I dislike it for the following reasons:
1. It has little to no connection to the main plot of ME 3. Which would be fine... except that the main plot is
the fate of the entire galaxy. Aria demands that Shepard drops everything to help her take back what is, in the big picture, an insignificant space station in the back end of nowhere, and it happens immediately? Why? Some ill-defined references to it "helping reduce Cerberus' ability to move through the Terminus systems" which doesn't even make any sense since the Omega Relay(s) are far from the only ones in the region? The aid of some habitual, uncontrollable criminals? Eezo that (depending on when you play Omega) can't even be used because the flow is so low and so late?
Even having the initial e-mail be from Hackett or Anderson saying that Cerberus had devoted assets there that could be crushed, making the assault on the Ilusive Man's base easier, or that intelligence indicated some kind of Sanctuary-type operation that had proven successful and would result in wide-spread deployment of indoctrinated troops and requesting that Shepard co-ordinate with Aria to smack them down would have been much more palatable.
Hell, just a "We can use Omega as a staging base for N7 Operations; some of its mercenaries may be willing to join the war against the Reapers, and its flow of black-market armaments will be a boon to the irregulars." would have made more sense than the "Shepard! It is I, Aria! Snap to and do my bidding, for my criminal empire will not re-establish itself!" stuff we got.
2. It massively de-protagonises Shepard. Aria says early on that Shepard will have command of the attempt to re-take Omega, and immediately follows it up by ordering them around, continuing to do so throughout the mission. Not only that, but anything of note is done by Aria in a cutscene.
Shepard is actually, literally irrelevent to the storyline. If he hadn't gone along, there is nothing Shepard offered that could not have been done by Bray or Nyreen. Shepard doesn't plan anything, doesn't give any orders, and ultimately doesn't contribute anything but a camera angle used to showcase Aria's supposed awesomeness.
3. Which brings me to what irritates me the most about the DLC; it's
Aria's story from start to finish, not
Shepard's story. What's the difference between this and Lair of the Shadow Broker, which is arguably Liara's story? Liara could not have accomplished what she did without Shepard. She needs the
Normandy II to get in undetected. She needs Shepard's combat skills to make the assault successfully. And if Shepard wasn't present, the Shadow Broker would, with absolute certainty, have killed her with ease.
In Omega, all you're around for is to see Aria being super cool. You play Aria's squadmate. You're little more than her version of Conrad Verner, which is wrong in so many ways I can't even begin to list them.
If Petrovsky had made all his preperations expecting Aria to return and lead a force against him but those were rendered useless because Shepard showed up in charge instead, attacking with a different plan and generally sowing chaos it would make for a better story. Especially if you could at least take Garrus back with you- I'm sure he'd know some of Omega's secrets, and the return of both Archangel and Shepard would help the Omegan resistance a lot more than "I give you your lives! Earn my favour! Bow down to me!" Aria.
4. Nyreen. I'm not among the crowd who was desperate to see female Turians, but we finally got one and she was kinda cool, I guess. But she dies in a cutscene where both Shepard and Aria were present and could have done something to prevent that. It really reminds me of the Refusal ending, where we were ostensibly given what had been requested, but it sucked. I mean, really?
Twice?Bottom line is that if you play a Renegade Shepard who enjoys spreading misery around, or are a fan of Aria, you'll probably find that the DLC appeals to you. At least one of those factors would provide a motivation to abandon the main plot for Aria's side quest.
If you play a Paragon Shepard, a Shepard who is only a Renegade because they chose the most direct methods of putting an end to their opponents rather than as a true meter of their morality, or aren't a fan of Aria, playing this DLC will be like pulling teeth.
For the actual gameplay you get out of it, they may as well have made a machinima-style movie about how Aria got Omega back (without Shepard's aid), bundled that with the weapons and mods, and sold that for 1, 200 of the relevant system points. I''d have bought it for the weapons and mods, watched it once out of curiousity, and then moved on.
Unfortunately...
Modifié par WrathAscending, 28 novembre 2012 - 10:29 .
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