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Mass Effect 2 DLC "The Arrival" [Update: Gameplay Demo Post 674]
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Lostconfused
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Right except he doesn't spend the rest of the game saying stuff likeCrunched said:
"I KNOW YOU CAN FEEL THIS"
"I KNOW THIS HURTS YOU"
"WE ARE YOUR SALVATION"
over and over and over again. Harbinger just won't shut the fuck up.
Because Reapers are assholes.a Master Ninja said:
(Honestly I don't know why so many people seem to take Sovereign's "you cannot understand" spiel at face value when the obvious alternative is that his entire speech is the Ancient-Evil-AI equivalent of "neener neener, fuck you Shepard". Harbinger is just the annoying little brother in that situation.)
Fimbulvetr
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Coxswain said:
Maybe he was just too embarrassed to say "we want to make a baby with the galaxy".
Just imagine the Turian Councilor's reaction to Shepard kicking down the door, bursting into the Citadel tower, doing that slam-hands-down-on-table-and-lean-forward animation, then shouting, "The Reapers are real, and they're trying to make a rape baby with my entire species! (What? No, I killed it, I can't show you, it's... it's gone now.)"Fimbulvetr said:
I mean, all of this nonsense would be solved if Shepard and his away team had a video feed being recorded. Then they could record Sovereign's and Harbinger's long monologues and the Council would accept it as proof since they accepted an audio recording in less than ten seconds as "Irrefutable evidence of Saren's betrayal".Coxswain said:
FutureZombie
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The Council/Alliance ignoring the Reaper threat reminds me of the judge in Ghostbusters 2 who acted like the Ghostbusters were crazy.
"Ghosts? That's crazy talk. That giant marshmallow man was just a figment of our collective imaginations."
"Reaper? No. That was just a really strong breeze that wrecked the Citadel."
"Ghosts? That's crazy talk. That giant marshmallow man was just a figment of our collective imaginations."
"Reaper? No. That was just a really strong breeze that wrecked the Citadel."
Lostconfused
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Well there is still that reaper IFF hooked up to Normany 2. But I guess it would be awkward for Shepard to explain why there is an AI on board the ship.
Anyways considering the fact that Reapers are already invading and blowing things up I don't think Shep has to worry about proving their existence.
On the other hand
Anyways considering the fact that Reapers are already invading and blowing things up I don't think Shep has to worry about proving their existence.
On the other hand
Shepard might need a better reason than "Another crazy alien artifact shot visions into my head" for blowing up an entire solar system.
Lostconfused said:
"It was full of Batarians."
Still, if Shepard needs a good excuse or similar, he's got
Liara as the Shadow Broker on speed dial. Shepard even has direct access to her database. If anyone transmitted anything about this, she'd know. And by extension, so will Shepard.
shinobi602
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I don't really think anyone will need convincing when the Reapers actually invade and start slaughtering millions of people.
The Arrival just doesn't look appealing at all. I'm a completionist so I will have to download this eventually. But right now it looks too expensive for not enough game play time. And the achievements are so silly. None of them sound hard or creative at all, and the score is going to end in an ungodly ugly number (1355).
PaddyOCanager
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So I don't know if this was mentioned before but is the Arrival foreshadowing the end of ME3?
To destroy the Reapers, Shepherd has to destroy the mass relay in Earth's system - sacrificing Earth but ultimately saving the galaxy?
According to Ashley, they did have their suit recordings, in ME1 at least.jackdoe said:
I guess proving that a Spectre's gone rouge is far more acceptable than trying to prove that a giant fleet of sentient machines are waiting in dark space to repeat a cycle of extinction that's been going on for millions upon millions of years. Audio recordings just don't cut it. lol
It's not like they had much of a choice once they were trapped within it's kinetic barriers. I'm more curious as to why Cerberus didn't try to recover the derelict Reaper before sending in a team to retrieve it's IFF and losing their minds to indoctrination. I guess the game logic would be that getting the IFF was made priority so as to reduce the number of human lives taken, but I imagine retrieving irrefutable proof of the Reapers' existence and getting some actual help from the Council would save more lives, human included, in the long run.HK-47 said:
The soundtrack is up on Youtube:
First part (following parts on the right): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7JgKEINoQI
First part (following parts on the right): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7JgKEINoQI
Been slowly starting to play ME2 again. Bought it day 1, then shelved it. Got all the DLC when it was on sale, but keep getting distracted by other games.
One thing that bothered me, and continues to do so is Shepard, and his neck. Often I start running around, and he cocks his neck to the side..and starts looking at some bizarre angle. Anyone else notice this? It is like he got stuck looking at something.
One thing that bothered me, and continues to do so is Shepard, and his neck. Often I start running around, and he cocks his neck to the side..and starts looking at some bizarre angle. Anyone else notice this? It is like he got stuck looking at something.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Patryn said:
When I was at SDCC, they did tell our group that Arrival did indeed have carry-over consequences. I have exactly no idea what they could be, but that's what they said.
UpperCaseN
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I'm glad they priced them accordingly though, seeing Shadow Broker at 800 and then Arrival at 560 let's me know there's less contentAcidote said:
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