Let’s talk about DLC in Video Games.
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I could never afford first day or paid DLC. I always liked free ones tho
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here’s my beef with DLC
It can be great, used to expand the game after release, it gives us more content and the creators more money woo! awesome
but when they start pushing out DLC on day one? No that stuff should have already been in the game, or locking content off to sell it back to you later is really crappy
or the DLC might be overpriced as hell and have no reason to be
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Free dlc is my bae
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Yeah, that’s pretty much my opinion on it, but at the same time, they should include it in the game, even if it has to be an update, especially for free DLC. If it’s free, why not make it an update anyway, unless it’s limited?
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I agree with this I honestly don’t know, I think forge island in halo 4 was in an update though
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I’ve played a few games with DLC before. I can say one thing for sure.
Shivering Isles for Oblivion is the best DLC ever.
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As a concept, DLC is pretty great and can add more value to the game. I mean, just look at the expansions that Bethesda made for Oblivion and Skyrim (including Shivering Isles and Dragonborn) which I think may be the best example of how to make great DLC (if we exclude the horse armor DLC for Oblivion).
Unfortunatly a lot of companies make DLCs that either are more like microtransactions or just simply not worth the money they are asking for it. And don’t get me started on Day 1 DLC or Pre-Order exclusive DLC.
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Forge island has to be downloaded.
Depends on the game really. Generally, I dislike it. Mostly because I hate games being dependent on the internet for that kind of stuff. If something happens and that goes crashing down you’ll never be able to play it again. I want my games to hold the same value 20 years from now.
Dude. Shivering Isles was awesome.
Usually I try to avoid DLC unless it is worth while(Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Etc.) or just fun to play. That is the reason I have all the expansions for Fallout New Vegas, all but one for Fallout 3, all for Oblivion and Morrowind(Except Bloodmoon won’t work on my frickin computer)
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Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim, heck of a lot of fun for me.
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I just recently got all DLC for Fallout 3 and NV and for the most part they are pretty darn good. (except dead money which was pretty meh.)
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Nah. Dead Money was amazing, but difficult
I don’t like mazes. pretty much the whole map was a maze. The story behind the DLC was great but I spent hours trying to get from point A to point B. it took me 3 days just to start the Gala event. The gear obtained was fine and I like using the abandoned BOS bunker as a base.
What I’m getting at is in a game like fallout mazes are the LAST thing you want. At the very least Honest Hearts makes the maze-like valley feel fun. Honest Hearts also lets you bring your own gear in and it lets you fast travel (Instead of wandering through a maze for hours to get back to the villa).
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Splatoon.
drops mic
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DLC is pretty much like this, you love it or you absolutely hate it and in some cases wish the greedy devs fired. Here’s my opinion which should already be fairly obvious because of my earlier explanation. It’s a load of bull placed just for extra cash grabbing by companies, unless it’s like having an entire bonus chapter after the main story is FINISHED (this would have to be made months afterwards to prove it wasn’t originally in the game and just left out so people would have to pay extra to play the game.) I think it’s mostly just content that should have been in the game from the start and included in the $60+ I spent on a supposedly complete game. Or if you consider something like the Pokemon bank as dlc then I’d say that’s also pretty fair, 365 days for $5 and tons of storage space and no more 2 ds to transfer to the next generation garbage. (Servers cost money to host and the bank is a server where you can upload and install your Pokemon from said server. There are two ways to get money for said server, advertising or charging the users.)
Free DLC is fine in my view, its adding to the game.
However, the game should really be complete upon release.
Paid DLC is just ripping off the person who brought the game, given they expected a full game upon purchase.
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Well I’m ok with paid DLC if it’s substantial but not integral to the base game. (I.E. The Dragonbrn DLC which was large and well designed but wouldn’t make sense in the base game).
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I’m okay with DLC… done right.
I think DLC should be like expansion packs of old. Extra chapters that didn’t fit into development or were done afterwards, or little extra doodads for cheap. I’m sort of okay if they have these things at launch, but it depends.
And I’m sort of okay with pre-order DLC and that sort of thing. Whatever. As long as it’s free.
But making you pay for DLC on the disk is in my opinion pretty terrible if you can’t achieve it normally.
Releasing a broken game and expecting you download something to fix it shouldn’t be a thing.
It’s mixed for me, but I might get stuff anyway if it’s cheap…
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