This was also posted in the Red Dead Redemption thread, but I thought I might give it a general airing. To me it’s:
Prey: Mooncrash. It has a definite ending, and I had done pretty much everything in it.
Yet ten minutes after I switched off the machine after the titles ran, I was back, on a completely fresh game playing it all through again. Loved it.
Barely related to the original.
They are very divisive but I love Paradox DLC. Yes, they make dozens of DLC. Yes, you can just ignore all the graphical or music ones, unless you really like that particular culture. But the fact that playing their game on release day and playing it 6 years later is a completely different experience is wonderful to me, and I wish more devs supported their games for so long after release. Often a game that has a solid base and a good fanbase will increase in scope and see features the devs never even dreamed of in pre-development added.
And for just a single DLC - the fact that owning both Total War: Warhammer I and II lets you play on a massive map with the factions from both games.
Red Dead: Undead Nightmare. Closest contender to that would be Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls.
If we’re counting stand-alone expansions like Undead Nightmare, I’ll vote for Warlords III: Darklords Rising. I loved those campaigns and they were way more interesting than the original Warlords III.
I don’t buy a ton of DLC, but The Last of Us: Left Behind was the first one that came to mind.
Originally I kind of missed the boat on the importance of DLC for some games, and just proceeded as normal, bought a few titles when discounted on steam, had some full price for christmas as gifts. However, none of these would contain the DLC.
Then halfway through some games it just stopped. It appeared they were now mandatory to really finish the game, like Assassins creed Odyssey. It seemed that I had to pay premium to pick up the older bits of games I’d enjoyed, and never realised they were actually good. Arkham Knight: Cold Cold Heart was a nice step back into that game for a good chunk.
Prey: Mooncrash was an eye opener in that sense, it was wonderful, shorter than the main game, so I now sit back and wait till the season passes are discounted before I commit to a “game” (as if it is really one game now).
However, even with that they’ve started stopping the season passes and making them multiple seasons. Borderlands 3 seems to be now needing me to buy a further season pass to continue, but in that case there was so much of the game, I feel little need to buy more.
However, a I took the chance to step back into the Dishonoured world again, but was a bit saddened when there didn’t seem to be any significant DLC for Dishonoured 2 or Death of the outsider.
Anyway, I did miss some of these DLCs, so just expanding on my background, and would like to know some game ends I might have missed. I remember thinking Watchdogs 2 was quite short.
Agree, this is absolutely fantastic.
It might be better than my previous favorite, ME2’s Lair of the Shadow Broker.
That’s one I had written down to try a while back, but I think I didn’t own it via steam so would need to either locate the old discs or rebuy the original game.
I heard Dragonage : Awakening was good too.
I find it interesting some games just don’t have it, well apart from extra weapons and suits, which I’m not talking about here. Dead Space for instance, GTA V, and apparently Red Dead Redemption 2. Which makes it ok for me to pay the higher price.
FYI, a remaster of the trilogy is coming in the spring, complete with all DLC for all three games.
I’ve found the remasters vastly overpriced for a bit better graphics on a game I’ve already played though. An excuse to get 20 quid off me again for a game I probably won’t play through again.
When I think of quality DLC, the ones that come to mind are those for Fallout New Vegas. Especially the way that Blood Money, Lonesome Road and Old World Blues all end up tying together with each other and the main story. A lot of DLC add quality bits of fun, but most of them feel too separated from the source. [I’m not saying Honest Hearts is bad, but it doesn’t move me the way the others do 
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Having said that, if I had to pick one, it would be Blood Money. Which is weird to me, because it is the one I like to play the least as it is can be insanely frustrating to do - since it strips your gear and greatly restricts your options in some builds. But the story, while fully Fallout-y, does an amazing job of portraying the nature of human greed, whether it is the pre-war bits, the greed of your companions, or that of the antagonist. And how your own greed can result in a greatly changed endings. Details omitted for spoiler reasons of course.
I love OWB as well, as mad science gone wrong is always funny, but since it tends to be on a much larger scale with more ‘wacky’ moments, it doesn’t pack the same punch. But it is more fun to Play through, as is Lonesome road.
ObPedant: Dead Money, not “Blood Money.”
I’m inclined to mostly agree, except I would prefer Honest Hearts. More my play style and much more enjoyable scenery and zone design. But, ad always, YMMV.