Mass Effect

[Raptor Jesus]

Played through Leviathan in about... 4 or so hours. Have not tried doing the ending again with the DLC, but people said prior to it's release that it does have an effect.

Good:
-New really strong shotgun- AT-12(?) Raider. I already had the Argus AR from pre-order bonus, so this kinda sucked.
-New Weapons Mods- the new ones in Multiplayer from the Earth DLC.
-More systems to explore and a handful of War Assets (and fuel).

Bad:
-No new character (this was expected).
-No new side quests, only the DLC main quest (this was also expected).
-Don't get paid for the main quest's completion. Only get paid in "I found these credits on the floor."
-Get a new item for your Captain's Cabin, but it's ultra lame. Unlike the cool metallic sphere you got doing Firewalker quests in ME2 that pulsated and was shiny, this thing is just creepy.

Ugly: (Story related)

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-Fairly boring to play. A lot of running back and forth between stuff to click on. Clue hunting isn't exactly something Mass Effect 3 should have >>;;
-Constantly returning to the same place. It starts in a lab. Then goes to a new planet. Returns to the lab. Go to a new planet. Then returns to the lab AGAIN. Then you finish up on a new planet. This was highly annoying.
-NPCs talk about how Shepard and group "Shouldn't be there" and yet none of them stop me when I'm hacking doors. Really, it's not like I'm hiding. There was a whole room of people standing next to me saying "Go away" and yet none cared enough to actually... you know, make me. Another moment of Bioware derp-logic.
-Conclusion to the DLC's story was not very exciting. No boss fight or anything. Heck, it wasn't even challenging. The hardest moment was when 3 or so Brutes showed up and I killed them in seconds without even breaking shields.

[Poke_Hunter]

It's out? I'm gonna have to go grab that.

[Raptor Jesus]

Oh yeah, I rate it as a 4/10. They tried to do too much but gave us too little.

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Parts of it feels like detective work similar to the beginning of LotSB. Had some creepy horror movie. Unfortunately, it wasn't well executed. Also trying to explain the origins of the Reapers is kinda silly. The sheer fact that the Catalyst is still a contradiction and is even more of a contradiction afterwards is just retarded.

Lair of the Shadow Broker was 10/10 as Mass Effect expansions go.
Bringing Down the Sky was 8/10. (Killing Batarians is fun.)
The Arrival was 6/10. (Unique soloing through the game.)
Project Overlord was 4/10. (Annoying overall.)
Kasumi - Stolen Memories was 3/10. (Super annoying fights. The secret recovered amounted to very little in ME3. Kasumi is quite useless.)
Firewalker was 2/10. (Extremely stupid tank battles. Couldn't keep the cool spheroid in your cabin. While extra credits and upgrades helped, they weren't needed... ever.)

[deoxys]

Here is how the ending is affected with the new DLC:



Skip to 5:15 for the new stuff. Surprisingly a large number of it.

Here are the new dialogue times:

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5:15 - "Catalyst"
6:18 - "Leviathan" -
6:57 - "Reapers"
8:11 - "How is 'this' not conflict?"
8:55 - "Crucible"

[Concept]

>BDTS 8/10

Was this not the one that was entirely awful due to being mostly Mako based?

>Overlord

I enjoyed Overlord. Particularly the resolution. Will agree with you on LoTSB though, that was fantastic.

At any rate I probably won't get Leviathan now, I'll save it for next time I feel like playing through the whole series.

[Raptor Jesus]

I ran around and gunned down the turrets in BDTS. Yeah there was some driving to get around, but I never really used the Mako for combat on that stage. I liked the ending choice of saving lives or stopping the terrorist. Maybe it deserved lower, but for ME1, I think it was spot on (compared to Pinnacle Station especially).

Overlord bothered me because of that god damn BRRRTTTTT BRRRRRTTTTTT BRRRZZZZZZ sound they kept blasting as the person screamed through the speakers. Okay okay! I get it! It sucks! Stop blasting my ears off every 30 seconds! I didn't like the hover tank stuff at all either. At least with BDTS, you could jump out of the tank and do it on foot. Overlord, you MUST do it on the crappy paper armored tank. I guess it could be bumped up a tiny bit more, but those two facts are really what killed it for me.

[tau]

I posted this elsewhere on the forum, but this seems like a good place for it as well (and I didn't see it anywhere else in the thread, if it's been brought up let me know and I'll remove this) buuuuuut

I give you a fairly comprehensive 'documentary' detailing several key factors in the game(s) supporting the Indoctrination Theory.

(This completely changed how I thought about the ending, legitimately.)

[Rangeetsuper]

I really can't see a one-and-a-half-hour video >> Is there a transcript or something?

[Concept]

Indoctrination theory is interesting, but long since jossed.

[tau]

Originally Posted by Concept

Indoctrination theory is interesting, but long since jossed.

Well whether or not it was intentional or canonical, I like the idea.

And uh, no, there's no transcript that I'm aware of. You could always watch in chunks though? Youtube has a nifty "Watch Later" feature, unless it's been taken out in one of those stupid updates.