Poll: Bioshock Infinite - How do you feel about 2 Part DLC?

[AITH]

Forgive me if I've read the hype wrong. Most websites with gaming info are blocked at my workplace but I believe I saw that Burial at Sea is 2 parts.

Now, as Sebastian the crab says in The Little Mermaid "Yes it is better, down where it's wetter, take it from me!" Truer words have never been spoken...about Rapture.

So don't get me wrong, I'm pumped to see Rapture again, especially from IG. But I'm curious how folks that purchased the season pass for three DLCs feel about getting what appears in my mind to be, well...two DLCs? Granted, just getting to see Rapture again seems worth the price on its own, but even with a long enough story for 2 parts, do you feel at all humdingered?

Do you think this may set a negative trend in the future for other developers to release multi-part DLCs? The issue I take with this is, what if you hate a particular DLC story? The next installation of that DLC is automatically nullified. Or perhaps writers that aren't as acclaimed as Mr. Levine use this as an opportunity to say they will be releasing 3 DLCs upon game release and really just develop one story with 3 lousily split parts recycling the same content with the notion that you will first and foremost want to see how the story concludes.

Of course, as always, the easy answer is to be a smart consumer and not to buy anything before you know something about it.

 

[skywolfblue]

I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of episodic/multi-part DLC.

Alan Wake had two episodic DLC (you could play them individually, but together they were part of a continuous story), and they were pretty neat.

If it's done well, I think it opens up potential for longer stories. Sure some developers will jump on the chance to abuse it, and create strings of shitty DLC chapters, but shitty DLC is hardly anything new.

 

[Glongpre]

Well if it is good then who cares. I think they did it in two parts because 1 follows Booker and 2 follows Elizabeth. Also we don't know how long each will be.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Eh, I don't mind much.
A trip to Rapture in it's heyday.
I didn't buy the Season Pass, but now I think I have a reason to do so.

 

[Erttheking]

It's basically episodic gameplay (Kinda) and the Walking Dead showed us that it can work. There are no bad ideas, only bad executions. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[BBboy20]

I would love yearly round-up of What If DLC then just one so bring it on!

 

[RJ 17]

Ehhhhh, I don't have a dog in THIS particular fight since the guy at GameStop actually hooked me up with a Season Pass code for free just because I pre-ordered the game to begin with. So in that sense it's all free content to me.

On the other hand, I still get the point that the OP is coming from. If it's going to be episodic, then it should be cheaper than your average DLC campaign. If they charge full price for it, then it entirely depends on how the DLC plays out. Does it wrap itself up pretty nicely and just happens to have an expansion from the expansion? Or is it going to end on a cliff-hanger and make you wait for Part 2? If the former, then I wouldn't have a problem with it. If the latter, however, then I think it becomes a rip-off. Another thing to factor in is how long it's going to be or if it feels like it was rushed/unfinished just so they could throw something out there.

Then there's the notion that the Part 2 might not have anything to do with Rapture, but rather just continue the story of that Booker's existence.

I dunno, I guess the short version of my response would be "We should wait and see how Part 1 is executed and ends before we start bitching about the very existence of a Part 2."

 

[Dalisclock]

It's basically episodic gameplay (Kinda) and the Walking Dead showed us that it can work. There are no bad ideas, only bad executions. I'm looking forward to it.

Telltale has been doing Episode DLC for a few years now. It works pretty good, even if some companies seem to fail at it COUGHVALVEEP3COUGH