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jagermo, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?

Enemy Within for XCOM Enemy Unkown was a perfect addon. New storyline, new surprises and more polish to the main game. Well worth the money

cosmicrookie, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?
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No personal experience but Euro Truck Simulator seems to be doing it well

mrfriki, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?

Bioshock Infinite Burial at sea episodes 1 and 2 are the only DLC I ever bought. They close a wonderful history.

P00ptart, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?

Fallout is pretty good. I appreciate that they have DLC directly from Bethesda, as well as the openly approved mods and the ability and openess to allow bigger mods that expand the game. There’s a lot of reasonable hate for Bethesda and their timeframe, but they’re pretty good on allowing mods that are essentially amateur DLC. I just wish we had an update to really make the series new.

EvilEdgelord, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?
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  • FooBarrington,

    I sadly have to disagree regarding Elden Ring. I love the DLC, but there’s pretty much 0 integration with the rest of the game. Nothing you do in the base game will change interactions in the DLC, and vice versa.

    If a couple voice lines changed (e.g. for Melina, Midra regarding the Frenzied Flame, Miquella regarding Malenia) I’d agree completely, but as it is it’s very slapped on.

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  • FooBarrington,

    Not sure my comment deserves a downvote when I clearly formulated my criticism after specifying that I very much like it, but you do you.

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  • DebatableRaccoon,

    Name checks out. Are you also forgetting the DLC is awkwardly levelled too? That it’s not accessible until quite far into the game but if you try go into it with a complete save you’ll be dramatically over-levelled.

    Tracaine, do games w Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?

    Yes. I have. Thank you for asking.

    fartsparkles, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?

    Rimworld or Crusader Kings. Their DLC expands the possibilities of what can happen during a game and are entirely optional. Their existence doesn’t take anything from new players who only own the base game and you can pick and choose what you want to add to your game to expand it how you so choose.

    ScientifficDoggo,

    I second Rimworld. The DLCs literally only add content, and are completely optional even if you own them. In fact, let me shill Rimworld for a second…

    Never have I felt every emotion possible from playing a game. From sorrow about one of my child colonists getting gunned down trying to move a rock, to triumph watching a lone colonist single-handedly repelling a mech threat with a bolt action and a sandbag. Rage, watching one of those bastards breakdown from having to sit in a shitty chair and murdering the only doctor in the colony, then dying to the wounds sustained from said doctor shortly after.

    Ate without table / 10

    iamdefinitelyoverthirteen,

    Disturbed Sleep x3 / 10

    ScientifficDoggo,

    58 manhunting crows / 10

    iamdefinitelyoverthirteen,

    Muffalo Revenge / 10

    VoterFrog,

    We butchered humanlike / 10

    CaptainDogwater, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 3rd

    I have been obsessed with Rimworld since the new DLC, Odyssey, dropped. That, and a little bit of Peak with the wife.

    RW is my digital crack - I cannot get enough…

    calamitycastle, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?

    The case of the golden idol and the sequel (rise of) both had brilliant DLC which really expanded the lore of the game

    Peffse, do games w What’s the best written Pokémon game?

    Sw/Sh were a real low point. They boiled the story down to “Let the adults handle it” and left you just running between gyms the entire game.

    It’s honestly been too long since I’ve played the older games to judge their writing… but I did play Scarlet recently, and have to give props to Arven’s storyline. It is a shame the game is at Resident Evil 6 levels of unfocused, and brain-dead levels of easy.

    andros_rex,

    I set Scarlett to be in Chinese because I assumed the story would be as forgettable as Sw/Sh’s and I’d get some easy practice just mashing yes on dialogues, but lo and behold it looks like there’s actual choices and stuff? I’m surprised at a mainline Pokémon game actually needing you to be able to read, and I have no idea how to set the game back to English, so I haven’t played it much at all.

    janNatan, (edited )

    You cannot change a pokemon game’s language in the middle of a playthrough. You choose the language at the very beginning of the game. This is because a breeding pair of Pokemon with different language origins have a higher chance to breed with each other and produce eggs faster - I think the eggs may also have a higher chance to be shiny, but I’m less sure of that. Either way, it’s supposed to motivate you to trade online.

