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The Citadel Gets Intriguing in Mass Effect 3's Final DLC

If you guys want to just go ahead and turn this into Mass Effect 4, that would probably be fine with us.

Mar. 4 2013

Posted by: Brad

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Mass Effect 3

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THis looks so awesome.

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I had a stupid grin on my face the whole time playing this. It was totally worth it.

Word

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SHEPARD, EARTH IS LITERALLY ON FIRE

THE HUMAN RACE IS BEING MURDERED BY ANCIENT GOD MACHINES AS WE SPEAK

but hey chill out in your new crib that we bought you for a while if you want

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Looks a little too much like fan service, as well as being cheesy. They are charging too much for it though, I liked From Ashes and Leviathan but last two single player DLC's (including this one) look poor.

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I wasn't even aware there was going to be a new DLC. Well, back into the fray I guess.

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I wasn't even aware there was going to be a new DLC. Well, back into the fray I guess.

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Yes. Just Yes.

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Yes. Just Yes.

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I had a stupid grin on my face the whole time playing this. It was totally worth it.

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I want a "Tales of the Shepard" game! Fuck the canon! Just let me hangout with these awesome characters and do cool stuff.

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I dont get what this is but it looks pretty cool

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Just gonna pretend this is the canonical ending to ME3.

If it's any good, that is. Then again, it can't be any worse than the actual ending...

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I keep giving a Fuck about Mass Effect long after.

*thumbs up*

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Well I haven't really paid attention to DLC since I beat the game and it pretty much rapped everything up but damn that trailer makes me want to play this one! Not for $10/$15 but maybe if it drops to $5 I could get down with some more Sheperd and the Gang. Until then I should have Tomb Raider waiting at home after work so.......gonna be busy for a bit.

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Far Effect 3?

No, wait, Mass Cry 3. Definitely Mass Cry 3.

I like this Citadel. It's a nice fucking Citadel.

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@humphreys said:

I, for one, liked ME3 and dislike the tone of this trailer. This is way cheesy and doesn't seem to fit into 3's story at all.

How does this work if Shepard dies at the end?

The same way every other DLC has worked I assume; taking place before you set off on the "point-of-no-return" mission.

Oh man, but what if it wasn't? What if it was like that part in LOST where they all got together in the universe where they didn't crash, and then it turned out it was actually the afterlife? That would be such a horrible idea. I really wish that's what this is now, even though it clearly won't be. Fuck.

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Edited By Dingofighter

You know, the premise for this sounds pretty good actually. Smaller scale, more personal story with more focus on character interactions and relationships set in the ME universe.

I just don't see how this will work into the existing framework of ME3 at all. What with the whole galaxy being at war with the Reapers and all.

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I was kinda on board until I saw the robot EVI or w/e her name was.

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Looks like some sort of 90's action movie.

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Looks pretty awesome. I havent actually bought any of the ME3 dlc yet so I'll probably buy them all at the same time when I start my next playthrough.

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now that looks like some dlc doesn't it. yup

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Edited By ultra2extreme

Oh good, mass effect of duty

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This dlc is brought to you by The Joker from The Dark Knight

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Aw yeah, time for more unsatisfying awkward not-sex with boring monotonous dead-faced space people. Bioware style.

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nothing wrong with a bit of fan service

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This looks so terrible tonally. Anderson is fighting for his life and Earth is completely besieged by the Reapers, but hey so long as we get a fancy ass apartment and get to hit the pubs! Fucking dumb, and not the good kind of dumb.

I was hoping for something where you can fix up the Normandy so it doesn't look like it's being stripped apart for scrap. Or meaningful missions when you reconnect with previous members of your team. Or anything really. It's sad when two essential pieces of the story are DLC, an entire piece of DLC is to fix a shit ending, and one is just average in every sense of the word. They have never hit the same magic that Lair of the Shadow Broker hit, and they never will. BioWare kind of stinks now. It's pandering for the sake of pandering instead of doing something meaningful.

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I stopped giving a fuck about Mass Effect a long time ago.

*sigh*

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Hypocrite signing in. This DLC type makes no sense whatsoever. The story ended. I need to pay for this and reload a save from before I finished the game to play it. It's just kind of strange. That said, on a ultimate playthrough (ME with all DLC, ME2 with all DLC and ME3 with all DLC) that I plan on doing sometime, it would still be awesome and I'll definitely get this.

Kind off liked the 'the last one to trash talk to me was a few kilometers taller than me' line.

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It's been a long, strange ride. Looking forward to checking this out.

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As someone who still hasn't played ME3, this looks kind of cool. I wonder if now's the time to jump in.

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Edited By zzzellyn

That is just so fucking weird tonally. I have no idea what the fuck. Also, I really, really hope they touch up the dialog or something because holy shit that was some awful delivery.

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Edited By Bourbon_Warrior

Looking forward to picking up all the DLC and going through with my Female Renagade on Insanity. Did the same with ME2 and was a very different experience on my 2nd playthough a year after it came out.

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"come out to the citadel, have a few laughs..."

I wish they'd have the balls start something that doesn't involve the normandy crew, but also that was a fucking sweet trailer and pretty much sold me on getting this!

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...fuck. I might actually get this.

But...how do they justify this happening during the attack on Earth? If this was something that was going on before that, I'd understand it - but since that new dude-bro soldier is on the crew, this must be set during the events of ME3. Which makes no sense.

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Man... imagine if all these pieces of DLC were part of the main game at launch. It would have been the game of the century. Every piece of DLC has addressed one complaint I had with the original. Leviathan provided an epic WTF moment akin to first speaking to sovereign in ME1. And now this addresses my only real complaint about the game, which was that there wasn't enough closure with your team. I wish they would release a disc with all the DLC already integrated into the main game.

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Blatant fan-service is really hard to condemn when you're SO EXCITED, OH MY GOD, ANY EXCUSE TO PLAY POLICE-COPS WITH GARRUS AGAIN!

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This is a shame. It looks like good, goofy fun on the Citadel, which was criminally under-represented in the past two games, but I'm done with Shepard's story. The book is closed. I don't wanna hear any more tales of the Shepard.

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Mad blind hate in hurr homies.

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wow this looks awesome

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As much as I want to be cynical about this...I just can't. It looks great!

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Hmm idk, ME3 DLC has all felt a little overpriced to me. I'll have to wait and see how long this is before I'm willing to buy it.

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I kidna like this. It seems a bit more Slap Stick, and a bit more focused than what ME3 was. it has a feel good vibe to it, and instead of being saving the universe and ultimate sacrifice, its about recollecting and finishing up stories about these characters and their relationships between one another. This is about Shepard and the Normandy Crew, and not about saving the galaxy. Which I can get behind. Because, what did people think was this DLC be about? What happens to Shepard? The past? More crazy saving the universe stuff? Nah, I think this will do.

If this DLC is indicative to what the next game in the series will be like (focusing on more character interplay than saving the galaxy) than I'm all the more pumped for the next game in the franchise.

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Say what u will. This trailer hit a cord. I love this series and this looks like a fun side story to revisit the world. With Shep and the crew.

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I am legitimately excited for this DLC. It looks like a good interesting piece of story that doesn't seem like it originally belonged on disc.

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Looks kinda interesting, but I'm so damned underwhelmed and bitter about ME3 still. Sorry but I think I'm done guys. I should go...

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There is too much damn fan service for this piece of DLC. I'm getting it.

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LOL