{"id":1748,"date":"2017-03-12T20:35:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2017-03-12T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:35:46","slug":"massive-affection-mass-effect-andromeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/massive-affection-mass-effect-andromeda","title":{"rendered":"Massive Affection for Mass Effect: Andromeda"},"content":{"rendered":"

My love affair with the Mass Effect<\/em> series goes back 7 years to when\u00a0Mass Effect 2<\/em> released. I vividly remember sitting on my couch in my downtown studio apartment, feet on the coffee table, watching the loading screens come and go. I didn’t go in with any preconceived notions. I was hoping it would be good, but I’d settle for ok. The worst thing I can do is go in with high expectations. The last time I did that was when I paid $12 to see Terminator: Genisys<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in the theater. Last time I made that mistake.<\/p>\n

So I play through the beginning scenes. Ship getting blasted to high hell, Seth Green shouting at me, and Shepard staggering for balance. I take a sip of my overly-caffeinated Starbucks beverage and settle in for the night. “Not a bad start,” I think to myself. Next thing I know it’s about 4 in the morning, and I wonder where the night went. Looks like that coffee did the trick. But the truth is, how often are we so engaged in a game that we lose track of\u00a0that much time<\/em>? I hadn’t had that black hole of time since my college days with the original\u00a0Halo<\/em> multiplayer<\/a> where we’d scream shit talk down the fraternity house hallways. Sure, hazing is against state laws, but that doesn’t mean I can’t let the pledge down the hall know I no-scope head shotted him from across the map.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/nba-james-lebron-wIcOG8Mh3jkdi<\/p>\n

I was hooked. I played through twice over the course of the next month, one for paragon and one for renegade. I admit I liked the renegade more, especially when it came to getting Tali’Zorah out of trouble with her government. I hadn’t seen that level of ass chewing in years.<\/p>\n

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