all made up with nowhere to go

I have finished Inquistion! Three days before my birthday, what's more!

(I would've started the inquistor for Dorian, but my world state for that hasn't been loaded yet).

One thing I will say, that I've been meaning to say for a while now, is wow this game demonstrates (to me, at least) Bioware's massive boner for FFXII. Nowt wrong with that, most of you know how I feel about FFXII. (I'm getting this mostly from them saying that the gambit system inspired the tactics system, but there's a lot in this game that makes me think I could be trekking around Ivalice, not Thedas. But anyway. There. I've said it now).

I enjoyed it a lot. It made me think a lot of Mass Effect, too, and I liked that. I liked running around the scenery. I liked talking to my dudes (I didn't manage to run everyone out of dialogue, but I did with a couple of people).

It also reminded me a bit of Dragon's Dogma, which was good because I enjoyed that game, too (although I have to still finish it but guuurrrgh too low a level).

( some MAJOR spoilers in here )

So yeah, that's basically it. As mentioned above, going to go and replay because of alternate decisions/romances (Leila romanced no-one, but that's OK, neither did my original Warden. But the list of people has grown by one because of the stupid sexy ex-templar. YES I SAID IT).

There's probably other stuff I want to say, but I can't remember it right now/haven't thought about it. Oh but: I've spent so long running about in deserts that I want a Wild West AU though who am I kidding, I want a Wild West AU of EVERYTHING. I'm not kidding when I say I've put actual thought into this. In fact, going to go and think about that now... :)

OK, so, because I am a MACHINE, I beat Dragon Age: Origins yesterday.

That's three games in one month. Go me! \o/

I ended up having to look up how to beat the Archdemon on the internet, because I was sick of dying all the time halfway through the fight. Of course, the solution made it ridiculously easy, and that was OK with me, and everyone but Alistair survived the whole way through (it wouldn't be Dragon Age if Alistair didn't die all the freaking time. I don't care if he's meant to be a tank, he keeps fucking DYING).

So now I am back with Circe's game, running about in Lothering. I managed to get the key to Sten's cage without angering the Revered Mother this time, and that was cool. And it was all thanks to Leliana :D (See, I knew there was a reason I liked her, other than she was bugnuts crazy. And if you think she's not crazy, I really don't know what to say to you).

Also I checked out the PC specs for DA:O/Awakening/II, and my PC just can run it. Same with mum's. The only thing I'm freaking about is that Origins needs 20Gb OF SPACE??! What the fuck is that even? I will have to install it on the external harddrive (no probs there, I still have something stupid like 1.3Tb of space free on that. Which reminds me. I need to back some shit up) Or, you know, I could delete all the mp3s off my PC once backed up. There's AT LEAST 20Gb of them on here).

(I think it was Mass Effect I was thinking of running on this PC, and I have no need or want to mod the original).

(OH OH OH GLITCHY GLITCHY! Morrigan froze in a running pose (hey, that rhymes!), and proceeded to follow me throughout Lothering like that. When Alistair and Circe ran, Morrigan slid along the ground like she was on wheels. It was hilarious, and sadly on the teevee, so it wouldn't have photographed/videoed well. But believe me when I say it was HILARIOUS).

I am over halfway through my second sock! I have surprised myself.

I'm slightly over my self-set deadline for my current commission - but that's down to being laid up in bed with stomach cramps for four days running last week. The actual deadline is the end of the month but, as the customer wants to post the item onto its recipient, I thought it might be nice if she got it early so that it would get there for the intended time. I'm only a day over right now, and almost finished, so it's not too bad. Just annoying, really.

~*~

In other news, I finished Mass Effect 3 on Sunday. I cried, although not as much as I was expecting (I mean, I was outright sobbing by the time the credits finished, but I thought I've have been in floods by the time Shepard got where she was going, so to speak).

Also: listening to Vigil will actually make me lose my shit all over the place ;_;

( Anyway, spoilers! )

And now I'm playing Awakening again. I've met Velanna, and I'm just about to acquire Sigrun. I am muddling my way through this the same way I muddled through Origins. Which is to say, badly. I've upset Anders more times than I can count, and managed to piss off practically everyone in Amaranthine.

