My Saddest Moment in Mass Effect 3

Mass Effect 3 is the epitome of the term, endgame.  You're forced to make tough decisions and sometimes by your own hand and actions kill characters you've come to love.  To put it into terms others might understand, imagine if at the end of Deathly Hallows, Harry has to sacrifice Hermione to the Death Eaters.  But you don't get to just watch it on a screen, you have to do it by your own hand.  Making you culpable in it.  That's what this game feels like.  For all the problems people have with the ending, this game is phenomenal for those kind of moments.

The saddest moment for me though, has to do with my Shepherd and it might be a little selfish for me to think so.  But I also did a very good job being a commander, no one died in ME2 and I had what could only be described as the best outcomes for ME3.  Then came time to fire the Crucible.

I went through the whole shebang with the Illusive Man and Anderson and sat down next to him, looking at her badly damaged side and the blood pouring onto her hand.  She waits for the Citadel to do its magic.

But nothing happened.

Then Hackett called me to tell me that it wasn't doing anything and when he does Shepherd says for me, the saddest line in the entire game.

"What do you need me to do?"

It is with this simple, kind of throwaway line, I realize what the life of Shepherd is actually like.  She can't even just die in peace, the universe is always demanding more of her and she always has more to give.  It just makes me sad that she has to go through with all this and then she dies alone, something Shepherd never was.

Far Cry 3 DLC Reveal: Blood Dragon

I bought and started playing through some of Far Cry 3 but put it down because I wanted to  play some other games.  Not because it was bad, no.  It starts out as a shocking journey straight into the heart of darkness that I'm sure would have been great.  Then I see this and I can only think that this is another character going through some kind of crazy hallucinogenic journey.  Looks fun though I don't think I'll be rushing out to get it.  Still have to romance me some Garrus on the Citadel.  Twirl me, Garrus, twirl me!

The Night Watch

Are the members of the Night Watch allowed to make out with one another or is any physical contact worthy of death?

Jedi Tricks

I've been thinking about two statements from the original Star Wars trilogy that used to not make sense to me.  One does now.  The thing about the original movies is that everything felt so close.  The travel from Tattooine to Alderaan takes only a few hours.  You forget that this is taking place over trillions of miles.  It was only recently that I realized what Darth Vader meant when he said that the Force was stronger than any space station that could exist.  He then force chokes someone.  In the next movie he force chokes someone he happens to be talking to on a well for better terms let's call it a space phone.  He then force chokes that person.  It was then that I realized, he could do that over trillions of miles.  And it was one of those sit back and say "whoa" moments.

The second statement is when the jedis say that if you strike them down they will become more powerful than anyone could ever imagine.  Maybe I don't understand all the rules of being a force ghost but it didn't seem like they had an overly large area of influence except amongst their own people.  Maybe I'm missing something.

Mass Effect 3 Ending(spoilers)

Everyone hates the original Mass Effect 3 ending and I'm not sure that if the new added content made it any better.  I don't really care about the ending, because the entirety of the game leading up to that was phenomenal.   Still, I kind of wish the game had ended this way:

Because this is beautiful.  I'll write more about my feelings on MS3 when I have something to say.

Red Dead Redemption Troubles

I own and yet have never beaten the game Red Dead Redemption.  Mostly because my game has a problem in that John Marsden will pull out his guns whether I want him to or not.  I thought at first it was the controller but switching between the two I own did nothing to solve it.  This would cause problems because John Marsden would say, finish playing poker having lost all his money and then pull out his guns.  Everyone would freak out and start running and I would attract negative lawful attention.  A posse would be rounded up and I would be jailed or shot at.  I would try and put the guns away and be like "No, guys, it's cool, it's cool!" and then John would just pull them right back out.  Recently, I've decided to pick the game back up.  I'm going to roleplay that John Marsden just has this hidden rage problem that causes him to threaten people at random.  I'll see how far I get in the game and report back.