| fleischr said: Sometimes I honestly think gamers are whiners. Games today ship with tons more content than the average game in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. |
Pretty much. I used to beat my favorite NES/SNES games daily, once I learned the timing, as they generally had very little actual content.
Other than a few obvious exceptions, it's also rather easy to see that most DLC isn't content that was cut with the sole purpose of making DLC. From what writers and developers have said, almost all games have content that is cut in pre-production, just like novels or movie screen-plays--it's just that, in the past, that content would be gone forever. Even then, most DLC content is original, as it's simply a lot easier to add something on after the main story is complete.
I think it was one of the the Borderlands writers who said they'd come up with all kinds of stuff for the game which just won't fit with the narrative. Now, though, rather than toss it in the waste basket, they might flag it for DLC consideration later.
I might be alone but I think that's pretty nifty.
