Wasn't the claptrapcentric DLC in TPS pretty good? Never played it but thought I heard good things.
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Wasn't the claptrapcentric DLC in TPS pretty good? Never played it but thought I heard good things.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
No. That's not quite accurate.
It was an epilogue which only had you refight a certain boss and basically have the same ending again. There was no payoff.
It was just a bad £8.99 purchase
LiquidSolid
Member
Not really. It basically just gave you the same ending you already got in the main game. It was completely pointless.
Far worse: Tomb Raider Underworld - Buy the ending of our game, exclusive to Xbox 360. lol PS3/PC owners.
wat
Concurred. I don't think any other DLC has bored me to death as bad as Left Behind. Dreadful to walk through (literally, because that's about half of it).
JareBear: Remastered
Banned
I agree. The DLC for the first BL game was lackluster in general
bobawesome
Member
The Nier: Automata DLC was a giant slap in the face.
"Boy, I sure hope these mysterious elevators scattered throughout the world don't turn out to be hooks for the DLC."
"Boy, I sure hope these mysterious elevators scattered throughout the world don't turn out to be hooks for the DLC."
FFXI's first round of maintenance mode DLCs: $30 for three mini-scenarios, and each of them reused existing areas (not even palette-swapped!). You were essentially paying $30 for three side-grade pieces of equipment.
Abyssea was also a thing, and it was so divisive that I'm afraid to comment on it.
Abyssea was also a thing, and it was so divisive that I'm afraid to comment on it.
the nier automata dlc was pretty underwhelming
i am the president and ceo of square enix
Aangster
Member
The new characters and Claptastic Voyage expansion for TPS were solid, however the repeatable arena mission was garbage. It's usually the filler 'side' content attached to season passes that really stink up post-release offerings. Fallout 4's Far Habor and Nuka World couldn't redeem an overpriced season pass and shithouse settlement-related DLC no one asked. Especially in comparison to DLCs released for F3 and F:NV, Bethesda really dropped the ball on this.
Mr. Phellps
Member
All of the first Mass Effect's DLC was garbage.
Mass Effect 2 also had Firewalker, which was pretty bad too.
Mass Effect 2 also had Firewalker, which was pretty bad too.
manfestival
Member
Call of duty united offensive. It was weird and it sucked. It strangely added vehicles to multiplayer and sprinting which felt out of place at the time since they weren't a part of the first multiplayer. It gave me a new hatred for I believe what is known nowadays as treyarch
Pegasus Actual
Member
Ridiculous it was awesome. Though granted I didn't love the tanks in the multiplayer, but servers with huge maps, tanks disabled, but jeeps enabled were the shit.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Bring Down the Sky was actually p good
The funniest thing about WOD was how quickly the community turned on it. For the first few days/weeks a lot of people were really digging it. But the honeymoon period wore off real fucking quickly once the playerbase at large began reaching the endgame content (or lack thereof) and everyone just spent all their time huddled in their garrisons.
Psychoward
Banned
I think the hate it gets is a bit too much, to be quite honest I preferred it over the medieval one with tiny Tina narrating even though everyone loves that.Worst DLC out of the Season Pass for Borderlands 2, imo
Psychoward
Banned
It got good reception but idk how. It had some novel concepts but the level layouts were terrible and the final boss was a huge sponge.
Dark Souls III DLCs.
Even though I enjoyed my time playing it.... There is no sense of closure whatsoever. I was wandering the world aimlessly when I defeated the last boss. It's pretty depressing.
Also, both of these DLCs didn't add anything of value to the game. You can play the main game without them and you won't miss a thing.
Even though I enjoyed my time playing it.... There is no sense of closure whatsoever. I was wandering the world aimlessly when I defeated the last boss. It's pretty depressing.
Also, both of these DLCs didn't add anything of value to the game. You can play the main game without them and you won't miss a thing.
BarringGaffner
Member
Battlefront DLC... so bad... at the cost of a full price game.
