I'll give this a shot. (Destiny)

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 13:05 (3780 days ago) @ Cody Miller

You need to think at a high, holistic approach to the design. You can't make DLC units for chess, since the entire game is built around everybody having, and the designers knowing everybody has, certain pieces that do certain things. The entire game centers around that and their interactions. You can't just add pieces willy nilly without upsetting that finely tuned machine.

Don't take my word for it: history has proved my point. No DLC in the history of the medium stands up to the best of what non dlc has to offer. None. Not a single example.

So as I understand it, your argument is: nobody's made a DLC as good as the best games ever made, and I can't provide an example of a DLC better than the best games ever made; and that is because the best games ever made are narrative works of art that DLC's are simply a derivative of, like fan-fiction. So stuff like Fallout: New Vegas, or the Expansions to Diablo/Starcraft, etc., probably aren't what you would include as DLC (they're inconvenient for your argument, I would imagine, and you'd probably consider them core components of the planned narrative to the core game, so whatever, fine, we'll toss them). Sequels are also out, but they aren't really DLC.

(The definition for DLC is understood to be content that builds on to the original core of the game; that this content is superfluous to the enjoyment of said core content, and largely unnecessary to the enjoyment of the core narrative; but that it still is canonical, and upsets the apple-cart of the primary narrative a little. Like an epilogue of sorts, or a prologue, which is frequently what DLC does. It could also be a "Season 2" sort of thing that offers new gameplay mechanics.)

Along with the definitions listed above and the outline of your argument, you also presuppose that I:

1. Enjoy the exact things you enjoy
2. What you enjoy is the (objectively) best thing to enjoy

So, caveat's out of the way.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a DLC.

I've never enjoyed a one-off, 4-5 hour campaign more in my life.

It delivered. I've enjoyed few games as much as I enjoyed it. If your cold heart couldn't enjoy that throwback, I feel sorry for you.