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Posted by Wombat on 02/07 at 08:22 AM
Backlash from the Ubisoft/Mortal Kombat team pulling their coverage?
Posted by pete5883 on 02/08 at 10:20 AM
I’m guessing the majority of those “E” rated games are from the sudden influx of pet games on the Wii that end with a “Z.”
Posted by freedomfromconformity on 02/08 at 12:11 PM
Did you read his personal blog? He explains that he’s leaving because his passion for the job was starting to die off, but the firing of his best friend was the main catalyst here. Alex, Jeff, and Ryan were great friends before GameSpot and his firing was probably a huge blow to their passion for the job.
Posted by FriskyTanuki on 02/08 at 12:36 PM
You need to check out the Kobayashi cartoon. Done Dragonball style, its hilarious.
Posted by courageous on 02/08 at 07:10 PM
At first I was a bit wary about this DLC, since I was afraid that it would be another lame “Clean out four of the same bases” type of side mission, with Batarians serving as skin changes for Cerberus/Geth. But if it turns out that this is a full-fledged mission on the level of Feros and Noveria, with dialogue segments and a penultimate boss battle, then I will be happy.
In the past, to me at least, Bioware has been the kings of downloadable content. For Neverwinter Nights, they pretty much defined the term with their 10+ hour quest modules, with the later modules going as far as adding notable features and new settings to the game. For Knights of the Old Republic, they later added the Yavin station (Merchant) and corresponding quests to the game, though not containing the level of content as the NWN modules, was still pretty good for a free download. I’d even go as far to say that I wish the current DLC marketplace was more like Bioware’s past offerings; paying for semi-expansion pack-level add-ons to the original game, not shelling out cash for a few stinkin’ maps or a few weapons and quirks. Here’s to hoping that EA’s influence doesn’t sully Bioware’s good name in the DLC field.
Posted by Cao Cao on 02/08 at 08:13 PM
While I generally don’t have much interest in fee-based DLC, I think this is one game where it can be integrated quite seemlessly and expand the universe (literally) without seeming out of place. It makes sense to simply have a few more locations to go to in a game where given the freedom to simply pick and choose where to go whenever you want from your ship. Oh and for those wondering, I’m pretty sure that this will be selectable like any other planet from your ship’s navigational map, so if you’ve already beaten the game you’ll have to get back to the point of being able to select your destination to access it.
This should allow them to have the freedom to come up with new ideas for places and situations in the game that they otherwise might not be able to explore between the release of the first game and the sequel. The price is reasonable as well, although I do hope that after a few more addons that they’ll release an expansion disc or “gold edition” Mass Effect in stores.
It’s a shame they couldn’t offer this kind of thing for KOTOR2 so that they could re-impliment the features and locations they had cut from the game due to time constraints (although technically Bioware didn’t make KOTOR2).
Posted by Edge on 02/08 at 09:00 PM
Wow. Apparently you have to go pretty far afield to find a license for ShovelWare these days.
Posted by mriswyth on 02/08 at 09:32 AM