I found myself nabbing every coin excitedly, eager to see what happens when I purchase the zombie pack, gleeful at the idea I could enable particle effects for such a low price.
While all this stuff is utterly useless, even more so than comparable items in the games it mocks, DLC Quest nevertheless nails the unsettling ease of which one’s desire to hoard crap can be exploited.
Every new challenge is an excuse to offer a fresh piece of content, while hidden collectibles unlock optional DLC, such as “sexy” NPC costumes, a useless pet, and armor for the horse you never use. Ledge too high? Collect enough scratch and acquire a double jump. Need a sword? You can hammer “X” at a grindstone roughly 10,000 times, or you can buy a perk from the shopkeeper to speed up the process. This sets the satirical nail in place for DLC Quest to hammer again and again. You walk right, collect some coins, then talk to a shopkeeper to buy the necessary physical abilities. When the game begins, you can’t even jump or walk left - like everything else in the game, such luxuries must be unlocked as extra content. Fortunately, you don’t have to actually spend your real-life cash to buy all the fluff.Ĭurrency is earned simply by navigating the environment to collect floating coins. In the wake of games like Final Fantasy: All the Bravest, this scenario rings particularly poignant. Light on story, lighter on the action, Quest exists solely as an excuse to drain your wallet and compel you to keep playing, for very little reward, just to spend more cash. Rig: Intel i7-2600k GHz, with 8GB of RAM, GeForce GTX 580 GPU (SLI)ĭLC Quest is an action-platformer with a very simple premise - defeat the bad guy and save the day. One fears its ability to give some very rich men some very tacky ideas.ĭLC Quest (PC, Xbox Live Indie Games)
Deep down, however, there’s something very scary about it. This spoof of the videogame industry is cute, and funny enough to raise a few smiles. Though it satirizes the ridiculous idea of a game so excessively monetized you can’t even get character animations without paying, one can easily imagine rooms of suited executives, eagerly discussion such an idea. While I personally think such content has its place, the piecemeal selling of a game risks becoming a tasteless endeavor - and videogame publishers have proven unafraid to exploit the practice to miserable extremes.ĭLC Quest is a vision of depths no company has quite yet sunk to, but the scary thing about it is just how plausible it is. Downloadable content is a touchy subject among the vocal game playing community.
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