Mass Effect
Jun. 3rd, 2013 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jetpack_monkeySo, um, I fell down a fannish rabbit hole called Mass Effect. I talked a little about this back in March, but let's just say that I'm on my second playthrough right now. Dude!Shep has grown on me, but I'm still a solid Fem!Shep supporter. I want to go through and do a playthrough where I make all the bad calls and see where that puts me at the end of the game.
And it's not just that I enjoy playing the game. I am obsessive about the universe. The characters, the alien races, the history. The philosophical questions posed by the series and the questions it should be posing. I track things like when characters got a major writing upgrade (Garrus in ME1 was kind of bland, but Garrus in ME2 is AMAZING and I want to be friends forever). I haven't delved into the side media too much, but that's my next stop.
It's been cutting into my vidding time a bit. The further I get into the game, the more I want to play it. It's like a novel where you've become really invested and you just can't put it down. I care about these characters, I care about this universe. I care about the infinite options that spread before me and the consequences of the decisions I make.
Also, I am amazing with a sniper rifle. Boom.
I will take any fic, meta, or vid recs that you folks have. Lay it on me.
I leave you with this clip, which is from the Citadel DLC and the funniest stupid thing I've seen in a while (although it makes more, um, sense if you've played the game):
And it's not just that I enjoy playing the game. I am obsessive about the universe. The characters, the alien races, the history. The philosophical questions posed by the series and the questions it should be posing. I track things like when characters got a major writing upgrade (Garrus in ME1 was kind of bland, but Garrus in ME2 is AMAZING and I want to be friends forever). I haven't delved into the side media too much, but that's my next stop.
It's been cutting into my vidding time a bit. The further I get into the game, the more I want to play it. It's like a novel where you've become really invested and you just can't put it down. I care about these characters, I care about this universe. I care about the infinite options that spread before me and the consequences of the decisions I make.
Also, I am amazing with a sniper rifle. Boom.
I will take any fic, meta, or vid recs that you folks have. Lay it on me.
I leave you with this clip, which is from the Citadel DLC and the funniest stupid thing I've seen in a while (although it makes more, um, sense if you've played the game):
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Date: 2013-06-04 11:45 pm (UTC)I've been meaning to pick your brain, btw, on good sources for footage for vidmaking.
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Date: 2013-06-05 06:31 pm (UTC)As to footage, ALL THE VIDS YES, PLEASE!
I've started working on the ahem, project, I mentioned on my DW and I'm making reasonable progress, but it's an epic task, so even with a partner in crime it'll be months at least before it's near ready preliminary completion. But I will totally drop you a line when I'm done! (Because I WILL be done!)
For more immediate vidding needs, yargh, that's a bit of a tricky one because one of the primary sources I was using for a lot of the MAJOR plot divergences got yanked from the youtubez, but I will go looking through my old source notes and pull out some hoepfully useful links and DM you soon! :)