New Mass Effect DLC said to be announced this Friday

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

The source of this information is GameSpot and the full article can be found here: http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6212353.html

BioWare had promised DLC and we've only gotten Bring Down the Sky so far. I can't say I was impressed and, frankly, the description of what I read doesn't much impress me of this new DLC.

New Mass Effect DLC info due 'this week' - BioWare
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Jun 22, 2009 10:29 pm GMT

Over a year after Bring Down the Sky, the Canadian developer will soon unveil the "gaming-casino fight club" update to its interstellar role-playing game--which "sets up" Mass Effect 2.

BioWare will unveil the second downloadable content update for Mass Effect--which will act as a mini-prequel to Mass Effect 2, due out in early 2010. The official Twitter pages for both BioWare and Mass Effect 2 are promising new information on the still-untitled expansion by Friday.

During the same video interview, Mass Effect project director Casey Hudson and lead designer Preston Watamaniuk both described the second Mass Effect DLC in some detail. Said Hudson, "With things like Bring Down the Sky, we want to make sure there's always content out there for [players] to be able to play through, so it kind of leads into Mass Effect 2. In particular, we kind of have some exciting things we want to do in terms of the story on how, through the story, the downloadable content is going to set up the sequel."

I recommend reading the entire article but I'm left... well, unimpressed, to be honest. I very much liked Mass Effect and found it nearly as addictive as the first Deus Ex PC game. I really didn't find Bring Down the Sky to be all that special and from the description of this new DLC I pretty much yawned. It might be great but I'm just not feeling it right now.

 

[Webslinger]

I really didn't find Bring Down the Sky to be all that special

I enjoyed Bring Down The Sky. I found it to be far better than most, if not all, of the side missions in M.E.

I doubt this new DLC will be anything great (sounds like an arena fight thing that we've seen in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series), but I'm still interested in it.

 

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

The supposed date of the announcement has come and passed. What's up? Well, I found out.

Source: VG247
Full article: http://www.vg247.com/2009/06/27/bioware-mass-effect-dlc-news-will-have-to-wait/

Apparently BioWare twittered the bad news rather than an official press anouncement.

"Due to circumstance beyond my control (me being stupid on timing), any news of more ME1 DLC will have to wait. Sorry folks."

Read the full short article here: http://www.vg247.com/2009/06/27/bioware-mass-effect-dlc-news-will-have-to-wait/

Thanks for nothing, BioWare. As it is the DLC has been well, laughably lacking and the news of the new DLC left me yawning and completely lacking interest but that didn't mean a delay wouldn't annoy me. This is beyond bad.

 

[Webslinger]

What's pretty horrible about this is this 5 month long non-existant patch that any normal person would have expected to be released by now: http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=172887&postcount=1

 

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

What's pretty horrible about this is this 5 month long non-existant patch that any normal person would have expected to be released by now: http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=172887&postcount=1

My memory is hazy on the timeline here but I remember how annoyed myself and others were about BioWare tying Bring Down the Sky together with the first update patch. They dragged their feet and took quite some time to release BDtS and many people were literally unable to play the game in the meantime. BioWare might be great at creating games with amazing plots and such but they absolutely stink at supporting the people who dropped hard cash on their games and are having problems from what I've witnessed so far.

I can't not purchase ME2 but I am most definitely left with an unplesant experience and expect a lack of DLC and insanely slow update patch releases for ME2, as well.