    If you wanna change your language, you’re gonna have to wipe your save and start over.

    Peffse,

    I don’t recall any choices that mattered. They are all fake choices like “Do you want to be rivals: yes/no” and choosing no just repeats the question.

    I only singled out Arven because his character started out kind of bratty and my opinion of him flipped completely by the end of the game.

    andros_rex,

    It’s the classroom quizzes I can’t do. My vocab does extend to “yes” and “no,” but the lessons are bit beyond my first grader knowledge of Chinese.

    Peffse,

    Is there any reward for the classroom stuff? I completely skipped it thinking it was all tutorial.

    Tollana1234567,

    masuda is the reason behind this, he said he was tired of pokemon so hes going to make half-assed game going foward, that is the reason i never got a switch.

    fckreddit, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?

    Pretty cliche, but The Witcher 3.

    Berttheduck,

    Both of them are excellent, blood and wine especially as it really nicely ends Geralt’s story. Also Tuson (sp?) is just beautiful.

    DebatableRaccoon,

    Toussaint. They weren’t being subtle about the frenchness

    s3rvant, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 3rd
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    Kiddos took interest in Beyond All Reason so have gotten back into that one again. Just practicing against bots so far; good times regardless.

    Also figured out firewall settings to play online with Mario Kart Wii Deluxe so that one’s been dominating use of the TV.

    Evkob, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 3rd
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    I’m finally playing Celeste and honestly it’s living up to the hype. The art style is amazing, great soundtrack, solid platforming mechanics, and just the perfect balance of challenging and rewarding. The storyline is really endearing too, I have a huge crush on Theo.

    I’ve also started Cyberpunk 2077. It’s the first big AAA game I’ve played in a while, and I’m honestly kinda overwhelmed by the scope of the game. 7 hours in and I still felt like I was going through a tutorial. GTA-style open worlds aren’t usually my fav kind of games but I really dig the cyberpunk setting so far.

    BenLeMan, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history

    And the people responsible were fired, right? Right?
    No?
    Well there’s your problem right there. That’s how common sense dies unlives on the altar of corporate profits.

    Atomic,

    Why do you think that firing someone over this is the correct response? I’m sorry but that is a really stupid mindset.

    You learn and train/educate your employees so that it doesn’t happen again.

    “Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?”

    – Thomas John Watson Sr., IBM

    drspawndisaster,

    It’s an offense that can’t be easily fixed by teaching, seeing as how that employee could have looked at a map at any time and verified that the account holder wasn’t lying. Unwillingness to access information likely cannot be fixed with forced exposure to the information they were unwilling to access.

    Atomic,

    You are simply guessing. With no way to verify your claim. For all we know, the customer support person DID google “Fort Gay VW”, and was presented with pornography. Perhaps that person should have used a dedicated map instead of a simple search. Perhaps that’s an adjustment that can be made without making someone lose their job and potentially livelihood.

    You don’t just fire someone for a mistake. It’s ok to make an honest mistakes. The important part is that you learn from them.

    drspawndisaster,

    It stops being an honest mistake when mayors have to get involved, in my opinion.

    Atomic,

    Why would something stop being a mistake just because of post-incident actions from a third party? How does that make any sense?

    Xbox Live chief enforcement officer Stephen Toulouse acknowledges the agent reviewing a fellow gamer’s complaint against Moore made a mistake.

    He says keeping up with slang and policing Xbox Live for offensive language is challenging, but mistakes in judgment are rare.

    Toulouse says training has since been updated.

    That’s from the source Wikipedia cites.

    They made a mistake, eventually it was recognized, and they claim they’ve since updated their training to prevent similar incidents in the future. Isn’t that a good outcome? The guy got his account back. And Xbox apologized and took steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again. What else do you want?

    Randomgal,

    This is Lemmy bro. From what I have seen, if you don’t pass the purity test you deserve beheading.

    BenLeMan,

    Honestly the greater issue I have is with developers that haven’t touched enough grass to realize that some people are named Gaylord or live in Cunthorpe or whatever.

    That, and the stupid culture which insists that baby must only see baby words, not mean old grownup words.

    The people in charge of those decisions just shouldn’t have such power. And if a user names themselves removedHater1995 you can still intervene based on reports from others.

