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1. Amorous Adventures of HC: fun DLC, expands on one of the more interesting NPCs in the game with whom the protagonist has a strong bond (for better or worse = your choice). Has plenty of humour.
2. Band of Bastards: an average DLC. Nice to have and adds a few extra quests to the game. Nothing to be sad about missing out on either, though.
3. A Woman's Lot: this was definitely a 'no' for me. For several hours, you don't play as your usual PC (Henry) but as a woman you'll encounter in the main game. Playing as Theresa, you'll have to sneak, hide and run (women can't fight in these dark ages, you know...) which is something you like or not. I don't like pure stealth games.
Also, you can get a dog companion after finishing Theresa's adventure. If you get wild by the idea of a dog companion, go for the DLC! But even though the dog can do one or two useful things for you (nothing you can't do yourself), it will often run in front of you when you don't want it to. So for me, this DLC was a no way.
4. Treasures of the Past: useless. You get 5 treasure maps on top of the 20 you can collect in the base game. If you rush towards these treasures, you get gear that makes you overpowered for a while, sucking all the fun out of learning the game and building your character. If you just collect them as you come across them, it's nothing to write home about, really. Oh yeah, and you don't need the maps from the DLC to get the treasure. You can just as easily look up where these 5 treasure spots are and collect them anyway.
5. From the Ashes: this one has me on the fence. All in all, it's pretty useless. You can build a town but it doesn't mean much. You invest a lot of money building the town and the town slowly pays your investment back because of daily income from the town. I own this DLC but haven't made it to the town yet so can only repeat what I read about the DLC.
Again, that's my opinion. For instance, I know some people like 'A Woman's Lot' but in the end it's subjective, of course. A couple of my favourite movies have a terrible score on Rotten Tomatoes. That doesn't mean I like the movies any less, it just proves again that there's no accounting for taste, which is a good thing! To each his own.
I didn't engage him in my first playthrough until over half way through. Once I did, and in my second playthrough i realized I didn't want to be without him.
I didn't play AWL in my first playthrough but in my second I am just in the early stages... it's mildly interesting, so far. Really interesting to see ALL of Skalitz before it was burnt.
I liked BOB, but I like the combat in this game.
Liked FTA a little less but it's convenient to have a safe haven to operate out of esp. if you're farming Skalitz.
I'm about 130 hours in game so far with 30 achievements and many more to go.
Is the Royal Edition worth it.....you bet it is, a great value.
True but keep one thing in mind: some DLC prevent you from finishing the main quest of the game before you've completed the DLC. For that reason, it's worth considering whether or not you want to play some of the DLC. Of course, you can buy it and not install it... but then you're better off just buying the base game + the one or two DLC you actually want to play. For me, this turned out to be cheaper than buying the Royal Edition and I only have the DLC that I find at least somewhat interesting.
Then you simply don't start the DLC if you don't want to play it. And if you start it and don't like it, just reload a previous save and continue on. Point is for $13 for this quality of game is a great value. Also there is no 'single' main quest, its broken up into numerous quests that you can continue or pause at any time to do something else.
In my experience...
There is no dlc that will "prevent you from finishing the main quest of the game before you completed the DLC," except perhaps A Woman's Lot. And you can probably play that after the the siege of Talmberg.
There is a single main quest--it's at the top of the quests menu in the Quest Log. That said, AFAIK, the supporting quests and side quests are not always interruptible--you can't always just "continue or pause at any time."
The main quest itself, can be delayed as you pursue and complete the side quests, although at some point in the game momentum carries you inexorably forward to the conclusion. .
By far the best DLC. Theresa's story is basically a one time playthrough, but the dog and other questline are worth it.
Also she definitely can fight.
As I said in my initial reply, I only gave my opinion. To the OP: if you ask a question on a game's forum where only the greatest fans of the game take their time to reply to new threads, you're bound to get a biased reply. That's not to say that my opinion is any more valid than the other people who posted here.
I suggest you look at the review score for each DLC. A Woman's Lot scores less than 50% so that gives you a more objective view on what players think of the DLC as opposed to what fans of the game think. You may also notice that a lot of the 'positive' reviews for the DLC boil down to "I didn't really like it but still glad I bought it as a support to the devs" and such.
If someone asks whether or not Trump was a good president, you could say "He was by far the best president ever!" but it would be better to say something like "Although most people agree Trump is a blabbering narcissistic clown, I think he was the best president ever!"
But they are interesting... each in their own way. And it keeps you playing and involved in KCD a little longer. Fleshing out the story in some cases... such as AWL.
That said, all the nervous angst about buying the Royal Edition is kind of misplaced, IMO. The price you can get the KCD and the RE, is so low... you've lost more money from holes in your pockets or from buying cheap thumb drives than you're ever gonna be out buying the RE.
The benefits outweigh the cost, IOW.
Also, it's not about getting a great deal financially. I bought the base game + the two DLC I actually wanted to play for even less money than the Royal Edition when the RE was on sale for an all-low price ever according to SteamDB.
I guess this is the thing I am wondering about, I played the base game when it came out and had a good experience but it wasn't a I got to play this game in as many ways as possible feeling I have gotten from other games. Kind of more along the lines of that was a good story with some interesting twists and turns plus a nonstandard just swing your sword around combat system. But the world just didn't grab me for some reason so the only reason to buy a royal edition would be because it is on sale at the moment and I might possibly play it again some time in the far future.
There is also this trend I am really not liking of rehashing old games adding one or two new features then selling it as a new edition that is plaguing the industry as a whole. I think Todd Howard made a good point when he said if you don't want us re-releasing editions of the same game then don't buy it. I know he was being snotty but the only way the industry is going to change is if we make a statement with are money.