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Games4Fun on 01 April 2011
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Doobie_wop said:
Games4Fun said:
Doobie_wop said:

DLC is great, adds more of what I love to what I love. It's also all optional and rarely ever hurts the main game, they aren't taking missions out of the original game and then selling it as DLC, they are creating DLC to add on top of the original game.


Except that is not always the case. Look at MK they are already talking about its DLC. They should have already been part of the game if they where wanting to put them in. YOu can say they are not takin gout missions and all from the original game, but when those things are being worked on and in cases are already done before a game comes out, Its a farce. The sooner DLC is gone the better. You could argue but what about when a game releases with a ton of glitches they need to fix them. They should have fixed any game breaking glitches before releaseing it and making you part of their testing teams. Its given companies a easy way to be lazy/save money/and make more money off you.

Plenty of games have been released in the past (last gen) that have been filled with issues, patches have stopped that from happening. Look at Metroid: Other M on the Wii, it had a game breaking issue and people had to send away their SD cards or Wii to fix the issues. That wouldn't have happened if they had a decent patching system in place. Developers aren't perfect, they can spend a whole year checking a game for busg and one can still get pass them, patching fixes that and I'm happy with it.

This is coming from someone who bought random games as a kid, came home and said game would barely run or glitched so badly that it was unplayable. 


Wii can have patches thats how COD keeps getting debugged and WiiWare games like MM9 and 10 get extra content. Speaking of CoD its probably the perfect example of a game that should have been worked on more before release for all consoles. Yet for some reason it got scored really high with 100's of bugs that are game breaking. Well bugs that made a lot of perks weapons  and at least in Wii's case online not even working properly. It would have scored much less if there had been no way to use the customers as the testers as it should have been. A lot of devs have gotten lazy and really dont care if you are paying 40-60 for a game on day one full of bugs. They will just fix it later and maybe not at all. Its sad really. I never have encountered the Other M bug after 4 playthroughs so I guess im a lucky one. It would be interesting to see which companys release and how often games full of bugs, that even with patches never work completely right.

Oh I should have probably added. That not last gen as I never encountered any game breaking bugs, but during the NES and Sega days when we rented a game that have game breaking bugs we simply looked on the game and saw who made it and rarely messed with that company again. Which is exactly how it should be. Which is why Activision is back on my never buy a game from them again list. THough to be honest I have only bought two from them in the last 3gens.