Fate/Extella - New EXTRA Action Game

[Oz1337]

Having actually lived in the era of "get the full price expansion if you ever want to see a bugfix, or better yet, wait for the Gold/Diamond/Platinum edition five years down the road", I'm allowed to say it: I fucking love DLC as a concept. A few specific companies whom shall remain nameless ruin their good name.

Except back then updating games with bugfixes consisted on putting an installation patch on the official website (PC only of course, too bad for console users) and you downloading and installing it. So it was still possible, just a bit more cumbersome since you had to go search it.

Also, expansions offered a full new experience, so they were worth paying for it.

[FourthWall]

There's also the thing where DLC content is something the consumer gets in a (hopefully) working state as opposed to a) a less functional game or b) jack shit. Also coming from the Before Time of PC Gaming, a lot of games came buggy and with unfinished content, with expansion packs being your 30 dollar investment on "new content".

Time and money are a thing; just because the assets are there doesn't mean they're done on time or will be done on time.

E: Expansion packs could end up being a couple units and some bug fixes for 20-30 bucks, if your game even got one.

[Oz1337]

There's also the thing where DLC content is something the consumer gets in a (hopefully) working state as opposed to a) a less functional game or b) jack shit. Also coming from the Before Time of PC Gaming, a lot of games came buggy and with unfinished content, with expansion packs being your 30 dollar investment on "new content".

Time and money are a thing; just because the assets are there doesn't mean they're done on time or will be done on time.

E: Expansion packs could end up being a couple units and some bug fixes for 20-30 bucks, if your game even got one.

Sorry to say this, but if you genuinely believe that the content that is there already is not done, you're very optimistic person in a world where we get day 1 DLC content. Same for believing that DLC content is free of bugs, which I can tell you it isn't a lot of times. Which is normal, no release is perfect, that's why updates are there once all the user base starts to find bugs.

Also, I got many expansions from different games like Heroes of Might and Magic or Age of Empires, and while yeah, I do admit some bugs were there, the amount of content I got from them was enough to justify paying for them, like 10 or more hours with campaigns and new content for free modes. And even some of the bugs in the new expansions were patched eventually.

I swear, every time I hear that DLC nowadays is better than Expansions back then, part of me makes me wish I had a time machine to show them how things have changed for the worse. There's a Mona Lisa image that show perfectly what I mean, it's easy to find if you want to check it.

[castor212]

i like the witcher

[bassgs435]

There's also the thing where DLC content is something the consumer gets in a (hopefully) working state as opposed to a) a less functional game or b) jack shit. Also coming from the Before Time of PC Gaming, a lot of games came buggy and with unfinished content, with expansion packs being your 30 dollar investment on "new content".

Time and money are a thing; just because the assets are there doesn't mean they're done on time or will be done on time.

E: Expansion packs could end up being a couple units and some bug fixes for 20-30 bucks, if your game even got one.

If they don't have time or money, they wouldn't include those empty rooms. If the empty rooms are for DLC servants and we know about them this early, it means the decision to include DLC servants was made ahead of time. And I've seen many shitty practices with DLC to have any good faith towards companies.
Also, "bad thing is better than worse thing" isn't a good defense.

[fire_mountain_30]

how much did Sakurai contribute to Extella again?

[Iceblade44]

We don't know, just that she was the assistant writer

[Sesto]

how much did Sakurai contribute to Extella again?

well you see, fgog and reddit told me she wrote all the bad parts. so if you don't like extella feel free to blame her

[Rafflesiac]

how much did Sakurai contribute to Extella again?

All the parts you didn't li- fuck you sesto

[Lobo]

Didn't Nasu said in one of his Bamboo Broom posts that he take care of the main story and put Sakurai in charge of the side ones?
I honestly forgot exactly what he said, but I remember Nasu commented about it and it was one of the untranslated entries
If someone remember

[Kotonoha]

そして今月号のコンプティークで奈須きのこ＆佃プロデューサーの対談があるのですが、こちらに誤りがありま す。
「奈須きのこと共にサブストーリーのシナリオを担当する桜井光」
　という一文があるのですが、正しくは
「奈須きのこと共にシナリオを担当する」
　です。光分はサブサーヴァントだけじゃないンだぜ！

He specifically clarified that Sakurai did not just write the side stories.

[Balthizar]

Sorry to say this, but if you genuinely believe that the content that is there already is not done, you're very optimistic person in a world where we get day 1 DLC content. Same for believing that DLC content is free of bugs, which I can tell you it isn't a lot of times. Which is normal, no release is perfect, that's why updates are there once all the user base starts to find bugs.

Also, I got many expansions from different games like Heroes of Might and Magic or Age of Empires, and while yeah, I do admit some bugs were there, the amount of content I got from them was enough to justify paying for them, like 10 or more hours with campaigns and new content for free modes. And even some of the bugs in the new expansions were patched eventually.

I swear, every time I hear that DLC nowadays is better than Expansions back then, part of me makes me wish I had a time machine to show them how things have changed for the worse. There's a Mona Lisa image that show perfectly what I mean, it's easy to find if you want to check it.

Is it this Mona Lisa Image?

[onepieceuc1]

How much time did it take for him to write Extella by the way? And is he already working on the one coming after Link?

[Deathhappens]

Except back then updating games with bugfixes consisted on putting an installation patch on the official website (PC only of course, too bad for console users) and you downloading and installing it. So it was still possible, just a bit more cumbersome since you had to go search it.

Also, expansions offered a full new experience, so they were worth paying for it.

If there was an official website.
If they even bothered to make a patch.
If you actually had an Internet connection to download said patch with.
Yeah, it wasn't nearly as simple as that. And there were plenty of "expansions" that didn't deserve the name back then, too (FPS map packs, for example)

[Rhoia]

Drake looks amazing

[AmADo VII]

based Arco, but she works too hard doesn't she.

[Lily Emilio]

oh hi Shark.

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Might have to get Drake's...tho I think her default costume is already great.

[Sandstorm77]

Eh i actually don‘t like drake‘s swimsuit.

[mami-kouga]

Charlemagne apparently gets a costume as well, but they only draw the girls own outfits. Aight

[Lily Emilio]

They better give Karna and Arjuna their matching speedos or I riot.