Back in the day...

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Friday, April 05, 2013, 12:22 (4037 days ago) @ SonofMacPhisto

These are good examples. It's fun to watch a game evolve.

It's hard for me to feel shortchanged on some of this stuff.

Skyrim, Borderlands 1 and 2, and ME3/ME2 are all games with significant DLC offerings where I didn't feel shortchanged in the 'vanilla game.' The satisfaction of the release day game is the same I felt with games like Civ I, II, and III, or Homeworld, or Half-Life, where DLC didn't exist.

ME is a really good example, because ME2 and ME3 on day one, in light of ME1, felt like full games just like ME1. It's the difference between 'big game' and 'monstrously big game.'

I've always gotten my money's worth for these titles and their DLC content. I don't think my cost/benefit judgement gene is off, either.

... we called these Expansions. We should get back to that. It's a far more epic name. And we'll leave 'DLC' for the dregs. :)