Lessons re-learned

I downloaded the Mass Effect DLC, Pinnacle Station, and even though I was mildly disappointed with it, the DLC did re-spark my interest in the game....That and the new one is coming soon and I hear that you can upload previous game saves...Awesome.  After completing both Pinnacle Station and Bringing Down the Sky I would say that the DLC department at Bioware needs to learn a lesson or two about additional content.  But I will leave that for more qualified writers to write about.

As I said, these DLCs did renew my interest in this game.  Mass Effect is a fun game and a great RPG experience if you haven't had the pleasure.  However, since it's been exactly one year since i had played it last I had a few lessons that needed to be relearned. 

As I was playing the DLCs I was bitching and moaning that I couldn't point and tell my squad to go somewhere or kill something and that the game would be SOOOoooo much better if I could do that.  Yeah, how soon we forget, after starting over with a new character I sit through a whole training item on how exactly to maneuver your squad...damnit...that would have saved me a LOT of time on Pinnacle Station.  Now I have relearned this lesson I have since gone back to Pinnacle Station and replayed it in about 1/4th the amount of time.  Ugh...up on the D pad...mutherfucker.

The other lesson I have relearned is this...Save and Save often.  You'd think one who has spent a lot of time playing games such as Oblivion, Fable, Jade Empire, Mass Effect (first time around), Fallout 3, Red Faction and various other RPG games that I should know that I should be Saving...all the fucking time...but, no.  Mass Effect is one of the better games about teaching you this lesson.  Last night I spent a fair amount of time and made a bit of progress in what I was doing and one stupid mistake and I died and had to start all over on that planet.  Ugh...so stupid.

Perhaps I need to go back and play Gears 2 or Fable 2 or Fallout 3 from the beginning, I bet there is something that I missed...perhaps this revisiting of Gears will aide in me betting pwned less on the multiplayer (doubtful).

Truth be told though, I love these experiences.  They teach you these lessons of patience and what not to throw your controller at.