After buying both of them and playing through them on my second playthrough, I can't help but think that Pinnacle Station was a much better value proposition than Bring Down the Sky.
Bring Down the Sky featured a bit of a story, voice acting, but all it boiled down to for me was just another generic planet (asteroid in this case, I guess) that I did a side-mission quest chain on. The ~2 hours or so it took to complete didn't really make it stand out in my mind as a good purchase.
Pinnacle Station had a pretty challenging set of missions (the last four) that forced me to level my Shepard up on other side-missions before coming back. While the combat in ME can be super jank at times, I never felt like I was unable to complete a mission because of it's flaws. I felt that I could complete them all with relative ease, with the exception of the last "Capture" mission, where I ended up retrying it for ~30 min or so because I kept missing the top time by a few tenths of a second. After everything was all done, I got a cushy pad on some planet too, and an awesome loot generator!
As they were both 400 points when I purchased them, I honestly feel like Pinnacle Station, while lacking story, really enhanced my gameplay experience while Bring Down the Sky felt like much less content for the same price.
So I ask you guys, what was the better value proposition?
Mass Effect
Game » consists of 21 releases. Released Nov 20, 2007
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