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The Mako's controls did get annoying to me after a while. It goes where ever you look which is not what you want it to do sometimes. Looking should've been independent of direction of movement.

Fighting with the Mako came down to less manuevering and just sitting in front of the target, shooting, and then using the lifters to hop over incoming missiles. This is much easier than trying to drive around during a fight since you can't target while going in another direction.

I read all the descriptions of every planet I came across. I love hearing about all the history and scientific data too. I noticed there are a few jokes thrown in there. One says a cult saw their leader's image in the ice cracked surface of one world. Another is a moon that has etched in its surface various insults to humans. And several others have various urban myths attached to them suggesting some inteligent force behind a world's strange composition and weather. I enjoyed reading all of it.

I got that thing and killed it after a lot of shooting from the Mako. I have the game on easy, so I imagine that thing would be hard to kill on normal. 

Yea, my "away" TV (meaning the TV at my friend's place. My "home" TV is much better) is kinda lame, but I shoot it with my pocket camera anyway.

I can't believe they dropped the Mako after ME1. I'm tring to play through all 3 games this month, so I'll be missing that sharky rover soon.

I can see why some people think it's boring, but being a huge astronomy fan, I get so excited imagining myself landing on alien planets and driving around, even if it's some ugly desert world like many of them are in Mass Effect.

Hum... no achievements for finding stuff on planets. Oh well, I still like searching for that stuff. I think you get some experience and money for doing it though.

I'm still working on playing games in public. I would love to play my 3DS at the coffee shops I hang out at before work, but I end up reading instead for fear of attracting attention or be thought of as childish. My desire to get SpotPass content however may push me to ignore public opinion.

Awe shucks... I kinda liked motoring around in that thing. It's like the ultimate road trip with two friends. 

A lot of the planets you land on in Mass Effect are pretty similar but a few are different. I don't mind though because it feels realistic, like they asked an astronomer what they thought a lot of extrasolar planets would look like on the surface. Most of the time I feel like I'm the Mars Rover Curiosity.

Names are so hard for me. I'm never satisfied with them. I wish I could change it every few months when I think of a better one.

Thanks for the muffin! It's just what I needed.

Awesome blog! You use the paddle controler for Night Driver. A strange little cylinder with a rotating top that serves as a kind steering wheel. It worked really well with the Breakout games. I wish I had one for my 360 so I could play Super Breakout in Game Room. It's impossible with the Xbox controller.

I said I was going to go casual with EOIV, but when the screen came up to make the choice, I just couldn't do it. I want the full experience, even if it is brutally hard.