Mass effect 2 and 3 DLC recommendations ?
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Mostly been said above, but here goes. For ME2:
- Lair of the Shadow Broker is easily the best of the bunch, if you're going to get anything for ME2 get that. It's awesome.
- Kasumi isn't essential but it's a lot of fun. Overlord isn't essential either but there's a fair amount to it. And you get to spend more time faffing about in the Hammerhead, if that floated your boat (it didn't for me). EDIT: forgot Zaeed - if it's not already included in your copy of the game, it's not essential but it's a little bit of fun. Kasumi is easily the better of the two.
- Arrival seemed at the time like it should be essential from a storytelling point of view... but if you haven't played it they just hand-wave it away in the opening minutes of ME3. Gameplay-wise it's a bit of a grind.
And for ME3:
- Extended Cut should be free, and it's pretty much mandatory. Unless you want to experience first hand the horror we all went through when the game was first released.
- I'm nowhere near as madly in love with Citadel as most other people seem to be, but it does contain some fantastic character moments. Worth it.
- I had From Ashes on day one so I've never played the game without it. I can see how it would still work just fine. But it's definitely worth having.
- Omega is a guddam mess. Unless you really, really liked the Aria and Omega stuff from ME2 (it's my least-favourite part of that game, FWIW) you can pretty safely skip it.
- I liked Leviathan a lot, but it's not essential.
Hope this helps!
- Lair of the Shadow Broker is easily the best of the bunch, if you're going to get anything for ME2 get that. It's awesome.
- Kasumi isn't essential but it's a lot of fun. Overlord isn't essential either but there's a fair amount to it. And you get to spend more time faffing about in the Hammerhead, if that floated your boat (it didn't for me). EDIT: forgot Zaeed - if it's not already included in your copy of the game, it's not essential but it's a little bit of fun. Kasumi is easily the better of the two.
- Arrival seemed at the time like it should be essential from a storytelling point of view... but if you haven't played it they just hand-wave it away in the opening minutes of ME3. Gameplay-wise it's a bit of a grind.
And for ME3:
- Extended Cut should be free, and it's pretty much mandatory. Unless you want to experience first hand the horror we all went through when the game was first released.
- I'm nowhere near as madly in love with Citadel as most other people seem to be, but it does contain some fantastic character moments. Worth it.
- I had From Ashes on day one so I've never played the game without it. I can see how it would still work just fine. But it's definitely worth having.
- Omega is a guddam mess. Unless you really, really liked the Aria and Omega stuff from ME2 (it's my least-favourite part of that game, FWIW) you can pretty safely skip it.
- I liked Leviathan a lot, but it's not essential.
Hope this helps!
The value of Lair of the Shadow Broker depends on how much you like the character of Liara or the combat. If you don't like either then it is a collection of shooting galleries that tend to outstay their welcome quite quickly.
I always find the "from ashes" DLC importance to be overblown. While it does include a prothean his story is little more than "he was cryogenicly frozen and there are no more of him" There's some unique dialogue but no more than kasumi or zaeed got.
He's still a great character but acting like he's amazingly important to the story is probably more about people wanting to hate EA than anything else (though I've got go problem with hating EA for stuff)
That said, the combination of "from Ashes" and "Citadel" results in a meeting with our old friend Blasto the hanar spectre.
He's still a great character but acting like he's amazingly important to the story is probably more about people wanting to hate EA than anything else (though I've got go problem with hating EA for stuff)
That said, the combination of "from Ashes" and "Citadel" results in a meeting with our old friend Blasto the hanar spectre.
Thanks for the info I think im going with lair of the shadow broker and Citadel and extended cut but thats free so yeah thanks guys so much love ya 
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If you enjoy the series, then there's really no reason not to just pay for the majority of the content. If you plan on doing replays, then the full suite of additional content really does hugely expand and enrich the experience (especially in 2). Playing 3 without Leviathan and From Ashes/Javik is playing an incomplete story, in my view, as well.maxtiggertom said:Thanks for the info I think im going with lair of the shadow broker and Citadel and extended cut but thats free so yeah thanks guys so much love ya
I won't go through the content as others have, especially if you've decided to somehow only go for Shadow Broker and Citadel, but one to really avoid in 3 is Omega - unless you really like her in 2, perhaps (or somehow really like ME's ho-hum combat). As has been mentioned, it's really just a combat heavy slog, and it also adds a new character and then completely wastes them.
Do the recommendations have to be official DLCs?
A few of the big mods for Mass Effect 3 now use the DLC method, in that the game sees them just like any other downloaded content.
For example you can download the latest version of the MEHEM and if you don't like it then just delete the folder from Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\DLC and your game will be back to where it was before.
A few of the big mods for Mass Effect 3 now use the DLC method, in that the game sees them just like any other downloaded content.
For example you can download the latest version of the MEHEM and if you don't like it then just delete the folder from Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\DLC and your game will be back to where it was before.