playing borderlands at the moment. part of me likes the game, part of me really dislikes it. the gameplay is definitely strong enough to justify playing it, but the presentation of the quests really really really feels like a cheap mmo shooter. it's irritating because i don't think it really needed to be like this. yeah, i understand that the cooperative play is a key part to the way the game is supposed to work, but i don't think that's ample justification for the single-player mode to be complete and utter trash. there could have been a better divide there, where you at least had some effort put into a main single-player quest that is separate from the cooperative play. as it is, it's almost jarring playing the game single-player and not seeing fellow mmo players bouncing around being generally annoying.
still, despite an awful presentation and way too much grinding for a single-player game, the way the game physically works is pretty fun. the design of the gameplay is unusually conducive to memorable fights, seemingly at random, which probably says a lot for the game i guess.
Beat Mass Effect.
I went 100% Paragon.
I'll admit. I was kind of turned off to the game's initial play through and the side quests kind of sucked. but the story was good. Looking forward to also eventually playing 2 and when it releases, 3.
mass effect 2 is so much better than the first one too. most people i've talked to agree with this. i didn't even like the first one, but i ended up loving the second one. most of the things i strongly disliked about the first one were fixed in mass effect 2. crazy.