/svidya/ - Strict /v/

The Witcher 3 expansions they announced sound fine, but with the current DLC climate announcing them before launch along with the pass shit was a terrible idea.

The game was already hard to discuss on /v/ with the downgrade shitposting, now it is forever impossible.

Zoo Tycoon (Original) did Expansions and Add-On content perfectly.

Prove me wrong.

>Two Expansions, both with major gameplay changes, and the last one included the first expansion for free, also shit tons of new content
>Continuous add on content, and loads of all, all for free, when in this day and age they could've sold it for 2 bucks a pop

I found both GTA IV's expansions to be very decent, especially coming from a console game
They added a little more story and also different atmospheres, one was even more serious than the base game and the other was a return to the sillyness of San Andreas or Vice City

Shame Rockstar said they wouldn't do it again after their low sales

>>12432
>33% of the game is DLC
I don't know, man.
Also looks very intrusive in the menus

>>12436
The menus are about the only thing I don't like, besides Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach. And isn't 33% a good thing? You're assuming that it's cut content, which it wasn't. The only reason people thought that was due to some cup images that weren't used, and I don't think those even ended up being the DLC tracks.

It expanded the game another quarter.

>>12436

Base package is 32 tracks, 32 characters and a ton of customization stuff for the karts.

You're seriously grasping if you claim 33% of the game is DLC, there's plenty there for your 60 bucks if you don't wanna touch the DLC, also everyone is getting the free 200CC update on April 23.

>>12394
Dawn of War

>Three Expansions, all with new gameplay balancing, changing some skills, including new factions and new campaigns.

Do mods count? Mount and blade.

>>14131
Oh, forgot to mention that the whole thing takes place on a hybrid not-Mardi Gras/not-Halloween, and that you didn't need a copy of Infamous 2 to download it. Really good business practices, honestly.

Despite how bad/disappointing skyrim was as a game, proportional to the base game, the dawnguard and dragonborn content were pretty much expansions, and they were some of the few good things about the game. The dawnguard quest specifically was really really cool when you got to that massive fucking area with the frozen lake.

>no one mentioned any of the Warcraft games yet

Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal was pretty sweet. Added two new campaigns set after Tides of Darkness and some new units.

Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne was essential for multiplayer. It really improved upon the base game.

>>14139
>blizzard
Diablo II: Lord of destruction

>>14136
Dawnguard would be perfect if it wasn't for the vampires, which is hilarious
Speaking of Elder Scrolls, basically every big DLC for each game easily qualifies as a great expansion
Hell, even a lot of the mods that try to be expansions end up being great

>>14161
fuck, why couldn't skyrim have combat from dark messiah

>>14161
Shivering Isles was better than 95% of Oblivion.

>>14139
>>14160
>no Brood War
Y'all sicken me.

>>12584
Now that's what I'd call an expansion.

The stuff OP listed felt too small compared to their respective base games to really feel like expansions to me. It's fine for an expansion to reuse enemies, objects, etc, but there better be a LOT of new levels/maps/missions, whatever is relevant to that particular game structure. If it's gonna be sold separately, it better feel close to what the base game itself had.

Also, a proper expansion pack needs a certain amount of time to pass between it and the base game. If it happens to soon, my cut/intentionally held back content alarm bells ring. Expansion packs should only happen because a game was released as a full, finished game, but as time went on it proved to have the unexpected popularity, and thus demand, to justify adding more. Games should not ship with that already in the works, it should be a change of plans. Post-release content (aside from bug fixes) should be the exception, not the standard.

>>14254
That's another good one, the amount of new missions was comparable to the base game. And the release timing was good as well.

>>14131
Undead Nightmare seemed pretty cool at first, and did have some neat stuff, but in the end it was a disappointingly small amount of new plot and content spread out across a fairly large game world. I think that tricked people into thinking it was more than it was. The world map was 99% identical aside from different lighting and weather effects, towns were hardly different, and they didn't even bother making zombie versions of all the base game animals.

Also, the blatant zombie spawning really bugged me. You see like four zombies standing there as you're riding along, and there's clearly none anywhere near them. None in the distance, and you didn't pass any. But start to fight those four, and another dozen pop up wherever the camera isn't currently looking. And kill zombies in towns long enough and it becomes super obvious that new zombies are appearing as you go. I don't care what the game is, it bugs me when new zombies are capable of appearing out of thin air anywhere remotely near your character. Way off in the distance, fine. But not twenty feet away.