In a nutshell, Arrival begins as a rescue mission that you perform as a favor for your old friend Admiral Hackett. The woman you need to find, Dr. Amanda Kenson, has located a Reaper artifact with proof of their imminent invasion...
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
Wealth of Geeks explores some of the best gaming romances that have stolen our hearts over the years.
Diandra worked on Diablo 4 and also other games at Blizzard including WoW: Dragon Flight. She’s also been at Bioware, Carbine, RIOT, and she is currently working at Crystal Dynamics.
Brian was the Lead Writer on Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls, worked on StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm, StarCraft: Wings of Liberty, and was also a writer on Mass Effect 2. He’s also been involved in movies such as the Iron Giant.
Diandra and Brian discuss their industry experience, the games they have worked on, how the writing process works, and much more.
After the great Lair of the Shadow Broker I was hoping for a higher score for The Arrival, but every little bit of this franchise is amazing. So definite buy.
Bioware seem to be getting worse, not better. I thought the original Mass Effect was better than ME2, and Dragon Age was also better than the sequel Now they release poor dlc.
I have no real hope in Mass Effect 3, I think EA have sucked the life out of the company.
Arrival and Kasumi's Stolen Memory were only two pieces of DLC i hadn't played
so i thought i'd use up some remaining MS points and download one. I chose Arrival because it has more achievements and is the final piece of DLC for the game!
I played up to where you have to protect Object Rho but after killing the 4th (i think) wave a glitch occurred where the next one wouldn't come
therefor not allowing me to gain the achievement for surviving all the waves
now frustrated i died and continued through the game for a bit but kept encountering stupid bugs and glitches!! D:
The whole piece of DLC is very buggy, unpolished (nowhere near the standard/quality of the main game or other DLC) and very disappointing
my complaints not about the length but about the poor quality of the DLC
oh well :(
Guess i'll have to wait a year or so for Mass Effect 3 to get my fix