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You didn't make any plot related decisions in Arrival or Shadow Broker(except the Liara romance in the Shadow Broker DLC). You just did what the game told you to do. I think that the other DLC will not have much impact in the third one. Maybe the characters from the DLC's are in the third one or not. I can't say since I don't know.

I think that they are going to recap what has happened at the start of ME3. It would be a reasonable thing to do.
 

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kman123 said:
Yeah I raised the same point in a different thread like yesterday.
I think the non-DLC players (like us) are left to fend in the dirt, to put it bluntly. We didn't buy, we lose.

Seems like a dickish move yeah?
Either that or they'll do a quick recap. I hear they did something similar for the PS3 ME2 version, since they didn't get the first.
None of the DLC had any real impact with choices, and the characters may as well have left the party once you'd done their quests.

The DLC serve as side-quests, not additions to the main one.
 

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KalosCast said:
The DLC, unlike ME1's, had some rather major plot points. I'm sure not doing it is going to have a major effect on your savegame.
No it's not because the events of the DLC are linear. There's only one way. The canon way.
That shit gets done whether or not you decided to play it.
 

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You can tell from Arrival that they would rather have had it as a comic or novel, but it was far too big a plot point to be left in ancilliary media where most of the casual fans wouldn't pay attention, so they just released it as DLC because that's the most prominent form of exposition. Also money, lol.
 

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Vault101 said:
kman123 said:
Yeah I raised the same point in a different thread like yesterday.
I think the non-DLC players (like us) are left to fend in the dirt, to put it bluntly. We didn't buy, we lose.

Seems like a dickish move yeah?
Either that or they'll do a quick recap. I hear they did something similar for the PS3 ME2 version, since they didn't get the first.
somone should write a strongly worded e-mail to Bioware....whats the adress if I want to complain?
I believe it's Bioware@wehavemoremoneythanyou.com
 

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Loop Stricken said:
KalosCast said:
The DLC, unlike ME1's, had some rather major plot points. I'm sure not doing it is going to have a major effect on your savegame.
No it's not because the events of the DLC are linear. There's only one way. The canon way.
That shit gets done whether or not you decided to play it.
Indeed. But is that really so bad?
 

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I heard there is only one ending to the dlc so im guessing it won't matter.
 

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Well, I'd be surprised if Bioware didn't release a Game of the Year edition of ME2, which comes with all the DLC. I'm sure it'd have lots of buyers.
 

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Jandau said:
I miss the days of good old fashioned expansions packs. You know, those addons where the cost/content ratio wasn't so atrociously bad and you didn't feel like someone pulled your liver out of your arse when you paid for them.
This.

What has happened to the noble expansion pack?
 

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I disagree with the OP. I mean for one if you bought the game via Steam you get like a ton of DLC for free. And the extra story-lines arn't so critical as to be YOU CANT MISS THIS. Even arrival is just kinda a teaser stand alone to get people pumped for ME3. It would take like one or two sentences to sum it up. The DLC and Additional Character just broaden the experience is all. For instance

If you do the archangel recruiting mission, and you spend time talking to all the merc bosses. When you get the blue suns guy he shoos you away to his assistant.

If you have the DLC Zaeed with you (who is a former co-founder of the Blue Suns) you'll get a few more dialog options before getting brushed off on the assistant. It doesn't really add alot to the story, and its nothing critical that you couldn't live without, but it does add to the Zaeed characters backstory which again is nothing special for non DLC characters who DONT even know him.

I think DLC like this is fine, and I want new missions packs to keep coming out for my game.

Edit:: also I got every single DLC except for the cosmetic packs for around 20 bucks. I picked up ME2 from Steam for 20, and it came with the Cerberus Pack of DLC included in that which I think is like 15 by itself as DLC. for 40 bucks I got the full game and all the DLC...I'm not really seeing what everyone is complaining about.
 

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Tbh I only completed the DLC's a little while ago and they were great fun but I could have gone into ME3 fine without them. It pretty much just ties some loose ends up.

Nothing that can't be covered in a couple of 'the story so far' lines. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I kind of miss the old expacs too though. The Mass Effect DLC's could have easily have just been in a masseffect 2.5 bundle or somthing and sold in shops.
 

