Breath of the Wild's Season Pass is the Worst DLC Nintendo Has Ever Made

"Nintendo were a bit late getting on the DLC train in the first place, but when they did the results were pleasantly surprising. Breath of the Wild has taken no lessons from their Mario Kart & Smash Bros. DLC successes, bending back into a cheap cash grab that just feels a bit scummy."

[Neonridr]

new pieces of armor, new difficulty mode and a masters trials which unlocks a reward for your master sword? Never thought that would be considered skimping out, that's a fair bit of content there for the first bit of DLC.

[MrFisher21]

Story would have been nice.

[scarface0121]

That's coming on the next dlc pack. Dam does no one use Google anymore?

[Sono421]

I wish people would understand that people want the harder difficulty to be free because the vanilla game is just so easy. How is a game rewarding when it takes almost no effort? Then you hear Nintendo is releasing an actual update that might just make the game challenging, but they put it behind a paywall, how do you not understand people's frustration? If you found the game challenging good for you, but there are plenty of people that had no problem with it whatsoever, ESPECIALLY with the final boss... so easy.

[Prince_TFK]

Sono421

Vanilla game is so easy? Lmao did you say that based on your experience of the game or based on Youtube videos? I would love to see you try taking on a Lynel (doesn't have to be a lightning or bombing lynel, just an ordinary one) without getting killed on the first try or without losing a health bar.

Please know that the hard difficulty is not just put in there for difficulty's sake. There are new enemies, regenerating enemies, and all of the existing enemies get upgraded to their more difficult counterparts.

The dlc also include new weapon, new armor, new sidequests, and many other new toys to play around with. Plus you will be getting a story dlc at the end of the year as well.

Please do your research next time. I'm not saying that i'm support DLC, but when others put out even more worse dlcs at even higher price, you can't fault Nintendo for this.

[Sono421]

Kun the fact that you first tried to claim I never played the game kind of says it all and just because you did that i'm not surprised at all that you missed the point, why is the challenge put behind a paywall? I never once said the season pass isn't worth $20 in content. Not once. I asked why is the only challenge put behind a paywall? Also all Lyonels follow an attack pattern each very easy to learn and they leave themselves open to attacking slow mo constantly, not to mention once you get the lightning attack they become even easier. Just please answer, why is something as basic as a harder difficulty (Which comes with all games) put behind a paywall especially when (Yes I will say it again) the vanilla game is SO easy.

[Nitrowolf2]

@Sono421

I beat the game and even i thought it was easy.

Just because you died to a new enemy the 1st time doesnt make it hard, plenty of people die in games to fighting a boss their first time or an enemy, yiu just gotta learn the mechanics

[Neonridr]

DLC #2 has the expansion quest lines.

[kreate]

There's really no need to argue. Just don't buy season pass.

[septemberindecember]

@Sono421

"Also all Lyonels follow an attack pattern each very easy to learn and they leave themselves open to attacking slow mo constantly"

Do you even know what you have to do in order to instigate slo-mo attacking? They don't just "leave themselves open"...you have to time it REALLY well. The lyonels aren't as easy as some Youtube people would lead you to believe. If you watched some people play Dark Souls on Youtube you could get that same impression.

Long story short, the game isn't "SO easy". And based upon that one quote that you provided right there I don't believe that you've actually played the game (or at least you haven't gone very far if you have played it).

[Goldby]

@sept

Yet dark souls includes upwards of 10 difficulty increases.

And sorry to say man, timing is easy, takes some practice but timing blocks, dodges and anything like that is easy after enough practice.

There's people doing 1 hit visceral kills on bosses in bloodborne based on timing

[septemberindecember]

@Goldby

I've beat Dark Souls a number of times and there are no difficulty levels. You are confusing it for New Game +, which is different.

"And sorry to say man, timing is easy, takes some practice but timing blocks, dodges and anything like that is easy after enough practice. There's people doing 1 hit visceral kills on bosses in bloodborne based on timing"

So, does that make Bloodborne easy too? Or any Souls game for that matter? Timing can be had with practice and patience. In time you can "git gud" with any game, but that doesn't make a game "SO easy".

