If you can get over the female lead, it’s actually has a lot of information about the gameworld that doesn’t really have time to be mentioned in the video game, and it explains what happened to earth and why all ethnicities are present and accounted for.

None of the aliens are sexually ambiguous except perhaps the Hanar; they are all gendered according to our standards. And the game does nothing to challenge our assumptions based on those standards (meaning, all the creatures we assume to be male based on voice or whatever actually ARE male in the fiction). Please see my most recent Mass Effect post for a more detailed explanation.

Well, since I’ve played it, I think I can say with some degree of certainty that shooting things tells NO story, beyond what you shoot at. It’s certainly a part of the game, but not something that is a focus. Yet you rushed through dialog, thus, I would presume, not really noting that part of the story.

You have no idea whether I rushed through the dialogue or not, as I said no such thing. This isn’t my last post on Mass Effect, perhaps it’s possible I simply haven’t written about the story yet? But keep on looking for hypocrisy on my blog if that’s really what floats your boat. Maybe you’ll find some eventually.

Be that as it may, I would like to ask you another question, which doesn’t relate to Mass Effect, but DOES relate to an article you’ve written. Inthe up-coming game Alpha Protocol, there is an achievement that you remarked on, where-in you ‘have’ to sleep with four of the women in the game. What I wonder is, why don’t you note that there is another achievement for not sleeping with any of them?

If you want to talk about that post, comment on it. Don’t derail this thread.

Be that as it may, I would like to ask you another question, which doesn’t relate to Mass Effect, but DOES relate to an article you’ve written. Inthe up-coming game Alpha Protocol, there is an achievement that you remarked on, where-in you ‘have’ to sleep with four of the women in the game. What I wonder is, why don’t you note that there is another achievement for not sleeping with any of them?

That doesn’t mean I wasn’t interested in the story.

Quote from your About-page: ‘What I hope to do with this blog is write regularly about video games and, more specifically, stories in and storytelling with video games. I’ve read some things recently that suggest that games shouldn’t be used for telling stories, and aren’t inherently a storytelling medium, but I disagree.’

Quote from this article:’When I regained control of Shepard, she was in the office of the human ambassador at the Citadel, the major city of the game. This began a three-hour-long segment of running around talking to people, listening to exposition, and gathering my crew, all while I was itching to get back into the action.’

Could you please explain how this works out? You want to write about the story-telling, yet you rush through it, wishing it would all end so you can go back to shooting things?

(By the way, can we please avoid comparing a game’s failings to real mental illnesses? In the interest of keeping this blog a safe a place as possible, it is offensive to people with mental illnesses to do so. In addition, it is not very accurate!)