Tl;dr; expansion pretty much change whole game, reworks core game mechanics and adds whole new district. Plus Idris Elba and more of Keanu with expansion having almost as much lines as core game.
Fairly-priced expansions are 10000x better than garbage micro-transactions and DLC, I don’t get why anyone would be annoyed with this
Literally this. Even in older games journalism there was a difference between additional content and true expansions. We used to call developers out for labelling something as an expansion that didn’t have enough additional content. This is pretty close to what full expansions used to cost ($20-25 is what I remember for something like Shadows of Amn), and the amount of additional content fits.
I think a lot of people are used to the incremental and constant content release for live services games that are generally free. More is not always better, though…and free is not always free lol.
Wouldn’t the controversy be that Cyberpunk is incomplete, and this expansion is actually the finished game?
If there was something that was incomplete about Cyberpunk, it was the stuff that they’ve done to the game up to this expansion that fixed problems it launched with. A game isn’t incomplete just because they add more to it later.
I don’t get that. Cyberpunk is by no means perfect. But how is it not a complete game? I put in a ton of hours and thoroughly enjoyed it. Are you saying that because the AI was bad, it’s incomplete? Cause very, very few games are complete if that’s the benchmark we use.
It got over hyped, but capital G gamers did what they do best and blew it out of proportion as if someone kicked their baby.
Note: I played on PC several months after launch. Maybe it was incomplete when it came out, but it sure as hell ain’t now.
There wouldn’t be any controversy if people stopped buying unfinished games, though.
Once you’ve bought it, you’ve signaled that it’s complete enough for you.
I think additional content is fine, even if it’s expanding the story. That’s not super unusual even going back years ago to Baldurs Gate 2’s expansion finishing the story, and is often referred to as a trilogy due to the expansion, or Lord of Destruction.
It sounds like the changes made to the base game will be implemented even if you don’t buy this DLC which is good. Base game changes and improvements to AI shouldn’t be sold separately.
This is one of the things I love about Paradox games, when they release expansions they always release a free big patch with them to include all the non-expansion stuff.
My only curiosity is if this takes place after the events of the main story. When I beat the game, I remember I had to revert to an old save just to keep playing as there was no new game+ or free roam after the story ended.
Is that still the case?
I feel like everyone should get access to the game rework, not just the people who buy the DLC. This what the base game should have been, what they promised.
I can see why people would be at least skeptical given the way the game released. And while they keep reworking the game mechanics the core game story and vibe is pretty disappointing.
I mean, if they don’t bomb its release like the main game’s and actually provide content worth $30, this pricing doesn’t seem unreasonable. I’m gonna wait and see how good it is, how solid it works and what actually comes with the DLC, before making a decision. If they deliver $30 content, I will pay $30.
@Eights_wsh Please stop linking Kotaku.
Please add something productive to the conversation instead of whining about Kotaku.
Any reason why “not Kotaku”?
