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Mass Effect add-on: "Bring Down the sky"
Finally got around to downloading and playing this... although I was pretty disappointed.
The concept sounded epic. I envisaged Deep Impact/Armageddon in the Mass Effect universe. Perhaps I should have read exactly what the deal was first. It wound up being a repetitive scenario; take out a few facilities filled with baddies, turn off the jets propelling the rock towards one of the world below, save some people or sacrifice them/kill the main bad guy and you're done.
This annoys me not just because it was a poorly made, longer than usual side-mission, but because the side-missions in general throughout Mass Effect are really the only things that sucked about the game - the primary story-driven objectives were bloody awesome, it's just a shame I wasn't compelled to continue with all of the extra stuff due to how boring it was - especially the random worlds to explore where you'd drive that sh*t-house truck to random points and "survey" shit, which is partly what this was. What a waste of my f*cking time.
One good thing has come out of it though; it has give me the motivation to play through Mass Effect again, which I think is the first time I've ever played a single player game through again after finishing it once. While it's still seriously awesome, once you play it through a second time you start to realise how linear it actually is, despite "open ended" claims.
The concept sounded epic. I envisaged Deep Impact/Armageddon in the Mass Effect universe. Perhaps I should have read exactly what the deal was first. It wound up being a repetitive scenario; take out a few facilities filled with baddies, turn off the jets propelling the rock towards one of the world below, save some people or sacrifice them/kill the main bad guy and you're done.
This annoys me not just because it was a poorly made, longer than usual side-mission, but because the side-missions in general throughout Mass Effect are really the only things that sucked about the game - the primary story-driven objectives were bloody awesome, it's just a shame I wasn't compelled to continue with all of the extra stuff due to how boring it was - especially the random worlds to explore where you'd drive that sh*t-house truck to random points and "survey" shit, which is partly what this was. What a waste of my f*cking time.
One good thing has come out of it though; it has give me the motivation to play through Mass Effect again, which I think is the first time I've ever played a single player game through again after finishing it once. While it's still seriously awesome, once you play it through a second time you start to realise how linear it actually is, despite "open ended" claims.
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