Well, I guess my warden is Orlesian, so...(That's no excuse, right? The dialogue options often trip me up, though. That's the problem).

Oh, and: every time Nathaniel opens a chest for me (since he's my only rogue) and says, "Does this please you?" and I'm all, "OH NATE. You simply EXISTING is enough to please me." Sadly I can't actually tell him that *sigh*

I met up with Annette on Thursday, which was awesome, as usual. This time we went to Manchester. We were supposed to be going to appreciate art, but instead we raided a haberdashery store (I got some wonderful material and some awesome, half-price yarn), hung around in Affleck's for most of the day, discovered there were no interesting action figures in Forbidden Planet, and bought multitudinous stuff in a Chinese cash and carry (Wing Yip, if Dans is reading this).

Most of our conversation can be easily summed up as me going, "blah blah blah blah blah MASS EFFECT blah blah blah MORE MASS EFFECT", because apparently I have ALL THE FEELS. (Not that Annette minded - she is a sci-fi geek, and seemed interested in the things I was saying, because I did explain about some of the aliens, and influences for the world (like Syd Mead's art, 80's sci-fi films, and so on). I even played her some of the soundtrack, and she liked that too.

It gave me a warm, glowy feeling. Kind of like the good old days when I got over-excited about Farscape and ended up getting people to watch it because it was made of awesome. Which Mass Effect also is.

~*~

Talking of which, I beat it on Friday morning! So the 13th was not a good day for the Collectors!

( more Mass Effect feels! Includes HUGE spoilers for the end game )

You may be amused to note that, after a month playing a shooter, I am still ridiculously crap at taking cover, or staying in it.

Oh, and:

Me: Come and look at my baby krogan!
(loads up game)
Mum: That's a baby?!

~*~

Finally got to bleaching my hair today! Some of it has gone yellow, but the majority of it is a light brown/orange colour (pics tomorrow, hopefully!) and I really like it. It suits me.

More importantly, while mum was flipping her shit every time I mentioned it (not that I was going to let her stop me) because she doesn't like bleached hair anyway, she also likes the colour my hair is now (and explicitly said to me, "Don't put green on it. I like this colour." Hell, when she first saw it when she was on the phone, she gave me a thumbs up for it!

What is this, I don't even.

(I bought Tropical Green while in Affleck's on Thursday. It looks awesome, and I wanted many other hair colours too).

(Talking of which, in case you're interested:
Affleck's
Stargazer hair dyes (semi-permanent))

I completely forgot earlier: I finished Tactics A2 a couple of days ago!

I tell you, I was surprised I even managed it on my first go (OK, second really, since Illua pasted me the first time as I accidentally broke the law, and that screwed me for that part of it).

But that's another one! That's three(?) so far this year! \o/

What it says on the tin. I'm intending to delete my insanejournal very, very soon. Since that's the only place with my complete list of finished games, it's about time I mirrored it somewhere else. And since this is my new home on the interwebs, why not here?

(I will cut this list when it starts getting ridiculously long, but I so rarely finish games out right that no-one needs to worry about that right now).


( list here )

So yesterday I finished Mass Effect! \o/

I have since started the sequel (but I dun like it! Yet. My long list of things I don't like includes the new Normandy, Miranda, and Kelly. Jacob is all right. I am pleased that Joker and Dr Chakwas are still about). So far I've met Mordin. I am sure he is on drugs. Also he is kind of creepy.

Right now, I am actually tempted to give up on ME2 and start the adventures of G. Shepard (male), Space Douche™, but I feel I really should finish the adventures of the Six Billion Dollar Woman (aka G. Shepard (female)).

The ending of ME was EPIC. Seriously. Especially since Ilos (the last story line planet) is relatively quiet in comparison. I just...there was stuff in it, and it's all the stuff I love about epic sci-fi (can you tell I am trying not to be spoilery? Because I am. This is only supposed to be a quick post). I didn't think I was going to make it (can you believe I ran out of medi-gel? I won't be making that mistake again!), but then I did, by the skin of my teeth (strategy? what strategy?), and WOW. MIND = BLOWN.

Now to draw some more fanart, I guess, and get on with that fic I dreamt up last night.

Oh, and maybe play the sequel.