RukiaKuchki wrote...
The point of the DLC is so you can spend some more time in the ME universe, learning about other characters and new situations. If you're honest, you know how 99% of stories you ever read/movies you watch are going to end anyway, it's all about enjoying the experience of getting there. I just hope that the quality of the upcoming DLC is more on a par with LotSB rather than From the Ashes... the latter was interesting enough and I like Javik and his dead-pan comments a lot, but quality-wise it felt more on a par with the free stuff from ME2. As for Aria and Shephard...Shephard is just the kinda guy that Aria would go for in my opinion. He's dangerous, darn handsome and can hold his own in a fight. I'll eat my hat if Aria doesn't at least try....
While I mostly agree with your assesment, and I'd be lying if I said I won't be grabbing up any DLC for ME3, I also feel that we'll never see LOTSB quality content again. LOTSB had it all, guns, giant aliens, hand to hand combat, sky-car chases, smexy time with Liara (if you're into her..) and hugs and kisses if you wern't. I didn't even L/I her and that hug felt
good. Importantly though (for me) it felt good because I knew I was building a relationship with her and providing critical context for the story in ME3, because
I didn't know how this portion of ME2 would pan out in ME3.. I'm unsure how Liara is explained as an information broker in ME3 but having played LOTSB it makes a lot more sense, it's a lot more fun to listen to Shepard say 'there goes the next shadow broker' at the yagg on surr'kesh and so on.
Which leads me to the question; what's Omega going to provide? A giant shooting scenario ? Some kind of insight into TIM's motives right before you blow him out of the sky with the 5th fleet? Will Aria go all mushy on us and break her unyielding Asari commando poker face?
The big question that's already been answered though, is that it will be irelevent. The book is over, the last page has been turned. It may have all the excitement and flair of LOTSB, but it will never, can never have the same depth, or the same emotional pull, because the reality is as you said, is that this is simply another experience in the ME universe. LotSB was more than that (to me) it wasn't some side quest to go and explore, it was focused on a single character-- Liara, the entire DLC was about her, about what she's been doing for the last 2 years, how she saved Me from death, how she reluctantly handed me over to Cerebus, and how she was relentless in her quest to save her friends.
When you go buy a directors or extended cut of a movie you've already watched, you don't go 'OMG WOW that extra minuite long scene was EPIC!' Or at least I don't. The most I get is 'ehh, so that's what he ment' or 'hey, that's neat..'
Take that same position for a movie you haven't seen and well, you'd wonder why it wasen't apart of the orginal movie in the first place.
That's the direction ME3 DLC is heading imo. It's going to feel disjointed at best going back from a dead shepard to play-through, or at worst, feel like it should have been apart of it from the begining. It's not going to be enough to keep me from enjoying it, but I have set my expectations low as a result.
Javik being a perfect example. Credit where it's due; Day 1 DLC was a perfect oportunity to test the waters with this idea, because there's very little chance I'd spend $10 on him after a play-through without him and go replay the game for some extra banter or dialog about how I saved him and he wants to committ suicide anyway.
Modifié par blmlozz, 17 juillet 2012 - 07:47 .
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