Mass Effect 2 gameplay thread

[Kekvit Irae]

My thoughts on Arrival:

Like Overlord, it builds up to awesome, only to fall flat on its face at the ending.

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Considering the final countdown to the Reaper arrival in the system was AT MOST 28 minutes, it would have been cool to see the Reapers. NOPE! You're just treated to a hologram of Harbringer telling you that your efforts are futile, you will be assimilated, blah blah blah.

Was it worth seven dollars? In my opinion, not really.

[Monk]

My thoughts on Arrival:

Like Overlord, it builds up to awesome, only to fall flat on its face at the ending.

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Considering the final countdown to the Reaper arrival in the system was AT MOST 28 minutes, it would have been cool to see the Reapers. NOPE! You're just treated to a hologram of Harbringer telling you that your efforts are futile, you will be assimilated, blah blah blah.

Was it worth seven dollars? In my opinion, not really.

I can agree there - it feels like a huge tease. If ME3 was right around the corner? I probably wouldn't mind, but we've still got all year before we even see hide or hair of the finale. Had fun but Arrival is nowhere close to how much I enjoyed Shadow Broker and Overlord, which i still rate as the two best DLCs for ME2.

[Hooahguy]

About halfway through Arrival. I just escaped the prison, which I felt was way too short.
Im disturbed at the lack of dialogue options.

Ill finish the mission, then Ill post the rest of my thoughts.


Also Kekvit Irae, the reason why you wouldnt have seen the Reapers is because they didnt arrive yet. If you could see them then you failed since they would have passed through the relay.

[Monk]

About halfway through Arrival. I just escaped the prison, which I felt was way too short.
Im disturbed at the lack of dialogue options.

That's another thing that surprised me. Especially ( I know i keep harping on it, but I can't help it ) after shadow broker. It was just so interactive, including paragon and renegade persuade options, as well as multiple chances for interrupts to influence the conversation. I'm afraid Arrival falls prey to the typical Bioware DLC missteps that effort managed to get away from.

I heard the guy in charge of the Shadow Broker team wasn't working on this one, and many felt Arrival would suffer for it. Seems like it did.

[SwordsMaster]

Decided to start the whole thing all over again in anticipation. Finished ME with a level 52 Shep, importing into ME2 now...

[Hooahguy]

Finished the DLC. I felt like it was way too short. I felt like much of it was rushed.
But at least the ending is epic.

[Kekvit Irae]

*snip*

Spoiler tags, plz.

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The point wasn't that the Reapers would use the Alpha Relay in 28 minutes, the point was that the Reapers would be in the galaxy (specifically the system you were in) in 28 minutes by entering using FTL travel. To coin a movie phrase, "Theeeeeeey're heeeeeeere!" Yeah, it'll take weeks or months for them to get to another relay, but the point is that they are already in the galaxy.

Like all other DLC, nothing that occurred ever has any effect on the game as a whole. You cant just go to the Citadel and say to the council, "Oh hey, remember Sovereign? Yeah, his buddies just entered Batarian space. Go take a look if you don't believe me." The entire DLC is, like Monk says, a tease. If you complete the DLC just after Horizon, the game as a whole no longer makes any sense because there is no further mention of this HUGE event ever happening. Ever.

[Hooahguy]

Ok, Ill agree with you when you put it that way. It was unclear though if the mass relay was the Reapers entry point to other relays or the entry point to the galaxy itself. For all we know, the Reapers have a special mass relay that goes only to that relay, and with its destruction the other mass relay would be rendered useless.

[Mailman653]

BioWare, Funimation Announce Mass Effect Anime Movie

[rajpoot]

Video game to anime crossovers just don't cut it. I've never watched one that I really liked.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

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How is Harbinger back? He up and exploded in 1...

[Monk]

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How is Harbinger back? He up and exploded in 1...

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That was Sovereign.

Harbinger was the reaper controlling the collector general through remote possesion. The ending of 2 implies Harbinger was with the rest of the reapers outside the galaxy, and removed his conciousness before the sattelite exploded.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Oh right, got confused there.