Downloadable Content, Yay or Nay

DLC, or Downloadable Content for games is something I look at every now and then, occasionally I will buy some, but only if it adds new life to games, new maps or missions yes, I did say new maps.. looking at you Modern Warfare.. not reskinned maps that were in the previous game.

Extra costumes or weapons. No if I can finish the game without a particular weapon then I didn’t need it in the first place and wont be paying for it.

Launch day DLC is the only DLC I totally disagree with. If you have extra items/missions/characters that are available the moment the game is in the shops, those could have been thrown into the retail disc when it went the game went gold, maybe with a note saying "look we made these after the game development finished, stay with us and just imagine how much we can achieve"

Dragon Age 2 Demo... Still Pondering

From the Dragon Age YouTube channel

I'm still unconvinced about dragon age 2, the demo has been up on Xbox 360's marketplace for over a week now and I’ve been trying to think why its just not clicking with me. All I've come up with is “its the same, but different”. It looks better but it seems to have gone the way of the PlayStation 2 Baldurs Gate series, more hack & slash adventure than RPG. And to me those games became really boring, really quickly

At least i know Bethesda wont let Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim go wrong, unless the entire team are replaced by monkeys for some unholy reason.

From Bethesda's YouTube Channel

Dragon Age 2 Demo.. 2nd attempt

Little update.

Yep, Still don't like it..
It just feels too... arcadey for me, too much like its attempting to go for a wider audience than the first Dragon Age, I don't have a problem with that in theory but if it starts to alienate players who loved the first game in a series then there's a problem.

(random picture grabbed from the internet... but it serves a purpose)

Also, why the hell does your character look drunk??

Dragon Age 2 Demo

I loved Dragon Age: Origins from Bioware, I'll admit I never finished it though, i kept restarting the game to try out different characters. so I really excited when I heard that the demo for Dragon Age 2 was was released onto the Xbox live marketplace.

as soon as I got in from work i started to download it, patiently I waited for the download to finish, had a cup of coffee, a bacon sandwich and watched the download bar creep towards 100%.

Success... it finished, I fired it up, Eager to see how this new story will start, and roughly 20 minutes later I was left with a feeling of "hmm". I was very disappointed. Something just hasn't grabbed me. maybe I'm a little tired.. maybe I've over hyped it in my mind. I realise a demo may be slightly different to the finished product. But to me it should attempt to grab the player, maybe I'm in the minority over this.. but if the finished game is anything like the demo I wont be rushing out to get it.

And if that's the case I'll end up framing the dead space 2 armour code voucher I have, as a reminder of what could have been