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Mass Effect 3: Omega DLC - 27th November, 1200 points
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Live Free or Die
Banned
I have zero interest in single player dlc for ME3.
Rei no Otaku
Member
As usual, I'll be there day 1. ME3 has yet to disappoint me.
Bisnic said:
Missing Link is actually a good example of how I feel about DLC like this. It promised to fill in the gaps and provide revelations -- but I finished the story already, I know the big narrative arc. I got it anyway, because I liked Deus Ex. It filled in a gap that was a bit odd, but not entirely interesting or necessary (IMO!).
Now I should say: DLC that provides a great and different gameplay experience is different. I'm willing to ignore story issues for gameplay reasons.
But with ME3... I feel like I've completed Shepard's story and saved the galaxy. So what will I get from this that I haven't done or experienced before? What's the hook to draw me back in?
I do put a lot of emphasis on narrative though, so a lot of that is my problem!
Tony Redgrave
Member
In need more Mass Effect, as long as the DLC is good quality, I'll be there day 1.
Stoffinator
Member
Double the size of the last one? So it's now about 2 hours? I loved the last two that came out, but they were really short for the $10 you had to pay. Now we get to pay $15. Yaaay.
UpperCaseN
Member
ScreenSplitter
Member
Don't be tempted my son.
With Leviathan, i took the time to explore the Citadel lab and new missions, read logs and didnt skip any dialogues + checking the Normandy after every missions for new squadmates comments.
Took me around 2h30 or 3h to complete. So if Omega is at least 5 hours, i wont complain.
I guess if you rushed it, it would last one hour...but i don't rush new stuff.
The Grim Heaper
Member
Damn, Aria makes me really want this...
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I hope "play with Aria" means she takes on the role of a temp squad mate. That would be neat.
SkullplateMurray
Member
Unregistered007
Banned
Not surprising, just proves another junior talks more and finishes less games. Please flush money down the toilet and assume its going to bioware.
What is that suppose to mean?
And it's funny to see a junior member call another junior member a "junior". It feels... ironic.
And it makes even less sense when both of them have been here for 4-5 years already.
man the stupidity comes out in a Mass Effect thread, I am in as well, I still need to do my Insanity run through.
What does this even mean? "Stop liking what I don't like"?
God, that ending soured me on the entire franchise. It isn't just about those last 10 minutes, it's their retroactive effect on the meaning and purpose of all that transpired. Not to mention the major, gut wrenching decisions in past games getting turned into trivial bumps to your galaxy at war numbers that can be easily replaced with a little multiplayer.
I find it hard to care about this DLC. The fan base gave them the opportunity for a do-over on the ending, and they said "no". Now they want me to buy their stuff, and I say "no".
I find it hard to care about this DLC. The fan base gave them the opportunity for a do-over on the ending, and they said "no". Now they want me to buy their stuff, and I say "no".
Yeah I'll need 5 hours minimum to justify that price. And it needs to be a lot more RPG with a lot more talking and doing non-combat stuff for me to get it. I can just play the multi if I want to spend hours shooting more things and save $15.
Kydd BlaZe
Member
Will buy Day 1. Love me some Mass Effect.
Felix Lighter
Member
I probably shouldn't post in here because I know I'm just shoveling more of the same old tired shit that people are probably sick of hearing onto the pile but, I can't believe my disinterest in more content from this series after how much I loved this universe prior to that ending.
StUnNeR H2K
Member
So pumped. Despite the ending issues with ME3 Bioware has done a great job with the DLC & Multiplayer.
ShipTheCheese
Member
Will definitely buy, I loved Leviathan and all the extra lore it gave me. I had ME1 vibes all over again by the end of it.
Phat Michael
Banned
Well TBH, all the multiplayer DLC has been free and quite frequent so i dont see this as too much of a problem.
Although i think that Leviathan really wasnt that great.
Don't know if this has been mentioned, I only saw the first 1:30 of the interview in the OP and I assumed it was done but according to VG247 it's a timed-exclusive on Xbox 360. I'd wait for confirmation though.
