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Posted 14 years agoAnyone else find that trolling is so easy as to express your real opinion, making everyone else furious over something everyone knows?
Florida!
Posted 14 years agoI'm goin' down to Florida tomorrow to see the last of the Discovery Era SpaceShuttles launched.
Be back on Sunday!
Be back on Sunday!
Calibratons
Posted 14 years agoI recently found myself drawn in to the Mass Effect series, and may I attempt to justify it's complex artistic style with a few words humbled by it's majesty.
When I first played Mass Effect, I found that I was drawn in by the story and voice acting, both of which bordered on either Stephen King literature style or James Cameron film style, and BioWare has a right to be proud of what can only be named as an "Astronomical Accomplishment" for this day and age. I found myself more and more in to the story as it went on and on, and I was asked several questions about how I would handle things (i will not spoil the story) and found myself perplexed by it. Some of the questions I was asked I didn't know the answer to. A game that successfully made me make a hard decision, with actual consequences and I couldn't answer it immediately. Then I figured out why.
I had become attached.
That's right, I actually became attached to the Characters of the story and what happened to them, so I made the choice I thought I would make if given that situation.
And to be completely honest, I nearly cried at several points (namely the end) of the story. And after I finished the first game (169 hours and 37 minutes of gametime, to those wondering) I began my adventure on the second game immediately, and the story struck me as hard as the entirety of the first did.
And that was only through the opening sequence on the Normandy.
The decisions came again. Hard ones I didn't know the right answer to. And yet, there I was, so engorged by the story at this point, I knew the answers. I subconsciously answered questions to a video-game. And here I was thinking we would never be accepted as art.
The heartstrings were tugged, I felt tears throughout the story as I watched the consequences of my actions, and let me tell you, I do not cry easily.
And not to long ago, I saw he trailer to ME3, and I literally jumped into the air, screamed "SHEPARD'S BACK BABY" and broke a ceiling tile.
And the entire time, my ships guns were being calibrated.
When I first played Mass Effect, I found that I was drawn in by the story and voice acting, both of which bordered on either Stephen King literature style or James Cameron film style, and BioWare has a right to be proud of what can only be named as an "Astronomical Accomplishment" for this day and age. I found myself more and more in to the story as it went on and on, and I was asked several questions about how I would handle things (i will not spoil the story) and found myself perplexed by it. Some of the questions I was asked I didn't know the answer to. A game that successfully made me make a hard decision, with actual consequences and I couldn't answer it immediately. Then I figured out why.
I had become attached.
That's right, I actually became attached to the Characters of the story and what happened to them, so I made the choice I thought I would make if given that situation.
And to be completely honest, I nearly cried at several points (namely the end) of the story. And after I finished the first game (169 hours and 37 minutes of gametime, to those wondering) I began my adventure on the second game immediately, and the story struck me as hard as the entirety of the first did.
And that was only through the opening sequence on the Normandy.
The decisions came again. Hard ones I didn't know the right answer to. And yet, there I was, so engorged by the story at this point, I knew the answers. I subconsciously answered questions to a video-game. And here I was thinking we would never be accepted as art.
The heartstrings were tugged, I felt tears throughout the story as I watched the consequences of my actions, and let me tell you, I do not cry easily.
And not to long ago, I saw he trailer to ME3, and I literally jumped into the air, screamed "SHEPARD'S BACK BABY" and broke a ceiling tile.
And the entire time, my ships guns were being calibrated.
