I always kinda found it weird when people talk about how they get emotionally connected to a game. Making them cry or having them need to take a break do to a heavy situation, like Jeff explained his experience with that meth girl in GTA4 I think, has seemed odd because I have never been through that situation playing a game. Now I'm about to talk about some Overlord spoilers so if you don't want it spoiled don't read anymore.
When I started the Overload dlc I thought this was going to be a cool and excited mission, like the Kasumi heist and Shadow Broker missions. At first it seemed like that. Running around trying to shut down this rogue VI, learning that this guy basically volunteered to be a VI and his brother, Gavin Archer, was trying to shut him down for his own sake was really cool. Than as you know the story takes a turn. You learn that the 'volunteer' is actually an autistic mathematical savant named David that was forced by his brother Gavin to be hooked up the the VI. Learning the story of David after merging with the VI got me real teary eyed. I often volunteer helping autistic kids and my mom works with them as an EA, educational assistant, so when I heard David wanting it to be quiet, wanting the noise to stop and wanting headphones to block out the noise, something I've seen many kids do and ask, it broke my heart. Obviously I chose the Paragon way to end it but man.... a game has never brought up those emotions for me. I hope Mass Effect 3 has many more stories on the same quality level as this dlc.
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