Mass Effect
After completing Dead Space, I finally got around to wanting to complete Mass Effect. Up until this point, I had found it really boring, with an impossibly large galaxy with planets to explore, and many quests which made no sense. The navigation didn't make sense, but after putting some effort in, I figure everything out, and made us of the quick alternate transport methods when in the Citadel, since using the elevator was as spontaneous as dead frog in a fly farm.
The story started to grip me, and I finally figured out how to complete the mission on the snow planet with the laboratories, when I realised the car had two guns, which made taking out shields a lot easier. One thing I did notice though when driving around planets I landed on, no matter what I did, I couldn't get the car to turn over, I could drive off mountains, and not even take a hint of damage. Still I'm sure that would have annoyed me more than the relentless driving across rough terrain to discover every listed on the map, plus additional things I found along the way on the minimap.
Nearing the end of doing lots of pointless missions which helped me level up vastly and gain superior weapons, armor and upgrades, I soon realised I wanted more story since this was starting to get boring, and began to play the storyline rather than side missions of "killing someones sister since they made them look bad", which gave me a morally grey reputation. I had fun with this on the first planet I went to, where I gave up the name of a guy who had information about someone breaking the law, and then using the points I had gained to improve my charm talents, and getting the guy with the information to convict the one who had just rewarded me for helping him out.
The story gets deeper until you find out that this galaxy is like the Matrix and its not the first time that a superior race has gone extinct, and now the same is destined for the humans too, and is long overdue, due to a secret facility made by the Prometheans. Finally a showdown ensues, and you get to decide who lives and who dies (I chose them to die, apart from the love interest who I failed to make have sex with me, it was probably the weird blue alien consort who Shepherd bedded earlier that put her off).
The game was overall very fun, and I look forward to the sequel to find out what happens next. Though I hope they add more to do, doing missions that involve travelling to other regions of space, then entering buildings and killing the same basic enemies over and over, just isn't as fun as it use to be, and the rewards are little. Though I did like the weapon and upgrades system when I worked out how it worked.