Expansion packs?

    Quote from mikezilla

    Frozen Throne. Totally killer.

    Yay! I'm twisting your words, Frosen Throne for teh win

    My cousin roots for Opposing forces over Blue Shift even if BS had longer campaings and more content, he just thinks it was better. Hehe, BS what a great acronym.

    Quote from Campaignjunkie

    Blue Shift ... If only it would find its way on Steam, but I guess that's an impossibility.

    Yeh, I haven't played Blue Shift, but it should be included in the HL + expansions dealio.

    Opposing Force was totally awsome.

    Quote from ginsengavenger

    quoted for truth. how come nobody else has said this.

    Nah, I don't think so, Valve fucked HL2 up when compared to HL1. So devs don't always hit the gold, it's around 50% of skill and 50% of luck.

    I liked blue shift because it has the ending I wanted in HL

    In HL I got obsessed with making it to the surface and escape, but it never really hapened, or not the way I tought it be.

    Further it just depends on the quality, and sometimes you just need the expansion because it brings new maps and stuff for online games that you can;t find games without having it (Total Annihilation:CC, mmorpg,...)

    I actually think that expansions are great when the game itself is really story driven like Warcraft 3, it's like a sequel to a awesome movie or next issue of some comic novel, that is why most people here list HL expansions, HL was one of the greatest story driven games ever.

    But expansions like the Quake 3: Team Arena expansion sucked ass.

    But then again, there are games like Carmageddon what Mazle said that are just so great that even without massive story you are just happy with some amount of new content. Oh man, I better install Carmageddon right now.

    It's a pretty moot question really since it's totally relative. I mean, it's like asking "are games good?". It depends 100% on the quality of the expansion pack, how much it expands the original title, how much new content is added, if it's a SP expansion then is it equally immersive and lengthy, if it's an MP expansion does it offer lots of new content that is genuinely awesome to have, etc.

    An example of a really shit expansion pack is "Core Combat" for PlanetSide, which added some new content to the 100% multiplayer game, but you could easily get along without it -- it was so much of a pain in the arse to go get the new content from the expansion pack owners only caves (which were usually really quiet and no fun to play in) that most just didn't bother. The new content also seemed kind of rushed.

    On the other hand, an example of a really awesome expansion pack is Opposing Forces. It felt really well thought out and developed with regards to the storyline and the situations + scripted sequences presented, the art and design of the whole thing was really nice for the time (that chopper into was very cool back then imo), and it was really, really polished, with lots of new content and characters introduced. It also lasted a long time.

    So yeah, as others have said, it's totally down to how good the expansion itself is. There's no reason that purchasing an expansion cannot be just as worthwhile and provide as fresh an experience as purchasing the original game if it's done well. A lot of developers end up rushing expansion packs just to squeeze some extra cash out of the players, and it's generally those that end up sucking. When the developer has an actual passion for extending the storyline of the original, or telling it from a different perspective a la Opposing Forces, then it's usually good.

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    Diablo 2's expansion rocked. It had only one new act and still I played it for another 2 years, if not more.

    I could not agree more. In fact I'm still playing it. It only added one act though because if people were to play it singleplayer and not online it would porbally take longer than act 1 and 3 combined. Frozen Throne was the beta eva also, I could not put that game down until I beat it

    One expansion pack that I really wish I never bought though was call of duty united offensive. The single player was great, but the multiplayer was exacty the same since the vechicals were so scarace, which made it quite boring and repetitive.

    Bwt: If you play diablo 2 you must play hardcore or your not a man....your just a manly looking girl.

    Its funny with expansions, because with a game such as Battlefield 2, I dont want an addon with new gameplay or stuff like that. I just want more maps, more vehicles n more weapons. Fckn special forces :G

    Quote from curman

    yes agreetheres needs to be an opposing force: source

    BUT BUT BUT

    i want it a continuation, I don't want a freakin remake of the original, that's boring. I'm tired seeing fucking remakes of maps/mods, they need new content. there should be a whole nother story!!

    yes thats true curman, but one thing, expansion packs really dont give you a great storyline for the game. I dont understand why Valve released 2 expansion packs, i allways had a dream for 3 expansion pack playing and taking the role as an Alien from Xen. That would be different and awsome. Playing as a headcrab then morphing into something better like alien slave. Opposing force and blueshift was cool expansion packs but taking your role as a corporal and a security guard in black mesa. Maybye natural - selection is the perfect online game for human and alien player modes?

    Quote from Kosmo

    quoted for truth. how come nobody else has said this.

    Nah, I don't think so, Valve fucked HL2 up when compared to HL1. So devs don't always hit the gold, it's around 50% of skill and 50% of luck.

    Quoted for some truth. NOLF 2 was awesome, and NOLF2 expansion with Captain Jack Sparrow or whoever the hell that guy was sucked... but hey, maybe they were made by different devs?

    Quote from Mazy

    Its funny with expansions, because with a game such as Battlefield 2, I dont want an addon with new gameplay or stuff like that. I just want more maps, more vehicles n more weapons. Fckn special forces :G

    i want russia back in bf2 new expansion pack or whatever!!

    crazy ivan would be awsome, and Stalin as a special commando.

    Quote from Pericolos0

    is there any bf mod with mechs even?

    Oh yes there is, and not just any mechs, BATTLEMECHS!

    Mech Tactical Simulation, their site is curretly down, but no worries, they are still working on the mod. An interview of MaSaKaRi found here.

    Quote from Kosmo

    Oh yes there is, and not just any mechs, BATTLEMECHS!

    Mech Tactical Simulation, their site is curretly down, but no worries, they are still working on the mod. An interview of MaSaKaRi found here.

    cool

    Depends on developer and the game as others have said. I will say however that I find 'Resurrection Of Evil' to be better than Vanilla Doom 3...

    Quote from hamst3r

    One expansion pack that I really wish I never bought though was call of duty united offensive. The single player was great, but the multiplayer was exacty the same since the vechicals were so scarace, which made it quite boring and repetitive.

    wut! I had an inverted opinion - I thought the SP was alright but lacked some of the polish of the original, but the MP was excellent. CODUO is still one of my top-tier favorite MP games. I don't know what you mean by the vehicles being scarce, maybe you didn't give the right maps enough play time

    About developers, I think it's often difficult for an outside dev to nail the same tone and feel of a game in an expansion, and it shows.

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