Are You Excited For Lair of the Shadowbroker?

[Cyrax987]

I tried searching the forums for a thread on this but found nothing. (Shield)

Just want to know who else is excited for the new DLC for Mass Effect 2 coming out tomorrow. I for one am completely excited mainly it was pure crap on Bioware's part to take a lively character from the first game and completely strip her down in the sequel.

This is also suppose to be the first of many DLCs that bridges the gap between Mass Effect 2 and 3 and solves questions between Mass Effect 1 and 2.

What are your thoughts?

 

[zhemis]

I'm looking forward to it. I'm just pissed that all this content wasn't in the original game. Every time a new DLC comes out I have to play the game all over again. The ME universe has really dropped appeal for me because of having to replay.

 

[Durxom]

Me..I honestly could care less =/ While I did have fun with Mass Effect 2, it wasn't nearly as good as the first one. So it only warrented 1 playthrough of it even though I bought the Collector's Edition. And while I do care about the whole Liara thing, I just can't bring myself to play it.

I just hope Mass Effect 3 can end up being the "Return of the Jedi" of the series, to compliment Mass Effect 1's "A New Hope" quality, instead of being Mass Effect 2's "Attack of the Clones"

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'm looking forward to it. I'm just pissed that all this content wasn't in the original game. Every time a new DLC comes out I have to play the game all over again. The ME universe has really dropped appeal for me because of having to replay.

I haven't tried, but just out of curiosity, since you can continue the game after the end, can't you just play this DLC (or others) with your completed save file?

- J

 

[Gralian]

No. I'm not excited about the Lair of the Shadowbroker DLC.

What i am excited about however is finding out the identity of the Shadowbroker.

See, i've not bought any DLC for ME2 because i know it's 800 or whatever points for a shoddy 2 hour experience that's basically what i've been doing throughout the whole game. Blasting chaps, moving to the next room, blasting more of them, move... and so on. With a few exposition-driven plot scenes to make it not seem like a 2 hour filler. I resent having to sit there for however long for the DLC to download, for it to take up space on my HDD, and to pay the extortionate 800 MSP for something that's over so quickly. It's like renting a film. I love the Mass Effect 2 game, but i pretty much hate all DLC period - unless it adds something persistent to the game or is substantially meaty. But even then, i'll tend to avoid it. With so much DLC having come out for ME2 i can't help but feel like these mini-episodes are just a way of giving addicts their little treat at the rehab centre. I wish they'd just release all the DLC together as a seperate disc like they did with Shivering Isles. Then it'd feel more justified in forking over £15 for one reasonable 6 hour package instead of these stupid 2 hour segments.

I'm just going to ask the internet who the Shadowbroker really is and be done with it.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I'm almost self-destructively excited for anything that has to do with Mass Effect
I love that game

I for one am completely excited mainly it was pure crap on Bioware's part to take a lively character from the first game and completely strip her down in the sequel.

it's called development when a character changes form young and naive, to cold, hard and serious based on some traumatic event in her recent past. not being stripped down

and also the thought of Liara stripping gives me funny feelings....down there. LoL

 

[Mikeyfell]

No. I'm not excited about the Lair of the Shadowbroker DLC.

What i am excited about however is finding out the identity of the Shadowbroker.

See, i've not bought any DLC for ME2 because i know it's 800 or whatever points for a shoddy 2 hour experience that's basically what i've been doing throughout the whole game. Blasting chaps, moving to the next room, blasting more of them, move... and so on. With a few exposition-driven plot scenes to make it not seem like a 2 hour filler. I resent having to sit there for however long for the DLC to download, for it to take up space on my HDD, and to pay the extortionate 800 MSP for something that's over so quickly. It's like renting a film. I love the Mass Effect 2 game, but i pretty much hate all DLC period - unless it adds something persistent to the game or is substantially meaty. But even then, i'll tend to avoid it. With so much DLC having come out for ME2 i can't help but feel like these mini-episodes are just a way of giving addicts their little treat at the rehab centre. I wish they'd just release all the DLC together as a seperate disc like they did with Shivering Isles. Then it'd feel more justified in forking over £15 for one reasonable 6 hour package instead of these stupid 2 hour segments.

I'm just going to ask the internet who the Shadowbroker really is and be done with it.

if that's your attitude why buy the game at all

oh, just ignore me, I'm just ranting....

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Can't really get excited over anything involving Mass Effect anymore, what with it shattering my hopes when I bought ME2 and found the probing system.

 

[Devil's Due]

I haven't tried, but just out of curiosity, since you can continue the game after the end, can't you just play this DLC (or others) with your completed save file?

