass Effect 3. The release date tells me that they are taking at least more time to release this game. The Mass Effect games were meant to be a series, and the storyline allows this without any fudging of the other stories just to make a sequel. THAT is where a successful sequel is made, instead of inbetween and 'oh look, this is just on another continent and happening at the same time but there isn't really an interesting story going on' like Dragon Age 2. If you didn't notice already, there will be a Dragon Age 2 review coming shortly with (forshadowing) my harsh judgement.

Enjoy this new video of the gameplay from Mass Effect 3.