Trailers: Mass Effect 2: Arrival

[McNinja]

I just wonder if it will spoiler or enhance the experience of Mass Effect 3.

Since I just completed it...I'm going to have to say "Both."

I won't spoil anything, but the end of the DLC has some pretty dire implications.

You mean that the Reapers are coming? I thought we already knew that. Or do you mean the

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the Batarians? That was shoehorned in. Had the Reapers arrived, then Shepard had to destroy a different Mass Relay to seal the Reapers in that system, leaving the batarians to their doom, it wuld've been different. But killing a crapload of slavers is not a bad thing, especially for renegade players. Or those who despise the Batarians in general. Although starting a war with them would be interesting, it would end once the Reapers WTF pwn everyone. Also, Shepard has proof of the Reaper invasion now. good luck haveing that finger quoted away.

 

[Rayne870]

Didn't get to shoot enough Batarians, though apparently I killed a butt ton of them.

 

[JPRanger]

considering we already know that the Reapers end up at Earth in ME3 did any of you that played this DLC feel like w.e you were doing was pointless? I mean it kinda sounds like Halo:Reach in that regard .. your whole mission is to stop the Reapers from finding Earth or w.e.. yet we've already seen that they do end up getting there so w.e your trying to do must have failed or at least not gone as planned.. note that I havent played this DLC yet, just curious how those of you who have felt about this particular point. Though I dont think this scenario 'ruined' the story in the case of Halo:Reach.. but I certainly felt a bit strange moving forward in the campaign knowing that my dude WILL die and most of my team will most likely die as well lol.

 

[triggrhappy94]

.... must resist.... "Cause there's no way to say no to you. This conversation's been dead on Arrival."
...goddam Rock Band

 

[draythefingerless]

I've never understood these kinds of people. If you don't want to play the game don't play it. I for one find Call of Duty games to be the largest stains on the history of gaming since Leisure Suit Larry, and that anyone who honestly dares to consider their storylines to be anything beyond "cliched" and their gameplay beyond "luck-based an unbalanced" to be of a mindset not trustworthy in modern society. Do I go on every thread about them so I can mock and insult the games at every opportunity? Fuck no! That is what we call "having your head up your ass."

I'll buy and try this for myself this weekend. Avoiding the spoilers shall be a *****.

Also, if the ending of this DLC ends up pointlessly murdering crew members, somebody let me know now.

Well I don't quite understand people who bring up the whole, "If you don't like it, just ignore it" argument to counteract criticism. So what if you don't play it? It's still there, and if it's got stupid advertising, or it messes up a game series you like, or it's just plain bad, what's wrong with someone using a couple minutes of their leisure time to spread their opinion? That's what forums like this are there for anyways. Besides, if you can't defend it well enough, it might not be that good. Not to mention that internet trolling seems to have already become a time-honored tradition in today's society.

Either way, all this "putting important plot points in DLC" nonsense is all part of the problem that EA is crippling the entertainment value of its individual games in some misguided attempt to make a quick buck. And that's no good.

Oh my, you have quite the assessment of EAs evilness. Quite grand by your words...Also, EA just publishes things. Bioware makes them.

 

[draythefingerless]

Boooring. Boring, boring, boring. THE REAPERS HAVE FOUND THE MAGUFFIN! ALL HANDS ON DECK, WE ARE BEING RAMMED BY THE MOST PREDICTABLE AND OBVIOUS PLOT TWIST IN THE HISTORY OF WRITING!

You know all those things you've done to keep the reapers from getting into our galaxy? Like, the entire reason for the other 2 games?

WELL FUCK YOU THEY'RE HERE ANYWAY

The ME3 Trailer kinda made that clear.

You know how sometimes, in some stories, all the pieces fall together and reveal the carefully-wrought consequence to your actions? You know how some turns of events are just flat-out unpredictable and so complex that they leave you thinking for a lot more time than you spent playing the game?

And then there's Mass Effect. All that shit about the Citadel being the only entry to the galaxy from deep space? Nah dawg, here's the convenient plot portal and access to ALL OF THE RELAYS. ALL OF THEM.

EDIT: now if you'll excuse me, i got 4 characters waiting.

Such anger for a little part of a big story. Like complaining how stupid the Star Wars Trilogy was because of how they blow up the Death Star. Chill. Just enjoy the ride.

 

[darth gditch]

Goodbye all, for the next 3 hours, I will be at one with the XBOX. w00t!

 

[The Random One]

Oh wow. I literally finished ME2 today. It's probably a sign (that I need to play the DLC quickly so that I can sell my copy when its price hopefully raises. ka-cheeng.)

ALL OF THE RELAYS. ALL OF THEM.

<33333333

 

[Yureina]

Well I just finished Arrival.

It's pretty decent. It's no Shadow Broker, but it's not bad. There are some pretty heavy things going on though, and some of it probably is going to be a big deal in ME3. I do wonder though... how will EA deal with the ME2 players who decide not to buy this DLC? Will the events that happen in arrival just... not happen for them, or... will they assume that they played through this when they import their save to ME3? I do wonder...

Anyway, a nice little injection of ME2 today. :3

 

[4173]

So after making a big moral stand with the fucking Collector station, suddenly my Shepard goes with an ends justifies the means. Bull fucking shit.

I am allowed to have Shepard die in the suicide mission, but I can't save the Batarians? Clearly they don't mind having possible outcomes that are incompatible with the canon story.

