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I was gonna say like how much the Forbes review stated but yah Raptr told me I played for 3 hours yesterday. It's hourly so 3.5 to almost 4 hours is my guess. I have a few things left just walking around and I barely touched the combat simulator, just because I just did Pinnacle Station's achievements for ME1 like a few weeks ago lol.

With just the simulator alone, it certainly looks like this has a LOT more replay value than Omega and Leviathan put together.

Also, it seems that for the squad interaction and the "one last ride", it's quite worth it.

Boy the banner for this weeks op is the biggest eyesore yet.

You know, I was only JOKING about wanting to play Low/High Stakes Quasar again.

Didn't think they'd actually call me on it

Haha nooooo, folks called me up so I only got a little bit of my Femshep playthrough with the Citadel. I found out the hard way that my difficulty with that one was a bit harder. Wow, bs, shooting a guy or shocking him, my Vanguard has Energy Drain, and he's still manages to fire off a salvo right into my chest. Well so I played some multiplayer instead, don't think I'll be able to get the Platinum challenges, nope. I think Gold is my threshold.

Cision Pro Mark 4 to the rescue

"Y-you used me as bait?!"


Can't say this is better than LotSB, but if there's any praise I can give it, it's that it is ME3's LotSB.

And I think that's the highest praise I can give it.

Well, that's it. 4105/4105 for the Mass Effect series. Feels kinda bittersweet.

Originally Posted by Spybreak8 Haha nooooo, folks called me up so I only got a little bit of my Femshep playthrough with the Citadel. I found out the hard way that my difficulty with that one was a bit harder. Wow, bs, shooting a guy or shocking him, my Vanguard has Energy Drain, and he's still manages to fire off a salvo right into my chest. Well so I played some multiplayer instead, don't think I'll be able to get the Platinum challenges, nope. I think Gold is my threshold.

Plat isn't that bad.

"We've had a good ride."

"The best."

I am going to miss this series so much.

Originally Posted by theredworm Plat isn't that bad.

Agreed. And that's coming from someone who just dipped their toe in platinum waters. It's totally doable with the right squad.

Finished up the DLC at 1 AM this morning. What an absolutely fantastic experience for my $15. Anybody on the fence....buy this if you're a fan of Mass Effect at all. I guarantee you'll find $15 worth of enjoyment in it.

Had such a blast rolling with Garrus and Wrex for the whole mission. Being able to use ME1 parties again was fantastic, and there was so much good dialogue sprinkled throughout. The "I should go" line was particularly great.

Some of the highlights from my Paragon Shep's loud party:

-Zaeed drunkenly hit on Samara
-EDI confronted Traynor about Traynor's feelings for EDI during the story
-Liara lifted James off the ground with biotics
-Ashley and James hooked up
-Javik became friends with the porcelain goddess
-Miranda and Jack had one of their...moments

Then....came the photo. THAT was the moment where it hit me that this is the end of the Mass Effect adventure....and how truly incredible of an experience it's been.

The "We've had a good ride" scene glitched out for me though so that 2 music tracks were playing over each other, taking me out of the moment. Gonna have to do that again.

I have higher praise for Citadel DLC:


I didn't want it to end.

But I guess that's alright. Because Citadel was the REAL ending.


I'm also really happy for one thing:


During the end of first part, where your clone yells at you, "What makes you so special and not me?!" Shepard says nothing. Your squad rushes to help you up and that's when it hits him: Shepard was never just about facts and statistics. Shepard is the person he is because of all the wonderful relationships he's built.

With that short sequence, I'm feel like BioWare finally realized that too. Mass Effect was NEVER about fighting the geth, the third person combat, answering things in a Paragon or Renegade way, or hell, even about stopping the Reapers. The whole series was personal because of those relationships you built.

Shepard's journey was OUR journey. THAT is Mass Effect.

OK so I wasn't given the option for ANY of the individual invites to the apartment, even though I got the wave of emails of James, Liara, Miranda, Tali, Kolyat, etc. I got the scenes with people on the strip, but none in the apartment. Went around the citadel trying to get stuff to reset and still no prompts anywhere.

Bought the party favors and had the party, do I need to go back to my previous save from before the party?

Kinda interested in when they wrote the storyline for this as it seems a 100% ripoff/omage to The Dark Knight Rises, but it was VERY well done.

Originally Posted by MSUHitman OK so I wasn't given the option for ANY of the individual invites to the apartment, even though I got the wave of emails of James, Liara, Miranda, Tali, Kolyat, etc. I got the scenes with people on the strip, but none in the apartment. Went around the citadel trying to get stuff to reset and still no prompts anywhere. Bought the party favors and had the party, do I need to go back to my previous save from before the party? Kinda interested in when they wrote the storyline for this as it seems a 100% ripoff/omage to The Dark Knight Rises, but it was VERY well done.

I missed calling up too. There is a call up tab on the computer you send invites on. I went to load a previous save and saw "restart mission: throw party" and that fixed me up and tried different party stuff.

I think Grunt made a strong case for MVP of the DLC. His story about being bailed out of the hospital and the havoc that followed, telling everyone no that wants to come to the party (and joining in to tell some people off myself), falling asleep in the shower (What are clowns hiding?)... all of his stuff was pure gold. Then again, this entire DLC was a quote and moment goldmine.

There has to be a ton of content packed into this thing. I'm really curious as to how conversations change up during the party if you invite certain people.

M-7 Lancer X is beast as hell.

Review of Citadel on ArsTechnica. Comments are worth a read or two.

Here's a blog post celebrating the one-year anniversary of ME3's release. http://blog.bioware.com/2013/03/07/h...mass-effect-3/

One note of importance, the lodestar banner is titled "finalchallengebanner", so I take that as, yeah, Lodestar IS the last weekend operation. That stinks, but what should we reasonably expect from Bioware? I mean, did any of us expect ME3 MP to be this great? I know I sure as hell didn't.

Originally Posted by chubbyninja1319 Here's a blog post celebrating the one-year anniversary of ME3's release. http://blog.bioware.com/2013/03/07/h...mass-effect-3/ One note of importance, the lodestar banner is titled "finalchallengebanner", so I take that as, yeah, Lodestar IS the last weekend operation. That stinks, but what should we reasonably expect from Bioware? I mean, did any of us expect ME3 MP to be this great? I know I sure as hell didn't.

Lol you beat me to it. Was just going to post that and point, seeeeeeee 1% Platinum. Also funny to see Firebase White is still map of choice. I'm so over that one lol. My favorite is Hydro.

My plat extract rate is much higher than 1%. That's even pugging a lot of plat.