    Atomic,

    Are devs supposes to know every single weird old name in existence beforehand and add that to a giant exception array?

    They just can’t ever do anything right then.

    If they do, do something. Someone fell through the cracks and Xbox sucks and devs needs to be fired.

    If they don’t do anything, then the Xbox sucks because they enable racism, homophobia, harassment, etc. And devs needs to be fired.

    What do you want? Besides firing everyone involved apparently. The problem got fixed. They updated their training to ensure customer support handle these cases better in the future.

    This was in 2010. Have there been more of those incidents since then?

    mrgoosmoos,

    somebody who repeatedly chooses to remain ignorant, not do their job, and not look into this is NOT somebody that can be trained. they will just revert to their ways soon after trying to address it and maybe showing improvement

    source: my anecdotal evidence of very single poor performer I have trained

    raspberriesareyummy,

    Why do you think that firing someone over this is the correct response?

    because someone who bans an account because it has the word “gay” in the name should not work in a position where they can ban accounts.

    meliaesc,

    Imagine an intentionally hateful use of the word gay instead.

    BenLeMan,

    Why imagine? It wasn’t, and if it had been, they would have been right to uphold the ban.

    But making that distinction is the job and they failed to do it right. Quite possibly, as others here have suggested, out of willful ignorance. One of the worst traits I can personally imagine a person to have, and one that by now, mainstream American culture is built upon.
    can’t hear you

    Atomic,

    And how do you know it was a person and not an automated system?

    The answer is, you don’t. You’re just guessing. You’re being outraged over an assumption you have, without any way of verifying if that is the case. Do you think that’s a healthy mindset to have?

    raspberriesareyummy,

    “Automated” systems act by rules, configured by people. Think again.

    LwL,

    Probably because kids would use gay as part of some random homophobic insult in their location field lol

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions and the main (still sadly all too relevant) problem here is customer support not just reacting and fixing it.

    Atomic,

    So therefore the dev(s) who wrote the system should get fired? All because they enacted on tickets to stop people from using what they thought were slurs in their location tag?

    What part of that do I need to think twice about? You really want this to be about some ban happy dev (that you assume is the case) that you completely skip over the real problem of customer support not managing to solve what should have been an easy fix.

    If you read the sources on the wiki. You’ll see Xbox apologized and updated their training to ensure it doesn’t happen again. That sure sounds like the best outcome to what we know happened.

    Saganaki,

    Look up the Scunthorpe problem.

    Unintended consequences.

    BenLeMan,

    I appreciate the sentiment, I really do. And yes, the problem is more of a systemic one. But we need real people to personally feel the consequences of this idiocy if we want things to change for the better. Otherwise, everyone will just keep on pretending everything is fine. this is fine

    Atomic,

    Who’s to say they didn’t receive any consequences? But that consequence doesn’t mean you have to lose your job over what easily could have been an honest mistake. Bear in mind, the person (if it even was a person) that terminated the account, and the people in customer support are most likely different people. I’m not saying that customer support couldn’t have handled it better. But calling for someone to be fired as the first resort is simply not a good mindset.

    OminousOrange, (edited ) do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 3rd
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    I just finished Far Cry 5…Seemed like a fitting time for some cult destruction.

    Overall it wasn’t too bad. Maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10. I found it getting repetitive after halfway through the second (of three) regions. The side stories weren’t very interesting any more, so it was just a little grindy to the end.

    I will say, this was one of the few games that got me on the disgust (not sure that’s really the right word for it) meter a couple times. No spoilers, but the story Jess Black shares about the cult’s doings is quite revolting.

    Probably on to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 next for me.

    E: One thing I just remembered that was quite well done that I don’t often (literally) hear in other games was the quality of sounds coming from afar. A commotion in the distance actually sounded like it was in the distance, and not just a less quiet sound. Some mushed directionality while a little bit of reverb and reflection really made it sound realistic.

    GammaGames, (edited )

    Agreed, FC5 was great until the point it got repetitive. I played the latter half in co-op, it was absurd fun with the little helicopters!

    I also spent the first 2 hours at the arcade playing launch week user created maps. They were… rough.

    The detail about the sounds is interesting, I hadn’t noticed it!

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