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Mass Effect 2 |OT2| The Den Of Xenophiles
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thetechkid
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loblaw said:
It also deals with more story than 100% of the main game.
Mister_Bubbles
Member
Overlord is also fun for the unique hub structure. Kasumi's misson is great, and seeing as you've got quite a lot of DLC content to work through as well, might well be worth the money for the extra character. Hell, I'd even say give Arrival a blast, just because it'll get you in the mood for ME3 quite nicely.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Flunkie said:
Shadow Broker is essential and a good contender for one of the best Mass Effect missions/story arcs in the series. Its also far more relevant to the games universe than most of Mass Effect 2.
Overlord is great, and arguably the longest of the DLC missions. Pretty by-the-books but has a solid story and good location variety.
Arrival is by far the most rubbish. Its short, bland, ugly and completely fails at being substantial bridging content.
Typographenia
Member
It's short, but I felt the Kasumi DLC was pretty enjoyable. I don't know how much it is, but I would suggest looking into it.Flunkie said:
Project Overlord is pretty nice too. It's probably shorter than kasumi, but there's so interesting things that are newer to the ME universe in it, visually.
Oh yeah, and Lair of the Shadow Broker is a must.
What?! You don't like "sneaking" and then fighting waves of enemies?! I've never heard such unbelievable things in my life!EatChildren said:
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Typographenia said:
Oh its fantastic.
And yeah, Kasumi is wonderful, but also really, really short. I've said it before, but Kasumi's value hinges on how often you'll use her. Her loyalty mission is one of the best in the game, but due to its length will probably seem overpriced. If you intend to use Kasumi in other misisons, her value increases, especially since she's a really useful character.
Aegus said:
You cant as far as I'm aware.
Plasma said:
This is true. All the DLC has really amazing music. Different composers to the main ME2 score too.
Typographenia
Member
I'm afraid it doesn't work that way.Aegus said:
I can't confirm it for ME2, but I was being asked to repurchase dlc for my pc, despite owning it on my 360.
Mister_Bubbles
Member
subversus said:
For the price of a couple of quid / dollars / etc, the music, a couple of sexy vistas and a plot point that directly leads onto the start of ME3 I'd say it's worth it unless you don't have a lot of money to throw around.
People act as if it's the worst thing to ever disgrace their monitors. It isn't.
Thanks guys. I'll check out Lair of the Shadow Broker first, then if I feel like more I'll grab Kasumi and Overlord, and if I feel like even more at that point I'll do Arrival. Doesn't Arrival "set up" ME3 though? And good music is always welcomed. I felt like ME1 music was better than ME2 music.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I fucking love Kasumi. Definitely my overall fav.
Fav quest, prolly fav character, sick music, sick art, sick cutscenes.
Fav quest, prolly fav character, sick music, sick art, sick cutscenes.
Lostconfused
Member
Well it does. But the novelty of it is kind of gone after the Game Informer and E3 news since they just say "yup the things that happened in arrival and that were going to happen after it will be the opening act of ME3".Flunkie said:
Joe Molotov
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Stallion Free said:
FemShep also gets a lovely little black dress to wear around the ship.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Hell yeah. Fuck manshep. Femshep wins everytime, like a boss.Joe Molotov said:
Except for smanging Tali 
Joe Molotov said:
Yeah, that dress is classy. It should be available outside of the Normandy, too, I'd love to blast enemies in style.
But yeah, Shadow Broker is the best. It's probably better than any mission in ME2, it has a decent amount of variety and some of the locations are prettier than anything in the vanilla game, particularly the short segment outside of the Shadowbroker's ship. Plus, it was nice to see my girl Liara again, I chose to hold out for her this time. Garrus's balls are probably as blue as his armor, but he can deal with it.
Flunkie said:
I always play as FemShep, so she is of little use to me! She's just the girl who I choose over Carth every time I play ME1. Hopefully she has a decent loyalty mission in ME3 so she can get a little more screen time. I'm not a huge fan of Ashley but she's still better than any of the other non-DLC human squad members.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I ended up saving her in ME1 mainly because I needed a combat tank. Sorry Alenko, but I just didn't need another biotic.Snuggler said:
Stallion Free
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I like Ashley too. Fuck Kaiden.Flunkie said:
Typographenia
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It sorta does, but save yourself the time and just find a walkthrough and watch the last ten minutes or so. That's all you really need to know from it.Flunkie said:
I really like Ashely's character, and she was my original romance. I'm almost done with my lvl60 import run of ME2 and I'm going all Tali with that one. Still, I look forward to seeing what exactly comes about in my original save having been unfaithful to Ashely. She'll probably beat me up. : (Flunkie said:
astroturfing
Member
Flunkie said:
i hate her guts, purposefully let her die in the first game \o/ goddamn racist alien-hater. i'm so glad i don't have to deal with her in ME2.
umm so hey guys, can you tell me at what point is it appropriate to play LotSB? should i finish the main story first..?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Kaiden and Jack both seem to be attempts at somehow addressing the moral ambiguity of the whole "biotics" thing and how its treated among ME civilization. Its just that they're both way to far on either side of the spectrum.Stallion Free said:
Typographenia
Member
You can play it at any point, but I highly recommend saving it until you "beat" me2. It feels much more logical approaching it after the main events of the game have concluded.astroturfing said:
Stallion Free
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That's an excellent point.The_Technomancer said:
Joe Molotov
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astroturfing said:
I played it after meeting Liara in the game and completing her side missions.
