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Velorath
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Release date set for March 10th. The Bring Down the Sky downloadable content pack will be released to Xbox LIVE Marketplace on Monday, March 10 at 2 a.m. PST, and will be available for 400 MS points. This is the first in a series of planned downloadable content that further expands the Mass Effect universe and continues the adventures of Commander Shepard and the Normandy crew.
Bring Down the Sky includes a new uncharted world that introduces the notorious and feared alien race of the Batarians. A Batarian extremist group has hijacked a mobile asteroid station in the Asgard system, setting it on a collision course with the nearby colony world of Terra Nova. Only Commander Shepard can save the millions of innocent civilians before the asteroid completes its deadly descent.
Bring Down the Sky contains approximately 90 minutes of heart-pounding action and a new Achievement worth 50 Gamerscore points.
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Riggswolfe
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YES!
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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penfold
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45 mins of that 90 will be spent in elevators.
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Rasix
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So, $5 bucks for a random planet mission? HRRMMMM. Could be worth it IF they put some decent effort into it. I don't want to pay $5 bucks for monkey chasing or a non-skippable thresher maw encounter. 45 mins of that 90 will be spent in elevators.
I never found the loading to be that bad once you got off the Citadel. Then again, the other game I was playing at the time was The Witcher.  |
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Stormwaltz
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45 mins of that 90 will be spent in elevators. I can honestly say that there are no elevators in BDtS. There are some stairs. |
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schild
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Stormwaltz told me not to post this, but I had to. Here's a screenshot of the stairs. Needless to say, I was impressed.  |
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Tebonas
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I really hope the DLC is multilingual. I already had to buy the core game twice and plan on pawning off the german one to some unsuspecting victim once my UK version arrives for the third playthrough!
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Sky
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Listen, Stormy. I know I've been busting your balls about the PC version, but did you guys have to name this content like that? That's just mean!  |
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schild
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oh
i get it now
it only took a post in every thread mentioning bioware or mass effect
sky wants it on the PC
it's all so clear
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Sky
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Are you tryin' to bring a brotha down?
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Stormwaltz
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I know I've been busting your balls about the PC version
Oh, no worries. I also need a PC version, so I can finally play the game I spent three years of my life on. |
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schild
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Are you tryin' to bring a brotha down?
Yes. Get a fucking console. |
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Mosesandstick
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new Achievement worth 50 Gamerscore points. The important bit? |
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rk47
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Mass effect horse..err...APC armour pack?
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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Morfiend
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And now the really important question.
Will THIS have the virtual sodomy I was promised?
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Phildo
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So this expansion is going to have full-on voice-acted dialog and cut-scenes? Or is it going to be another recycled map from the rest of the game? Because I would just love to investigate that same mine shaft for the 300th time!
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Calantus
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new Achievement worth 50 Gamerscore points. The important bit? What is the point of this gamerscore anyway? Is it just epeen? |
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Special J
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Pretty much, yeah.
I'm probably getting this, as long as it's decent side adventure and not more 'explore planet', 'clear bunker of bad guys' that you find on some planets.
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Velorath
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Pretty much, yeah.
I'm probably getting this, as long as it's decent side adventure and not more 'explore planet', 'clear bunker of bad guys' that you find on some planets.
It's up for download now, and it's pretty much exactly that. Ride around to three locations on the asteroid and clear out the bad guys in three near identical facilities which you'll quickly recognize, and then off to the final part which actually has a more unique design (but is still fairly small). Unless you're the type who likes to do every sidequest, you can skip this DLC and not really miss much. It succeeded in getting me to do another run through the game though. |
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Riggswolfe
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new Achievement worth 50 Gamerscore points. The important bit? What is the point of this gamerscore anyway? Is it just epeen? In most games. In Mass Effect it also unlocks extras for you, like +5% experience, or ways to use weapons on characters that normally can't use them, that kind of thing. |
"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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rk47
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sigh it's the only thing that console gamers can be proud of. I can't compete in that thing, cuz it's the special Olympics you know. Even if you win, etcetera etcetera.
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Azazel
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um.. what?
I'd have a go at you for the console hate, but I can't understand the garbled sentence structure before "special olympics."
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MahrinSkel
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That's what's really disappointing about most of the DLC. They could set up an "episodic" content model, where people pay $5-10 or so every month for a new chapter in an ongoing story (with discounts/bulk packs for old chapters) feeding into the next major title. But instead most of the time you get a "standalone" adventure with about 20 hours of work by an intern, and about 4-5 hours of gameplay.
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rk47
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Explanation: my post is a half-assed attempt at making fun achievement points.
I do not see the point at Xbox Achievement system but the fact that companies continue to advertise it and seeing X-Boys continuing to lap it up amuses me.
It just shows a gauge of 'Hey guys look, I've done more stuff in the game than you do?'
I wondered how or why they added that in during the design stage of an XBOX title. is this a requirement by Microsoft?
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Sky
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It's easy. Someone looked at mmo and saw kids who would camp the shit out of something, playing over and over whether they're having fun or not, just to get some stupid little item they'll outgrow when the next content patch comes out.
Bam, achievements and content patches in consoles games.
Mmotherfuckers™.
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Riggswolfe
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It just shows a gauge of 'Hey guys look, I've done more stuff in the game than you do?'
I wondered how or why they added that in during the design stage of an XBOX title. is this a requirement by Microsoft?
Yes, it's a design requirement. And honestly, it's fun. It's got a Pavlov's dog component to it. Think of it as a modern day "you got the high score!" And like I said, with Mass Effect achievements actually affect gameplay so it's an awesome use of them I hope to see more companies doing. |
"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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murdoc
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Mass Effect has the first achievements that were actually worth getting imo. My game list and achievements... achieved, is pretty sad actually. And I'm ok with that.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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rk47
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i pray this Windows Games Live never come to fruition then.
It'd be funny to see people hack their server tho'
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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