Project Hel, a DLC for Ghostrunner. The base game was already pretty great, but the DLC added jump trajectories, making movement less ambiguous and improved the frankly wonky upgrade system of the original. It also added a new (albeit shorter) story, a new rage mechanic and you get to play as a cold, unfeeling cybernetic abomination controlled by the villain of the base game.
All of this is to say that I was floored on how much I preferred playing the DLC than the original and I loved Ghostrunner.
I generally don’t like DLC, and even disable them if possible, but Dark Souls 2 had some excellent DLC areas.
Pretty cliche, but The Witcher 3.
Both of them are excellent, blood and wine especially as it really nicely ends Geralt’s story. Also Tuson (sp?) is just beautiful.
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Toussaint. They weren’t being subtle about the frenchness
Oh, I fully agree. Two amazing story expansions that make a great game epic.
Rimworld
Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare was excellent.
I quite like most of the The Binding of Isaac DLC (although sometimes they’re a bit too big, to be honest).
The Vietnam DLC for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was also rather good. I didn’t get to play as much of it as I might have liked but I remember it being more than just a resin.
Bonus: Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge (an expansion pack rather than DLC admittedly)
Mass Effect trilogy had some pretty good DLC. Citadel is probably in my top 3 DLC of any game of all time.
path of exile - no one comes close either - free too
14+ years running
The following DLC From dying light was great, new area, new mechanic (driving) and expanded on the story
Hyrule Warriors Legends and Mario Kart 8 had DLC that doubled the content and didn’t cost that much. I probably played more DLC then the main game for both.
Fallout is pretty good. I appreciate that they have DLC directly from Bethesda, as well as the openly approved mods and the ability and openess to allow bigger mods that expand the game. There’s a lot of reasonable hate for Bethesda and their timeframe, but they’re pretty good on allowing mods that are essentially amateur DLC. I just wish we had an update to really make the series new.
Bo2 zombies DLC Was great.
The case of the golden idol and the sequel (rise of) both had brilliant DLC which really expanded the lore of the game
Factorio.
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I sadly have to disagree regarding Elden Ring. I love the DLC, but there’s pretty much 0 integration with the rest of the game. Nothing you do in the base game will change interactions in the DLC, and vice versa.
If a couple voice lines changed (e.g. for Melina, Midra regarding the Frenzied Flame, Miquella regarding Malenia) I’d agree completely, but as it is it’s very slapped on.
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Not sure my comment deserves a downvote when I clearly formulated my criticism after specifying that I very much like it, but you do you.
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Name checks out. Are you also forgetting the DLC is awkwardly levelled too? That it’s not accessible until quite far into the game but if you try go into it with a complete save you’ll be dramatically over-levelled.
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Fallout 3 and NV.