[Kosic]

Comparing to other games. I wouldn't say it's great dlc content.

Difficulty + mode and you have to pay for it... can't see how that's something you can defend.

New skins, sure I'll let that slide as a microtransaction.
Unsure how long master of trials is, if under an hour it's a rip off.

[The 10th Rider]

The trials are around 4 hours, if you can make it through without dying at all (most people I've seen have died). Dying once can add a substantial amount of time it takes to complete them since there's only certain "checkpoint" floors.

EDIT: Took this guy around 4 hours without dying https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[spartan112g]

Good thing this isn't the only part of the DLC. It's only the first of two drops.

[Vegamyster]

The difficulty & Hero path map feature should be free, i haven't played the Master Trails so i dunno how good that is yet. I wouldn't call it terrible DLC since the big one is yet to release which they said will include a new story, dungeon & challenges that is included in the $20 price tag.

[Kosic]

@Vegamyster you can't defend Dlc#1 with "Well, DLC 2 will be bigger."

My opinion is based on the current DLC that is out, it looks lacking in content and half off it should've been free or there from the start. When the 2nd DLC comes out, we will see what it's all about at that time.

[The 10th Rider]

Ah, N4G. Where you can respond to someone's musings about something's length with information along with a source and everyone still disagrees.

Stay classy, N4G.

[TKCMuzzer]

You should never have to pay for a difficulty mode in any game, should be a standard feature.

[TekoIie]

@kosic

"you can't defend Dlc#1 with "Well, DLC 2 will be bigger."

Actually you kind of have to considering that these two packs can not be bought separately.

I think it costs about £17.99 in the UK? If so the question is how do we break down the value of whats in DLC #1 to determine whether the expansion pack is worth the asking price.

Of course the problem is that we have no idea what the champions ballad dlc will contain so until then it's anyone's guess.

[thekhurg]

CD Projekt Red gave that type of content away for free.

Just saying...

[Nodoze]

Nintendo is getting greedy.

[InKnight7s]

Btw overwatch gave everything fore more than 1 year for free in time there are games start to do 2 season passes for per game.

[spartan112g]

DLC for multiplayer games is a lot different than DLC for singleplayer games. They aren't funding it via people being loot boxes during seasonal events (Overwatch). Also, even the Witcher charged for story DLC, which is what this pack is giving later.

[Stevonidas]

You mean the "free" stuff that CDPR had already made but merely cut from the retail release to let trickle out over the next few months?

Yeah, apples and oranges there, pal.

[OpenGL]

@MIKE702KA

That's an interesting take because BOTW ran pretty poorly on the Nintendo Switch in docked mode until patch 1.1.1 came out.

[thekhurg]

@mike

Nope. It was not "very buggy". It had the standard amount of issues for a gigantic open world RPG.

But it also had thousands of lines of spoken dialog, highly unique quests, an incredible story, solid combat, etc... Plus it launched on three different platforms with a smaller developer budget.

Yet they still gave away what Nintendo is charging for on this DLC. Yeah....

[Bahamut]

Well... CD Projekt Red was EXCEPTIONALLY generous. Kinda unfair to hold Nintendo to that standard when no one else is that generous. That being said, the DLC sounds pretty lame, they definitely could've done better.

[Bahamut]

@InKnight7s

Yeah but Overwatch is a Free-to-Play game that they charge people full price for. Their lootbox system is shady, greedy, and garbage. You shouldn't use them as an example.

[Bjorn-c-blocker]

Zelda is a 100 times better game than the witcher. The witcher is close to trash for game play. It doesn't matter how much content you add if the content is not fun to play and involves pushing forward to a marker to press a button followed by a bad combat sequence and another a marker followed by another walking around session.. The game is so bad.

[DrumBeat]

Another game Breath of The Wild doesn't hold a candle to. Witcher 3.

[CrimsonWing69]

So people complain about Armor DLC (Oblivion), people complain about difficulty being DLC (Metro), and some challenges (whoop dee damn doo doo). Yet when Zelda does it it's considered a fair bit of content?

Let's put it this way, I'm glad Dark Souls' DLC wasn't just armor, a new difficulty, and challenges--er excuse me, trials.

