Mass Effect DLC Announced

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: CKDragon

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g

Originally posted by: Modeps
Yeah, ME just came in the mail. Now I get to see what all the hub-bub's about, bubs.

I hope you enjoy it. Let us know what you think.

I got a chance to play for about an hour... unfortunate it was only an hour though. Lately I haven't been a big fan of mostly dialog based games but the voice acting is done well enough that it really is almost like watching a movie and I dont mind at all. I swear I heard Seth Green in there as well as ... uh... that guy. I dont remember his name. Black dude who's in a lot of stuff.

Anyways, I was just got to the 'dig site' and had to shut it down. I want to play more.

Seth Green voices "Joker", the pilot of the Normandy. You should ask him to get up and dance for you.

Oh, so it wasn't my imagination after all... The Arbiter and Oz in the same game? Awesome

 

[JorynnRace]

Originally posted by: Quintox
I have yet to get this game. I absolutely loved both KOTORs and I don't know why I still haven't picked this up yet. I guess it's b/c I'm in college now, so playing games is different than last year in HS when I had like no school work

Man, I played video games all through University, and I took Engineering. I mostly only played on weekends, but still.

There is always time for Mass Effect. heh

 

[Gooberlx2]

Small expansions are fun, but I do hope there's eventually a large expansion like Shivering Isles for Oblivion. If the feedback is good on these, I'll have no qualms about shelling out $5 for these little add-ons though.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: ducci
Also the fact that it's only $5 leaves me to believe that they're planning a handful of these instead of one big expansion.

They say as much in the annoncement:

This is the first in a series of planned downloadable content that further expands the Mass Effect universe and continues the adventures of Commander Shepard and the Normandy crew.

And then there's the achievement points... this DLC apparently has 50 gamerpoints, so they have 200 left to work with.

 

[R Nilla]

Screenshot of the new race!

 

[Queasy]

Well, this is disappointing

The ?Bring Down The Sky? pack announced on Wednesday and slated for release on March 10 offers 90 minutes worth of bonus interplanetary exploration and combat. But if you saved the game where I did, you?ll have to spend a couple of hours reach a point of the game from which you can access it.

Even before I heard the announcement I was confused about how I would be able to enjoy the game?s promised downloadable content. I?ve cleared the game, and as others who also have can note, the ?Mass Effect? galaxy is closed off to the player at least an hour before the game ends. ?Mass Effect? isn?t like a ?Grand Theft Auto,? or ?Crackdown,? which leave their game environments open and available to the player even after their main narrative is concluded.

Instead, completing ?Mass Effect? cycles the player back to the beginning of the game?s timeline, allowing them to replay the story with a powered-up copy of their character. But that character, at the outset of the story, can?t explore outer space and go to new downloadable worlds.

Yesterday at the DICE summit in Las Vegas, BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka confirmed to me that I would have to get my Commander Shepherd back in control of the Normandy spaceship ? in other words, past the game?s opening Eden Prime and Citadel sequences ? in order to access the new DLC.

Muzyka said that the new missions will populate themselves into the game?s galactic map, which players can access to explore the universe only once they?ve played a couple of hours into the game.

So woe to me who does not have the game saved at a moment in which the game?s galactic map is available. I knew I should have been keeping extra save files handy, in case I needed to do more exploring. Instead, those of us who are back at the beginning ? and those of you who are at the end ? have some playing to do to set themselves up for the new content.

It makes sense now that I think about it. Is this what all ?Mass Effect? players were expecting? Could ?BioWare? have handled access to the new material differently? Or would any other technique have ruined the game?s structure and dramatic impact?

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Well, this is disappointing

[Players will have to have control of the Normady and Galactic Map to access the DLC]

The way the announcement was worded--"continues the adventures of Commander Shepard and the Normandy crew"--I almost was expecting this to take place after the events in Mass Effect.

Also, there is a DLC menu. I suppose it would have been nice if they let you launch it from there with a saved character of your choice, but then I guess it wouldn't fit nicely in the game, especially if you wanted to play through again, or are playing for the first time.

Oh well, I have some saves ready for this.