The following pic sums it up rather nicely.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The State of Gaming Today
I am really hating this recent trend when it comes to purchasing new games: exclusive DLC depending upon which store you purchase the game from, players getting special DLC/levels/costumes/shinies for buying it on Day One, paying a premium for map packs, et cetera. It's getting crazy. And it's not isolated to the console market. PC games are suffering from this as well (I'm looking at you, Dragon Age 2).
The following pic sums it up rather nicely.
The following pic sums it up rather nicely.
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I REALLY hate 'store exclusive' pre-order shit. 99% of the time, that's just what it is - SHIT. An item or power you can use in the game to give you a slight advantage for about 20 minutes - when you level up or find something better. Let's take Fallout: New Vegas, for example:
ReplyDeleteClassic Pack from GameStop
Armored Vault 13 suit, Vault 13 canteen, weathered 10mm pistol, Five Stimpaks
The suit is like having on a leather jacket. No real major protection. The canteen's only useful if you play on hardcore mode where you need to eat, drink and sleep on a regular schedule. Pistol is ok but sucks without ammo. Stimpaks are easy to find.
The Tribal Pack from Amazon
Tribal Raiding Armor, Broad Machete, Five doses of Bleak Venom, 10 Throwing Spears
Armor you can obtain for free in your first real fight. Machete is garbage unless you're doing Hardcore Mode (ammo has weight in HC). Bleak Venom and Throwing Spears - again, good for HC Mode.
Caravan Pack from Steam/Wal-Mart
Lightweight Leather Armor, Sturdy Caravan Shotgun, Four repair kits, Binoculars
Lightweight armor you'll outgrow by the second town. Shotgun w/o ammo = sucky. Repair kits fix guns, but you'll find so many that you can repair them easily. Binoculars are the best part of this, but you can buy a scope (at the first store you encounter) for the rifle an NPC gives you and it's the same thing. (The rifle-giving NPC is one of the first few people you meet!)
Mercenary Pack from Best Buy
Lightweight Metal Armor, Mercenary Grenade Rifle
Three Super Stimpaks, Three Doctors Bags
This one seems ok on the surface but again a gun with no ammo, armor you won't need after two hours into the game, and other items that can be found in decent amounts.
They should have just all given you 1,000 caps. About as useful, and you'd probably sell all that stuff in-game anyway.
Along these same lines: LittleBIGPlanet launch costumes. Kratos, Heavenly Sword, etc. packs all became available through the PS Store after 6 months anyway. Granted the Store versions came with a lot more junk (aside from in-game stickers and level-building items, HS pack came with more costumes than the pre-order).
Makes me crazy though - make people choose where they are going to buy the product? Worse yet is the nickel and dime mentality to offering 'extra' content or in some cases, unlock features on the game you already own - inFAMOUS and the Gigawatt Blades, for example. Gigawatt Blades are already hardcoded in the game but inaccessible without a pre-order code (now FREE through PSN). Smart move to make it free, unlike other games...
I suppose this all comes down to the Oblivion "Horse Armor" scenario. They offer something useless for a crazy price and, though the masses complain, someone still buys it.