Nintendo can do no wrong to some people, I guess.

[spartan112g]

Maybe because those are all just small parts of this overall pack while those were the entire pack in those cases. There's still more coming.

[Neonridr]

$20 for all of that plus a story expansion later this year. Not a bad deal to me. Maybe you have different standards but most games nowadays charge $20 for a few extra MP maps.

[jaymacx]

20 bucks is for both packs combined. This pack is only the first (half) sort of. The second half is supposedly much bigger. I can agree that for some people this DLC may seem small but other games make you pay way more for less. Plenty of people say that many of these offerings should have been free. However this game is already jam packed full of content. I played well over 100 hours. That is well over 60 bucks worth. I would put Persona 5 in the same category, some of its DLC felt cash grabby but I won't complain about it because the game is so complete.

[spartan112g]

Finally! Someone who knows reason.

[Zeldafan64]

I've got over 200 hours in BotW. $20 more for everything they're offering in the DLC is perfectly reasonable to me.

[spartan112g]

I feel like the Nintendo haters came out with no actual understanding of how the DLC works to try to push their own agenda.

[F4ctory_Reset]

I feel Nintendo can do no wrong in your eyes.

Do I believe you get great value for your money with this season pass? Yes.
(Trials + new story dlc will be worth the $20)
Do I believe they should hide the difficulty behind the season pass? Nope.

But the worst part is something I didn't even see people complain about yet: the fact you can't get both DLC packs seperately. It's either getting the season pass or not getting anything at all.

[Kosic]

We aren't Nintendo haters. We are looking at what's being given out for a cost, compared to things which should've been in the game already, or something that I've missed in games of old, where you can actually unlock something.

"Hero's Path Mode
This new map feature shows the path Link has walked through Hyrule from the last 200 hours of gameplay. Use the time tracker bar to see where you've spent the most time and where you have yet to explore. There's bound to be more adventures and maybe a shrine or two on the road less traveled."

Should there really be a cost? Shouldn't this be something that's unlockable?

"Master Mode
In Master Mode, enemies gradually regain health, so take them out as quickly as possible. All enemies are also powered up by one level. For example, Red Bokoblins in Normal mode are now Blue Bokoblins. Enemies can also have higher maximum levels than they would in Normal mode. Look up, and you may also find enemies and treasure chests in the sky!"

Difficulty + mode
Should this really be part of DLC and not just patched in for free?

"Travel Medallion
Somewhere in the world, there is a chest with a Travel Medallion inside. When you use this, you can register your current location as a fast travel point on the map. You can only register one location using the Travel Medallion."

Again, shouldn't this be an unlockable item?

Trial of the sword, additional armour sets, and a mask. I would honestly say are what you expect in DLC content. The rest are pathetic filler additions.

Nintendo are learning the ways of DLC, and so far, it's pretty poor for BOTW.

[JBlaze226]

especially for $20

[Nu]

This DLC isn't worth $20

[frostypants]

New armor? Sounds like the sort of thing Witcher 3 would get for free...

New difficulty mode? You're fine with paying for what amounts to some slider adjustments on the back end?

Masters trials? Depends on the content and the rewards I guess. Nothing you said sounds that convincing though.

[NecoTehSergal]

Difficulty levels being put behind a Paywall, people - think about this for a minute.

Nintendo made DLC out of DIFFICULTY LEVELS. It'd be like if you played Doom and each difficulty you wanted to play was $2-5. xDDD Don't defend Nintendo like sheep, get angry - that's your job as a customer to tell companies to stop their crap when they've gone too far. Nintendo putting a new difficulty level in a season pass, behind DLC, is a HUGE issue.

[Zeldafan64]

Trying to turn Nintendo fans against the company is really pathetic. Making a mountain out of a molehill is a Nintendo hater's favorite pastime. When BotW wins game of the year I'm gonna really enjoy seeing all you guys complaining about it.

[Kyizen]

A hard difficulty as DLC...that ia scummy!

[Bahamut]

Idk, sounds like that all should have been added in a free patch. DLC should come in the form of hefty EXPANSIONS that include new dungeons, new story, new enemies, etc. Anything less than that is just lame and shouldn't cost much, if anything at all.

