Prepare the blood splatters!  Seriously.  Kill a few darkspawn and apparently everybody looks like they stood shopside at a meat grinder.  But that’s ok – because that’s why we play Dragon Age.  It’s not all about the glory; sometimes it’s about the mass amount of blood flying through the air.  How it doesn’t annoy the characters is beyond me – I think I’d be continually wiping the blood out of my eyes.

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Yeah so I’m well aware that Mass Effect has been on store shelves for nearly seven months now, but let’s exercise some common sense shall we?  How many people actually fucking read Glitchoris on a regular basis?  Three?  So who cares if I’m six months late.  With that out of the way, if you’ve read some of my other articles around the Glitchoris Network (Retroade included), you’ll know that I have a Twilight-level man-crush with Bioware and everything they put out.  The original Mass Effect?  Outstanding, although I still rank the original KOTOR as their best game to date, with probably Baldur’s Gate numero dos as, well, numero dos.  Getting back to Commander Shepard’s sequel, I originally picked this title up back in January when she was released, although I have to admit, God of War 3 cut into my ME2 time quite a bit.  Having picked ME2 back up, and being asked to pop in the second disk, I figured there wasn’t a better time to serve up some mid-game thoughts.

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