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Strange. The game autosaved me *spoilers* in the hall of the castle just before the main character steps though the doors before the text endings.
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I want this now. Damn. Must spend american dollars now. Dammit!
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I just hope it's not limited to your progress in the game, as in you can't do the quest after a certain point like in Mass Effect.
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Way to get me to keep spending my money while my interest is high you horrible, awesome game designers.
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Personally, I think DLC in RPG games is horrible. New content should be treated as an expansion with a new story line and etc. Otherwise you run the risk of DLC "breaking" the orginal game and the main story line.
You also run into the problem of how to integrate the DLC into the story. You have to find that balance where the DLC is important enough to matter but not so important that it is required to understand the whole story.
I think Bioware is on to something but using the DLC as a method of exploring the worlds Past and recruiting new characters. But like I already pointed it, it won't add much to the main story.
I would like to see bioware go back to modules and the ability for user made modules.
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It makes sense in some places, also including multiplayer, but I think I just found a theoretical mathematical formula stating how much we should pay for games!
MW2 is worth $25! Dragon Age: Origins is $400!
..wait...
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On that note, they did pretty well with 'adding' Shale into the main story... although, to be fair, I think it was more of adding her back IN to the main story, given how she was released. There are several pivotal moments in the game where she speaks up, other NPCs respond to her, etc. It'd be great if they did that with other DLCs as well (past references and such), but that'd require a lot of past voice actors to be rounded up again...
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#speakup
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This is awesome and what made NWN1 and NWN2 so great.
#speakup
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This is way too busy, and it makes Shepard look like a refugee from the cover art to a gimmicky budget futuristic football game. #masseffect2
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There's honestly no pleasing people when it comes to box arts.
It's too flashy, too conservative, too plain, too grey, too something. #masseffect2
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@forgecat: I do like the CE box art. I'm not into CE's generally, but I'm considering pre-ordering this one so I don't have to be so embarrassed when friends browse through my game collection. #masseffect2
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But yeah, I agree, honestly. When it comes to box art, there will always be naysayers. In this case, however, I'm one of them. This cover art is decent, but as was stated in another comment, not everyone uses the default Shepard face (and not everyone is even male, for that matter) and it would be good to have cover art that recognizes that. #masseffect2
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This just looks like a generic action movie poster with an alien.
Either way, it doesn't change the fact that I'm buying this game day 1. It's just cover art after all. #masseffect2
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I read somewhere else earlier today that this was the final box art for America as well, but I was hoping that the other website was wrong and Kotaku was right...
I don't get why people hated the first concept so much; I thought it was fine.
But this one is downright horrible! And it doesn't even come close to resembling the original's cover stylistically.
Luckily for me, I'm planning to get this for PC through Steam, so I won't have to lay eyes on the physical form of this horror! #masseffect2
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This artwork would be alright if not for Miranda. The first thing I noticed about the cover was how cheesy the wind-swept hair looks- and then I saw how everyone looks scrunched in there. And then I noticed how odd Miranda's face looks.
Not okay. I liked ME1's box art and even kinda liked what we thought was the original artwork. Thank God I pre-ordered the CE tonight. #masseffect2