[showtimefolks]

Neo

What's next 2nd play through will not be considered dlc

Come on man to Nintendo fans Nintendo can do whatever and they will be defended regardless

[CaptainObvious878]

Ninty fans will still eat this up and ninty know this.

[Scatpants]

That's totally skimping. It's just about the least they could do.

[HellzAssassin]

Hmm....
Well... let's see. Nioh has had at least 10-12 updates.
DLC #1 was $10 ($25 for season pass)
Added at least 10 new missions
New enemies/bosses
New difficulty
Entirely new weapon (with full skill tree)
Increasing maximum divine weapon & spirit levels
Entirely new weapon class with a full skill set
New armour

And FREE updates adding PVP, new crafting upgrades and materials, weapons, armour, balancing, "in-game achievements, which you can use to unlock bonuses, etc.
Talk about good support..
I'd say 95% of most DLC out there is complete shit, with the exception of a few games; Dying Light, Bloodbourne, Nioh to name a few.

So yes, in retrospect that first DLC for Breath of the Wild sucks.

[Zeldafan64]

The main portion of the DLC isn't out yet. New story DLC and a new dungeon are well worth $20 for me alone, the other stuff is just a bonus.

[rocketpanda]

Hardly enough content to justify the price. Half of the content is modes that should be in the game like difficulty. Selling a new difficult as dlc, gtfo! The Metro developers even did that an got heavily criticised for it.

Even if you only want certain dlc things, too bad! You have to buy the season pass because Nintendo!

I remember Nioh offering new difficulties (note plural) as free patch updates. Story expansion, weaspons and armour is the actual dlc you'll pay for. Shoving a new paid mode out knowing that salivating Nintendo diehard will lap it up and make excuses for it that it's great is quite sad.

[Zeldafan64]

BotW is going to win game of the year and you're upset about it, too bad. I think your anger is quite funny.

[Dragonscale]

Since when has a difficulty setting been in paid for dlc? Very scummy tbh.

[godashram]

If you see it at $20 for just the content released today, then yes, it's bad.... but as a season pass, there is more to come...well, 1 more to be exact. If seen as $10 per pack, which is what it technically is, it's not so bad. Even better if you find an eshop giftcard on sale.

[EddieNX]

Nailed it. Its amazing DLC for 10$ DEFINITELY worth it and I cant wait for next pack. This article is BS. i'd describe the master trials as 'survival dark souls'.

[Bahamut]

Slow down, he didn't put that much emphasis on it. $10 is a relatively fair price, but not OMG DEFINITELY WORTH IT, just... slow down.

[Bjorn-c-blocker]

It is more like a $5 dollar pack and a $15 dollar pack.. we just got the $5 pack.

[SirBradders]

£20 for thee season pass is not bad at all for what they have given.

COD sell A! single weapon skin for £2 just for comparison.

[Sono421]

COD has also given you 4 new weapons(more if you include zombies weapons), 16 new maps, and 4 new Zombies maps for $40 before.. don't cherry pick the worst deal to try to justify this.

[Ricegum]

Yeah. I don't get why people bring up Cod, granted the Variety map pack fiasco is a bit much but the content they offer for DLC isn't all that bad. Best example for DLC value is Gearbox with the Borderlands series. That was some great value in my opinion.

[DanteVFenris666]

That sounds even worst... that's almost the price of a full game just for some new maps

[Sono421]

Dante in what way is that worse? 20 maps, 4 of those come with their own mini story and new weapons (Zombies) and 4 new weapons for online, and it's only double the Zelda season pass but easily double the amount of content, and keep in mind this is from activision the company known for terrible antics, so when they are looking better or let's just say for arguments sake they equate to the same value, how does that make Nintendo look? Being close to one of the worst companies in the industry.

[SirBradders]

Sono421 Now lets compare that £40 to Battlefield Season Pass and see where the comparison takes you.
:-D

[InTheZoneAC]

you know your value sucks when you make CoD DLC look like a deal.

[Bahamut]

Yeah but Call of Duty sucks. Can we use a different example?

