playing through Mass Effect 1 the last few days. Man, that game feels somewhat badly designed. It feels like it wants to be both a #crpg and a shooter, and it doesn't quite pull it off.
Also the Legendary Edition I am playing has so many spots that are too dark to see it feels like walking through the game blind at points. If I have to use the map to find the exit of the room there's definitely something wrong.
also frustrating: Feros had a few "one-way drops" that really shouldn't have been. I could have climbed them, and I'm a 40yo fat guy with a desk job and bad knees, not the first human spectre.
which became really frustrating when I was trying to leave via one of them because I just couldn't see the actual exit in Feros. In the end I had to use a walkthrough to figure out that there was a dark corner I had missed.
it also... doesn't really have interesting characters. So far the most interesting is John Shepard himself, and he is as boring as a bit of stale bread. And that still is better than the others.
one of the best parts is actually the parts where you drive around the Mako on various other planets. There isn't much to actually do, but the scenics are sometimes really nice.
Had to take both kids to my 7yo's logopaedics today. Packed some additional food and water and snacks so we can have a small picnic in the allotment garden later. My 5yo even took it downstairs with him.
Of course then he stashed it in a secure place in the basement instead of taking it to the car. As one does.
finally got around starting that Mass Effect Legendary Edition I got ages ago and it's... humm... a pretty clunky game? It feels cumbersome and slow and the story takes ages so far and I don't see it getting that much better soon.
worse, I am 4 hours in and the only thing I can think of to describe the characters is: "I don't care what happens to these people".
(the famous 8 deadly words)
so a substitute teacher somehow thought it was a good idea to ask my kid's class what their thought about their home country were. They had to write down 4 things.
I am not sure she expected the results, my son's friend (6yo), the little tiny shy mouse that he is, managed to sum it up with: *broken pavement
*dirty streets
*ugly buildings
*people stealing numberplates and just bribing their way out of trouble
good lord, that kid is a natural born cynic if I have ever seen one.
to defend Poland and Lodz a bit, the city really has used taxes and EU funds well, and the city looks quite far from the decrepit state I encountered when I came here first in 2008.
@lowqualityfacts you know, I think I would rate the quality of your facts at least a few points over my recent experiences with AI generated stuff, so good job