Even if the DLC had ended (with the other choice) with "Reaper's come, you lose, everyone dies, Game Over," I would have preferred that to completely invalidating the Shepard I was unlucky enough to pick for the mission.

Yes, I have other characters, and I don't have to play the DLC with them. Mass Effect 3 is not ruined for me. But this character that I took through Mass Effect and imported is unplayable.

 

[NaramSuen]

Even though the trailer wasn't spectacular, it looks like I am going to need more MS points.

 

[Compatriot Block]

Spoiler

So after making a big moral stand with the fucking Collector station, suddenly my Shepard goes with an ends justifies the means. Bull fucking shit.

I am allowed to have Shepard die in the suicide mission, but I can't save the Batarians? Clearly they don't mind having possible outcomes that are incompatible with the canon story.

Even if the DLC had ended (with the other choice) with "Reaper's come, you lose, everyone dies, Game Over," I would have preferred that to completely invalidating the Shepard I was unlucky enough to pick for the mission.

Yes, I have other characters, and I don't have to play the DLC with them. Mass Effect 3 is not ruined for me. But this character that I took through Mass Effect and imported is unplayable.

Uh, massive spoilers ahoy.

 

[Shellsh0cker]

Damn, looks awesome, but then, I was pretty much expecting that. What I find interesting is that this seems to be set canonically after the end of Mass Effect 2, rather that during the main plot. I still need to run the original Mass Effect and then Mass Effect 2 one more time (at least), so this'll have to wait until I'm finished with that. But I'm optimistic, mostly because of how kickass Lair of the Shadow Broker was.

 

[13lackfriday]

Boooring. Boring, boring, boring. THE REAPERS HAVE FOUND THE MAGUFFIN! ALL HANDS ON DECK, WE ARE BEING RAMMED BY THE MOST PREDICTABLE AND OBVIOUS PLOT TWIST IN THE HISTORY OF WRITING!

You know all those things you've done to keep the reapers from getting into our galaxy? Like, the entire reason for the other 2 games?

WELL FUCK YOU THEY'RE HERE ANYWAY

Hahahahaah, well-stated.

Well, it is a fucking trilogy so there needs to be some sort of crescendo to cap it all off, and Shepard retiring his life of gallivanting about with a colorful cast of supporting characters and kicking the Reapers in the shins probably wouldn't quite cut it.

That said, I'm impressed how BioWare managed to make a DLC promising the face-to-face introduction of the almighty civilization-rending robot overlords of the universe, and they still have us shooting alien mooks for 2 hours.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Spoiler

So after making a big moral stand with the fucking Collector station, suddenly my Shepard goes with an ends justifies the means. Bull fucking shit.

I am allowed to have Shepard die in the suicide mission, but I can't save the Batarians? Clearly they don't mind having possible outcomes that are incompatible with the canon story.

Even if the DLC had ended (with the other choice) with "Reaper's come, you lose, everyone dies, Game Over," I would have preferred that to completely invalidating the Shepard I was unlucky enough to pick for the mission.

Yes, I have other characters, and I don't have to play the DLC with them. Mass Effect 3 is not ruined for me. But this character that I took through Mass Effect and imported is unplayable.

Spoiler

Those couple thousand batarians were dead either way. This way you save trillions.

 

[Juan Regular]

Just started Mass Effect 2 fresh again. Haven´t played any of the DLC yet and I´m wondering which one to play when to get the most out of the story.

 

[BlindChance]

I just hope ME3 isn't centered around Earth. I don't care about Earth. I'm here to save the galaxy, not to play favorite with certain races.

THANK YOU.

I thought I was the only person who felt this way. Why, oh why, should my Colonist Shepard care about Earth? Earth is just one more planet among many with lots of humans living on it! Humanity just happens to be the species I belong to, nothing special! I want to save the galaxy and all of its sentient life!

Oh, except the Batarians. Those things can get Reaped. Like I care about those frogthings.

 

[Alarieliia]

SQUEE!!! Cant wait to play it! I hope it's as epic as the trailer makes it look.

 

[Alarieliia]

I just hope ME3 isn't centered around Earth. I don't care about Earth. I'm here to save the galaxy, not to play favorite with certain races.

THANK YOU.

I thought I was the only person who felt this way. Why, oh why, should my Colonist Shepard care about Earth? Earth is just one more planet among many with lots of humans living on it! Humanity just happens to be the species I belong to, nothing special! I want to save the galaxy and all of its sentient life!

Oh, except the Batarians. Those things can get Reaped. Like I care about those frogthings.

My Shep, well my cannon anyways, is Earthborn and would probably be pissed just because it's the human home-world.

Though I believe that flaming earth in the ME3 trailer was just for shock value. The reapers will probably go after the most obvious threats first such as humans, turians, asari and salarians. So it's probably not just Earth that gets attacked.

I agree that I hope ME3's plot doesn't center around Earth. It just seems to cliché to me. I can understand the logic of using said plot device to drive the story though. Like you can only save Earth OR another planet/station/ect... not both.

 

[Extragorey]

Well, seeing the ME3 trailer and knowing that the Reapers have invaded Earth, I think it's pretty obvious what the outcome of this final ME2 DLC is, without even playing it.
And it's titled "Arrival" - how much more of a giveaway can it be?
I uninstalled ME2 long ago, and I can't be bothered reinstalling it for one DLC. So I'll skip this one.