[Liqu1d]

CoD gets criticised for it's DLC practices as well.

[Bahamut]

CD Projekt Red, Rockstar, and Blizzard are about the only ones who get it right. Ah, well, most of the time, anyway. Blizz has some exceptions ($15 for Necromancer??).

[rocketpanda]

And guess what, you can choose to buy that single skin, you don't need to buy a whole season pass and waste your money because they decided to bundle nonsense with the item you actually want.

[The 10th Rider]

I think some of the features should have been free, such as the hero's path mode and traveler's medallion. When I first heard about Master Mode I had thought that should have been originally included, but after hearing about some of the stuff they did with it I do think it's fair to include it in the DLC. The trail of the swords is actually pretty substantial (easily 2-4 hours if you beat it without dying). The extra armors are basically a skin pack that would be $4-6 on their own. On top of that this is just the first batch of DLC and the second batch has been suspected to be more substantial since they were first revealed.

[Stevonidas]

$80 ($60 for game, $20 for Expansion) for the complete Breath of the Wild experience is more than fair. Stop being cheap, people.

[EddieNX]

Youre getting downvoted by assholes who havent played what is easily one of the best games ever made.

[jaycptza]

or people that don't take kindly to being called cheap. Lets face it the 1st Part of the DLC is lack luster

[_-EDMIX-_]

???

You need to seriously relax. You legit can't take that people disagree with you. I own this game on Wii U.

I don't agree with ti being "the best games ever made" I don't even think its the best ZELDA ever made.

It abuses the open world to death, you have fields of just emptiness, the dungeons might be the worst ever featured in a Zelda game, they bosses suck, so many things suck about this game.

I literally only liked the small puzzle dungeons, last boss.......thats it. Can't roll, no hook shot, stupid story, it was a meh Zelda for me. I like Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, I'd say I like even Majora's Mask more.

Not everyone agrees that this is the "best games ever" even those that played it. Not ALL are part of the cult bud. Relax.

I don't see much real reason for anyone to buy this DLC, I'm not buying this crap. I got my fill of this game and moved on.

Just not a lot of quality content. SOooooooooooo much filler, this is the most filler Zelda game I've ever played.

I'm not spending 200 hours collecting crap, that isn't quality to me.

[SirBradders]

No one is it one the best games ever made. This is coming from someone who loves open world RPG's and would of never picked up a Switch prior to seeing all the raving reviews.

It does a lot of things right but at the same time does a lot of basic things wrong which does not warrant a 10/10, it is pushing a 8.5 / 9 at most.

No Voice acting, Hardly anything in the open world other than Shrines and them leaf things. (after 30 hours of play i expected to at least stumble on a proper dungeon or two. Breakable Weapons but no crafting (I'm sorry but this should have been reserved for Master mode), No skill tree or talent system, Key items locked out by Amiibos, Fast travel locked to shrines (That's just lazy) and Link doesn't say a word.

I can go on and list all the things right with it but i am sure you can to.

Nintendo fans must have a low bar set when it comes to open world games because i can name a few which blow it out the Water. Comparing to the most recent Horizon i felt that Horizon hit the sweet spot in which 50-60 hours you have seen and done everything in such a vast space. So far BOTW feels like it will keep me longer only due to the fact it takes so long to get anywhere i.e. slow movement speed, poor horse mechanics and poorly designed World with stamina being a big issue to climbing over simple hills.

[InTheZoneAC]

then I compare to quality games who provide more in game on a smaller budge and give us for free what Nintendo is charging, and on top of that those other DLCs are almost a new games worth of content.

How did you manage to permanently fix shades to yourself?

[Zeldafan64]

Superchiller - how many alt accounts do you have?

I've put over 200 hours into BotW and still haven't even done 80 shrines yet. I've only unlocked 11 of the 18 memories and gotten just 118 Korok Seeds. You're just mad because you know BotW is going to win game of the year.

[InTheZoneAC]

#1, who is superchiller, kid?
#2, I have botw on the wii u and I won't be mad if it wins goty, but GoTY might go to Dragon Ball FighterZ

[NotoriousWhiz]

Has a fighting game ever won game of the year?