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I, as many other fans, am looking forward to the release of Mass Effect 3 on November the 3rd, but there is one issue that I am struggling over: DLC.
The original Mass Effect had its fair share of DLC, with implications of both being prevalent in the sequel, and Mass Effect 2 has even more bonus characters and plotlines being added as DLC. This is all well and good for the people who had access to them, but I am forced to wonder what Bioware is going to do about the (presumably) many players that, for any reason, could not gain access to the bonus content. Will Bioware add the DLC's to the Mass Effect 3 bundle (a fair solution), will they make the content irrelevant (unfair on those who had access to it), or will they just leave it be (unfair to those without access to the content).
Because I am one of the fans that could not purchase any Mass Effect DLC, I wonder how Bioware will treat me in regards to the overarching plot. Do any of the readers here have opinions on the topic?
I played all the DLC, and, for the most part (Overlord being the exception) There isn't much choice because their all pretty linear since they have to help ME3's plot.

They'll do what they did to people who didn't buy "Bring down the sky" They'll pick one ending and stick you with it.

Honestly though the shadow broker and Overlord DLC are some of the best DLC i've ever played, you REALLY should get them.
 

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The only DLC I couldn't get was the Cerberus Network thing. I refuse to pay $20 for what is essentially 1 character and, a news source.

My Shepards will either meet Zaeed in ME3 or, Zaeed will not exist in my games. That's been bugging me though because I really wanted to see what he was like. I don't even know what the guy looks like to be honest ^^;;
 

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Aeshi said:
Jandau said:
I miss the days of good old fashioned expansions packs. You know, those addons where the cost/content ratio wasn't so atrociously bad and you didn't feel like someone pulled your liver out of your arse when you paid for them.
This.

What has happened to the noble expansion pack?
Please see..

Dragon age awakening.

Fallout 3 broken steel

fairly recent i think.

They haven't disappeared, DLC is just a better idea.

The problem is most companies abuse DLC heavily, but, if done right (See fallout 3 and Mass effect 2) They can be worth it
 

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This would be an issue if their was any choice to make in the DLC packs. Both Arrival and Shadow Broker have a fixed ending. Liara is the Shadow Broker and you WILL destroy the Relay. If you could chose to do anything besides that is might be a problem. They will certainly recap what happened in the DLC for anyone who missed it. But ultimately, whether you played it or not has no actual impact on the story.
 

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Woodsey said:
kman123 said:
Yeah I raised the same point in a different thread like yesterday.
I think the non-DLC players (like us) are left to fend in the dirt, to put it bluntly. We didn't buy, we lose.

Seems like a dickish move yeah?
Either that or they'll do a quick recap. I hear they did something similar for the PS3 ME2 version, since they didn't get the first.
None of the DLC had any real impact with choices, and the characters may as well have left the party once you'd done their quests.

The DLC serve as side-quests, not additions to the main one.
Except when Liara becomes the shadow broker.
 

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Trolldor said:
Woodsey said:
kman123 said:
Yeah I raised the same point in a different thread like yesterday.
I think the non-DLC players (like us) are left to fend in the dirt, to put it bluntly. We didn't buy, we lose.

Seems like a dickish move yeah?
Either that or they'll do a quick recap. I hear they did something similar for the PS3 ME2 version, since they didn't get the first.
None of the DLC had any real impact with choices, and the characters may as well have left the party once you'd done their quests.

The DLC serve as side-quests, not additions to the main one.
Except when Liara becomes the shadow broker.
I suppose. I haven't looked at the new squad line-up because I want to keep away from too many spoilers, but if Liara is on it then I imagine the way you recruit her again will be different.
 

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kman123 said:
Woodsey said:
kman123 said:
Yeah I raised the same point in a different thread like yesterday.
I think the non-DLC players (like us) are left to fend in the dirt, to put it bluntly. We didn't buy, we lose.

Seems like a dickish move yeah?
Either that or they'll do a quick recap. I hear they did something similar for the PS3 ME2 version, since they didn't get the first.
None of the DLC had any real impact with choices, and the characters may as well have left the party once you'd done their quests.

The DLC serve as side-quests, not additions to the main one.
But Bioware announced that ME3 will continue on from Arrivals...
All I got was that its a little hour or so long prologue to the Reaper invasion, where you find out they're targeting Earth. It seems rather inconsequential.

The end of Arrival is not where you literally start Mass Effect 3.