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There's a game on Steam called How to Survive. It's a kind of run-of-the-mill zombie survival action-RPG, with some crafting. It's not a terrible game. I'm not exactly sure how it ended up in my Steam library, though, unless it was part of one of the several Humble Bundles I've gotten over the years.
What is terrible, however, is that early on, you get a quest from someone via radio saying to come to a certain island (the whole game takes place on a series of islands) to help them. You can even go to that island, but the player character says something like "I don't think I'm equipped well enough to be here, I should come back later." When I saw that, I just immediately turned around and left. Well, when later comes, you can no longer reach that island. The boat that used to take you there just redirects to one of the other islands. The quest remains active forever, but you just can't complete it, because you can't get back to the island anymore. I also recall that earlier on in the game, there were several more islands that appeared on the loading screen travel map, but after a certain, arbitrary point, it switched over to showing only four islands, and aside from the one trip you can make to the other island early in the game, as I mentioned above, those four islands are the only ones you ever go to in the game.
I looked it up on Steam forums to see if anyone else had encountered this bug (or what I thought was a bug) and the responses were along the lines of "You probably don't have the DLC installed."
So, yeah, this is one of the more egregiously horrid examples of DLC whoring that I've seen in a while. It's bullshit. I think that I would have to not recommend the game, based solely on that. It definitely soured my experience of the game. I went ahead and finished it, since I was already so close to the end anyway, but again, that's some seriously disgusting in-game DLC shilling. I'm sure as shit never going to be buying said DLC, or any other games made by this developer, for that matter.
(EDIT) Oh, and several of the achievements seem to be related to the DLC as well, even if you don't have the DLC, which I don't. Not that I care about the achievements, personally, but still, it's just another example of this game's atrocious DLC hustling. (/EDIT)
What is terrible, however, is that early on, you get a quest from someone via radio saying to come to a certain island (the whole game takes place on a series of islands) to help them. You can even go to that island, but the player character says something like "I don't think I'm equipped well enough to be here, I should come back later." When I saw that, I just immediately turned around and left. Well, when later comes, you can no longer reach that island. The boat that used to take you there just redirects to one of the other islands. The quest remains active forever, but you just can't complete it, because you can't get back to the island anymore. I also recall that earlier on in the game, there were several more islands that appeared on the loading screen travel map, but after a certain, arbitrary point, it switched over to showing only four islands, and aside from the one trip you can make to the other island early in the game, as I mentioned above, those four islands are the only ones you ever go to in the game.
I looked it up on Steam forums to see if anyone else had encountered this bug (or what I thought was a bug) and the responses were along the lines of "You probably don't have the DLC installed."
So, yeah, this is one of the more egregiously horrid examples of DLC whoring that I've seen in a while. It's bullshit. I think that I would have to not recommend the game, based solely on that. It definitely soured my experience of the game. I went ahead and finished it, since I was already so close to the end anyway, but again, that's some seriously disgusting in-game DLC shilling. I'm sure as shit never going to be buying said DLC, or any other games made by this developer, for that matter.
(EDIT) Oh, and several of the achievements seem to be related to the DLC as well, even if you don't have the DLC, which I don't. Not that I care about the achievements, personally, but still, it's just another example of this game's atrocious DLC hustling. (/EDIT)
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Date: 2018-05-17 10:57 am (UTC)From:One of the later two games that had DLC like this or had achievements attached to the DLC were:
1. Nier Automata. The DLC (18 dollars or so) consists of 3 bonus areas for fighting in, with a new costume being the bonus of each. Without buying the DLC, you can still find the stupid doors, guarded by a little robot that says "oh there's nothing at all here! I'm so sorry!!"
2. In Project Diva FutureTone on the PS4, the game seems to want people to are about the leaderboards they threw in. Total scores of all the songs played and the difficulties etc all help give you a total score. Problem is, the DLC (4 expansions so far and counting) songs all add to your total score just like the regular scores. So the Haves can most certainly, and easily, outrank the Have Nots. I did pick up the expansion pack "Season pass" which included only the first 3 expansions. They had a 4th show up afterwards that I have yet to consider buying. Maaaaybe if they put it on sale for half price or less. Barring that, they can keep it.
Both of the above are games I enjoyed. But I enjoyed them LESS because of the DLC bullshit. In fact after finishing the main story I had to put Nier away. When it comes to Project Diva I rarely find the time to care enough to even start playing it for more than a couple songs. A big change from how I use to play the earlier games in the series a lot.
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Date: 2018-05-17 01:36 pm (UTC)From:Another problem, too, is that because I played this one zombie game, Steam Discovery now seems to think I want to play nothing but zombie games.