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Is anybody still playing Mass Effect 3?  I'm finding it hard to get back into.  Not that I consider more Mass Effect 3 content to be a bad thing, and ME3's latest DLC is getting reviewed pretty well.  Some seem to think it's the greatest and most appropriate DLC release for the final entry in the trilogy.  Goofy, but great.  I'm not a purist or an againg gamer that despises all forms of DLC, though I am an older gamer.  Mid 30s by next week!  Some of the latest DLC to be announced really has to be questioned, not for its quality, but because of its timing.  Why so late?

I probably blog about DLC too much: DLC = Don't Like Credit and DLC = DeLayed Content.  It may seem like I have a hate on for DLC and that I'm so puritanical about the changes in gaming that I'll endlessly post themed blogs that hardly anyone reads!  But I like DLC, usually.  I loved the From Ashes day one DLC for ME3.  After recruiting the big, ugly Prothean he became one of my favourite party members.  Javik's personality is probably most like mine of any video game character since Cloud Strife or Squall Leonhart.  You all suck!  And I'm not gonna shake your hand!

I also enjoyed the Leviathan ME3 DLC, and Skyrim's Dawnguard and Dragonborn expansions.  The Hearthfire DLC was kind of pointless, if you ask me.  Since you could find so many areas and houses with smithing anvils, alchemist's tables and acane enchanters, what was the point of spending all that time building your own house with everything?  Not that I'm writing a review for any DLC, just telling you about the ones I've purshased recently.  And I almost forgot about Omega for Mass Effect 3 which was a lot like Hearthfire in many ways, not all that fun and unnecessary.

Mass Effect 3 was released on March 6, 2012, just over a year ago.  Since then we've been through the entire ME3 ending fiasco, one extended cut, three major single player plug-ins, and several free multiplayer updates.  It isn't the amount of time that has passed that makes the next DLC seem superfluous.  PS3 didn't get the Skyrim DLCs until more than a year later, and there's still more to come.  It's just that we've been through so much with ME3, and everything feels complete.  I started a whole new play thru, from the original Mass Effect after its PSN release, all the way thru ME2, and finally to ME3 with Omega.  I don't want to go back again.  Should I?

 

And now it appears that Borderlands 2 will be getting another DLC soon.  A sixth playable character will be added soon along with other content, though details are sparse.  I didn't buy the Mechromancer because I was pretty much already finished with the game before the first DLC came out.  Mechromancer was supposed to be day one DLC but wasn't.  I must be the only who doesn't hate day one DLC, it makes it more likely for me to buy it.  But in some ways I'm not that aging gamer just yet, I have a pretty low attention span and I move onto the next game pretty quickly.  And I do move on, I don't go backwards.  Except for Skyrim.  And Dark Souls, when Artorias of the Abyss came out.  And Mass Effect 3, for Omega.  And...um...hmm.

This is only my opinion.  Perhaps there are enough ME3 users in the multiplayer community to make the final update viable.  And the reviews for ME3: Citadel have been pretty good.  But at this point, do the publishers really care about DLC reviews?  Reviews for the main game certainly have a factor on how well a release performs.  But I don't think it's the same for DLC.  Oddly enough, that's the one stat that publishers don't seem to release as much and such information isn't widely available.  But I'm willing to bet it's a sharp downward slope in purchases for each successive DLC.  I gotta think that in the end more people will have purchased ME3's From Ashes and the Tales of the Plucky Prothean than ME3's Citadel, the mega casino and character reunion party while the rest of the galaxy is at war.

But I could be wrong.  Let me know if you plan to get back into ME3 or Borderlands 2.  And if it's worth it.