[Zeldafan64]

I'm 31 years old. I don't think that qualifies me as a kid anymore but whatever makes you feel better.

[SegaGamer]

You mean DLC that should have been in the game from the start right ? Selling a different difficulty separately........come on, that is just BS. Expansion ? yeah, sure.

[Dalailana]

That's one part of the dlc. Trail of the sword is like 5 hours long if you don't die.

That's a lot of content for 10$

[rocketpanda]

This isn't an expansion though, that come so it later and you have no idea what it is at this point?

It's not about being cheap, it is about what you get for what you pay for! I have no qualms about buying dlc, but not season passes for future content I have no idea about or will include regardless hos good the base game is. Or even preorder BS to get exclusive story, character or item.

You said it yourself, you have to spend extra to get the complete experience. How sad is that when you need to pay more to get the the complete experience for any game.

[sk8ofmnd]

These things should have been in the original version of the game... Or given for free to all that bought the wiiu thinking they were getting this game years ago.

How much does anyone want to bet that there will never be a "game of the year" version with all this stuff packed in later on down the road?

Naw nintendo like to nickel and dime people.

The way i see it, this is half the asking price of the full game, if this doesnt equate to half the experience of the full game its a rip off.

Above:

People quit bending over and buying and taking whatever nintendo give you and make all the excuses in the world to justify your purchase.

[EddieNX]

Its one of the best games ever made and released with like 120 hours of content, stop being a cheap skate. If theres 1 game worth buying its BOTW. its a third of the asking price and DLC pack one is worth 10$ , a 6th of the price.

[InTheZoneAC]

you are some kind of special...

[_-EDMIX-_]

smh

I love how you are not coming off as a ad

[-Foxtrot]

Best games ever made....lol

I could think of a massive handful of "great games" and you'd only find one Zelda in that list....here's a little secret, it's not BotW.

[septemberindecember]

"Or given for free to all that bought the Wii U thinking they were getting this game years ago"
What an utterly ridiculous statement. I suppose Sony should just give out free PS4's to the PS3 owners that were promised The Last Guardian, eh? Wii U owners received the game that they were promised. There is no reason why they should be compensated because of Zelda.

"The way I see it, this is half the asking price of the full game, if this doesn't equate to half the experience of the full game its a rip off"
But...its not half the asking price of the full game...

[Zeldafan64]

You're talking to a brick wall when it comes to trying to reason with these people. I know you already know that but thought I'd say it anyway.

[DanteVFenris666]

Someone hasn't played one of nintendos best franchises than... fire emblem.

Botw fox is more than fair especially comparing it too other developers.

[Djinn]

Nintendo fans make me sick. If this was EA or Sony or Konami or anyone else you'd all be out for blood and complaining about how greedy these companies are but since in this case it's Nintendo, then "80 dollars for the complete experience is fair and everyone should stop being so cheap." I will say again, Nintendo drones make me sick. You're all pathetic.

[spartan112g]

What's actually pathetic is your poor excuse of understanding of what the DLC pack actually is. What's actually pathetic is how you don't seem to understand that it's a $20 pack that comes with not only this DLC pack, but also the next one in the winter. What's actually pathetic are the people that get angry at those other companies for charging for DLC.

[Prince_TFK]

I have got to agree with you. As I had stated I don't support DLC but this got overblown way out of proportion. Every company make dlc (even CDPR) so to fault only Nintendo on this matter is just madness. What's more, there are worst companies that put out worst dlcs at even higher prices than Nintendo, yet Nintendo is the only bad guy here.

This is a season pass, i.e. there are two contents being released at different time. This is not just one piece of dlc fyi. Wait until the story dlc come out before judging the value of this season pass as a whole.

[porkChop]

If this DLC pack was the only thing in the $20 pass, I could see your point. But it isn't. This is just a small offering to tide people over until the big expansion comes out. There's a new story, a new dungeon, and new challenges coming later this year, and that is also included in the $20 pass. If you're not happy with the first batch of DLC, that's fine. But to say the entire pass is a rip-off when we haven't even seen the real DLC yet is a bit ridiculous. Gamers these days are what make me sick because no one uses any logic anymore, no one has any patience, everyone is so quick to judge and condemn before they even have all the facts.

