Your feelings on DLC, specifically with Skyrim coming up...

[peruvianskys]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/29/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-dlc-to-be-more-substantial-with-an-expansion-pack-feel/

Old news but I was interested in seeing how most people feel about DLC. Do you like it to be one or two large packs, or even just one big expansion pack (a concept which seems to be disappearing these days), or do you prefer a lot of little DLCs to play for about three hours each and then move on? I've never really been a big DLC fan at all, but I was just curious to see the general attitudes towards it, as I know there are some people who HATE short DLCs and others who will be enraged if they don't get a small one in the first couple months.

Your thoughts, especially regarding Skyrim?

(I didn't see a similar topic, but if there is, sorry!)

 

[kidd25]

the main game, better not need no fixing with DLC, i like how they did DLC in fallout. it has its own story and brings new things to the table.

 

[Cheesus333]

I'll buy a piece (?) of DLC if I know that I'm going to enjoy it. If it's for a game I didn't like or don't want more of, obviously not, but I would still only buy the best DLC packs on my favourite games.

 

[blargenspargle]

I don't mind either way, as long as the price is fair.

 

[AlotFirst]

I prefer expansions (/waves to The Shivering Isles), but since I've played Old World Blues for Fallout: New Vegas and Point Lookout for Fallout 3 I started to somewhat appreciate them DLCs.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Where the FUCK is my horse armour? I want a pimp horse, not one that those beggars with a posh accent in Cyrodil could buy!

I'm okay with DLC, so long as I'm getting good value. £13 for maps online (á la Call of Duty) is not good value. £13 for lots of maps, characters, weapons and custom characters (á la Metal Gear Online) IS good value. Plus there's the Rockstar DLC which always has good value with actual expansion feel, like Bethesda's talking about.

Calumon: Does it give me stuff I like? I like stuff I like.

 

[lobster1077]

I rather buying expansion packs that bundle dlc like the ones released for Fallout 3 and Gta4 that came out on disks. I might have some odd psychological tuning but when I paid 20 euro for some Red Dead and Mass Effect dlc. I felt as though I'd given my money given the absence of a physical product.

 

[HassEsser]

As long as they copy the method they took with Fallout 3, I will be very happy; but also as long as they don't make an Anchorage, or, god forbid, a Zeta (seriously, those add-ons are worthless, save for OA's loot).

 

[newguy77]

Doesn't matter much to me, I'm going to wait for Game of the Year Edition to get Skyrim. With other games, as long as they're fun and worth the money, DLC is fine with me.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I think I prefer expansions to DLCs. For most games I'll just wait for all of the game's scheduled DLC to come out before I buy all the good ones and play them all together (sometimes with the actual game itself), so that I don't have to relearn how the game works seven different times over the course of a year.

Plus, while DLC stories aren't necessarily bad (Old World Blues and Dragon Age 2: Legacy have great stories from what I hear), they are almost always too short to mean something. Explansion packs never suffer from this prob.