MarqueAZ wrote...
Raise your hand if you also feel bad your Kasumi-DLC-evening-gown Shep flashed her cootchie at Hackett in the end.Whyyyyy the open leg sitting posture. Aaargh.
Modifié par TMA LIVE, 29 mars 2011 - 04:50 .
Scimal wrote...
Just played it after avoiding all the spoilers for the last week.
I thought it was good. Not LotSB good, and slightly above Overlord.
Criticisms:
-The pacing seemed off. After finishing the DLC, I really wanted some extra time to be put in there. Time spent finding out about Object Rho, time spent talking with the Doctor, time spent figuring out how/why things happened the way they did. The pacing was very quick for my personal tastes, and being sedated for 2 days seemed unnecessary.
-I sincerely hope ME3 explains why the Reapers have such a hard-on for Shepard when they've tried to not only retrieve Shep's dead body, but ordered the Doc to sedate Shep instead of kill the one person who might muck the Project up.
-The goals of some sections didn't seem clear enough to me. Hackett asks you to get the Doc yourself, but doesn't mention anything about stealth. It's somewhat implied throughout the mission, but some sort of "You've been detected!" alert or the guards trying something would have been nice. Heck, I thought I was being stealthy taking out each pair of guards simultaneously with a sniper shot and Incinerate. This isn't huge, but I could've easily gotten the Achievement (particularly as an Infiltrator) if Stealth was mentioned once.
-The good Doctor's voice-work was pretty average. There wasn't any subtlety at all pass the part leading up to her rescue. She sounded like a normal person, then you rescue her, and she becomes very plastic and predictably over the top with brief windows of complexity during the confrontations.
-Shepard's mid-mission quips seemed unnatural. "I need to go shut down the core with the manual controls," is a lot more wooden than "Better go shut down that core!"
-The levels were overly cluttered. Half the time I only knew where I was going because there was only one green door.
-I don't know how Harbinger (or whomever) projected himself at the platform. Can they just do that? Was the Object Rho doing it?
-I wanted more information on Object Rho. It's introduced, it Indoctrinates the crew, and it's destroyed. Yeah, it talks to you, but it was pretty much a MacGuffin. Even some readings on Pads strewn about the complex would've been nice. The more I think about it, the more this point is particuarly annoying.
-The ending cinematic - while pretty - doesn't make sense. Unless the Mass Relay was being held in place or was significantly more fragile than the Mu Relay, the asteroid would simply send it flying unless the asteroid itself were moving with more force than the Supernova that hit the Mu Relay and overcame the compression/sheer/etc. rates of the Relay itself during the Impact Moment. I don't know which, since the context for neither was given. This raises a few questions:
If the Relay was so fragile, why wasn't the last mission planting charges on the Relay itself? What about a ship that's rigged to make the Relay send it through too many times and causes the Relay to explode? What about a smaller asteroid bashing into the Eezo core through the rings, causing a severe malfunction? The whole "use asteroid as Hammer" just seems so completely unnecessary and illogical without any further explanation as to why it was the best plan.
This point greatly concerns me because ME is a Sci-Fi IP. While lots of Sci-Fi IPs disregard basic Physics and background, ME has been very good about keeping things consistent and explained. I don't mind if the Alpha Relay is different somehow, or that an asteroid ramming into it is the only explanation... But I need to know why other options were axed and why how it's different.
Likes:
-The overall "sacrifice" felt impactful for the most part. It would have been nice if there had been some dialog to the extent of, "I can't believe I'm doing this..." for Paragons or "Good luck you enslaving bastards." for Renegades, but I wasn't expecting to just out 'n destroy 300,000 Batarians.
-Shepard's end-mission debriefing was well-done. The interaction and conclusion was both unexpected and exciting.
-Despite the criticism above, I really enjoyed hiding behind something else besides boxes and mysterious pop-up panels. Tables, pipes, alcoves - the environment was really used to its advantage.
-The countdown was a good motivator. I was very tempted to see what would happen if I just sat somewhere and let the timer reach 0.
-The story was more involving than most of the sidequests and much of ME2. It was refreshing to see the Reaper threat as something visceral and imminent again.
-The enemy AI seemed to perform better. I don't know if that's because my timing sucked or because there was so much stuff to just hide behind and make use of the AI triggers, but very rarely did someone just charge right into scope.
Worth the 560 MS points? Yes.
Am I going to rave about it like LotSB? Probably not.
It was good. It just didn't feel as tight as it could have been.
Thargorichiban wrote...
*Jacob sidles up next to Hackett, appreciating the view* My, my, look at that priiiiiize...
Thanks for making me crack up.
Modifié par SmokePants, 29 mars 2011 - 05:04 .
Bloggers99 wrote...
Eh, RenShep and ParaShep have the same convo with Harby. Still amazing either way.
Also, I've confirmed on two runs and through a few people here, the Geth Plasma Shotgun does not work on the DLC destructible objects.
Modifié par TMA LIVE, 29 mars 2011 - 05:25 .
Wereparrot wrote...
KEDASUPAVILLAIN wrote...
I'm getting a strong sense after playing this DLC that one of the outcomes to ME3 could be Shep facing a death penalty after all is said and done for wiping out 300,000+ Batarians. Yes you might of saved everyone in the end but you still wiped out a whole system to do it. Just one outcome tho.
That would be a shame. Obviously too bad for the batarians, but overall Shepherd's actions are worthy of a VC.
That would be a horrible outcome if Shepherd was court martialled.
Modifié par KEDASUPAVILLAIN, 29 mars 2011 - 05:06 .
D.Shepard wrote...
Anyway formally the Alliance cannot prosecute a Spectre, not even in order to prevent a war: it would be a clear interference with Citadel's business.
Ravenheart of the Wild wrote...
Yay for Admiral Hackett, glad to see that they spent some time to model his face.
-Skorpious- wrote...
During the final briefing with Hackett Shepard is given the option to state his opinion about the future court case against him (the where where the "investigate" option leads to a discussion about Cerberus and Hackett) - what does Shepard say if you select the top-right/bottom-right options? I choose the neutral option, but all I got was an awkward thanks from Shepard to Hackett (very unsatisfying).
You see, my Shep has conflicting opinions about genocide, and the paraphrasing system ME uses isn't exactly an intuitive tool to use when predicting dialogue outcomes. =p
For all his/her combat expertise, Shep still has yet to learn the shoot-the-brainstem trick.Baihu1983 wrote...
Ty2011 wrote...
Did anyone not Renegade shoot Dr. Kenson? My Shepard had full Paragon but I thought it was the right decision to shoot someone holding a detonation device. If he was willing to sacrifice 300,000 people then he should be able to kill one crazy one.
Anyone know what happens if you don't shoot her?
She blows herself up game carrys on with Shep getting back to his feet.
Modifié par darknoon5, 29 mars 2011 - 05:27 .
ErebUs890 wrote...
This was an okay DLC. I was a little upset that you couldn't save the Batarian's, no matter what, but I guess it's all to shape up the story. I guess Batarians sure as hell won't help against the reapers
Modifié par jbblue05, 29 mars 2011 - 05:33 .
johnbonhamatron wrote...
Slightly off on a tangent, but surely I can't have been the only one who laughed at the option to take over the mech being "Assume Control"...?
I really wanted to see it so I was going to ask if someone had posted it up somewhere. :]
Modifié par Thestral, 29 mars 2011 - 05:42 .
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