Game expansions can give a breath of fresh air to our favorite game and give us more time to have fun with it. Expansions or DLC's are priced half of the original game price and can give very nice boost to the game with new story and game systems. If the original game was great you can almost be sure that the expansion will come out in the next few months. Here are some of the best RPG expansions that I had a chance to play.
Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
We all know that Witcher 3 is one of the best games ever created, that game is so big that you can play for months and you will always find something new. Blood and Wine is an expansion with whole new big area themed on Victorian architecture and coloring. Immersion is so good in this expansion with wine yards and French sounding NPC's everywhere, things are not that great for very long as vampires started to hunt and are scheming to get the queen. Interesting story and great new area of Toussaint to explore. Very fun expansion.
Skyrim: Dragonborn
In this expansion for Skyrim we return to the Morrowind area with improved graphics and much more powerful character in the shape of Dragonborn, a mighty norse warrior that can speak dragon language. In this are we find ourselves traveling to Apocrypha, realm of Hermaeus Mora, Daedric Prince of forbidden knowledge. New armor sets, weapons, great area to explore and interesting story made this expansion a true joy to play.
Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark
This expansion for one of the best RPG games ever released takes place underground with a race called Drow from the Underdark that is trying to invade the surface world. You are there to stop them and discover deeper plot to this. Somehow you end up fighting archdevil Mephistopheles, fun times and hard battles. In addition to new area there are also new prestige classes that were very interesting, Classes like Shifter, Palemaster or Red Dragon Disciple. This is how you do expansions.
Pillars of Eternity: White March
This is the game that everyone talked about mainly because it was hyped a lot by the devs telling it will be a spiritual successor to Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale and Arcanum games. Game was not that epicly good but still very fun and worth to play. White March is a two part expansion where our heroes go to northern part of the world to discover ancient dwarven forge that can create the whole armies and conquer the world if left in the wrong hands. New NPC's and beautiful environments showed devs devotion to the game and was quite successful.
Blood and Wine was pretty much perfect. More refined than the main game which had some minor niggles. Great to see it on the list here! I'd also add Oblivion: The Shivering Isles to the list here.
Blood and wine was amazing, after I completed it I went back to new game plus on broken bones. That difficulty paired with the start of the base game is a very stark contrast and really brings out the atmosphere that velen has where you don't notice it much if you haven't done blood and wine a lot.
One thing we still miss is the Witcher movie. Played by Christopher Lambert.
Great thing about the lists is that you can always make part 2 :) There were so many great Fallout expansions, Mass Effect, Dragon Age etc.
Yo, the Playstation 1 days of JRPGs were the best experience ever man. I really felt like I was on an adventure.
20 years later you have Final Fantasy XV on Playstation 4. Same game, advanced graphics, few billion dollars richer devs :)
Haha still. I can't wait. The Lightning era FF games were so shit.
Skyrim indeed. Dragon shouts are so much fun.