Let's Talk About Mass Effect 2 (General Thread) - Now For Sony Fans, Too

[ameratsu]

Played Shadow Broker DLC last night. Great though a bit easy on hardcore.Contrasted with the Kasumi DLC that I played through a few days ago, Shadow Broker is so much better it isn't even funny.

Shadow Broker works into the plot of ME2 and sets up for ME3 and I therefore see it as essential for everyone who enjoyed ME2. However, I am aprehensive about paying for DLC in general and I assume there are others who feel the same way. Relatively speaking, $10 really isn't a bad deal. An hour and a half of entertainment for $10 is about equal to a movie ticket for a new release, or even cover to see some lesser-known bands. Looked at in this way it really isn't that outlandish, though I see it as something that fragments the Mass Effect experience as there are those who won't pay for extra content.At the same time though I paid for ME2 and it's frustrating to see this paid content dangled in front of me in game when additional payment is the only way to access it. 

Then there is the other downloadable content. I don't have a problem with guns and armour being paid content persay, just give those of us who would rather unlock it in game that option. Make it difficult to get cool new weapons and armour likes games used to. I don't like the idea of Bioware making these great additions to the game only available to those who are willing to buy them through microtransactions.

tl;dr - Shadow Broker is awesome but I still don't want to pay for it. The core ME2 experience is very good and DLC like this included with the game would make it that much better.