Well, they finally released the new Egyptian map for Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Excited right? Well, it's 400 points. That's 5 dollars my friends. No new characters yet, and only the one map. One map! The full version of the game was 15 dollars and came with 6 maps and 5 characters. Where are my other levels? Where are my other characters? It's been 2 months. Why the fuck is this shit not in a bundle, and why does it cost so much? Way to nickle and dollar us Konami. Asshats.

DLC is the bane of my existence. Worse trend in games since the turret sequence.

On a positive note, I hear the map is the biggest and best yet. I also hear the boss is crazy hard.

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    Buddetha24
    14 years, 1 month ago

    Thats way to expensive for only one map. I am getting a 360 this week and I was excited for the new DLC cause HoD was the first live game i was going to purchase.... well now I am sad. YOU HEAR ME KONAMI!?!?! SAAD!!!!!!

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    xSciFiCHiCKx
    14 years, 1 month ago

    Yeah the pricing hit me too, I can't help but feel bittersweet that the DLC has finally come out but at such shit costs.. My excitement is overminding all else at the moment though

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    Brad Simons
    14 years, 1 month ago

    I'm still getting it, but haven't decided if I will wait till new characters.

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    Carlos
    14 years, 1 month ago

    It's hard.

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    linkingday
    14 years, 1 month ago

    Fuck the DLC, I want this game for PS3 already

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    GaiusBaltar
    14 years, 1 month ago

    The DLC vs full game pricing is an interesting one. I think they release these games at the relatively low 15 dollar price point in order to nickel and dime you later. I believe that alot of these games are worth 25 and sometimes 30 dollars. Sure overall the game did only cost 15 bucks and in a perfect world where math comes to reason this map should cost 2.50 at most.
    I personally would like to pay more for the game upfront and get all the maps, characters, map packs, extra missions etc than waiting 2 months and have this stuff trickle out. Its a bullshit false way to extend the playtime of your game. Once I play through a game and see the credits I dont have any desire to go back and play some "mission" that I missed out on. I know how it ends and this "mission" isnt going to change that. So fuck DLC and fuck Shitty devs who cant make a good enough game in the first place that people want to continually play.

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    Fady
    14 years, 1 month ago

    CURSE YOOOUUU DEEEE EEEELL SEEEE
    I liked it better when they called it "expansion packs".

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    MasterVader
    14 years, 1 month ago

    I'm so sick of god damn DLCs at this point. I can't even remember the last time when I was able to unlock an extra costume or level in a game.

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    Vunik
    14 years, 1 month ago

    Yeah, it was "Oh man the DLC is here! EXCITEMENT EXCITEMENT EXCITEMENT! I wonder what the price is? *Checks* 400 MSP...1 Map...no new characters? Damnit, you guys are lucky I have these left over points which are useless towards purchasing anything but your DLC Ripoffs, etc."

    Ended up purchasing it because I have way too many left over MSPs sitting around, and they're not being put to use with anything else.

    I still put this in my backlog to play as I've been busy with other games at the current time as well...

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    The_Bear_Jew
    14 years, 1 month ago

    Well I've never seen anything cheaper then 400 points, except the 80 point indie games. Maybe its microsoft's fault?

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    kamui
    14 years, 1 month ago

    Yea I can understand your hate for the DLC Brad, This stuff was already in the game, But it just needed some unlocking in the file. The hackers unlocked it hence seeing characters like Maria And Julius being played. Apparently characters like Simon, Hammer, And Richter will also be playable in the future along with rumored others.

    What gets me the most is how Konami didn't say any official date, But they just released it out of the blue. I looked all over their forums to see for any sort of info, But I only found info on gamefaqs unfortunately about people being mad about the DLCs release date.

    Hell they are still mad now I bet(A good amount) about the DLC too.

    The boss is actually pretty easy when you play as a female character, Male characters can be potential charmed like what Dracula did in Stage 6 to the female characters if anybody was using them.

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    Rendrak
    14 years, 1 month ago

    That pricing is bullshit. Maybe once some more of the DLC gets released they'll have a discount if you buy it all at once.