The hell are you smoking?! It was pure fan service! Of course, there was mostly combat, but the newly added areas could keep one in the game for hours on end. And did I mention the awesome banter and returning characters? And that the party at the end...Hell yeah!

Oh I named the wrong one. I meant Omega.

Citadel was the good one (though still kind of overpriced).

Especially with the loads and loads and loads of characters Nintendo has created over the years and unnecessary variants. Not to mention, 500+ useless bastards with only about 100 of them being worth use, its POKEMON. What a way to quickly inflate the price of a collectors wallet. You want Joltik, okay. You want Metal Pink Peach? Okay. You want Samus who stands up for herself? Forget about it, that ship sailed.

The baffling part is that for 13 dollars, the figures aren't even that good. Piss yellow stands, gonky eyes, bent swords, and Skylanders is selling 3 3D printed figures for the same price. I know Nintendo and 'logical price' along with 'basic observation of environment' have been dead since the 90s, but this is redunk.

I don't even sort of agree with this. Games like Civ V have a good bit of legitimate expansions released as DLC to make it easier on the consumer. DLC can be expansions, just digital. They do happen.

"Don't fuck with aria" how many times everyone did go there (at least in original game) and saw that there wasn't more to talk about.

thats nice

i dont care for dlc especially nto the gouging or on disc kind that should be eithe runlockables or content that was cut away purley to sell seperatley

It seems the best way to buy games these days is to wait a few years after release to get an all-in-one bundle.
I miss the old days of physical copies, not so much the drm though. Expansion packs? Nah, chop it up and sell it for a premium.

Ah okay :D "Kind of overpriced" is still better than definitely overpriced :P

Didn't already Wolfenstein 3D had some kind of DLC? The basegame came with three episodes only, but if you bought "Nocturnal Mission" you'd get additional three episodes.

Not before it kills your cd drive and ya gotta replace it ^.^

Well there was that danger. It's fun to laugh at now (What the heck was the companies thinking?!) but back then it was kinda serious. :)

SecuROM was always my favorite DRM because all you had to do was swap the exe file and have a DRM free game. With Steamworks and shit you have to download a pirated version to back it up DRM free, in my experience.

That was awesome. Unless the game had several patches and different versions for regions. Could take a while to find the right one then.

Those mini-DLC's like extra weapons, sprites or whatever and often dozens of them make a game very uninteresting for me. It's like the game is incomplete without it. Grid for instance was a complete game, while Grid 2 came with lots of 1,29 (sales price, default was even higher) DLC's which just add 1-3 car models. As an exception I bought Grid 2 anyway, unawares of the DLC really, as it was in a Humble Bundle. After I found out it's not a complete game and there's DLC's for it, I read some reviews on the DLC and it turned out they were completely unnecessary. What do I care what kind of car I'm racing in, if I want to race, anything that steers well is fine.

As a rule, I only buy games that are good enough on their own (like Might & Magic Heroes VI or Blackguards, where the base game is complete and the DLC is an additional campaign that I'll never get round to playing anyway because of my huge backlog).

Alternatively, I buy a game when it's several years old and the complete edition, whatever it's name may be, Gold, Platinum, Utimate etc. is on sale.

The net effect is me buying only earlier games of series from a time when DLC were still expansions that were worth their salt instead of money-grabs by cutting content out of the game with hardly any new work put into the game (should a developer profit from just adding a suit to my character instead of writing a new adventure for her?).