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Dec. 16th, 2012 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsME blather- I think I'm 60-75% of the way through the game. I knew I would have to play the story twice or thrice, but its still frustrating when my charm isn't high enough to make some story options available. Like being unable to convince the one guy to testify about corruption, or talking guys out of killing hostages.
As I said before, I'm not gonna spend any points on charm/intimidate when I can earn those for free through spectre status and getting enough paragon/renegade points. Those are points I can spend on my abilities! And I do have my character and my squads progressions all mapped out.
Anyways. I've already done Feros and Noveria, so now I'm doing all the side things before hitting up Vimire. I am flush with money currently and have decent gear, but I could really use some weapon upgrades. I was all excited when I started getting the higher level weapons with double the upgrade slots, but I don't have anything to put in them. Well, I guess I have crappy upgrades to put in there, but it seems like I get way more armor and ammunition upgrades then weapon upgrades.
Speaking of weapons, I got assault rifle mastery, so I'm currently working on shotgun mastery. Not that there's a real point to it other than the trophy, since I don't intend to play through as a different class. And even if I did, assault rifles/shotguns are far from an ideal bonus skill. Of course, the shotgun is prolly not the best weapon to use against a bunch of charging husks. I mean, I do have sledgehammer rounds equipped, so it does knock them back, but the rapid fire seems better at handling several charging at once.
TV commentary:
Royal Pains- Heh, I totally forgot how the season ended! I mean, since they did the time jump and they were all happy and joyful and planning the wedding, I did not remember at first that Boris got blowed up. Heh, I'm amused they managed to show Jill, but they name-dropped every other character like Marissa and Van-Dyke and Ms. Newberg. Heh, also, having a snow storm so they didn't have to have to pay them to show up.
Of course, in lieu of them being around, they had polo/model guy (and WTF, Divya marrying him in Vegas?!), and that one obnoxious rich classmate of Hank's, and Fat Neil as Evan and Hank's cousin, and Emma Caufield as some previous girlfriend of Hank's whom the Lawsons have known forever but we've never heard mentioned. And wait, since I was doing other things while watching this, did they have someone else play Hank's ex-fiancee? That didn't look like Pascale Hutton in the flashbacks. (which heh, did they get Boris just to show up for that one second flashback?)
Anyways, Evan and Paige do actually get married, I was worried they were going to pull off some BS and have the wedding not happen. I like them as a couple, so I'm glad the show kept with it, as it seemed when this series first started, they were gonna have Evan and Divya get together.
And the ep ends with Hank stroking out because of his injuries from the bomb, which conveniently puts him out of commission for a few months, so we don't have to deal with Hamptons in the non-summer months. Ah, and as I suspected, the twist ending was that Boris isn't actually dead, and is hiding out.
As I said before, I'm not gonna spend any points on charm/intimidate when I can earn those for free through spectre status and getting enough paragon/renegade points. Those are points I can spend on my abilities! And I do have my character and my squads progressions all mapped out.
Anyways. I've already done Feros and Noveria, so now I'm doing all the side things before hitting up Vimire. I am flush with money currently and have decent gear, but I could really use some weapon upgrades. I was all excited when I started getting the higher level weapons with double the upgrade slots, but I don't have anything to put in them. Well, I guess I have crappy upgrades to put in there, but it seems like I get way more armor and ammunition upgrades then weapon upgrades.
Speaking of weapons, I got assault rifle mastery, so I'm currently working on shotgun mastery. Not that there's a real point to it other than the trophy, since I don't intend to play through as a different class. And even if I did, assault rifles/shotguns are far from an ideal bonus skill. Of course, the shotgun is prolly not the best weapon to use against a bunch of charging husks. I mean, I do have sledgehammer rounds equipped, so it does knock them back, but the rapid fire seems better at handling several charging at once.
TV commentary:
Royal Pains- Heh, I totally forgot how the season ended! I mean, since they did the time jump and they were all happy and joyful and planning the wedding, I did not remember at first that Boris got blowed up. Heh, I'm amused they managed to show Jill, but they name-dropped every other character like Marissa and Van-Dyke and Ms. Newberg. Heh, also, having a snow storm so they didn't have to have to pay them to show up.
Of course, in lieu of them being around, they had polo/model guy (and WTF, Divya marrying him in Vegas?!), and that one obnoxious rich classmate of Hank's, and Fat Neil as Evan and Hank's cousin, and Emma Caufield as some previous girlfriend of Hank's whom the Lawsons have known forever but we've never heard mentioned. And wait, since I was doing other things while watching this, did they have someone else play Hank's ex-fiancee? That didn't look like Pascale Hutton in the flashbacks. (which heh, did they get Boris just to show up for that one second flashback?)
Anyways, Evan and Paige do actually get married, I was worried they were going to pull off some BS and have the wedding not happen. I like them as a couple, so I'm glad the show kept with it, as it seemed when this series first started, they were gonna have Evan and Divya get together.
And the ep ends with Hank stroking out because of his injuries from the bomb, which conveniently puts him out of commission for a few months, so we don't have to deal with Hamptons in the non-summer months. Ah, and as I suspected, the twist ending was that Boris isn't actually dead, and is hiding out.
