First of all, I love Mass Effect and have it pre-ordered. However this is just wrong. I will repeat what the video says. There will be a day one DLC. It's called From Ashes or something similar like that. It gives you an extra squadmate, and probably a mission to go along with him. The squadmate is a Prothean. A Prothean. As in seemingly extinct species which has been mentioned several times throughout the series. Y'know, the ones that supposedly built the Citadel and the mass relays. The ones that disappeared over 50,000 years ago. Well turns out Bioware and EA do not think this Prothean squadmate is important to the story. So it is DLC. Then he goes on to talk about acceptable DLC and whatnot.
The add-on had the description "Unearth lost secrets from the past and recruit the Prothean squad member in Mass Effect 3"
Unearth lost secrets from the past. Right, so learning about what happened to the Protheans 50,000 years ago is not important to the story. WTF.
Will this squad mate be included if you buy the game during the first few months like Shale in Dragon Age: Origins?
Either way, this seems very weird, since this companion seems like it is very, very, very, very important both to the story and to the lore. I mean, the last survivor of a 50K year old species which has fought the reapers before, someone like that must have a huge impact on the story.
PS: IIRC, the story does not resume from the end of Mass Effect 2, but rather from the end of a DLC (From Ashes, I think) between Mass Effect 2 and 3. That's incredibly lame, but there should be Let's Plays on YouTube for that DLC if you wanna catch up with the story.
As long as game producers keep getting published by EA this is going to happen again and again! This is not Bioware fault since they don't have a choice in the matter! But yeah it is total BS!
PS: The only thing Bioware is to blame in the passing years is over-simplifying games, which I hope ME3 is not going to be the case!
ME3 Will have 3 modus. Rpg classic and action. In action you don't make any choices and just watch cutscenes and shoot and in RPG you watch cutscenes make important choices and shoot. Dunno about classic. But I think Bioware should do a game with no paid DLC and maybe an expansion.
IIRC, Action is like classic with less talking, and Roleplay is like classic but with less shooting. Classic has all the shooting and all the talking.
Anyways, IMO, DLCs should only add content which takes place after the main story, or on the side of the story, not content which is an important part of it.
