The case of Broken Steel, however, seems to be an exception to the rule. Aside perhaps from Mass Effect 2's Arrival – whose effects on your Mass Effect 3 playthrough are yet to be revealed – never have I found DLC that is fundamental to my understanding of a game's overarching story. And that's got to be a good thing.
Of course, not every single game out there is long enough to justify premium post-release content. If a developer releases DLC on 最佳, 返回页首 of a game that's just way too short, I feel like I'm being ripped off, because why couldn't this content have been included in the main release? Recently however, many developers are using DLC delivery as a means of expanding their games at no cost to the consumer, which is great, especially when their games are a bit on the short side.
Valve, the legendary developer behind such short-and-sweet titles as Left 4 Dead and Portal 2, does just that. The Survival Pack for the original Left 4 Dead was released at no cost to the consumer, and added significant gameplay improvements along with an addictive survival mode. The first content pack for Portal 2 will also be released for absolutely nothing, and will include challenge modes, new test chambers and online leader boards. Other developers, including Splash Damage and Relic, creators of Brink and Warhammer 40k: 太空 Marine respectively, have also taken a leaf out of Valve's book. The first content package for Brink was released free for a short time, whilst 太空 Marine's Exterminatus four player co-op mode will be released for free in October. If we didn't have the option of downloading extra content, none of this would have been possible, and we'd be stuck with a bunch of short games with nothing to do about it but wait for their sequels. And chances are we'd already be pestering Valve for Portal 3.
It's great to see developers like Gearbox and Valve – among many others – using DLC as a means to actively improve the gaming experience for their consumers, rather than a way to simply get 更多 money out of a game release. Sure, there will always be the odd developer that releases a game with gaping, DLC-sized holes to be filled in later 由 over-priced packages – I'm looking at you, Treyarch – but so what? These are few and far between and their dastardly deeds are certainly outweighed 由 the fact that some of the best gameplay experiences out there can be found as DLC. Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Vietnam, Uncharted 2's Siege expansion and Resident Evil 5's Untold Stories wouldn't exist if DLC wasn't around. And that's a reality I'm not sure I could deal with.
Of course, not every single game out there is long enough to justify premium post-release content. If a developer releases DLC on 最佳, 返回页首 of a game that's just way too short, I feel like I'm being ripped off, because why couldn't this content have been included in the main release? Recently however, many developers are using DLC delivery as a means of expanding their games at no cost to the consumer, which is great, especially when their games are a bit on the short side.
Valve, the legendary developer behind such short-and-sweet titles as Left 4 Dead and Portal 2, does just that. The Survival Pack for the original Left 4 Dead was released at no cost to the consumer, and added significant gameplay improvements along with an addictive survival mode. The first content pack for Portal 2 will also be released for absolutely nothing, and will include challenge modes, new test chambers and online leader boards. Other developers, including Splash Damage and Relic, creators of Brink and Warhammer 40k: 太空 Marine respectively, have also taken a leaf out of Valve's book. The first content package for Brink was released free for a short time, whilst 太空 Marine's Exterminatus four player co-op mode will be released for free in October. If we didn't have the option of downloading extra content, none of this would have been possible, and we'd be stuck with a bunch of short games with nothing to do about it but wait for their sequels. And chances are we'd already be pestering Valve for Portal 3.
It's great to see developers like Gearbox and Valve – among many others – using DLC as a means to actively improve the gaming experience for their consumers, rather than a way to simply get 更多 money out of a game release. Sure, there will always be the odd developer that releases a game with gaping, DLC-sized holes to be filled in later 由 over-priced packages – I'm looking at you, Treyarch – but so what? These are few and far between and their dastardly deeds are certainly outweighed 由 the fact that some of the best gameplay experiences out there can be found as DLC. Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Vietnam, Uncharted 2's Siege expansion and Resident Evil 5's Untold Stories wouldn't exist if DLC wasn't around. And that's a reality I'm not sure I could deal with.
"It's not an action game. It's a role-playing game.", Todd Howard
Todd Howard seems to think so, but then again, Todd seems to think a lot of things. Some of them may even be true. Leaving the obvious 问题 "why did the magazine file Fallout 3 under "action RPG"?" aside, let's take a look at what the presentation of this role-playing game was focused on. For example, how many dialogue screens were shown in those 10 pages? Zero. Wouldn't 你 think that dialogues are an important Fallout element that the presentation should have mentioned, if not focused on? Apparently not. How many quests were explained in details, 展示 the 设计 and them moral, game-changing choices? Once again, Bethesda follows the Oblivion formula: focus on the visuals and HAWT AKSHUN, assure people that quests and dialogues are superb and awesome in seven different ways, but 显示 nothing to back up these claims.
Todd Howard seems to think so, but then again, Todd seems to think a lot of things. Some of them may even be true. Leaving the obvious 问题 "why did the magazine file Fallout 3 under "action RPG"?" aside, let's take a look at what the presentation of this role-playing game was focused on. For example, how many dialogue screens were shown in those 10 pages? Zero. Wouldn't 你 think that dialogues are an important Fallout element that the presentation should have mentioned, if not focused on? Apparently not. How many quests were explained in details, 展示 the 设计 and them moral, game-changing choices? Once again, Bethesda follows the Oblivion formula: focus on the visuals and HAWT AKSHUN, assure people that quests and dialogues are superb and awesome in seven different ways, but 显示 nothing to back up these claims.
The player can have a maximum party of three, consisting of the player's character, a dog named Dogmeat, and a single non-player character. Dogmeat can be killed during the game if the player misuses him 或者 places him in a severely dangerous situation and he cannot be replaced (this was changed with the introduction of Broken Steel: the level 22 "Puppies!" perk allows the player to gain a 小狗 follower if Dogmeat dies);[18][19] it is possible to not encounter Dogmeat at all depending on how the game is played.[20] One other NPC can travel with the player at any time, and in order to get another NPC to travel, the first one must be dismissed (either voluntarily 由 the player 或者 as a consequence of other events) 或者 die in combat.
Not actually a fat man, which would in its own way be hilarious, the Fat Man is a "shoulder-mounted tactical nuclear catapult." In layman's terms, that means it's a hand held weapon that basically shoots nuclear bombs at people. It should certainly incinerate your target, but do be warned, there's a high possibility it will also incinerate everything around it (including your mates and possibly yourself), as well as leaving residual radiation.
The name comes from the 秒 atomic bomb that was dropped on 日本 in 1945. Unsurprisingly, in the game's Japanese release, this had to be changed, with the Fat Man becoming the Nuka Launcher in the Land of the Rising Sun. In Japan, the side quest whereby 你 can choose to detonate the atomic bomb in the town of Megaton was also removed from the game.
The name comes from the 秒 atomic bomb that was dropped on 日本 in 1945. Unsurprisingly, in the game's Japanese release, this had to be changed, with the Fat Man becoming the Nuka Launcher in the Land of the Rising Sun. In Japan, the side quest whereby 你 can choose to detonate the atomic bomb in the town of Megaton was also removed from the game.