So I beat Eden Prime awhile ago but never got into Mass Effect because I wanted to start Phantasy Star Universe and had a lot of homework. Now I must compliment Bioware on an excellent story that makes me want to watch the game more than I want to play it. But I'm more of a story kind of guy. Here are my little nitpicks on the game

1) The voices and the mouth movements are a bit off and gets me irritated.

2) The game is confusing gameplay-wise for the non-hardcore RPGer

3) The bar fight with some guy that Wrex kills drove me insane but it was mostly because I just don't understand the basic fighting elements in the game...I hope I pick up on them

Besides that Mass Effect is a stellar game. I'm only on Feros but I went there directly after the Citadel. My friend made fun of me and said it was the third place you should go but I had no idea. I rather have someone play the game for me while I just sit back and enjoy the story which is mind blowing and that I hope gets a lot better. I read somewhere that the twists later in the game are insane.

Other than Mass Effect I've been playing Gears of War. Now I played Gears from when I bought my 360 (Nov 2006) until BioShock (Aug 2007) and didnt play it too much because of Halo 3, Orange Box, COD4, Broken Xbox for 2 months, Assassins Creed, and Burnout Paradise. So I've officially went back to Gears and boy is it amazing. I've never played a game as long as I've played Gears and I know people think its overrated (and I respect that) but the online is is addictive besides for two problems (host and no matchmaking).

Alright I have a hard time letting this Smash Bros issue go.

I'm only a fanboy of 5 things;

(i) Rare

(ii) Silicon Knights

(iii) Burnout

(iv) Gears of War

(iv) Grand Theft Auto

I'm completely confused at fans and reviewers. Usually a game gets slammed for being just like its predecessor. Brawl is identical to Melee. And just one example is that Yoshi's moves are exactly the same. The online is worthless unless you use Friend Codes...and we all know how worthless Friend Codes are anyways. And the single player is absolutly horrible. The fighting is repetitive as hell and the maze goes on for 10 hours or so. Now in its defense I only watched the second half of the single player campaign so I can't judge the Subspace campaign fully but from what I saw it was very repetitive.

Now a game like that gets praised by Nintendo fanboys like crazy. But these same fanboys are ripping apart Rainbow Six Vegas just like they ripped apart Halo 3 and any other non-Nintendo game.

Now I know I have a couple Smash fans on my friends list here and I hope they comment on these questions.

1) How is Brawl different than Melee?

2) Do you believe sequels should evolve and not be just rehash?

Finally, I just don't understand how people can give a 7 year old game over a 9. Now I know reviews are opinions but do you think that Brawl is deserving of a 9.5. Sure Melee is one of my favourite games ever but I expected Nintendo to go above and beyond everyones expectations with Brawl instead of giving some bare bones version of the game especially since this will probably be the last one.

Again I feel that everyone is going to jump to Brawls defense but I just want to know why.

Im so confused :cry: