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As for me, i'm playing it on and off for like the 12th time...this time as a "douchebag shep" for laughs(i.e. renegade a ton of the choices).

Okay.

OMG.....I loved that show when I was younger....so cutesy, and i'd never admit it to those who knew me, but I loved it all the same. :)

Never played any DLCs. Nothing seemed like a proper expansion to me, so i skipped them all.

You bet! I can't pinpoint why i enjoyed ME better, but i wouldn't say one is necessarily better than the other. One thing for sure, is that EA let me down when my anticipation for ME3 was met with the Origin client.

Driving into the sunset, yet this is not the end of my game of American Truck Simulator.

I don't know if all the DLCs work this way, but the ones I looked at seem to add more content that you can do while going through the main quest. That is, a bunch of side quests essentially, only a more sophisticated than the standard ones. So I think the DLCs just make the game longer essentially.

Sounds good, but at the same time it's a shame if they held the better stuff in order to make more money via the DLC route. I'm not in good terms with that practice, especially when i pay full price for a game (as I did for MEs), so i guess the only way to buy these DLCs would be for them to appear bundled with a ME collection. A GOG version no less.

Speaking of DLCs, there have been times when i was offered with special codes that enabled various stuff in-game (Dragon Age: Origins comes to mind; something about a stone golem or something), but i didn't even use them. In fact, i used to throw these flyers away - that is, when i was still buying retail.

Oh that, if we're talking about the same thing, is a complete deal-breaker for me. I hate seeing something in a game, but not being able to interact with it because I need to purchase access. The reason simply being that it takes me out of the moment. I.e. it's totally immersion breaking for me.
The way the ME dlcs work that I looked at are either new dialog options or new npcs that trigger quest lines. That's ok, unless of course as you say it's content that was held back to be sold afterwards. I don't imagine that's the case however.

The sidequests in ME1 weren't that bad though. They just needed more variation. Each surface base, underground base, mine and spaceship was essentially the same. This was fixed in ME2 of course, but I thought they could've done a little bit more to keep it from feeling so inconsequential. E.g. the saved quarian from the one side quest could've later showed up at Tali's trail, or something like that.

OT, technically not playing 'right now' (still deciding on next game), but have some images from Sol in ME2. Never got the Uranus probe easter egg though :(

The beast fell from my swords and magic, but he didn't leave a body unfortunately. :(

Train to Erebonia, Part 2: More Choo-Choo! ... aka Trails of Cold Steel 3

Just some choice screenshots I've captured along the way.

Yea, I've noticed, so I've literally been trying everything on everything (not that I'm stuck or anything!)!

But seriously, a lot of effort has been put on this, unlike other adventure games where pointless item interaction leads to a deafult message of error.

That's actually one of the better DLCs and adds new areas/side quests and a new companion....also why toss stuff that's good and free(comes with the game)?
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I do that as well, but with nearly all adventure games. :)

Yup....wait till you finish it(fun ending). :D

Word on the street is that "Kain is deified."

Maybe because i'm a bit of a weirdo when it comes to DLCs and such. Not that i've never bought a DLC (hell, i've been a long time fan of flight sims and i've had my fair share of paid addons for FS2004), i just don't generally support & care for them in other genres. Good to hear it's good stuff though, i'll try them all when i buy the GOG version of DA:O at some point, since i'd like to play the expansion anyway.