As some of you may now, DLC can sometimes be a rather touchy subject with me. I love it when it's well-made, but it so often isn't. You might remember the last time I had a rant on DLC, back when I was playing Continuum Shift. http://prestigegamerz.com/phpBB3/viewto ... 64#p129964
But Dead Space 3 does a pretty good job of trying to top its crown for 'worst DLC'. Let's take a look.
First you have three suit and weapon packs. Each pack gives you one engineering suit, and one or two weapons. I assume these probably boost your performance somewhat. Each one of these costs you £3.99. So thats almost £12 for three suits and weapons.
Then there's the resource packs. These represent a rather alarming trend. See, Dead Space seems to restrict your resources quite a lot. I'm near the start of Chapter 6, and I have barely been able to afford a couple of suit upgrades, with about one upgrade each for Kinesis and Stasis. I haven't been able to construct anything in the way of weapon customisation and am solely restricted to using custom pieces that I can find.
There are three resource packs available; £0.79, £1.59, and £2.39 respectively. The £0.79 pack gives you a base pack of resources like scrap metal, etc. Think of it like this; this pack gives you 500 scrap metal, and I probably only found a little bit more than that in the game so far.
The £1.59 pack gives you more resources (essentially more than I have been able to acquire in total so far) and one weapon part... With a chance for a secon. You're actually paying real money for something you might get, something Mass Effect 3 is also guilty of. Which, funnily enough, is an EA title too. The £2.39 pack predictably enough gives you even more resources but with an extra weapon part.
Incidentally, you can actually buy these packs with 'ration seals', which you find ingame. But also consider this; at chapter 6, I have precisely 7 ration seals. The £0.79 pack alone will cost you 10.
Worst of all, though... You have the bot upgrades. In Dead Space 3, you have a scavenger bot; you release it in certain areas, and it comes back a little later with (a tiny amount of) resources. fortunately, those kind folk at EA give you the option to improve the performance of your bot...
For only £3.99 you can halve the time it takes gathering resources. It doesn't take too long, mind. Or, you can get it to bring back double the amount of resources. This will also cost you £3.99.
Finally, you can buy... Er... The 'Bot personality pack'. To take the ingame description, this will 'automatically upload advanced speech and sarcasm protocols, empowering them with the ability to speak out loud the random thoughts whirring inside their microprocessor-powered brains'. This, too, is £3.99. £3.99 to give your scavenger bot a personality. This sounds like the sort of shit that someone like me would make up in a satirical article about DLC, but here it is, real enough.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I find this sort of DLC outright insulting, not to mention the fact that the game menu clearly list the things you haven't bought. Bringing Pay to Win into a survival horror game is just inexcusable, but maybe even less so than charging outlandish prices for things that, frankly, are just beyond parody.