Stage Clear Type 4. Smooth driving... so smooth.

Submitted by Perrin on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 23:06

This week downloadable content and downloadable games are the issue of the day. We ponder on the significance of DLC, or lack thereof. We get confused by Noby Noby Boy, fall in love with Flower and decide when it comes to pricing what we really hate is moaning gamers. Bollocks of the week takes a look at the PSP2/PSP Phone rumours. In fact there's loads more but why don't you listen to it yourself and find out? Go on. What's wrong with you?

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After the atrocious horse

Submitted by seth on Mon, 09/03/2009 - 00:18.

After the atrocious horse armour fiasco, bethesda did a really great job on their Oblivion DLC with some awesome new properties [way better than the cop out stuff you get in fallout 3] and some fairly massive quests. Although of course you can get this sort of thing for free on pc thanksto modders, as a console gamer it was something I was very pleased wit an extended the game's lifespan immeasurably.
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I found myself buying the new

Submitted by ChampagneOLeary on Fri, 06/03/2009 - 17:30.

I found myself buying the new Street Fight Iv downloadable (read: on the disc) costumes. Normally this sort of thing would have thrown me into a full-on geekrage, but my mind quickly counteracted with the following points:

1. It's only a few pounds, much cheaper than buying a collectors edition, figurine or joypad/stick.
2. Unlike some of the other things, I'm buying something that will directly affect the game and also be seen by other people.

Then my brain did some real twisting. If you accept DLC as an inevitablity for all big titles, then this is a lesser evil. For the price of teh original game disc, you're getting 99.9% of your games content. Compare that to something like Tomb Raider: Underworld. If you don't pay that extra 6 quid, you're mising out on entire levels. In a way, you're more likely to feel a need to spend your money for something like TR:U, where the SFIV costumes remain a luxury and therefore you can live without them. This all assumes that you accept the fact that every major game is going to have DLC which seems to be more and more the case - how much of the total experience are you getting for your initial spend. I also fully admit that this a completely backwards theory, the costumes should have been free, and it is only my poor mind's attempt to justify parting it's cheeks willfully to such treatment.