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
I think I'll probably just YouTube it for the story.
The Mass Effect 3 singleplayer DLC is pretty worthless for me. The story and the universe have been wrapped up by the ending so there is no wondering where this fits in the story of the universe. Omega is going to get retaken by Shepard and Friends and then it will add X amount of points to the War Effort.
The Mass Effect 3 singleplayer DLC is pretty worthless for me. The story and the universe have been wrapped up by the ending so there is no wondering where this fits in the story of the universe. Omega is going to get retaken by Shepard and Friends and then it will add X amount of points to the War Effort.
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
Will most likely get (and Leviathan) after playing ME1 on PS3 for a complete series run.
War Effort is pretty worthless anyway, i just act like it doesn't exist and play it like i played past ME DLCs : without caring about the extra points, XP or credits they provide.
APZonerunner
Member
Again, I can't see why this has to be about its ending impact on the wider story - isn't finding out more about Omega, Aria and the ME universe in general the point?
Or, to put it more generally, isn't it about the journey, not the destination?
Baconsammy
Banned
Why offend me?
I'll actually probably wait for a sale later. Still immersed in Borderlands 2.
CharmingCharlie
Member
Never understood the fascination with Omega, I personally thought it was one of the weakest areas in ME 2. I found Aria completely obnoxious and arrogant to the point where I had as little contact with her as possible. I was actually rather pleased Aria had sod all to do in ME 3.
So the Omega DLC doesn't really appeal to me especially when they are trying to rip off $15 bucks out of people for content that at best will probably be less than 2 hours.
At this point in time I would much rather they just concentrated on multiplayer DLC for ME 3 (this is coming from someone that refuses to play MP) the single player aspect of this game is dead and they are just compounding the problem with the single player game with gibberish like Leviathan and the new gibberish that will probably come from Omega.
So the Omega DLC doesn't really appeal to me especially when they are trying to rip off $15 bucks out of people for content that at best will probably be less than 2 hours.
At this point in time I would much rather they just concentrated on multiplayer DLC for ME 3 (this is coming from someone that refuses to play MP) the single player aspect of this game is dead and they are just compounding the problem with the single player game with gibberish like Leviathan and the new gibberish that will probably come from Omega.
I dunno, I hate to chime in as part of the "ending ruined it" club, but .... that ending ruined it for me.
I don't know, I just don't see the point in story set before something that already has a defined end point.
Also wasn't this DLC in the entire script that leaked before the game came out?
I don't know, I just don't see the point in story set before something that already has a defined end point.
Also wasn't this DLC in the entire script that leaked before the game came out?
APZonerunner
Member
The set-up for this - conversations with Aria in the club on the Citadel where she reintroduces the idea of retaking Omega, asking you to help as well as a few strings which appear to relate to missions ON Omega (the kind of text that'd appear on the Galaxy Map) - are in the text files of the final game as well as the leaked script, but there's nothing actually of the missions themselves.
This is no different from ME2, though, where Liara's "Let's go get the Shadow Broker" text is in the main game, but not activated until Shadow Broker. People can complain about this all they like, I guess, but everyone sung the praises of Shadow Broker hard, and the basis of that DLC was from cut content from ME2's opening.
So it doesn't appeal to you but that doesn't mean it doesn't appeal to the rest of us, I love ME3 and look forward to playing this Omega DLC.
It's far from gibberish as well.
Not if the destination is a big sign saying your life is a lie, your family and loved ones are actors and now the entire world is about to be killed in front of you regardless.
WrenchNinja
Member
The destination is just as important.
The Iron Yuppie
Member
^this. I liked Mass 3, liked the story, and feel fine about the ending. It ended pretty much the way I expected it would. But the finality of the story and the fact that during the game you were racing against time and galactic extinction makes squeezing DLC into the middle pointless at best, completely out of place at worst.
LumpOfCole
Member
Please oh please, Bioware, make the Beggar King be canon.