Am I trying to hard with my title names? I dunno I always like to interject a mix of words to things currently going on just to keep it original because "Life Update #29527857" sounds boring.

So if you haven't learned by now, I'm currently playing Mass Effect and Mirror's Edge right now for my gaming moods. However I admit ME is getting more of my time. It's partly because

1. I want to finally complete the game

2. I want to redo another game

3. I want to have it beaten by the time ME 2 is out!

So while playing Mass Effect I've come to realize just how freak'n awesome this game is. Seriously, I know I seem late, but this game is just wonderful. I still think the dialog wheel system is fantastic. It really makes talks more engaging and it's nice to have a choice on how to react and act on situations. I've got 30 hours in the game, I'm at level 37 last I checked, and I honestly don't know how far I am off in the game but

***SPOILER***

So far the story is really ramping up and I dunno how far I am to the finish, but I am taking my time doing lots of sidequests, doing lots of exploring. I know most of the sidequest are generally "Go to planet X in Sector Y of the Z system and find this small building, enter it and destroy all that live inside it" but reading the text about the mission, and kind of knowing WHY you're going there helps keep it a little more interesting. Still I'd LOVE to see more variety in the missions instead of them all boiling down to firefights in a small room.

I'm not sure if the game uses a auto level system or not for the enemies, but because of all my grinding and side missions I have found the story missions to be quite easy too. I take down bosses down pretty quickly and fire fights with side missions last no more than a minute at most to be frank. So it does keep it a bit dull on that part, but overall the game is still fantastic. The powers, the story, the TALKING even with other characters is just so engaging. I installed the game onto the 360's HDD and it runs a lot smoother I notice. Less pop-ins, faster load times, and somewhat smootehr but still the game has it's consistent framerate issues which aren't that bad to be frank, but irksome nonetheless. (Almost makes me wish I could play the PC version )

Now I know this mostly was dedicated to Mass Effect so a small portion will be my upcoming summer days and plans.

1. Mirror's Edge, LOVE this game. Really challenging but I love trying to find new routes and increase my speed runs, I want to play the story mode again on Hard and do more Time Trials which are fun! I really do hate the long load times though when playing the game, because when I have to restart for one mistake on a speed run it really does add up and gets a bit irksome.

2. Summer is going great so far, spending time with my gf and friends. Nothing new has really happened but I'll be taking her to the beach for the first time this Wednesday, and we've got other summer plans we'd like to do as well as upcoming events like the FF concert in San Francisco that we'll be going too.

3. Summer has been pretty much filled with swimming, going out, playing games and the occasional nap. Yesterday me and my gf napped in the park, it was so nice out you'd think we'd do other things, but when we got there a short nap just hit us both. Still we played some frisbee and that was fun and ate some good food for a picnic at least.

4. I start school TOMORROW, that's Tuesday in case you're wondering. I'm excited, I can't wait to start, but I do need to get my supplies. I think I'll get them after tomorrow. Since the first days are usually syllabuses and what not so I will wait to see WHAT I need. It was a short summer though, only three weeks, but that's expected when you go to a trade school like DeVry.

That concludes my lengthy blog, hope you all are doing well. Sorry for the long blogs, I hope you're all having a good summer too.