DLC You Actually Enjoyed

[The87Italians]

My favorite DLC of all time is probably Shivering Isles. Sheogorath was a very...interesting character and made the DLC enjoyable.

However my least favorite was Fallout 3's The Pitt. In terms of gameplay and plot, it was good and just as fun as Fallout 3 itself. However, the city in the game looked nothing like Pittsburgh, aside from the river(were there even 3 rivers in the game?). It would have been nice to see it take place more downtown and show some of the better landmarks, other then "they used to make steel here."

 

[Chipperz]

Edit: sidebar: when someone says that DLC is becoming less and less optional, and someone else storms in to say "YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE DERRR!" - yeah, that second guy is a fucking idiot. We're all well aware that no one has a gun to anyone's head forcing him or her to buy pathetic DLC for outrageous sums of money. Take the comment within the context of the conversation, for fuck's sake. If, at some point, games become so reliant on DLC that players feel compelled to purchase the stuff for fear of completely missing out on the intended experience, that DLC is no longer a "choice" with respect to that game. The game itself becomes the choice, and at that point you're talking about the possible cancellation of the hobby as a whole for individuals who cannot stomach the cost.

/rant off

You still have a choice. Gaming is the only medium where the player can define the pace, feel and even genre to an extent. So far, I'm only aware of BioWare having croosed the line by putting a guy in camp telling you to buy the DLC. Apart from that, it is there, but completely unnecessary in the grand scheme of things so long as you're enjoying the game and if you're not enjoying the game then why would you buy DLC? Once you have decided that you want more, that is the only time to buy DLC.

Anyway...

Fallout 3, Borderlands, LittleBIGPlanet and Saints Row 2 have had the best DLC so far. Saints Row 2 win very best for their completely straight playing of Tera Patrick in bondage gear as an expert microbiologist.

 

[Ldude893]

The ones from Valve, primarily because they're completely free and they're all in excellent quality.

 

[AlphaOmega]

The only true DLC I bought is Kasumi for ME2.
I have FO3 GOTY, Episodes from liberty City on disk.
Valve and WoW things are just content patches.

 

[Simalacrum]

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

By golly thats a fun bit of DLC.

 

[magic conch]

anybody ever get the DLC for crackdown? that was fucking brilliant. fairly cheap with damn good content. extended the game a LOT for me.

 

[OriginalJoeBlack]

Valve and WoW things are just content patches.

Sorry, but i disagree with the VALVe one. For example every week L4D2 gets a DLC, a so called " mutation" for free. And then you got there another campaing for L4D2, and L4D1. Even TF2 gets a LOT of DLC nearly every 3-5 months.

 

[Antari]

Sorry I still hate DLC. If they want to make an expansion with alot of additions and charge for it, I can go with that. But this nickle and dime DLCs of things that should have been in the game in the first place, I'll never support, buy, use. If they couldn't or wouldn't put it into the origional game. Thats a problem they should have dealt with. They are supposed to be trying to make the game the best one yet. If its so good why do they need additions? If this game was so important to them why weren't these things in the game to start with? ...

Thanks but no matter how much sugar they put on it, I don't support blatent greed ...

 

[Vespire]

I'm pretty sure someone would of already mentioned it. Most of DA:O DLC are pretty awesome.
But I'm wary of some DLC like AC2 where I feel as if the dev team had to rush out a game so they cut back on content and release it as DLC. Worse yet, release a whole new game.....Brotherhood...it shapes up to be a good game though....might get it....

 

[Zayren]

Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx.

After the epic fail ending that the first borderlands had I walked away without doing the second play through. When Knoxx came out I picked it back up and gave it a try, loads of fun.

Most definitely and certifiably, this. Seriously, it's rated 4 stars on the XBL Marketplace, while Zombie Island has 4 and 1/2 stars. Bullshit, General Knoxx is one of the best DLCs ever.

Similarly, the Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned for GTAIV were excellent.

And I enjoyed all the Fallout 3 DLC, naysayers be damned.

But, I must agree, DLC that is on the disk is mega bullshit. And so is first-day DLC.

 

[Broady Brio]

Fallout 3.
Operation Anchorage (except the short duration.)
The Pitt
Broken Steel
Point Lookout

And I had ALL of it's DLC.

 

[E-Hybrid]

The Fallout, Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC has been good

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

the oblivion and fallout 3 DLCs are the only real ones ive ever bought, and they were pretty good
oh i bought the killzone 2 map pack bundle aswell which was okay

 

[LiquidGrape]

Now show me someone who claims video games have no artistic merit.

 

[dragonslayer32]

i liked all of the oblivion DLCs bar horse armour. i mean, what is the point in that armour? does it even protect your horse?

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I really liked Bonfire of the Vanities for Assassin's Creed II. Half of the missions were absolutely amazing, especially the boat and farm assassinations. It was the challenge I'd been looking for in the game.

Beyond that, there's the obvious Oblivion/Fallout stuff. Bethesda knows what's up. I also liked Halo 3's map packs (Which is odd, normally I'm not a fan of maps). Anything free is good, too, L4D's Survival Pack, CivRev's Map Packs (Even the paid ones were really cheap and actually fun), BC1's Conquest mode and maps, and the complimentary Plasmids in BioShock.

And, truthfully, I like EA's Project Ten Dollar, too. I usually buy games new on Day One (Especially from BioWare or DICE) so I like that extra free gizmo they give you.

 

[bigsby]

I love me some horse armor.

They doth see me moving
They are not pleased with this
For I doth have an armored horse
They do try to catch me riding in a filthy manner.

That made me giggle.

OT: Overlord and Kasumi for ME2. Overlord was just brilliant, the story was amazing and the moral choices were actually compelling and not "i wanna be paragon/renegade" choices. And Kasumi because she was one of my favorite characters in ME2 and i HATE bioware for not fleshing the character out more.

 

[UBERfionn]

The shivering Isles!

 

[CheckD3]

FO3 DLC was great, but Broken Steel takes the cake because it not only continues the game, but also raised the cap on the levels and made the continuation a good game longer

I think that DLC is nessisary in the game world. And I think that it's not to charge us more money, but actually less. If they want to extend a game, release that GOTY Edition, or even put something else there but they couldn't have put in without holding the game release date. MW2 is a game that should have utilized this, making new weapons and maps better, with a better price. They should have made it a 10 buck expansion pack with 7 levels, the 3 recylcled from CoD4 and 4 new ones, with some new weapons or something small to add to it. They failed in their 15 dollar 5 pack...but DLC can help keep the game industry growing, using DLC to add onto a story the way Broken Steel does to FO3. MW2 could do this as well, there are plenty of DLC that should have been released...

 

[Loop Stricken]

And Kasumi because she was one of my favorite characters in ME2 and i HATE bioware for not fleshing the character out more.

And for not letting us bang the only decent human.