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Of Mass Effect and other things

So I don’t know what got into me, but I suddenly felt the need to replay Mass Effect. However, I was one of the people that weren’t OK with the endings as they were. Not necessarily because they weren’t happy endings, but simply because I felt they weren’t well written. They were jarring against the rest of the games and the story to me. But luckily I discovered that there were several mods already that changed the ending of the game completely and so I decided to do that. I ended up deciding on MEHEM because I still thought it fairly reasonable. It didn’t seem too much of a stretch to get the happy ending, and overall it made many of the characters’ actions make more sense and stay in line with their personalities. The main thing that I love about this mod is that it eliminates the star child scene altogether, and that makes it all worth it! (I hate that star child…) It had been years since I played Mass Effect. Actually hadn’t replayed any of the games since playing through ME3 the first, and only, time. After watching those endings I felt I just couldn’t replay the games at all. So, in turn, I had also never played any of the ME3 DLCs aside for From Ashes which had been included when I bought the game.

Anyway, so I’ve been pretty silent because I spent the better part of the last week and a half buried in Mass Effect. I played all 3 games in quick succession. Before that, I was in the middle of another Inquisition playthrough. This time taking my time, though. So now that Mass Effect is done, I can go back to finishing that, though I’m not sure if I’ll get it done before the holidays come around. December will be getting pretty busy and I’ll be gone for the better part of 2 weeks around Christmas, so I’ll be away from my computer. 🙁

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Back to Dragon Age: Inquisition – Speedrun

So about a month ago I had started a new playthrough of DAI. I got about 30 hours in before I got sidetracked with other games. Been primarily focusing on the horror games I’ve been playing for my YouTube videos.

However, yesterday, after a friend told me that she was just now going to get around to playing DAI, I congratulated her, yet stated that starting less than a week before the release of Halo 5 might not be the best idea, as a good playthrough of DAI is at least 150 hours. Then Dragon Age’s twitter account asked if I was up to the challenge of completing (100%) Dragon Age before the release of Halo 5, you can see the tweets below:

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Twitter conversation with Dragon Age
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Dragon Age: Inquisition – New Playthrough

Starting my third playthrough of DA:I, This time with all DLC (except for the Spoils packs).

As always I tend to spend the majority of the first day (if I don’t start early morning) working on the character creation. After all I have to look at this character, both in game and cutscenes, for the next 200+ hours, I better be in love with it.

So after a few hours of tweaking and 3 different characters (once they were in game I didn’t like the first 2 so I started over) we have reached this:

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My Trevelyan rogue!
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Still pretty happy with it!

So all in all, I really like this character a lot so far! I think she’s a pretty good looking character (beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that).