Mass Effect PC to get some free DLC

WatchTower · 19 Apr 2008 at 02:13

This is cool and annoying at the same time. The Extra mission called "Bring Down the Sky" Which 360 owners at to pay for will be free to download for people that buy Mass Effect for the PC. I just read about it on Biowares website. I paid for it for the 360 :mad:

of well I might get the PC version to seen has it's the best RPG ever created.

yaboy · 19 Apr 2008 at 02:20

So unfair..

WatchTower · 19 Apr 2008 at 02:25

This video might cheer you up it did me

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drunkenmaster · 19 Apr 2008 at 02:29

Buying power of the public, no one buys it, it woulda been made available free.

Damn valve starting this episodic content nonsense and current crop of consoles just looking to make massive money off ridiculous stuff on marketplaces. I just, i don't get it, I've never felt the need to pay for skins to make the backgrounds look nicer, or pay for crappy map packs, or video's, music and what not, all stuff thats free and easy on the PC.

I play my 360, when i want to play a game, i want to watch a video, a preview, a film or whatever I use my PC which is eleventy billion times better and basically free to customise as i want.

I just find it all so weird to pay for any of the stuff available on the marketplace, and I'd rarely if ever buy extra content for anything on the PC. I've bought a couple steam games, but full games.

Seems to me all this small content for games stuff just lengthens the time between the full games anyway and it ends up that the small extra content stuff is short and fairly silly.

IN the case of Mass Effect I read that its basically one extra planet with stuff on? which due to the nature of the game you need a save game from before the whole final sequence, or start a new game to even play. I'd prefer the next game to be 3 months earlier than have some unsatisfyingly short mediorce content inbetween.

Then not everyone will agree with me, I though episode 1 and 2 were boring, predictable and pointless and needlessly expensive. 2-3 hours per ep, with the first one being incredibly bad, running back into the building you just left, using the completely repetitively bad grav gun again, then running back through streets that feel identical to the ones you spent 10 hours running through to get to the building in the first place.

Episodic content all sucks very very badly, except Tv, because you can't have good tv without episodes ¬_¬

Gackt · 19 Apr 2008 at 02:41

Not surprised to be honest. They do this with map packs, release a couple of maps with a charge on them, wait for a while and then they take the charge off.

Tombo · 19 Apr 2008 at 07:10

drunkenmaster said:
Then not everyone will agree with me, I though episode 1 and 2 were boring, predictable and pointless and needlessly expensive. 2-3 hours per ep, with the first one being incredibly bad, running back into the building you just left, using the completely repetitively bad grav gun again, then running back through streets that feel identical to the ones you spent 10 hours running through to get to the building in the first place.

4-6 hours per ep if you play it properly, you can't exactly blame valve either, they've been doing it for years.

drunkenmaster · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:35

Tombo said:
4-6 hours per ep if you play it properly, you can't exactly blame valve either, they've been doing it for years.

4-6 if you play properly? sitting at each new location(that looks like all the locations in previous games) for 25 minutes doesn't constitute playing properly for me.

I was being generous anyway. Playing properly Ep 1 was barely at the 2 hour mark. I can't remember exactly but Ep 2 was probably at the 3 -3.5hour mark.

No way in hell the first one could take anywhere near 6 hours, 4 hours would be a massive stretch. THe problem for me was less time, and more the fact they were crap. Ep 1 had 2 new enemies IIRC, and they weren't good. IT made no sense and was stupid. Go straight back in to citadel and use grav gun, which is basically eyes closed click fire button at everything level of gameplay inteligence. THen run away through boringly similar style levels to HL2, with regular updates of bumping into communications rooms and speaking to the same guy with very little story.

All the story in HL2 was basically cut down to, "you've got to get to the citadel", Ep 1, "you've got to get away from the citadel" over and over, Ep 2 " you've got to get back here" over and over and over.

queamin · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:50

Then not everyone will agree with me, I though episode 1 and 2 were boring, predictable and pointless and needlessly expensive. 2-3 hours per ep, with the first one being incredibly bad, running back into the building you just left, using the completely repetitively bad grav gun again, then running back through streets that feel identical to the ones you spent 10 hours running through to get to the building in the first place.

Episodic content all sucks very very badly, except Tv, because you can't have good tv without episodes ¬_¬

I agree they were ment to be released quicker beening episodes but still taken a long time