The Mass Effect Trilogy
OK sure this isn’t exactly watching, but the arrival of Bioware’s long-awaited Mass Effect trilogy remaster this year finally got me to throw myself back into one of the formative sci-fi gaming experiences of my teens. I spent over a hundred hours this year recreating my Commander Shepard and, really, for the most part making the same choices I made all the times before I’d played these three games when I had much, much more free time as a kid. But Mass Effect this year meant more than just revisiting a story and characters I love, seeing myself react to it in the ways I have changed as a person in the years since I first guided Lucas Shepard to save the galaxy, it meant finally getting to connect to an aspect of it as a queer man I had been too frustrated or unable to explore it as all those years ago. It was a wonderful return to the Mass Effect galaxy, and I’ll greatly appreciate my time spent trying to make that return as gay as hell. – James Whitbrook
