Ground Xero Blogs.

It has literally just come to my attention that a huge member of my childhood, though, not often credited, has passed. I, as many know, play games. I'm a huge gamer. I started with atari and moved to nintendo then to genesis, playstation, etc. Yesterday we lost Satoru Iwata, the man behind Nintendo. His games and systems did help me through many tough times and helped shape who I am. Goodbye Mr. Iwata. Though I never knew you, I feel as though a part of my family has been lost.

Well, I never thought I'd write this, but, another franchise falls to the clutches of Electronic Arts. I loved the first Mass Effect, and I was truly hyped for Mass Effect 2. I lost everything in a move around the same time as Mass effect 3, so, I had to wait for Trilogy to play three, so I did it the only way that makes sense, I've been marathoning the Mass Effect franchise. One is still the buggy mess with bad checkpointing that I love. The game play is RPG and the action portion is more strategy then you'd believe. Mass Effect 2 is where the series starts the down turn. For the sake of this post I'm going to do it a disservice and compare it to Alpha Protocol. Before I'm crucified for doing so, let's get the comparative scores out of the way, Graphics: ME2-8, AP-6.5, Sound: ME2-9, AP- 7, Story: ME2-9 AP-8, Gameplay: ME2-8 AP-8. These scores are subjective, and, the gameplay is fairly similar between the two, this is what I'm going to be contrasting. A...