- J

Yeah, after I completed the game I sold it, then with all this DLC I bought it again, and still could play my original Shepard from ME1 and 2, even after all that.

On the thread, the BioWare team makes very well done DLC lately, especially Overlord's ending, man that was a tough choice, even for me as a pure Paragon. I hope LotSB adds a lot of new stuff, and I'm curious where the new squadmembers will go (I hear there's two, Liara and another).

As for people who are complaining, ME2 launched with most of its stuff on it, an amazing game well worth the money. This stuff isn't just left out, it's no different than Bungie adding on map packs every few months for Halo 3, they're just adding on stuff to keep the flavor going while people are playing, to hold them off till the next game.

(PS: I bet the Shadowbrokers gonna be some big twist at the end... maybe it was Joker the whole time! The dang cripple always lurking in my topics and knowing things, even for a pilot he is nosy. I bet it's him, putting down 5 Credit Chit's right here, right now!)

 

[Gralian]

if that's your attitude why buy the game at all

oh, just ignore me, I'm just ranting....

Because the game itself has plot, story and pacing. It has worlds to explore and a rich living universe. It has backstory and lore. It has choices to be made by the player. It has characters to get emotionally invested in. It makes my efforts to stop the evil plan in the grand scheme of things feel like it means something. I'm not just popping off to a base to deal with some optional side mission popped in via DLC. My actions have meaning and carry the story. The story itself has side missions which expand more on the universe itself and the politics and people that go on within it. You may argue the DLC has some of these features, but what i'm annoyed about is how brief such DLC tends to be and it's just one more series of linear corridors followed by exposition followed by more corridors and a boss fight. At least in the game it was broken up by chatting with crewmates, wandering around the ship, seeing the one or two 'cities'... that sort of thing.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Not excited per se, but definitely looking forward to it.

I wonder how Liara will react when my Shepard reveals he's been banging his True Love Tali for the past few months and that he only shacked up with the blue bird because she wasn't an ugly human racist...

Hm.

 

[Danzaivar]

It should have been left for Mass Effect 3, tbh. It's also kind of annoying that to replay missions you need to restart, so when some nice new DLC shows up you have to start again because otherwise they join your crew AFTER you trash the collector base.

That said, my Shepard does it with the nearest available alien chick. Would be interesting to see Liara react to his new relationship with Tali. Cat fight maybe?

 

[masseyguy911]

I'm not so much excited about the DLC as much as I am about finding out who the Shadowbroker is.

 

[Spacewolf]

not best pleased as im not getting it and since i dont have it ill probly miss a big chunk of ME3 as well since i finished her mission for you and shes still the romance option for my main, especcially since ive got 100% exploration that took about 1-2 hours due to there being so few anomalys in the original so they better put it in ME3.

 

[Mikeyfell]

if that's your attitude why buy the game at all

oh, just ignore me, I'm just ranting....

Because the game itself has plot, story and pacing. It has worlds to explore and a rich living universe. It has backstory and lore. It has choices to be made by the player. It has characters to get emotionally invested in. It makes my efforts to stop the evil plan in the grand scheme of things feel like it means something. I'm not just popping off to a base to deal with some optional side mission popped in via DLC. My actions have meaning and carry the story. The story itself has side missions which expand more on the universe itself and the politics and people that go on within it. You may argue the DLC has some of these features, but what i'm annoyed about is how brief such DLC tends to be and it's just one more series of linear corridors followed by exposition followed by more corridors and a boss fight. At least in the game it was broken up by chatting with crewmates, wandering around the ship, seeing the one or two 'cities'... that sort of thing.

well...I get it
I didn't like Dragon Age Awakening because they took out the ability to chat with your team
I wanted some sort of acknowledgment of the end of Bring down the sky in ME2, but no
and even if they are trying to shoehorn Liara back into the story I'm ok
but i hated that you couldn't talk to Zaeed or Kasumi the same as all the other crew mates
I haven't forgiven Bioware for that

 

[leelinkman22]

I really hope that this ends up being something worth while, though I always thought that the shadow broker was that volus from the first game who knew everything about you...I'd lol if it was.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Meh. More shitty, poorly thought out DLC thats only selling point is shoehorning Liara back into the story. No doubt complete with new sex scene.
Biowares DLC team deserves to be lined up and shot.

Out of curiosity, what DLC from Mass Effect have you played (and hated)?

 

[octafish]

A little excited, because my lesbian Fem-shep may get to be sexually active rather than being all repressed and angry. I'm not going to play all the way through ME2 again though.

 

[LongAndShort]

Ahhhh Liara....

Not quite as good as if they brought Ashley back to the crew, but I guess I can live with this.