Please don't buy the Separate Ways DLC

[Shocker]

In the original game it was a free unlockable, and don't even try to damage control with the weak excuse that it wasn't in the Game Cube version. Every other version had it for free, plus Assignment Ada. So please do the industry and yourself a favor and boycott it if it's paid content.

[ElfPrince1937]

Ok, but it wasn't in the Gamecube version. It was literally included in the PS2 version to help sell that port.

Also, Assignment Ada was a fun little mini-game, but ultimately non-canon, whereas Separate Ways is very much a part of the (canon) story of the main game.

I'm not going to tell anyone to buy or not to buy, but I do think it's important to make an informed decision, either way.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Darkgamester301:

Ok, but it wasn't in the Gamecube version. It was literally included in the PS2 version to help sell that port.

Also, Assignment Ada was a fun little mini-game, but ultimately non-canon, whereas Separate Ways is very much a part of the (canon) story of the main game.

I'm not going to tell anyone to buy or not to buy, but I do think it's important to make an informed decision, either way.

These are the versions where Separate Ways is a free unlockable in the original game.

PlayStation 2
Windows
Wii
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch

[ElfPrince1937]

Originally posted by Shocker:

These are the versions where Separate Ways is a free unlockable in the original game.

PlayStation 2
Windows
Wii
Zeebo
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch

All of which were later releases that built on the initial release to the public.

If anything, that's like DLC before DLC as we know it now; Capcom and Resident Evil are not the only gaming company/franchise to release later (updated) versions at a later date--Square did this with all three of the initial Kingdom Hearts titles, for example.

[sirkudjon]

Who forbids me to buy complete edition of re4r at -75% ?

[ElfPrince1937]

Originally posted by sirkudjon:

Who forbids me to buy complete edition of re4r at -75% ?

Whoever they are, don't listen to them.

Spend your own money as you see fit.

[ChiefCornFlake]

Originally posted by Shocker:

In the original game it was a free unlockable, and don't even try to damage control with the weak excuse that it wasn't in the Game Cube version. Every other version had it for free, plus Assignment Ada. So please do the industry and yourself a favor and boycott it if it's paid content.

It was not free on the original game (Gamecube version), it was part of the PS2 version. So you had to buy the game again with a new console if you wanted to play it.

[ElfPrince1937]

Originally posted by ChiefCornFlake:

So you had to buy the game again with a new console if you wanted to play it.

...huh...so like I said before, that almost sounds like what we would now think of as "extra content" or "DLC," back before PC streaming was a thing.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Darkgamester301:

Originally posted by Shocker:

These are the versions where Separate Ways is a free unlockable in the original game.

PlayStation 2
Windows
Wii
Zeebo
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch

All of which were later releases that built on the initial release to the public.

If anything, that's like DLC before DLC as we know it now; Capcom and Resident Evil are not the only gaming company/franchise to release later (updated) versions at a later date--Square did this with all three of the initial Kingdom Hearts titles, for example.

DLC means downlodable content. Is Separate Ways a DLC for the Game Cube? No. Is it part of the package on every other version? Yes. There are no excuses. There were expansions for games at the time, but Separate Ways is not an expansion.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by ChiefCornFlake:

Originally posted by Shocker:

In the original game it was a free unlockable, and don't even try to damage control with the weak excuse that it wasn't in the Game Cube version. Every other version had it for free, plus Assignment Ada. So please do the industry and yourself a favor and boycott it if it's paid content.

It was not free on the original game (Gamecube version), it was part of the PS2 version. So you had to buy the game again with a new console if you wanted to play it.

Dude, barely anyone bought the Game Cube version. Not to mention that barely anyone had a Game Cube to begin with. The whole system failed sales wise.

[ElfPrince1937]

Originally posted by Shocker:

DLC means downlodable content. Is Separate Ways a DLC for the Game Cube? No. Is it part of the package on every other version? Yes. There are no excuses.

"No excuses for why I can't have it free!"

Other than reality, but ok. On that note...

Originally posted by Shocker:

There were expansions for games at the time, but Separate Ways is not an expansion.

Well, actually it is, but again, ok.

Yes, I'm aware of what "DLC" stands for. You are aware that "downloadable content" was literally impossible back on the Gamecube and PS2, right? It requires this thing called the Internet?

My point was that it was still extra/additional content that carried...surprise! An additional price tag because it wasn't included in the original version(s) of the game.

Again, Square Enix did the very same thing with the Remakes/Remixes of the initial three Kingdom Hearts games. This isn't something that Capcom alone has traditionally done.

[ElfPrince1937]

Originally posted by Shocker:

Dude, barely anyone bought the Game Cube version. Not to mention that barely anyone had a Game Cube to begin with. The whole system failed sales wise.

Look, I might disagree with the Chief here, but you take that back or I'm throwing you into Luigi's Mansion without a flashlight!

[Trevor Reznik]

Originally posted by Shocker:

Originally posted by Darkgamester301:

Ok, but it wasn't in the Gamecube version. It was literally included in the PS2 version to help sell that port.

Also, Assignment Ada was a fun little mini-game, but ultimately non-canon, whereas Separate Ways is very much a part of the (canon) story of the main game.

I'm not going to tell anyone to buy or not to buy, but I do think it's important to make an informed decision, either way.

These are the versions where Separate Ways is a free unlockable in the original game.

PlayStation 2
Windows
Wii
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch

I only have it on Gamecube...

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Darkgamester301:

Originally posted by Shocker:

DLC means downlodable content. Is Separate Ways a DLC for the Game Cube? No. Is it part of the package on every other version? Yes. There are no excuses.

"No excuses for why I can't have it free!"

Other than reality, but ok. On that note...

Originally posted by Shocker:

There were expansions for games at the time, but Separate Ways is not an expansion.

Well, actually it is, but again, ok.

Yes, I'm aware of what "DLC" stands for. You are aware that "downloadable content" was literally impossible back on the Gamecube and PS2, right? It requires this thing called the Internet?

My point was that it was still extra/additional content that carried...surprise! An additional price tag because it wasn't included in the original version(s) of the game.

Again, Square Enix did the very same thing with the Remakes/Remixes of the initial three Kingdom Hearts games. This isn't something that Capcom alone has traditionally done.

There were expansions on PC way before that. Sims 2 had a ton, Quake 2 and so on, but Separate Ways was an unlockable campaign for every platform RE4 came out on outside of the Game Cube, but who really played the game on that system? Once it came out on PS2 the few people forgot about the Game Cube who knew that it even existed.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by Trevor Reznik:

Originally posted by Shocker:

These are the versions where Separate Ways is a free unlockable in the original game.

PlayStation 2
Windows
Wii
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch

I only have it on Gamecube...

Congrats, you are part of all the 100 people who had the game on that system.

[ElfPrince1937]

Originally posted by Shocker:

Separate Ways was an unlockable campaign for every platform RE4 came out on outside of the Game Cube, but who really played the game on that system?

Um, everyone who loves Resident Evil?

Originally posted by Shocker:

Once it came out on PS2 the few people forgot about the Game Cube who knew that it even existed.

Ok, but that still doesn't negate the fact that people who loved the franchise long before 2005...played RE4 on the Gamecube first.