Not entirely true, still use the dance machines today
First one was meh with a really exciting cliffhanger but the second one was straight up disappointing... i was expecting some great revelation that would have made everything worthwhile but it brought absolutely nothing to the table it was just more of the same.
molnizzle
Member
You take that back. I still wear Obsidian Mind to this day (mostly for fashion, but still).
But speaking of Destiny, I'll go ahead and saying all of the Year 1 content before Taken King. Hot garbage, all of it. But then again, Destiny wasn't a good game until Taken King.
I dunno, Crota raid was fun. The story missions got a little better in the year 1 dlc too. Trials was fun when it came out too. Wasnt all bad, wasnt great either.
unknownstranger
Member
Gonna agree with the Warlords of Draenor mentions.
Rodney McKay
Member
Mad Moxxi DLC in Borderlands is definitely one of the worst I've played, especially if you play single player. They enemies scaled to you level, so if you play yourself you have to have a pretty much perfect SP build to survive, whereas the more players you add in coop the easier it gets because the enemies didn't get harder.
(Never played through all of Borderlands 2's DLC, but what i did play of most of them, they at least seemed competent).
Fallout 3 had some stinkers. The that extended the main campaign and the swamp island ones were good, but the others (the Pit, Operation Ancourage, and the Alien one) were all pretty meh. I mainly just played them for all the cheevos back on the 360.
I liked American Nightmare more than Alan Wake, personally. I loved the Twilight Zone episode style they went for in that game.
(Never played through all of Borderlands 2's DLC, but what i did play of most of them, they at least seemed competent).
Fallout 3 had some stinkers. The that extended the main campaign and the swamp island ones were good, but the others (the Pit, Operation Ancourage, and the Alien one) were all pretty meh. I mainly just played them for all the cheevos back on the 360.
I liked American Nightmare more than Alan Wake, personally. I loved the Twilight Zone episode style they went for in that game.
SolicitorPirate
Member
The DLC for Saints Row 3 and 4 weren't terrible, but they felt pretty uninspired given the quality of the base games
shawnbuddy
Member
What was up with that one where the whole point is watching Morrigan go through a mirror? I guess that's just retroactively bad because it never pays off.
The worst is Warden's Keep, though. Not because the story or gameplay is bad, but because it's presented like an in-game ad by an NPC who serves as a salesman and main benefit is the party storage chest, a pretty important functionality that feels like it was tipped out of the main game so they could sell it back to you.
The Scramble DLC was great too. You got to learn more about the characters through additional conversations with Support partners or characters that don't support. They were very fun to read, and I'm still steaming mad Fates' Festival maps (which are the same thing) never got localized.
But yeah, the legacy maps were very bleh with no real purpose but nostalgia.
R_thanatos
Member
My vote goes for uncharted 3 MP dlc.
<And> by that i mean the paid content... that was weird since the free content was awesome yet the paid content left me disapointed. The first season pass i've bought were i was disapointed . now i'm always skeptical of season passes
<And> by that i mean the paid content... that was weird since the free content was awesome yet the paid content left me disapointed. The first season pass i've bought were i was disapointed . now i'm always skeptical of season passes
StrategyFan
Member
civilization 5's expansions were awful and missed the entire point of what the game was trying to do and ruined any potential it may have had
Intheflorsh
Banned
The second Burial at Sea expansion wasn't bad at all, they retooled the combat by adding in stealth and there were actually some effective story moments. Probably the only good thing to come out of Bioshock Infinite.
Worst DLC out of the Season Pass for Borderlands 2, imo
Fuck those hunting missions.
Jason Frost
Member
What?
letmetrythisname
Member
Horse Armor, even if only for the precedent it set for the medium at large.
Twilight Gap
Member
Destiny's Dark Below expansion was a massive pile of shit cover to cover. It was made in 9 weeks, sold for $20 separately, and by all counts added nothing positive to the game. Bungie still has to make back that good will if you ask me.
epeternally
Member
Same. Too much focus on the badly executed PvP. I at least got to play in the first week, the only time the PvP was good. After that things rapidly devolved into a hack and grief fest which they've struggled and failed to properly balance. I don't think it can be fixed. The decision to double down on that failed experiment rather than the full co-op campaign expansion we wanted is baffling and left a very sour taste in my mouth about The Division, even though I really liked the core game.
