Obsessed, addicted or just a geek

It has been awhile since I last did a post, so I thought I would start again with one of my favourite series of games Mass Effect.
Mass Effect for me and many others has been a game where we have been able to connect very strongly with the characters, may it be with love or hate there has been an attachment with everyone who you meet. At the end of Mass Effect 2 I was so excited for the third game in the series to arrive, but in the run up to release when the multi-player was announced I have to say I was more than upset to hear that what was a full blown single player was going to be affected by what happened in multi-player. I have to hold my hands up and say I was mistaken and that the multi-player worked really well (apart from when you died and ended up spawning under the map and destroying what tactics you were using) but all in all it added extra fun to the overall gaming experience.
Starting out a new game again being able to transfer Shepard into the game continuing on the epic story that you have moulded into your very own. The very core game play was the same, decisions that you made effecting how your game played out, the combat felt a lot more smooth apart from the A button did far too much and sometimes hindered movement.
Depending how you did and what you did in the first two games that effect what characters you were able to team up and run into during you mission to save the galaxy. Luckily I was not a complete twat and ended up being the nice hero keeping my team together and helping save their lives in Mass Effect 2. Coming back into contact with some of the more loveable characters put a tear in my eye seeing how they had grown and made their own mark in history.
Mordin Solus a salarian geneticist that managed to cure the genophage with the help of the research which I kept during ME2. But how his story ended was emotional, seeing one of my favourite characters die knowing the only way to save him was to stop him from completing his work and destroying a friendship with Wrex was to hard to do. In the end doing what was right and saving a whole race at the expense of a close friend will always leave a mark.
Then we have Grunt, the test tube Krogen. The outcast of his race turned command of Aralakh Company, the meanest Krogen unit on Tuchanka. Again I came to love Grunt more so than I did Wrex. His remarks and his kick ass attitude was what made him in my eyes are one of the best companions to have with you. You meet up with Grunt while you go to help out his unit take out an old enemy, one which you help save in ME1, the Rachni! They had been in slaved by the reapers to make a more formidable enemy. Fighting your way thought the catacombs, taking out many Racni, you finally get to the main chamber where they have the queen entrapped making the endless supply of soldiers. Now me being me I thought I saved you once I will save you again, not realising that the Krogen’s would have to buy us some time, and then it happened! Grunt went on a mad killing spree destroying ravagers with parts of them self’s, ripping them apart left, right and centre, as the cut scene came round and your crew were running to the LZ that was it I thought there goes one more will it ever end. Then from no were covered from head to foot in blood Grunt walks out as you run over to help him the line made me chuckle he says “ has anyone got any food” thats why we love you grunt.
Legion the Crazy Geth, one of a kind, a Geth that wanted to end the war between them and their makers the quarian’s, in one mission you get hocked up into the Geth and you get to see all their memories and what happened between the two of them shining new light into what caused the war between the races. After seeing I choose to try and bring them both together, by freeing the Geth with the software that again we saved in ME2. The quarian’s were about to start a war within a war as there were about to blow the Geth out of the sky’s, or as they thought. Holding them off for a while, while Legion uploaded the date to help say his people there was a problem, an incompatibility issue with the software, there was only one way to solve it. Legion had to upload himself into the rest of the Geth leaving his body a empty shell but saving a lot of lives, again a good ally and friend ended up gone. But Heroes are the people what made a difference and he did that for sure.
There are still a lot of characters that I could bring up but this post is getting really long, there is just so much to talk about. But to the ending. The ending in my eyes was not as bad as what people were making out to be, yes there were unanswered questions, but the biggest one that got me was the very end. I was very anal when it came to playing the game I got the maximum resources I could which gave me the very last ending, it came after climbing the citadel, and it came after the cut scene after you made your choice. It was Shepard laid there under some rubble and you got to see him take one breath. Wow! Common give me more I say. But to this day i don’t know if I was dreaming climbing the citadel or if it happened or not, But it leaves it open for us the gamers to make our own decision on it. But me I see this being the start of something bigger.