It isn't DLC itself. I like DLC. While, yeah, as pointed out, it can be annoying to have to play the game over again (if you don't have any gamesaves ready) if you want them at the ending, adding a character into a game is a pretty huge deal and awesome. I enjoyed the Kasumi DLC, for instance (and absolutely loved the Liara DLC).
I'm a fan, actually, of small snippets here and there. Full expansion packs are cool, too, but having a nice smattering of stuff on the side is nice. I just love bite-sized content.
It's only when DLC is something that should absolutely have been in the game that I get upset. If you only figured out, 1 year away from publishing, that you NEEDED a Prothean in the game, then fucking put it in the game. If you don't get it finished until after the game had to go for Gold certification, then make it day one DLC THAT IS FREE. You know, because it belongs in the game. Adding in costumes and guns and armors, I could care less about (they are cosmetic pieces of fluff that I couldn't care less about, or, if I want it, is worth the silly $3 puchase), but this is crap.
I don't really understand where you're coming from at all since you just contradicted yourself. You like DLC and bite sized pieces of content, you liked the Kasumi DLC (which also added a character), but you're against this?
It's an optional piece of content, just like the Kasumi DLC. Are you against it cause its day 1 DLC? Well that's the nature of DLC (greed), which you said you like, so you should have accepted that possibility.
I don't mind DLC when it is priced properly and is either a self contained story or does not affect the story or outcome of the main game. The Borderlands DLC are a good example of this, though they were probably not all priced properly when they were released.
Unfortunately, Bioware/EA don't get this. There is a huge market of people who aren't going to buy your stupid DLC when it is $15 for a single character mission in ME2 and the price literally never goes down. They are also obviously intent on milking every penny they can possibly find out of this series and I've just had enough. There are dozens of other great games I can support that don't do stupid crap like this on every freaking game they release. Talk to me again when there is an ME compendium with all the DLC and you don't have to install five 1-1.5gb separate packages just to get the whole game.
The length is uhhhhhhh.... but his point is fine. Dragonfliet nailed it above when he said that having day one DLC that comes free with one edition of the game and also is pretty central to the theme and plot of the entire series is just really bad form. It's underhanded and should simply not be done. Also, ambershee's point, too, if the DLC cannot be completed after you've finished the main game, it is stupid. I shouldn't have to do another 22 hour playthrough of ME2 just to play the Kasumi mission and have her in the final mission. Same for Liara. It reeks of either poor planning or greed... or both.
Agree on the DLC part, which is why I said, hate it because it's DLC. Sure, DLC can be "fair" if it's priced good, but that goes against the nature of DLC (greed), so when does that happen?
Even then, personally, I would hate the DLC anyways.
I see what you mean on the Kasumi DLC and not being able to complete it after the game, but that was probably just poor planning. It's easy to add stuff onto a linear game, but throwing in random missions in open ended games, what would you suggest? The lore of the Kasumi DLC wouldn't quite fit if you could do it after you finished the main quest, which is the whole reason you collected the team members.
Meh.
I also agree that other editions of games having extra in game content sucks, but that goes hand in hand with DLCs existance too, they are basically the same thing, you pay more for more in game content. Also exclusive preorder deals with gamestop, ect. All that stuff sucks, but that's a different problem.
So all that is fine and good (I mean shitty and bad), but that's not what the guy in the main video was ranting on about, which is the DLCs
content. There's no way anyone can win an argument about something they haven't even played or experienced yet, which is what main theme of that guys rant was about, which to me makes him look extremely dumb.
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Have you watched any of his other videos? He makes really damn good points and is a pretty well respected member of the PC community.
Err, so he's a popular youtuber? Congrats I guess. I'm definitely not a fan after that ridiculous outburst. Doesn't really change the facts either.
Also just read some of the comments in the video to know what I mean. Some of these people might explain it better than me:
Honestly, we're assuming that this plays a major role in the game. Yes its a prothean and all that but for all we know there might be a whole prothean colony in the game itself. I take back everything i said if it does play as large of a role as you think but i wont judge yet. Also (according to bioware) this was developed by a seperate team after the game was completed *while it was being marketed and manufactured and all of that).
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Sorry dude your rant is invalid you had and now that gamble came out and gave have no idea what role he plays in the story hes just a squad member not some super scientist, this was a incentive in the CE for the fans who wanted to buy it because a prothean would interest them, when supplies ran out they offered it for people who couldnt get a CE you should rescind this boycott and apologize and admit you had no idea the full extent of this dlc bioware shouldnt suffer for your assumpion
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He IS uninformed in this matter.
The dlc character is in the game no matter what, but you can only recruit him if you have the dlc.
Also, this was revealed months ago.Not to mention, many other game devs have done this before.What about the kasumi dlc for ME2?It's the same case as this just that it wasn't released right after the game came out, yet no one complained then.
BUT, if you wanna miss out on this game just because of this, then fine, that's your problem.Have fun.
...and there's a bunch of other comments too pointing out this guys ridiculous rant.