[Zeldafan64]

The only reason this article and the comments section was put here was to try to turn Nintendo fans against the company. Why else would perfectly logical, sensible statements be getting downvoted into oblivion and the toxic comments railing on Nintendo have way more upvotes than down?

[Neonridr]

lol big talk.. meet me at the jungle gym to settle this once and for all

[PigPen]

That sounds like a personal problem. I bought the DLC and love it.

[Zeldafan64]

No, most Nintendo fans like myself ignore the companies they don't like. If you don't like something you should just ignore it if at all possible, that's what I do. Why are you going so far out of your way to tear into Nintendo fans? It's bizarre and disturbing.

[deafdani]

I won't even bother reading this article. Anyone with a minimun shred of common sense would know to wait until the actual story DLC comes out before passing judgment for the Season Pass as a whole.

[ShinRon]

im just disappointed in what the hard mode consists of

if they dont address the way you can hoard resources, freeze the game world on a pause menu and heal with no penalty or cool down the game will never offer any real challenge.

but to ppl talking about story dlc lol, gtfo

[Enigma_2099]

Put out a base game that's complete and worth the asking price, and you can add all the DLC you want.

[Stevonidas]

They already did.

[Enigma_2099]

I'm talking in general, for all games. DLC and season passes, in my opinion, wouldn't be so demonized if the base game release is treated like a complete game, that feels worth the asking price, and doesn't feel as if it will rely on future additions to "finish" the experience.

[BenRage3]

I'll admit I'm not in a hurry to buy this dlc. When it was first announced I was a bit skeptical about the seemingly lack of content. However, I am going to withhold judgement until the final piece of dlc is released later this year.

[godashram]

I'm surprised... people talking about Nintendo nickle and diming consumers but no one brings up Koei-Tecmo? DOA5 has like over $600 is just costume dlc, and only like 2-3 actual character dlc.

[medabotds]

http://www.ricedigital.co.u...

[godashram]

I stand corrected.... now 2 people are talking about it.

[iofhua]

When this came out people called this "Nintendo's Skyrim" and it seems the analogy still holds true. Remember horse armour? Elder Scrolls does the same thing.

I didn't play Skyrim until years later when the GOTY edition came out and had all the DLC included. I think I will do the same for Breath of the Wild.

[Flundine49]

Has it made feel I wanted to play a game I already spent 100 plus hours in yes. Have I enjoyed the experience this provided yes also. Did I feel short changed the content wasnt in the initial purchase, no. I continue to enjoy the money spent much more than buying another title at present.

[InTheZoneAC]

Nintendo *was* a bit late
Nintendo is
Sony is
Microsoft is

[3-4-5]

It was always announced as a two part dlc pack. This was part 1....part 2 is coming in the fall.

Already announced that months ago.

All these dumb media lies.

[Dalailana]

Fake news.

But thankfully they don't hold power anymore as the switch and BOTW have been a massive sucess.

[Ninte]

Cost me $33 nz damn.

[BadElf]

Yeah. It's pretty awful. Paying for new bits of armor and a DIFFICULTY MODE! The game just should have been updated, with all of that added...for free. It's crazy

[BadElf]

AND you can't purchase each dlc seperate. Because Nintendo KNOWS this first DLC pack is terrible. I get the argument that "Ohh but this is only the first part of the Season pass, with Quest content coming later". OKAY, but Nintendo should have had the second one to purchase, at $9.99....
With the first DLC pack as a free update to the game. Instead, they make you pay $20.

So a Difficulty mode, a couple bits of Armor/Masks and a Trial = $10
AND Story/Quest content = $10. The SAME price??? How can you defend that? Nintendo just MADE you pay $20 for the Story/Quest content pretty much.

[Dalailana]

Did you even play the game?

The trail is over 5 hours long with brand new content. Not to mention the coming pack 2 with story and dungeons.

Pretty amazing value for 20$

[BadElf]

Did you read my comment? Mentioned the second pack, with the quest content. For $10, that's fine....

