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EZ-Mode Unlocked Episode 051

Dana — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:42:41 +0000

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Question of the Week

Blog Update

Past, Present & Future

Past

Rob doubts this story very much

Dana has a new #1

Trees can’t figure out this dog’s motives

Present

Rob plays with weighted precipitation

Dana goes probin’

Trees rules the land

Future

Rob plays America’s past time

Dana isn’t excited for an other open world game, but she’s going to play another one

Trees hits a mouse minion for 11 dmg

EZ-Mode Unlocked Episode 050

Dana — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:02:01 +0000

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Forums – Woman Seduces Kid of Home (and no, it’s not Dana) – More Sim Games for Dana – We’re off to the movies!

Question of the Week

Blog Update

Past, Present & Future

Past

Rob is a big daddy

Dana makes googy creatures

Trees throws an AdHoc Party!

Present

Rob wobbles but he don’t fall down

Dana is spoiled! What else is new?

Trees goes anti-g

Future

Rob gets a confirmation text

Dana is in a world of hurt

Trees wants to play a story that makes no sense and is hard to understand

EZ-Mode Unlocked Episode 049

Dana — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:25:38 +0000

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Question of the Week

Blog Update

Past, Present & Future

Past

Rob calls baggage claim

Dana remembers soda

Trees self destructs

Present

Rob has the audacity to play another game

Dana gets to play the past

Trees goes probing

Future

Rob rides the 18 wheels of steel

Dana takes back everything she said about this game when Trees talked about it 3 weeks ago

Trees is stopped dead in his tracks

Mass Effect 2 Review

Rob — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:30:57 +0000

Mass Effect 2 is appealing to lots of gamers, and for good reason. If you like shooters, RPGs or dialog driven stories then you’ll find something about it to latch on to, and in the process you’ll discover how good the other parts are. What’s worth noting is that it keeps the mixture of those elements balanced, and presents them all with a high budget polish.

As a continuation of the first game, or as a standalone story, Mass Effect 2 excels at making you interested in its characters. The optional crew member loyalty missions are unique and you’ll want to do them all. Recruiting all of the possible crew members and completing their side missions makes up more than half of the game and is the best part of the experience. It’s not a grind or a chore.

Other than a few small design issues – close quarters combat can be disorienting when combined with cover, and scanning planets for minerals becomes tedious – Mass Effect 2 is a fantastic game that transcends its basic “save the galaxy” plot by populating your part of the universe with interesting characters that you feel invested in.

Mass Effect 2 is available on Xbox360 and PC.

EZ-Mode Unlocked Episode 048

Dana — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:55:53 +0000

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Question of the week

Blog update

Past, Present & Future

Past

Rob parties with rock stars

Dana does not enjoy pee on the floor

Trees sends a ‘fish mail’

Present

Rob goes on a gaming marathon

Dana is saving her robot lady

Trees finds out that being manly is the most important part of being a man

Future

Rob is excited for more destruction

Dana can’t hear it

Trees is a perv

EZ-Mode Unlocked Episode 047

Dana — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:44:44 +0000

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Question of the Week

Blog Update

Past, Present & Future

Past

What did Rob play?

Dana co-ops for the first time

Trees pulls out the power tools to play games

Present

The boys talk Mass effect without spoiling it!

Dana loves some DLC! (WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! Trees spoils the ending to Borderlands in this discussion. If this is not something you want to hear, please skip!)

Future

Rob wants to race more people

Dana is back to Ultima Online

Trees continues his quest to collect all bikinis!

Another Home update! Rob’s internal timer tells him that two hours is enough, Dana’s quest for some home lovin’ falls flat, and Trees is charming with the ladies.

Mass Effect 2 Unboxings

Community — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:40:44 +0000

From Los

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From Rob

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Mass Effect in a Nutshell: An EZMU Recap

Community — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:05:34 +0000

Submitted by Los

With Mass Effect 2 in sight, I thought about taking the original Mass Effect for a refresher spin. 3 playthroughs later I strangely found myself wanting more and somehow still excited for the sequel when any lesser man would have been happy never hearing the name Mass Effect again. Afterwards I started thinking not everyone has the free time to play through this massive universe again, or for the first time for that matter. So I figured, why not give my own little “Mass Effect in a nutshell”.

So here it is, only I’m just going to go through the basic story and not dive too deep into the who’s who and what’s what of things. If you know the game, you would know that if you’re getting into details you’re basically doing the opposite of a “nutshell”. And if you don’t know the game, what a coincidence, I just so happen to be talking about it.

You are Commander Shepard. You begin on a top secret mission to retrieve a Beacon, an unearthed piece of technology left by the Protheans, an ancient race that lived throughout the galaxy 50,000 years ago and whose Mass Relays, a network of connected mass transit devices that allow interstellar travel, are the main reason for the discovery and advancement of all species in the galaxy. You are accompanied by Nihlis, an agent who works for the Citadel Council, a board of 3 council members who each represent their own species and who are the head political force in space surrounding the Citadel, a massive space station built by the Protheans that is the central hub of the Mass Relay network and the place where many alien species come to seek political power.

You are being reviewed to become the first human Spectre, a chosen force of elite individuals who act on their own or in small groups and are tasked to carry out various important missions set out by the Council. While on the mission Nihlus encounters Saren, a top ranking Spectre who has turned his back on the Council and has gone rogue and is now working with the Geth, a race of synthetic machines who have been in hiding for centuries. Saren kills Nihlus. You then have to report back to the Council and explain how their top agent just turned on them all. You find proof and expose Saren and then become the first human Spectre with your first mission being to find and stop Saren. After tracking Saren through several planets and systems you find a facility being used to breed an army of mercenaries. During the infiltration of the facility you find Sarens private laboratory where he can communicate with Sovereign, the massive alien ship that Saren has been traveling in which turns out to not be a ship but a Reaper, an antient race of machines who every 50,000 years or so come out of deep space via a hidden Mass Relay and destroy all life in the galaxy.

It is discovered that the Reapers are the ones that built the Citadel along with the Mass Relay network and the Protheans just discovered it all. The Reapers leave just enough behind after every cycle so that the next batch of races can fall into the same trap. You also figure out that Saren along with the Geth are being controlled by this Reaper. You blow up the facility and head to report to the Council about the Reapers. You are not taken seriously. It is too late and the invasion is starting. Souvreign must activate the Mass Relay in the Citadel in order for the fleets of Reapers awaiting in deep space to come in. Trying to stop him you are confronted by Saren and you kill him. You order your fleet to attack Souvreign and after a large aerial assault, Souvreign is destroyed. You have proven that humans have earned a seat as the fourth member of the Council. You then make it clear that there are more Reapers out there just waiting to come and complete the cycle that has gone on for who knows how long and you have to stop them. You cut the celebration short and march off to finish what they started.

And that’s the just of it. Leaving out all the races you’ve met, the allies you’ve recruited, and choices you’ve made, this is the main story “in a nutshell”. Hope it does some good for someone, if it doesn’t all it shows is how much of a loser I am for knowing all this from memory.

EZ-Mode Unlocked Episode 045

Dana — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:44:07 +0000

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Forums -Xenocide got his awesome trophy – Mass Effect FEVER! – OnLive beta is up and running, and some of our members are in it…… but can’t talk about it… so let’s just be jealous instead.

Question of the Week

Past, Present & Future

Past

Rob is punished

Dana loses sleep over a death screen

Trees has no music skills

Present

Rob is a baby

Dana mingles with courtesans

Trees treads lightly

Future

Rob wants a new Sheppard

Dana is a cowboy

Trees is ready to put the trees in team