MrMephistoX
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Plus you get a very functional SMG even if your class doesnt allow it. Kasumi adds a lot of humerous color commentary if you use her as well which is nice. Just decided to switch to the PS3 version over 360 and am enjoying it a lot. For some reason I just prefer the softer lighting and slightly enhanced visuals.EatChildren said:
Lostconfused
Member
How it's treated by humanity you mean. Every alien race in the galaxy already dealt with biotics and moved on. For humanity it's still another avenue of military applications to explore, like AI research.The_Technomancer said:
Android18a
Member
I just double dipped on this to the PS3 version, since I'm intending on getting ME3 on PS3. Nice to actually play the DLC stuff too. I love Kasumi, I hope she's in ME3 too.
Did the Project Overlord missions, but damn again I hated that Hammerhead stuff. And it never tells you how to pick up those data packages. I had to google that. And those damned turrets. And is it me, or was the ground texture there really PS1-ish up close to the camera? Other than that, great DLC.
Also, I'm a Femshep player too
Did the Project Overlord missions, but damn again I hated that Hammerhead stuff. And it never tells you how to pick up those data packages. I had to google that. And those damned turrets. And is it me, or was the ground texture there really PS1-ish up close to the camera? Other than that, great DLC.
Also, I'm a Femshep player too
MrMephistoX
Member
Noticed that odd visual glitch too and am kinda surprised it wasn't patched. Overlord was awesome overall though can't wait to try Shadow Broker.Android18a said:I just double dipped on this to the PS3 version, since I'm intending on getting ME3 on PS3. Nice to actually play the DLC stuff too. I love Kasumi, I hope she's in ME3 too.
Did the Project Overlord missions, but damn again I hated that Hammerhead stuff. And it never tells you how to pick up those data packages. I had to google that. And those damned turrets. And is it me, or was the ground texture there really PS1-ish up close to the camera? Other than that, great DLC.
Also, I'm a Femshep player too
Wow, I tried to play this game on my PC but couldn't get into it, got bored of it right away.
But I just had to give it another try seeing as a shitload of people are calling this their favourite game and "game of the forever"...
So now I got it on my PS3 and made myself play longer than 30 minutes and now I can't put this game down.
I've got a couple of questions though:
- What can I do with the stuff I mine from planets (with those beacons)
- Is it normal I haven't found any element zero yet (if the answer is a spoiler, please don't answer this one)
- Is my squad always limited to 2 people + myself?
I also recruited:
She's fucking beast, she's always on my squad now.
I'm also going the badass route, being mean to everyone and just not giving a fuck about anyone else but myself I love it!
But I just had to give it another try seeing as a shitload of people are calling this their favourite game and "game of the forever"...
So now I got it on my PS3 and made myself play longer than 30 minutes and now I can't put this game down.
I've got a couple of questions though:
- What can I do with the stuff I mine from planets (with those beacons)
- Is it normal I haven't found any element zero yet (if the answer is a spoiler, please don't answer this one)
- Is my squad always limited to 2 people + myself?
I also recruited:
a girl thief that can warp allover the place
I'm also going the badass route, being mean to everyone and just not giving a fuck about anyone else but myself
I love it!You use it to buy upgrades for your ship/guns/armors. You do this by entering a terminal in the laboratory (the room whereFeature said:
Mordin
Element Zero is a rare mineral, so you just have to keep looking for it. There are planets where there's plenty of it, though.
There are few missions where you're alone and one mission (DLC) where you only have one partner for few minutes.
Tylahedras
Banned
I'm doing a second insanity playthrough right now with a male shepard (was female before). Only reason is that I don't like fem-sheps potential love interests.
Was really fun playing as fem-shep though, I will miss her
Was really fun playing as fem-shep though, I will miss her
Joe Molotov
Member
Tylahedras said:
Sucks that you had to buy DLC just to hug Liara.
thechemist
Member
Just got a question, playing this on PS3 is there any issue with playing any of the DLC early on in the game, i.e. recruiting zaeed/kasumi or the going to normandy crash site, etc?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Hungry Ghost
Member
I didn't have any, the only bug I had in the game was during the final boss where my game froze.