DLC done right

[GryffinDarkBreed]

Relic's Dawn of War Games. DLC is limited to accessories for Last Stand, a couple cosmetic skins, and that's it. Everything else is given its own expansion pack, and all previous games are automatically updated so even if you don't have the Expansion, you aren't cut off from playing against people who do.

At least that is how DOW2 and Chaos Rising work. It's a little different for DOW1, but the same principle of not screwing over other players just because they don't want to shell out extra case.

And the expansions don't require the original game to work, each is standalone software.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Bastion does DLC right: It is free, includes new game modes and is incorporated in all new copies of Bastion.

 

[Darmy647]

The real expansion packs. Worthy DLC? BloodMoon and Tribunal for morrowind.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Lair of the Shadow Broker(In fact most every major DLC from Mass Effect, Kasumi's mission was awesome.)
Shivering Isles
Most of the New Vegas DLC
CDPR's free expansion of the Witcher 2.
Valves releasing new l4d campaigns for free and retrofitting old ones.

I consider Dead Money the weakest of the bunch and it's still a solid bit of DLC compared to most.

I don't understand this. Dead money was the best of their DLCs. It has a very interesting theme that was nonstandard for videogames; which it presented remarkably well. It has the most interesting characters with the most colorful back stories by far; and it lets you interact with them on a level that none of the other DLCs approached.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Anything that adds maps and story usually sells me. I don't go for DLC that adds skins or guns or such. Basically, if I could program myself (were I a part of the company and privy to such abilities), I'm not interested.

 

[nexus]

I don't know about DLC.. but..

- for pre-order "exclusives" or bonuses, Hitman: Absolution was pretty cool.

If you pre-order Hitman: Absolution you get a pretty fleshed out "Sniper Challenge" mini-game. You rack up points and special goofy challenges, and the more points you get, the more stuff you unlock in the full version.

I liked it, don't recall anything similar before..

 

[MiriaJiyuu]

Borderlands 1 + 2 DLC all are at the very least decent, most are in the very good side, one or two are even arguably even better than the original game.


Its a pretty good record IMO. Actually the best in DLC so far...

I will minus off the first two Borderlands 1 DLC's before agreeing with you. They just weren't all that special and rather short overall.

The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is easily my most highly-rated DLCs alongside Mass Effect 2's Lair of the Shadow Broker. Those two would be the first DLC's I ever tell anyone to buy if they have the games, they were easily worth the money I spent on them; at least twice over for General Knoxx.

 

[DrBonBon]

A lot of good ones have already been mentioned, but GTA IV's Episodes From Liberty City should be added to the list.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Lair of the Shadow Broker(In fact most every major DLC from Mass Effect, Kasumi's mission was awesome.)
Shivering Isles
Most of the New Vegas DLC
CDPR's free expansion of the Witcher 2.
Valves releasing new n4d campaigns for free and retrofitting old ones.

I consider Dead Money the weakest of the bunch and it's still a solid bit of DLC compared to most.

I don't understand this. Dead money was the best of their DLCs. It has a very interesting theme that was nonstandard for videogames; which it presented remarkably well. It has the most interesting characters with the most colorful back stories by far; and it lets you interact with them on a level that none of the other DLCs approached.

I thought it was let down by the tedious gameplay.

The setting and atmosphere were brilliant, as well as the characters.

I still really liked it, I just thought it was the weakest of the bunch by virtue of being the one that's tedious to play through.

 

[Strazdas]

Tes games, Civilization DLCs.

WOW (no1 mentioned this! lol)

wow is subscrioption mode MMO. subscirption model mmos should make thier expensions free, thats why we pay subscriptions after all. wow doesnot do that, ergo its idiocity and everyone that buys them are encouraging idiocity. please stop.

Remember that prior to DLC and widespread high speed Internet access, there were two outcomes to the cut content: stayed on the floor, or MAYBE there was enough purchases to warrant and expansion pack. But devs generally don't find out if they can do that til a year.

back in the "good ol' days" DLCs were the size of what we call "Expansions" and patches were the size of what we call "DLC" now. they are basicalyl selling us patches save for a few developers. so yeah it was hard back thne to have enough content to warrant an expansion. now you just make 2 extra armors, hey pay us 15 dolalrs for that. it does not matter that a modder can do that in a day. because modders are banned. hurr autocratic monopoly.

 

[aguspal]

Borderlands 1 + 2 DLC all are at the very least decent, most are in the very good side, one or two are even arguably even better than the original game.


Its a pretty good record IMO. Actually the best in DLC so far...

I will minus off the first two Borderlands 1 DLC's before agreeing with you. They just weren't all that special and rather short overall.

The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is easily my most highly-rated DLCs alongside Mass Effect 2's Lair of the Shadow Broker. Those two would be the first DLC's I ever tell anyone to buy if they have the games, they were easily worth the money I spent on them; at least twice over for General Knoxx.

Yes, when I said "one or two are even arguably even better than the original game", I was thinking General Knoxx when I wrote that. Its a very good dlc. Also, an actually extremely difficult Raid boss=Win.


My order would be:

1: General knoxx no question about it.
2: The claptrap evolution one was also pretty fun.
3: The zombie one was a little repetitive but it wasnt bad at all either.
4: The arena one... yeah it wasnt that good. But it was fun the first couple of times, could have been implemented a little better thougt. Also, +1 skill points (+2 if you consider both playthougts) are nothing to complain about, either.

 

[crono738]

Pretty much all of the Borderlands DLC, save the Underdome.
Shivering Isles
Undead Nightmare
Some of the Mass Effect dlc

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

I thought it was let down by the tedious gameplay.

The setting and atmosphere were brilliant, as well as the characters.

I still really liked it, I just thought it was the weakest of the bunch by virtue of being the one that's tedious to play through.

I guess it matters when you played through them, because the enemies scale to level, and for me by far OWB was the most tedious. OWBs scaling is insane and it comes to the point where you will run out of ammo and stim packs if you didn't play like a packrat. If you don't know to immediately switch to one of those proton axes then you're pretty boned; because you can't buy more than like 2 or 3 stimpacks. So if you run out you have to constantly run back to the autodoc. And even if you don't completely screw yourself in that regard, the roboscorpions still take so many hits to kill it feels like they escaped from Bethesda's Oblivion.

 

[Mordekaien]

+1 for Oblivion
+1 for New Vegas

Both were varied and interesting enough for me to care.... except Dead Money- I hated Dead Money.

Most recently it was Binding of Isaac's Wrath of the Lamb that I would recommend to anyone (for that matter go give Isaac a try, it's awesome)
Tons of new stuff to explore, fight and a new devilishly hard part of the game as story continuation (is that a real word?)