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DLC?
Since it's becoming a thing in some 3DS games, do you think X and Y will have DLC? If so, what kinds of DLC?
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I hope so. Maybe we should have some Pokemon with Hidden Abilities, or version-exclusive Pokemon that we can't get usually. Maybe there'll be a new town with a new gym? We don't know, but that's what I'm thinking at the moment.
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I certainly think they will, not sure of the content though. I'd like an expansion to gameplay, new 'objectives' and other content along those lines.
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They said during E3 that they weren't doing DLC's yet. They'll look into it, but I doubt they'll have anything for us.
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Really? I think I missed that...I don't remember them saying that.
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Please, no. DLC is the plague of modern gaming. I don't want GF to sell an unfinished game that you need to fill with overpriced DLC.
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Although it'd be a cool way to add additional things into the game, which I'd personally love to see, I doubt actually foresee it happening. As Xander pointed out, it has to be hard-coded into the games initially to support the downloads. Although it certainly has a lot of potentially, I feel like Game Freak/Nintendo have always focused on having a more full-fledged story and an endless amount of possibilities for continued play, which meant that DLC wasn't necessary. It was always more about connecting with others to enhance your game experience, not just add random content to extend the game. Plus, making DLC would take away from the effort of making the (hopefully) next games that would follow after X/Y.
Although I'd love to see DLC added to maybe add previous regions/a more expansive post-game experience, I'd also just be happy having that in the original cartridge. Gen V took a step in the right directions by having the Seven Sage hunt. I'd much rather having the standard post-game options, plus something (hopefully) more expansive than that to kind of wrap-up all the loose ends of the story. |
DLC will most likely include outfits, UI skins, and other fluff things. I think special Pokemon will still be restricted to location-based events, although they might happen close in time frame now due to the simultaneous international release.
I personally hope that they give us more story content via DLC, i.e. missions, training opportunities, etc... And I sincerely hope that they give us most of the DLC for free. Only because Nintendo makes it very annoying to load money, and I also don't trust their system-tied accounts thing (it would be more comforting to me if they had a traditional username and password). |
I'm not expecting anything too sophisticated in terms of DLC for this generation. Probably just the event pokemon and some clothes for customizing our charactes.
Maybe a few generations from now we'll start seeing DLC locations or regions. |
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We've had DLC in generation 5 and I don't see why they would stop. Although its been nothing major like entire new zones, DLC has still been happening. The downloadable tournaments are actually pretty neat.
If they add as much content as BW2 there really isn't a need for a lot of new areas and stuff, anyway. In addition to the types of DLC we've been getting, I'm sure there will be stuff like outfits and minigames for Pokemon-amie. |
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Most likely the DLC will be clothing and accessories maybe different hairstyles or colors all kinds of stuff.
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if they do dlc, i hope that it is for like little side missions, u know to obtain special pokes similare to obtianing the extreme speed dratine(sorry about my spelling)
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I certainly hope we get DLC. Something like a side mission pack to add to the story so that once I've beaten I'm not aimlessly grinding or filling my Pokedex. I'd love to get to travel back to past regions too.
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If stuff like this have to be hard coded into the game first, then couldn't those event items that unlocked certain event Pokemon (Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Genesect drives) be counted as free DLC? If so, then we've been getting DLC all along, and this can continue on to X and Y.
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Additionally i doubt they would even bother creating an entire region in 3D so thankfully the possibilities of this happening are low. |
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They could even add new Pokemon to the dex this way as free downloads. Quote:
Anyway, what are you trying to say? They wouldn't bother creating a region in 3D? ... Have you seen X & Y? Most of the textures and 3D models would already be there from X & Y. All they'd need to create are the special buildings, and everything else is just mapping which doesn't take a lot of space. |
Please I do hope there will be no DLC or if there is I hope they won't be of the sort that are overpriced and bring nothing exciting into the game I'm looking at you Call of Duty. If they are very good and the price is acceptable, that's okay but if they follow the bad DLC trends, no thanks.
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DLC doesn't have to necessarily be "New Content" We knew about some areas for PMD's DLC before they were released and all they really do is randomize new maps with different coded Pokemon encounters/spawns. As for adding to the dex, that wouldn't work out well. We'd have to constantly patch our games and you would not be able to interact with someone that cannot update since that Pokemon's code would not exist in the other person's data and would cause conflicts as the games read one another. Which was the biggest reason they got rid of the time machine from Gen 2. If there were secret Pokemon, their coding would already exist in the game to have the rest of the coding appear after purchasing. Either way as I said before it doesn't really look like they'll do the DLC thing(A real DLC not the event downloads). If we have giveaways like new Avatar Items, they'd be through Nintendo Wifi Connection like the Pokemon ones were. We probably won't have to pay for anything which would probably be another reason why Gamefreak may not want to do DLC. They most likely don't want to force their audience to pay for something like that. |
Umm What is DLC? I know I am sounding newbish but I dk what that is.
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