My struggle was with the Hammerhead. All else was fine.

Anybody else get raped playing Arrival on Insanity? My Adept and Vanguard were turned to ash rather quickly at first.

I chose Sentinel. Due to the assumption that like every game, higher difficulty wouldn't mean smarter enemies, just enemies that never miss. Turns out I was right!

Same. Luckily, for at least one of the Firewalker missions, I randomly discovered an exploit that, I noticed after the fact, allowed me to at least skip one fight against some floating rocket launchers. I was able to scale the almost vertical wall to the last pickup thinger by hammering (heh) on the jump button like I was playing Track & Field. Not much, but any shortcuts for those segments were welcome.

Naw, I only played the main game on Insanity. If there was a trophy for playing it on Insanity I certainly would have tried.

Yeah well I change my rating for this DLC....its officially a 6.0. Barely even made that :)

Yeah, it wasn't great, but it was story DLC in that it was going to play out the same way no matter what.

Like Lair of the Shadow Broker, it was an event that was going to happen before ME3 regardless.

Downloading it just gives you the means to experience it.

So, after seeing Ashley's ME3 pic, I started a new ME2 playthrough and chose her as my love interest. :)

Thadda boy!!

Funny thing is, out of every playthrough that I've done for ME2.....I have never chosen her in ME Genesis or even ME1 on the 360. It was always Liara. :p

Me too.

So ull have sex with anything?:rock:

Liara was just so much more interesting than Ashley :)

I'm only interested in girl on girl action and Ashley wasn't interested. :p

Is anyone still playing this?

I'll pick this back up in probably another month or so....too many other games being released. Especially with Mortal Kombat coming out tomorrow and the MK Fight Club that I'm heading up........not enough time :p

Just got the plat on this last night. Final battle made me sweat on insanity lol...overall awesome game IMO.

I'll pick up Arrival if it ever gets really cheap. I'd rather not spend $7 for what is universally agreed to be mediocre dlc. It sends developers the wrong message that consumers will pay a premium for uninspired work and really hurts the quality of future dlc.

Mediocre or not it is easily worth the $7. Its a whole helluva lot better deal than those stupid $15 Call of Duty mappacks. Pick it up. $7 is not a lot a lot of money.

Well, in contrast, just yesterday Amazon had GTA's episodes (gay Tony & lost & damned) for $7.49. As dlc to the original, there's a hell of a lot more substance in that package than there is for arrival at basically the exact price (after tax). I'll bite at $3. Besides, it's only 3 measly bronze trophies lol...

lol, I bought it too. It didn't last too long, but for $7.49 for both GTA 4 expansions....I'm happy :)

But on topic....I'm all for extending ME2, but The Arrival was a waste. I'm pretty sure they were heavily focused on ME3, but I do think $4.99 would've been a better price point for it.

^^Yeah I couldn't resist that offer either. I've had my eyes out for that for a while.

Anyway, in terms of DLC, my philosophy is this--If a developer releases 2 dlc packages (A & B), where A is critically acclaimed and B is a letdown, if the sales of both packages are more or less the same, the message the developer gets is that the actual content isn't important, just that SOMETHING is released.

If the sales of dlc A is substantial and B is weak, the message received is that the consumers will not support in incoherent mess for the sake of quantity, but actually want quality dlc. This scenerio is where the consumer comes out on top, because developers will learn that in order for dlc to sell well it has to be on par ( or better) than the original product, not just something slapped together and called a package.

Shadow Broker was very cool dlc, so the capability is there. Arrival (from what i've read and seen) seems more like intern work, while the main team is finishing ME3.:p