This one doesn't have time for your solid waste excrement.

Mass Effect 2 was never my favorite game, and I'll be the first of the Bioware/Mass Effect fanboys to admit that.  The sudden change to the combat system combined with the extremely linear storyline was enough of a change from the first (and best) Mass Effect to turn me off.  As a result, I painstakingly cleaned up as many achievements as I could and sold the game back to GameStop, an action which I now consider a gamer's cardinal sin.

After my final playthrough (more like sprint-through) of Mass Effect, I imported my character to Mass Effect 2 and geared up for the impatience and frustration of DLC, seemingly never-ending (and boring) Allegiance quests, shallow character builds, and lackluster RPG elements.

Honestly, I am growing to like this game.  I spent about an hour or so wiping up this one here:

• Warp Specialist - 15G - Warp the Barriers of 25 enemies.  This one was a bitch on my initial games, partly because it got stuck at 19.  Now that I've deleted all old save (on accident) and started anew, I only had to warp the barriers of 6 enemies.  Warp, bam, blip, done.

I've found that the only reason I want to stop and smell every space-flower in this game is because I don't want anything to effect (no pun intended) my full experience of Mass Effect 3.  Hopefully by the time I get there, Bioware will have released a new ending and/or DLC for their third "masterpiece."

"Masterpiece" = art?

In addition to wanting to finish Insanity mode, as that is the only stock achievement I need left, I need to do the DLC.  All of it.  I never touched it once I beat the game then sinned.  Shocked?  I'm not.  I honestly was disappointed in Bioware for this one.

What did I do in the meantime between ME:2 and ME:3, you ask?  Well I'll tell you.  I rocked Modern Warfare 2 with my friends and played other such Bioware classics as Dragon Age: Origins (which I completed, along with all DLC) and avoided such Bioware bestsellers such as Dragon Age II.

As many of you know, Infinity Ward dropped its first content pack for those of us with enough of a social life to avoid buying the Elite Premium packages for Modern Warfare 3.  Seeing as how I'm the captain of a gamebattles team and play with a community, I felt I needed them.  I bought some points, punched them in, and had some points left over.  As a result, I find myself with the first of the Mass Effect 2 DLC, that Japanese-sounding assassin that no one as supposedly ever heard of.

Nope, not that one.

I'll break down those now considered retro and old achievements when I get them.  For now, Jack wants to talk to me down in the cargo hold.  This better be good, or else that cute redhead secretary of mine is gonna... Sorry, kids.