Still playing Mass Effect... Also finally got around to playing Fallout 4 which is so far so meh.
It's a good shooter with levelling up mechanics but sucks ass as an open world RPG. Still, Anna is doing well for herself. Has an outfit styled on Sandman from DC comics (http://www.fanzing.com/images-mag/imgs18/sandman.jpg)
and looks pretty badass. Been knocking down a suburb so I can rebuild it which is more fun than actually doing whatever the main story is.
Whoa, just wrapped Episdoe 2 of Life is Strange and it genuinely made me feel... guilty.
Earlier in the day I was hanging out with a friend and got a call from another I chose to ignore. Later on something really, really bad™ happened to the one I ignored and I just couldn't shake off the feeling that... armadillo, I shouldn't have ignored the call. I kept double guessing myself, wondering if I could have prevented it. Or at least could have been there for the friend.
I was flabbergasted I felt as bad as I would in real life if I let my friend down. It stayed on my mind for a while too. Few games manage to do that. Big applause for LiS...
For those who played:
But one thing that kind of spoiled it was the end-of-chapter stats that show you your choices compared to others. As it turns out, yes I could have prevented it.
This kind of cheapened the effect - the ambiguity was gone. It would've remained a stronger impact had I been left wondering.
EDIT: I fixed the spoiler tags - I assumed they were meant to be real ones (tag text 'spoiler', not 'spoil'). If that's not what you wanted, I'm sorry - let me know and I'll put it back the way it was.