Soulcalibur 5 DLC lets you buy bikinis and animal heads in Feb.

@CaptainProtonX As the designs "evolve" ... Nightmare already looks like a winged, painted bikini-clad thing... or whatever it's supposed to be.

@nerdydesi1: ^this +1

@Ebok007 This. So much, this. The character creator is largely one of the reasons I'm considering getting SCV so stuff like this should be available from the get-go. At the very least, it should have just been unlockable in-game, like all of the CaS parts in SCIII.

For the total lack of content SCV seems to have overall (Story Mode, Arcade, Online, Training, Character Creation... and that's it? WTF!), this content (soundtracks included) should have been there to begin with. The game just isn't worth $60 as is, especially when it's compared to all of the content that SCII and SCIII had built-in.

Story Mode just can't hold up to the length of Weapon Master Mode or Chronicles of the Sword and being able to play Online shouldn't account for that lack of length. Look at King of Fighters XII; it was bare-bones and ended up poorly received.

I hate all of this microtransaction DLC BS. Why can't we go back to the days when DLC was basically just Expansion Packs?! -_-

@(Unverified)
I don't think that ever existed unless you are talking DLC for PC's

@(Unverified)

Nickel-and-Diming the customer is the new wave in the gaming industry. It's almost the messing of two worlds: premium purchase with freemium microtransactioning.

The big story is when a game is released with NO DLC plan, and the content on disc is considered "complete".

And what about an online pass (another WAVE OF THE FUTURE)? Will this game incorporate that? Let's just call it a "Soul Pass" if so.

@Vic Fontaine
There were a few. The Shivering Isles for Oblivion is a pretty good example (and funny considering the horse armor thing).

@Vic Fontaine I was moreso meaning just a return to a larger content release that was, you know, actually worth paying for instead of this microtransaction crap. From the top of my head, a couple of the DLC packs for Oblivion/Fallout 3/Fallout: NV/Valkyria Chronicles would be the closest to what I'm meaning, I guess.

It's just extremely annoying that companies (ESPECIALLY Namco and Capcom) seem to fancy quick cash-grab DLC (most of which should be unlockable in-game; it's a shame that DLC has basically taken away one of the best features of older games) instead of taking the time to actually produce a quality product that isn't released right away and is slightly higher priced. Since DLC basically evolved from PC expansion packs, it pains me every time I see terrible DLC like this when I'm used to how high the standard used to be many years ago on the PC.

@CaptainProtonX Maybe that's why all of the analysts and such have been professing the downfall of the industry. Companies are too focused on maximizing their profits by keeping costs high (and further increasing them via several $2.99 DLC pack that adds two costumes, etc.) or only green-lighting rehash titles that re guaranteed to sell 1m+ units (though, the blame for that lies with the consumers more).

Maybe if companies would shift more towards the approach of freemium titles (maybe $40 for a new copy + reasonably-priced microtransaction DLC?), consumers wouldn't have as much of an issue with being nickle-and-dimed like this.

"The big story is when a game is released with NO DLC plan, and the content on disc is considered "complete"."
Lord, I wish this would be the rule these days instead of the exception.

As for the Online Pass (or the rumored reports about what the NextBox will do), there's not much the consumer can do about it beyond talking with their wallets. At least until every game has it and sales dramatically plunge across the board or until GameStop/etc. comes up with a brilliant way around it to keep the Used market useful. I'm all for buying new and supporting developers, but the publishers and companies need to realize that, while this is a business, it's also a hobby for many of their primary customers.

The reason Used sales are so large (beyond the time-honored tradition of people believing that they should own their physical property and be able to do whatever they want with it, including selling it at a yard sale - this whole "you only are licensed the software" thing is completely BS) is because consumers want to minimize their expenses, especially in this economy. Again, if the companies didn't want to rake in record profits with each big 1m+ selling title and had a lower entry fee, perhaps the used market wouldn't be such a big deal.

@Ebok007
I agree. It's ok for a Free to Play game. Purchasing $20 or even $50 worth of items is ok because you got a free game. But buying a $50 game to just immediately spend another $10 for DLC is stupid.

@Shadow Hog Actually your character will show up at cosplay conventions.

@Shadow Hog
You're describing all my custom characters in SCIV, except take woman and subtract "wo" (except for She-Hulk).

Once upon a time things like this were included with the game. Either as part of it, or as an unlockable.

You didn't have to pay to change your color in Street Fighter 3. You didn't have to pay to change your costume in Smash Bros. Melee. You didn't have to pay to unlock cars in a racing game. You didn't have to pay to use cheat codes.

@Drakkenfyre

Boohoo, I can't change the color of my gaming character. Life is so unfair. I'm teasing a bit, but dude, really?

@InfernoShade

"Hey, look at all the neat crap I used to get as part of the game. Now I have to pay for it."

When you're buying a game and having to buy individual levels, remember how you said these complaints were invalid.