Stayed home for two entire weekends and worked on ME3, morning to night, to finish the game as soon as possible. I feel way too old to play games 16 hours straight, but it was worth it!

Bioware is a really special company for pulling something like Mass Effect off. I really need to thank them for letting me enjoy such an amazing world. Never thought I would enjoy a game romance, haha. Actually it's a pretty important thing to me, since there are so few fictional romance stories out there that I can feel a real heartfelt feeling for. Makes me wonder about human emotions a lot, what makes a heart feel something - is it DNA? Culture? Expectations being fulfilled? It's funny since I found Liara to be quite obnoxious in 3, I didn't enjoy the writing as much I guess. A small change can change how I feel, as easy as that. Pretty fascinating.

Throughout the whole Mass Effect series, Cerberus really captured me. They are evil, but in a way that made me really think about all the privileges and advances I enjoy. Perhaps Cerberus was over the top, but many non fictional human progressions came forth upon roads of the dead and suffering. And ironically Cerberus had good intentions. To me, the Alliance felt more evil than Cerberus - their inaction definitely killed many more people than Cerberus has ever did. But I guess it's easy to excuse apathy since it's a problem with so many of us. It's interesting because in Mass Effect 3, the Alliance 'won' and Cerberus 'lost' - only because of which side Shepard was on.  I sort of wish they didn't auto fill the Shepard character in 3 (I felt quite the opposite of what she said most of the time), and let you join with Cerberus and try to fulfill the Illusive Man's dreams. The Shepard character really felt like an American hero, the lone superpower fighting the 'radicals'. Her lines were cheesy and one dimensional, in a childish hoping way. For that reason I liked the end a lot (even though I didn't even know how to make the three choices, luckily I got the Becoming a Reaper ending, which I liked), the topic of how to save human-like organic life who has reached their peak of evolution from destruction is a great topic, with no real answers. It was nice having Shepard make such a 'unknown' and even controversial decision. I guess the story continues into Battlestar Galactica, with EDI as the link.