[Neonridr]

seems like a lot of people here don't realize there's a second DLC that's included for $20. Pretty sure other companies have provided less for more.

For a game that already has provided me over 75 hours (as per my Switch counter), I can easily justify spending $20 on a first expansion that provides me with about 4 hours of content plus additional armor, along with a second DLC that expands the story quest that will easily provide another 5-10 hours of playtime.

[BenRage3]

I agree. It doesn't make sense to judge a meal by the first course. Since this is only the first half of the dlc that our $20 purchased, it only makes sense to me to withhold final judgement until the last part is released. However, I do think some criticism is justified. I think most of us wanted extra story lines with both releases. Wouldn't you agree that, that would be preferable to the Master Trials? And some of the features, like tracking Link's steps and a hard mode are usually included in games like this out of the box. Still, I'm not one to jump on the hate bandwagon and like usual, this is being blown way out of proportion.

[Neonridr]

yep, I can see why they are being judged hard with what was included in the first DLC. But as an entire package, I am curious what all these people who are up in arms would be willing to spend on the entire package (not just the first DLC since it's a Season Pass). I mean $20 is pretty reasonable

[Father__Merrin]

where does all this dlc download to the game cart or hdd

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

at least the DLC is longer than games release today

[TheOttomatic91]

I haven't been keeping up to date with DLC for BOTW but can you purchase them individually or do you still have to buy the season pass?

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

The new difficulty mode should have been free, but the rest?
Solid stuff that I like.
The second piece of it later on in the year should be exciting too; hopefully it'll be "Post game" content that lets you beat Ganon and have him STAY beaten; Zelda can stay at your house in that one village, or the inn there if you didn't buy it, and you could get new quests from her to investigate various ruins around Hyrule.
That would be pretty cool.

[Dan_scruggs]

A bold claim when you have no idea what is to be included in the second DLC pack. But the internet doesn't like to wait does it? And N4G can't resist bait like a sold negative Zelda headline.

[strayanalog]

If you don't like it then don't get it, but don't call one developer's DLC a "scummy cash grab", because that's all paid DLC and Season Passes.
If this was any other developer or game no one would care, because you would be used to it. Now after the whining of Nintendo not joining someone's version of 21st century gaming there's still a problem with the bed you made? Please.

[kangolkyle]

Lol. Nah. Shit's fun yo, and there's more coming at the end of the year.

[deathtok]

I love the game but I have to agree this feels like "New Game+" type of content. I'm hoping the second half later this year is better.

Vote with your wallet!

[RMoog88]

LOL. This is one of the most incendiary headlines I've read on here.

[LAWSON72]

Looked decent to me for 1 part of the season pass.

I have a feeling the next dlc will be pretty epic, but don't worry even if it is amazing these articles and ridiculous disagrees will keep coming.

I bought 1 pack of Tales of costumes for like $7 a piece, this is not a bad deal for probably the $10 it equates to.

Seems like the comments are it was not free so it was a bad deal, but this kind of fanfare is never free especially in JP games. Look at Persona 5 shipped with zero costumes and released the actual in game asset costumes by requiring you to go to the store to incentivize people to buy the 'Premium' ones that are like $5+.

As I said I think the next piece of DLC will more than make up for the cost of the season pass. The DLC is so far away with such little details, I think will be close to an expansion.

These disagrees are disgusting, you haters need to just fine something better to with your time. Go find a Xbox and PS website and have a circle jerk there

[Majin-vegeta]

Don't think I've seen another game charge for a difficulty mode.They usually are free with an update.Lol Ninty getting greedy

[Dalailana]

Horizon will never win GOTY but you can keep trying..

[Majin-vegeta]

Wtf does Horizon have to do with anything about this??Man you Ninty fanatics feel threatened by that game that you literally bring it up any time you can.

[Yohshida]

Havent even finished the base game yet. Cant get back into it for some reason

[SR388]

Haha it's fucking great compared to most! ... The new outfits are cool, korok mask is fun to use, travel medallion is abit meh, new difficulty is much better than original game, and sword trials are awesome.... Can't wait for the DLC2 :) it's a decent price for like £15