Wait, I think I get what I’m missing.  Is what you want for the dlc to become unlocked after reaching a certain point in the story, but you have the option to skip ahead to that point if you want?  If so I can understand that, though personally I’ve never taken one of those skips before.

I still don’t get what you like, as the two things I spelled out seem a contradiction.  Is what you want a dlc that only unlocks after reaching a certain point, or do you want a dlc that is available from the very start?

To be fair, you likely wouldn’t have made a career out of just playing video games.  Most people in the game industry need skills and education for the jobs they have.  For example if a kid wants to be a video game writer, then they’d be better off focusing on reading and writing.

Not sure which way you’d rather have it. If you want the dlc to work so that it only unlocks after reaching a certain point, then you run into the possibility of turning on the game and not being able to play it.

Stuff like this is why I scratched my head a little over complaints of Cyberpunk’s Phantom Liberty’s cost at $30.  Yeah, you get better value paying twice that for a full game, but it’s still such a better model than how the service model works.

Sorry, I meant RE4 Remake, not sure why I mentioned RE2.  Apparently Village was meant as a test run for RE4, as it was testing a lot of RE4's concepts using the current Resident Evil engine.

Tears of the Kingdom apparently reused a lot of assets from Breath of the Wild, and that game still went over monumentally well. And some of my favorite old video games all used the Infinity Engine and also used the same basic ruleset for how the games worked.

Again, my comparison stands: I’m replaying the original Baldur’s Gate and it’s completely fantastic.  That in no way means that people should be criticized for expecting improvements in the sequels, including Baldur’s Gate 3.  You can’t use a game made for inferior software and use that to silence criticism of games…

I’ve been perfectly happy replaying Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition recently.  Just because I’m happy with that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have higher expectation for Baldur’s Gate 3 when it releases, as the two were built for completely different standards of hardware.

I think what they’re getting at here is more expansion or even sequel oriented. Basically reusuing the same engines and often even the same assets, and doing that with a focus instead on story and level design.

You’ll just have to play these games blind, only to find out several hours in that you put far too many points into a dump stat.

You know you’re on Kotaku, right?

I have noticed that for builds in particular, Reddit tends to be one of the better available resources.  Just recently I was interested in replaying Baldur’s Gate again and decided to look up playing a Berserker/Mage build.  Reddit seemed to have the best lists and conversations about variations on the spec, when to…

Two of those are mmos, isn’t this a 5 player game?  This doesn’t require nearly the same server capacity, and could easily run off of private servers.  Way back, that is how online gaming was normally done.

I think a lot of people overlook that that with Diablo in particular, the main draw has always been getting stuff.  The Diablo series is a straight up skinner box, so basically this is like “Have you considered turning off the part of your brain that makes this series fun in the first place?”

I understand that companies might want to remove products from the marketplace, though in this case we’re talking digital products with far less barriers for selling than physical. Again the question is how you can get lost sales off of a product that’s not being sold.

Hold a sec, when I mentioned $70 plus the battlepass, I was under the impression that the battlepass was mostly regarding cosmetic content.  Are they actually gating content behind the battlepasses?  Because that’s worse than I thought then.

Lost sales. Really? Correct me if I’m wrong, but how can a company expect to make any sales off a product if they choose to take that product off the market?

Personally I don’t buy Nintendo’s systems at all, their practices disgust me. Instead I’m a PC gamer and normally buy games from GoG and Steam, both of which make their older games easily available for purchase and playing on modern systems.  Thanks to that I have a huge library of games that I’ve continued to expand…