Since I don’t want to be playing only old games, I figured I’d better get around to something more recent and recently started Mass Effect 2. It’s pretty much as has been widely reported: RPG elements have been toned down, there are fewer skills and points to spend, shooter elements are more pronounced, etc. It’s still been fun though, and I’m about eight hours into it now.

I imported a character from ME1, which kept a bunch of decisions about how things had played out in the past. I switched from the Adept class to Infiltrator though, just to try something different, and I’ve mostly been using a sniper rifle and pistol. It’s hard to get a sense for which weapons are better than others since you don’t see stats anymore, but there aren’t too many choices at this point.

So far I’ve gone to Omega and completed a handful of quests there, including recruiting Mordin, good ol’ Garrus, and Zaeed (a DLC character). I’ll probably do more recruiting next (I’m in the middle of working on the krogan now) and work on their loyalty missions and other side/DLC missions first, before really worrying about the story.