Arkham Knight was pretty disappointing too. The actual expansion content is quite nice, but the character specific mini-campaigns just didn't have enough going on to justify the high season pass price. Not to mention mostly being less fun than the main game, which again I very much like.
CC99 at least gave you JCS, HH98 was just the Shareware Demo with the extra HH levels.
Naughty_Doge
Member
Pretty much all the Dragon Age: Origins DLC was either average or disappointing except for Awakening and Golems of Amgarak. The latter pretty much because it was fairly challenging.
I didn't hate Mothership Zeta for Fallout 3, but I consider it the weakest of otherwise great expansions- though on that subject, Operation Anchorage wasn't great either but gave you the overpowered stealth suit that broke the game so that was fun. Fallout 4's non-story stuff was really weak and disappointing for sure.
The Arkham City DLC was pretty shit overall though, and I didn't even bother with Knight's as a result.
And fuck Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea. That writing was some bad fanfic levels of retcon, and it absolutely screws over the characterization of several Infinite players for a brain dead plot that needlessly ties Rapture further to the Infinite story in the worst way possible. Supremely stupid shit, in an otherwise neat setting to see pre-fall Rapture and the department store buried in the ocean. Then again, in hindsight I don't consider Infinite good anymore, but that's another matter.
The Arkham City DLC was pretty shit overall though, and I didn't even bother with Knight's as a result.
And fuck Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea. That writing was some bad fanfic levels of retcon, and it absolutely screws over the characterization of several Infinite players for a brain dead plot that needlessly ties Rapture further to the Infinite story in the worst way possible. Supremely stupid shit, in an otherwise neat setting to see pre-fall Rapture and the department store buried in the ocean. Then again, in hindsight I don't consider Infinite good anymore, but that's another matter.
neurosisxeno
Member
WoD had an amazing and immersive leveling experience, but once you finished that up it was horrendous. The story just kind of abruptly stops, and you're stuck doing a ton of gated content between raids. All the Garrison stuff took a believable world and turned it into an amusement park, and you basically just ran laps around the place between queuing for dungeons/LFR.
Oh god, don't even remind me of those. Operation Anchorage and Mothership Zeta turned a good game into literally one of the least enjoyable experiences of my life. Anchorage was comically bad because it basically forced you to get rid of all character advancement for a story that nobody really cared about. I played it on PS3 and it also ran like hot garbage. Pretty sure the entire DLC ran at abut 15 fps on PS3. Mothership Zeta was just a long boring slog through a repetitive alien ship, and was a huge pain if you didn't make sure you had plenty of ammo going in because you'd get stuck using the stupid alien weapons which unless you had preemptively leveled energy weapons once again threw all your progression out. The one major plus to Zeta was that those aliens were weak as hell and gave tons of EXP. Think I got like 8 levels throughout the entire thing.
I'll second American nightmare being better than og awake. Production values were not there in an and it doesn't look near as good as the main game (iirc they dumped a lot to improve the base resolution of the og 360 release over the main game), but they did interesting things with the plot in order to make up for the lack of budget and the main mechanics are an order of magnitude better than the main game. I've returned more to an over the years than I have awake just because it's so much better to play. Awake is such a step down from max Payne 2 the game becomes harder and harder to make a case to return to as the years go by and it looses it's new and Shiney appeal it had last generation over the max Payne games.
Also, I don't really understand how it counts in this thread anyway. AN is a separate downloadable game, not dlc.
theyturkerjurbs
Neo Member
The DLC for dead space 2 was pretty poor. It was like £15 for a sub 2 hour trek through places you've already been in reverse. I don't think there were new weapons or anything really.
Agnostic Priest
Member
Ageed. I had some fun with a friend with the survival dlc, but the rest was pure garbage in my opinion.