| viewtiful_jon said: There is lots of DLC that is fairly priced out there. What shouldn't exsist is Day 1 DLC and overpriced Hats for your characters etc. Some games are fine and give you what you want for your money with the DLC and sometimes its free, Why would you not want Nintendo to give you extra stuff for free 6 months after a game is out?? I belive things like new skins should always be free as they are something which are easy to make and dont change the experiance at all. Extra stages, new characters etc are worth paying for but I do find them normally overpriced, but its also content that would of likely never been in the final game anyway. You think these companys would of delayed the game 3-4 months to give you the extra content you never would of known exsisted. I never used to like DLC but I realised I dont have to buy it and I dont have to buy games that take the piss with rip of DLC ect. |
Yea, I can basically agree with everything you said and a few others previously. If done right, DLC can be a decent value and add decent experience to the game. I just see Capcom charging for costumes, MK talking about DLC fighters before the game is even released, 15 dollars for 4 multiplayer maps for CoD, etc.... I tend to focus on the negativity of DLC because whenever I see companies abusing DLC it pisses me off.
Things like extra stages would be a rip off for games like Smash. Especially after Nintendo allowed users to create their own stages in Brawl. What would be nice is if their would be more games that included level editors. Mario Kart would pure bliss with addition of level editor. Instead of allowing the user to create better experience for themselves we have gotten to the point of having the company create something that is probably mediocre compared to what general consumer can create and charging them for it. I will go back to Civ3 one more time. For Conquests they included about 8 or so scenarios with unique techs, buildings, races, etc... While those scenarios are pretty good for the most part I can go on civfanatics site and download 20 scenarios that the creator put more time and effort into which are far superior than the ones included in the expansion.
Level editors used to give the user the ability to create and prolong the game experience. Now it seems that level editors/scenario editors are almost a thing of the past (except for a few games like Civ, LBP, and a few others). I am sure CoD players could create better maps than what Treyarch can make. However, that game's engine has so many problems that there would be a lot of glitches, bugs, etc (hell they can't even get their own maps to work right). Level editors were the original DLC and were free.
