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Mass Effect 2 getting new weapon pack before Shadow Broker

Lee assured fans that while the guns would be sold apart from the newly announced content, "Lair of the Shadow Broker does, however, contain some *really* cool stuff we haven't revealed yet." We're assuming he's talking about a hideous race of space monsters that can only be killed using ... these new, purchasable guns! Then again, our hearts are cold and calloused.

Charmers5811d ago

I haven't noticed much talk about the shadowbroker DLC. However I want to make Xbox and PC users aware that the shadow broker DLC will not be available in 4 territories. These 4 territories are Poland, Hungary, Czech and Slovenia so if you have one of those native copies you will not get this DLC.

This was posted by Micheal Gamble one of the developers :-

"I wanted to give a bit more insight into the Polish, Czech and Hungarian builds for our fans.

Believe me, we tried to make it work for these languages. DA was able to release English DLC for these localized versions of the game, but that isn't the case for us. On the Mass Effect side, it isn't as simple. By allowing the players of these versions to use the English DLC, there would be large scale changes to the main-game player experience. We didn't want to sacrifice the quality of the main game, and tried to work around this in various ways. In the end, unfortunately, we were unable to come to a solution which allowed us to release this content in these territories and keep the same level of quality from the main game.

I'd like to personally apologize to anyone in these regions who are dissapointed, and please know that it wasn't an easy decision to make.

You can find the message somewhere in this mess :-

http://social.bioware.com/f...

Naturally a lot of people are NOT happy about this.

thelifatree5811d ago

Is that he's basically saying, the amount of work needed to rework the DLC is not worht the amount of sales they'd get. Which will piss fans in those regions off, but it doesn't make business sense if they lose money in those regions because of it.

I dunno.

Charmers5811d ago

It is my understanding that only the Polish version has a dubbed spoken sound track. The other versions are just English spoken dialogue and native subtitles for each region.

There is definitely something very strange about this. People that are affected by this issue are even saying "fine release the DLC without any regional localisation" but Bioware are refusing to do that stating "quality issues".

At any rate this is putting a real damper on what could have been some incredibly exciting DLC. I know Liara was one of my favourite characters in the game but this whole issue is overshadowing everything.

Myst5811d ago

They can release whatever they want before it, I have the paitence to wait while BioWare does their thing. Currently thinking of restarting the whole game again after Lair is released and simply running through every DLC portion again.

m235811d ago

I just got done with the Overlord DLC, and it blew me away by the end. That is how DLC missions should be done. Bioware is really supporting ME2, and it's awesome. Does anyone know when Shadow Broker will be released?

Darkfiber5810d ago

Agreed, Overlord was amazing, easily one of the best, if not the best mission in the game. The only dumb DLC so far has been the costumes, everything else has been worth it. Wish it was $5 instead of $7 though, especially for Kasumi, but whatever, it's still good.

Myst5810d ago

I have yet to finish Overlord, but probably will today when it becomes later in the day.

@Darkfiber: Yeah for what is offered for Kasumi I would have agreed on five to. Then again you can use that character anytime so I suppose it's okay.

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Mass Effect Companion Tier Ranking

One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!

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IAMRealHooman560d ago

Bro missing companions: Legion, Grunt, Samara/Morinth, Javik, EDI

anast560d ago

Legion, Zaeed, and Jack are my favorites.

RiseNShine560d ago

To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.

anast560d ago

They lost too much talent.

IAMRealHooman560d ago

some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier

anast559d ago

Liam lol I can't stand that dude.

IAMRealHooman559d ago

it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me

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The 7 Best Western RPGs: Immersive Adventures

RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.

SimpleSlave808d ago

"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!

How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera

And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

DustMan808d ago

Loved Alpha Protocol in all it's glorious jank. Great game.

SimpleSlave808d ago (Edited 808d ago )

Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.

Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.

Pity.

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The Best Video Game Romances of All Time

Wealth of Geeks explores some of the best gaming romances that have stolen our hearts over the years.

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