10 Video Games That Only Make Sense If You Bought The DLC
Best way to instantly p**s off your fans? Charge them an extra $15 to see the ending.
Downloadable content has been a controversial topic since it first popped up in the gaming world. Starting out almost immediately on the wrong foot by using the service to sell players things they didn't want or need, like the infamous horse armour for Oblivion (oh how far the industry has fallen since that was the most pressing issue), adding extra content to a release is as touchy of a subject as it's ever been.
The caution surrounding DLC is for good reason though, as while there have been some amazing instances of post-release content outmatching the original product, there are some developers that have relied on extra DLC far too much, to the point where the actual game they ship out to players is far from the complete package.
Featuring plot points that go nowhere or endings that suddenly cut to black without any resolution, buying additional DLC can be the only way to make sense of the stories of these games.
Some studios are worse than others for releasing an incomplete experience with the idea that the gaps can be filled in with additional expansions later though, resulting in a plethora of popular titles that the majority of players never got the full picture of.
10. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - A Time Jump Explained
While Deus Ex: Human Revolution shipped with a pretty tight and coherent single-player story, the main game featured a completely jarring time jump that gets immediately overlooked, as late in the the story hero Adam Jensen disappears for three days in between chapters without explanation.
The first expansion fills in these missing hours however, and explains that Jensen was actually captured by enemies and stripped of his augmentations, having to fight his way out of their lair and escape to continue his mission.
Although it's not that substantial from a gameplay perspective, it should really have been present in the base release to begin with - something which the devs clearly recognised, as they integrated the DLC into its intended spot in the narrative for the Director's Cut re-release.
Hell, the DLC was literally titled "The Missing Link", just in case you had any reservations about how vital it was to the overall story.