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curl-6 on 17 February 2020
JWeinCom said:
curl-6 said:

I dunno if I'd call it "worst" as some of the extra dungeons were pretty great, but BOTW's DLC was disappointing.

The game cried out for a new landmass to explore, instead all we got was new challenges within the world I'd already thoroughly explored, so that sense of discovery that propelled the main game just wasn't there.

Wait, some of the extra dungeons?  I only saw one... was there something I missed?

Sorry I should've said shrines; there were something like 12 new shrines altogether and one more substantial Divine-Beast-Style dungeon, though the latter is in my opinion the best of the game's five bigger dungeons.



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JWeinCom on 17 February 2020
curl-6 said:
JWeinCom said:

Wait, some of the extra dungeons?  I only saw one... was there something I missed?

Sorry I should've said shrines; there were something like 12 new shrines altogether and one more substantial Divine-Beast-Style dungeon, though the latter is in my opinion the best of the game's five bigger dungeons.

Ah ok.  I thought there was another dungeon I somehow didn't see XD.  But yeah, the DLC was kind of mediocre.



mjk45 on 18 February 2020
curl-6 said:

One that I still can't decide if I love or hate is the Burial at Sea DLC for Bioshock Infinite.

On the one hand, it was cool seeing Rapture before its collapse, more of Infinite's excellent gameplay was welcome, and the additional weapons and powers were cool. 

On the other,

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killing off Elizabeth the way they did felt like such an unworthy end to one of gaming's greatest characters, I really didn't like the way they did that. Where Infinite saw her transform from a helpless victim to an awe-inspiring figure, Burial at Sea took all that away. It also kinda ruins the hauntingly ambiguous ending of Infinite. I feel like the series as a whole would've been better off without this addition, narratively speaking. In their attempt to tie up all the loose ends, they cut too many too short.

My favourite Bioshock DLC was Minerva's Den, but with  Burial at sea the more I played it the more contrived the outcome seemed to be.



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ZS on 18 February 2020

Best- RDR undead nightmare

Can’t think of a worst one, probably cod(after black ops, all were just trash)



Darashiva on 18 February 2020

FromSoftware has put out some excellent DLC for their games since the first Dark Souls. Those are probably my personal favourites. Can't think of any bad ones that I've bought myself, but that's because I rarely buy DLC in the first place.



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JWeinCom on 18 February 2020
curl-6 said:

One that I still can't decide if I love or hate is the Burial at Sea DLC for Bioshock Infinite.

On the one hand, it was cool seeing Rapture before its collapse, more of Infinite's excellent gameplay was welcome, and the additional weapons and powers were cool. 

On the other,

Spoiler!
killing off Elizabeth the way they did felt like such an unworthy end to one of gaming's greatest characters, I really didn't like the way they did that. Where Infinite saw her transform from a helpless victim to an awe-inspiring figure, Burial at Sea took all that away. It also kinda ruins the hauntingly ambiguous ending of Infinite. I feel like the series as a whole would've been better off without this addition, narratively speaking. In their attempt to tie up all the loose ends, they cut too many too short.

It was a downer, but I think it was mostly appropriate.

One of the big themes, if not the biggest theme of Bioshock, was child abuse.  The Little Sisters, Jack, Elanor, and Elizabeth.  In all of these cases the child is essentially sacrificed either to further an ideology or for straight up profit. 

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After essentially making revenge for her abuse her reason for living, Elizabeth instead uses her experience as motivation to save others.  Again she winds up as a sacrifice, but this time by her choice, to end the cycle of abuse... Essentially she's serving as a Big Daddy who are probably the most purely good characters in the series... Of course, depending on the player, Jack can then continue sacrificing all of the little sisters, which would make her sacrifice entirely pointless.


TruckOSaurus on 18 February 2020

Hollow Knight has fantastic DLC! Hours and hours of content and it's free! Shovel Knight also has an insane amount of value in its DLC!



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Runa216 on 18 February 2020
Darashiva said:
FromSoftware has put out some excellent DLC for their games since the first Dark Souls. Those are probably my personal favourites. Can't think of any bad ones that I've bought myself, but that's because I rarely buy DLC in the first place.

This. Artorias of the Abyss, The Old Hunters, and the 2 DLC packs for Dark Souls III were all great. 

HATED the DLC for Dark Souls II, though. Each one of those DLCs had the worst areas in all of soulsborne, as well as some of the worst bosses. Sure, they also had some of the best bosses, but you had to suffer through crap to get the good stuff and I don't wanna wade through a sewer to get a cheeseburger regardless of how good the cheeseburger is. 



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Runa216 on 18 February 2020
TruckOSaurus said:
Hollow Knight has fantastic DLC! Hours and hours of content and it's free! Shovel Knight also has an insane amount of value in its DLC!

Shovel Knight is another great example! It's not free, but it quadruples the content in the game by giving you 3 new campaigns (Since, you know, it effectively changes the entire core of the game)



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COKTOE on 18 February 2020

Not the worst, but pretty bad: Currently playing Fist Of The North Star: Lost Paradise, and there's dcl for a Kazuma skin for, I think, $5. It might even be $10. Either way: Fuck. Off.



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