Mass Effect 2 is so far one of the greatest games I have ever played. It is just like Mass Effect 1, but with better graphics and without boring stuff.

Good gameplay, great story, interesting world. I can’t say anything bad about this game. It doesn’t even have any of those boring RPG elements that Mass Effect 1 had.

Importing saves from me1 can changes lot of scenes on the second game. It is always fun to remember some things on the first game that comes up on the second one. Example meeting Wrex on Me2 is one of the best moments.

Well yeah, yet another post about game that everybody already knows.

Great game that you should try if you haven’t. (and don’t do the mistake I made, just play the me1 first)

Last weeks one game, one week post is some late, but that can’t be huge problem.

I played the first Mass Effect, I had some technical issues with it, but nothing big. (First I managed to delete my saves after 9 hours played… then the game had 2.5meg corrupted files and it took while to find the problem and force steam to redownload those files (verify cache didn’t work first time I tried))

Mass Effect is single player RPG-FPS game that is very much story based. The story is awesome, but the ability to change the way it goes makes it even better experience. If some character dies in the game, he/she is permanently death. He/she is dead even on the Mass Effect 2. So there is some big choices to make, and the results can change the dialogs lot.

The RPG is system is not very good, the inventory is broken and it is not fun to change weapons/mods to weapons. It is slow and annoying to use. (good that they fixed this to ME2.) Good that I dont need to use it lot. The leveling up system is also somehow broken. I really don’t care what level I am, because it seems like all enemies scale to my level so it is never too hard for my level. (And scaling of enemies is actually good thing) Skill tree is only RPG element that is not broken. (But it is better on ME2)

Combat is fun, but there is some features that I barely ever used, like commanding squad members to position/attack/etc. I only used the pause menu to activate skills. However the cover system is good. Works very well after some playing.

Most likely everybody knows that Mass Effect is good game and they won’t need more obvios stuff about the game. If you don’t have Mass Effect, just get it. It is one of the best games I have played.

So… I have totally failed to regularly update this blog. But! I will now do quick screenshot post/review for the game called torchlight.

Torchlight is like Diablo, but it nice graphics. For me this is great rpg game and totally worth of that 15e I used to it. It is also fully moddable.

Sad thing is that there isn’t multiplayer… But still, I recommend to at least try the demo.

So I finally finished my PHP/MySQL RPG game project. It’s now running at http://powerslash.pelikoira.net

Ingame screenshot of the game.

And then list of “features”:

World

Usually on online games there isn’t world. There is just couple of missions and you just click “do it”. In Powerslash you need to actually do something. There is many tasks and worlds with various difficults. In some worlds you need to use your brains, on other worlds you can just kill everyone. Tile based game-engine allows developers to greate huge worlds with massive quests.

Non-commercial

This game is free. You can’t buy gold, you can’t buy premium accounts. With this nobody can take advance with real-life money. This game is free and will always be free. Yes, if you want to donate, you can do that. For donations you get nice icon to your profile and small unique in-game gift.

Advanced engine

Advanced game-engine allows unlimited amount of different items. Dynamic coding works with world and items. With this ability Powerslash has many interesting items and quests.

No time limits!

No more annoying waiting to get more power/hp/resource. If you want to play, you can play as much as you want. Powerslash won’t give stupid time limits.

No refering system!

Many online games give boost to players who refer ppl to game with annoying links. If you want to invite your friends, do it manually. There isn’t annoying refer-link spamming.

I have also planed to release this game under open source.