If you buy DLC and later on want to sell the game you bought it for, you're stuck with it and can't get resell value for it unless you sell the system downloaded to it (I could be wrong, but I expect that there's some sort of DRM in place on DLC) .

I buy 360 games both retail and XBLA. I pirate Wii games. It makes a difference cause HD games do get DLC.

Then considering this is in the Nintendo Discussion, it make no difference to you whether a game has DLC or not, I would presume pirates would add any additional content into the torrent, or just let you download it seperately for free anyway.

It would make a difference, cause i actually buy Wii games when they're cheap. I have 11 wii original games.

It depends on how much are they and also how long....the idea as itself isn't bad

DLC: personally not interested at all (and I doubt Nintendo will release DLC for their own retail games).

Episodic games: interested, already bought Tales of Monkey Island, Sam & Max Season 2 (both on PC).

I wouldn't mind buying episodic Wii games, but only if they either are exclusive on the system or have the same prize as the versions on other systems (negative example: Tales of Monkey Island, which is $/€ 50 on Wii for the complete game and $ 35 on PC).

Additional episodic content can keep a game worth playing.

Episodes for GTAIV fill the gap until GTA5.

Episodic support for Fallout 3 has been excellent, with each new expansion pack being essentially a new game.

Half Life 2 episodes are what's keeping "Half Life 3" out of a ten year plus development pipeline (of course when you take three years to deliver an episode, you're starting to miss the point of "shorter turnaround time" that make episodic content work).

Music games are better off with a back catalog to buy extra songs for rather than waiting for compilation disks that may have a bunch of songs you don't want.

RE5 episode packs are like new PSN games that use the RE5 engine. RE5 Gold is a convenient way to pick up the current episodes on one disc.

Valkyria Chronicles has had a few DLC episodes that add to the story of the main game.

It all depends on how DLC support is implemented. Maps and new play modes are probably not the best examples. New skins or in game items that tinker with the balance of a finished game are probably among the worse.

i would only like dlc when the game already has enough content by itself. i would rather them wait months before releasing the dlc (otherwise, how to we know it's not stuff that was going to be in the base game but taken out)

I loved how they just put all the dlc they were going to have in cave story into the base game, and just charged 200 points more for the complete package.

free dlc is another story though :b

I hate DLC. Some companies do it right and actually expand the games [SONY] but others [I'm looking at you Capcom] are just blatantly trying to rip you off. As for Episodic games, really depends on how the game is handled and pricing. Length of the game is also an important factor to me. Loved the way they did BlueTood Mystery Files and Siren on PSN. If you're not sure, get the first set. If you enjoy, then buy the full package.

I love DLC, because it tends to expand a game!


Anyhow, yes I would, for example SIREN is a good episodic game, I think they should develop something like that were you release a game via episodes.