This being the season of unbridled drinking it's occurred to me that some games are more fun to play when drinking than others. For instance, Fallout: New Vegas REALLY lended itself to this type of gaming. It seems perfectly acceptable to crawl around in the dirt with a rusty ass old gun and fire off pot shot at various mutated mammals and be none the worse for it come morning. Though it was always interesting to fire up the game over morning coffee and see just where I had been…and what I had done.

Now Mass Effect 2 just doesn't work that way for me. I've tried to play it after a few glasses of wine and with all the faux digital read outs and persnickety controls and tunnels and no where to run to and 500 pop up info bits to digest it's more of an am coffee game for me which means I have having a hell of a time getting started. I keep my morning mind clear for RL stuff and only hop over to gaming when I'm ready to party. But so far Mass Effect 2 is like trying to assemble an Ikea workstation on Christmas morning with 300 parts laid out in front of you. It's fidgety. It's got too many moving parts and just when you think it's time to blast away all the characters move into Shakespearean mode and want to discourse when I just want to blow away some stupid robots.

Maybe I need to wait for the cold, clear light of January before trying this game. Right now it feels like work. But this being Bioware I shouldn't be surprised that all the characters feel a need to talk about their feelings.