Poll of the Day > Any DLCs that kinda ruined your enjoyment of the story? *spoilers maybe?*

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Typically, some DLCs that adds to the story give us a more enriching experience and sense of closure maybe. Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC I thought was amazing and made the bittersweet ending more tolerable. But then some DLCs kinda ruin the story for me to the point that I wish I hadn't played the DLC.

I finally finished Bioshock Infinite and both Burial at Sea DLCs last week. Overall I was content with the ending to Bioshock Infinite but the Burial at Sea endings left a bad taste in my mouth. Instead of a sense of closure it felt more like the developers were adding salt to an existing wound or reopening it. Despite the connection to Bioshock, it still felt like all of our actions were all for naught.

Have there been DLCs that kinda ruined the story for you?

Comments and opinions are appreciated,

Thank you
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I hated the zombie thing of red dead redemption

I don't think I've ever encountered a DLC that ruined the story for me in some way. Not that I can think of off the top of my head anyway.

Every DLC I've ever bothered to purchase was always for a game I loved in the first place, and it always offered more content and a reason to keep playing.

Sure, it's a cash-grab, and people get butthurt about that nowadays....but hey, the more content the better. As long as it isn't saturated in microtransactions or features are locked behind paywalls.
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Lonesome road.
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Locke90 posted...

Lonesome road.

Funny. I finally finished that as well. Had all four DLCs sitting in my backlog for years despite having finished the main FONV quest several years ago. What about that DLC ruined the story for you? Personally it didn't seem to add much to the story for me except kinda elevating the PC to something higher.
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InfestedAdam posted...

Locke90 posted...

Lonesome road.

Funny. I finally finished that as well. Had all four DLCs sitting in my backlog for years despite having finished the main FONV quest several years ago. What about that DLC ruined the story for you? Personally it didn't seem to add much to the story for me except kinda elevating the PC to something higher.

Well id say the whole ulysses character clearly being literal proof that they had removed him and that story from the main game to sell it to us as dlc plus the overuse of metaphor and forcing a background onto us.
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Locke90 posted...

plus the overuse of metaphor and forcing a background onto us.

That part did bother me. Sounded neat at first but at some point it got tiresome and in my mind I was just screaming out "talk straight for once!". The additional background story for the Courier did feel like it came out of nowhere and to some degree. I thought it was better knowing we had a clean slate at the beginning of the game.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

I hated the zombie thing of red dead redemption

ugh but it was so much better than the actual game and Id argue it was more fun than most of RDR2.
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I tend to dislike any DLC that forces itself into the main game somewhere in the middle of the flow, and ruins the pacing of the original game. That tended to be a problem with a lot of Dragon Age DLC (though that also did the "after the main game" version of DLC extremely well).

There's very little DLC that completely ruins my enjoyment of a game's story, though, because I'm usually pretty good at sensing which DLC is going to be completely bullshit and which will actively add to the experience positively, and I only ever really buy or download the stuff that won't be super-disruptive.

The most annoying might be Dawnguard for Skyrim, because that is actually pretty good DLC in and of itself, but it keeps triggering constant vampire attacks unless you drop everything and play the DLC early, and that can get mission critical NPCs killed because Skyrim is really kind of shit about how easily it kills off significant NPCs at the drop of a hat (so much so that I usually quick-load to avoid every single dragon attack, because fuck you when you've killed 3-4 important people before I can even see the damned dragon attacking). Generally the only way to avoid dead villagers is to deliberately avoid fast-traveling to cities if you'll wind up arriving after dark. Which is kind of annoying.


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None, but I dont buy DLC that feels out of place for the game to me.