For real, right? * (Destiny)

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 15:05 (3780 days ago) @ CyberKN
edited by iconicbanana, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 15:39

Furthermore, there is no such thing as "Standalone DLC" any more than a "Standalone expansion", which is a contradiction in terms.

FC3: Blood Dragon is to Far Cry 3 what Halo 3: ODST is to Halo 3.

I don't even really agree with the guy (I would not recommend putting much weight into Time Magazine's opinion on vidya); it was mostly entertaining in the way it fit into what we were talking about: complete with arbitrarily set guidelines and definitions, the fact that Cody posited he could go by what other people had written about DLC to form opinions on it, and the hilariousness of that title within the context of the conversation.

Thus the "1!1!1"'s, etc.

I agree.

Cody was responding to the even more absurd notion that he would have to play every single game and DLC in order to verify his statement. If a developer had but out a piece of DLC that was SO GOOD that it put all standalone games to shame, we would have heard about it in some way. That's the point I think he was making, and I find it hard to argue with.

I mean I guess he has a point, but has he provided any evidence he's actually played any DLC? I don't really like micro-transactions and book-ending expansion content but I feel he should at least provide examples to back up his claim? Hell, I agree with his point! But I don't agree with unsubstantiated opinions; they aren't conducive to actual dialogue. I thought micro-transactions were ultimately the breaking point for me with Borderlands 2, and the DLC expansions from Borderlands 1 were just more helpings of confusion on an already incoherent story; but I formed those opinions via experience, and that's what I think Cody needs to provide for his claims to have merit.

*Here's a substantiated opinion he hasn't addressed. Maybe admit he hasn't played this DLC and that maybe the statement has merit? Or say he has played it, and provide reasons it's bad?