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SDCC: Bayonetta will have no DLC photo

Platinum Games held a nice little Bayonetta panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, where it was revealed that the team has absolutely zero plans to release downloadable content for the sulty action game that definitely wants me to have sex with it. For those of you who staunchly resist all microtransactions, this is good news.

According to the chaps at Platinum, "The game ships with everything you want." What I want is one night alone with Bayonetta, a length of rope and a bucket of jellied eels. Will the game be shipping with any of that? I'd gladly pay whatever money necessary to get that bit of extra content. 

I'm sure that this game will satisfy without the need for DLC. Just ask anybody who was in the E3 press room when I had just finished playing the game. Whenever anybody asked me how it was, I simply answered by making a very sincere jacking-off motion with my hand.


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Wanyal's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 08:19
Wanyal
Fallout 3, Red Faction and GTA IV were enjoyable without DLC, but the DLC made, and will make the games a hell of a lot more enjoyable.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 08:23
Magnalon
"The game ships with everything you want".

Perfect! A lot of Eastern action games are following this method, and shipping with 100% of it's content (Devil May Cry 4 comes to mind).

I'll weep when tough times fall upon them due to the gargantuan sales of the next Halo, Call of Duty, Mass Effect, and Bioshock, when they resort to cutting things from the game to sell them as DLC at a later date (it's so easy!).
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 08:29
TheStripe
Is that sultry or slutty, Jim?
JynxShot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 08:34
JynxShot
"Whenever anybody asked me how it was, I simply answered by making a very sincere jacking-off motion with my hand."

Oh, Jim.

I'd do the same thing.
Booerns's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 08:49
Booerns
That's fine, so it's going to be the whole package plan. The guys at Platinum Games could always just stick to focusing on making just really polished finished products; worked for them back when they were Clover. And there's certainly a dark side to having some sort of DLC release for every big title. Things like releasing SF4 with out the alternate costumes to sell costume packs as DLC is pretty scummy.
KIHP's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 08:57
KIHP
@magnalon: the reason games like that get dlc is that they are more popular. Also the experience can be extended in the form of there multiplayer or just a non essential side mission. Games like this are to single minded and not nearlly as time consuming, so without dlc it's getting sold back and then bought used. It's a fault of the genre where it can't be extended. Also none of the dlc you mentioned besides bioshock which I believe was free was already in the game. I admittedly haven't followed cod 5 but maps take time to work out and test and and sometimes take months to complete and at least for 4 it's was nessecary. Also halo has doubled the amount of maps since shipping are you saying that you want 24 maps on a disk. Plus bringing down the sky was in the background and dome well.
CRAZYAPE69's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 08:58
CRAZYAPE69
i call bullshit, in a years time there will be Bayonetta costume packs. I garuntee it.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 09:07
Chronic Logic
Is "DLC" a taboo word or something? What if next month they developed some extra costumes available for download?
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 09:30
pascuz46
Thats ok, Im sure the single player experience will have you comming (or in Jim's case: cumming) back for alot more.
Kraid's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 09:48
Kraid
dat delay
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 09:57
Magnalon
@KIHP
DLC is a double-edged sword. You have excellent works that were clearly done after the fact like Fallout 3 and GTAIV, but then you have DLC that was obviously done before the game shipped as a scheme to essentially charge $10 on top of the retail price for your game. Beautiful Katamari, RE5, and The Maw all come to mind.

Some developers even give you free DLC after the fact (hell, PC does it in almost all cases).

Overall, I feel like the world was better without DLC. There are so many quality games out to pass the time, that I feel like waiting for a sequel to a game would be far better than getting your game shipped to you incomplete on top of an inflated $60 price tag.
Fo0dNippl3's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 10:01
Fo0dNippl3
The only company that does DLC right is Harmonix.
There, I said it.
sonicmario's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 10:17
sonicmario
I guess this is good since now we'll now that we can actually play everything that is on the disc, and there's nothing hidden away, waiting to be unlocked by a 100KB download key.

If this game gets popular enough, of course there will be some DLC because game makers (just like the rest of us) like money.
DeusPayne's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 10:19
DeusPayne
Fo0dNippl3: You're forgetting about valve. Except they don't call it DLC, they call it patches and updates that add new content to the game for free.
HiddenAHB's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 10:33
HiddenAHB
The game's not even out and Jim is already masturbating.
It's a record.
Shin Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 10:45
Shin Oni
this is a very good thing. Though this is sounding too much like DMC4 which said everything will be there from the get go...but the game itself was not so good.

don't dissapoint me my love.
GoldenGamerXero's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 11:20
GoldenGamerXero
DLC is just an excuse to charge more for something that could obviously be put into the games originally but was taken out because they're assholes. If a DLC is planned before the game has even shipped that's bull.
Kaden101's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 11:45
Kaden101
If DLC is done right, it's okay. Like extra multiplayer maps isn't too big of a deal. Or complete extra stories like on Fallout 3 (come on PS3 DLC).

I do however object to cutting a main single player story short to sell the end of the story at £7.99. I'm looking at you Prince of Persia Epilogue. Ubisoft you robbing bastards. You robbed me of the end of an okay(ish) game when I bought PoP. You robbed me when I bought Splinter Cell 2 on the PC & couldn't play it because I had Nero installed, & you had your "special" brand of copy protection (I'll hold this grudge until the day I die!).
Aurain's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 12:02
Aurain
I would be surprised if any DLC was spur of the moment, "lets make this" after the Game's gone gold stuff.

In that vein, all DLC is the enemy.
Infinite Combo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 12:10
Infinite Combo
DLC is something that developers need to incorporate into their games in order to get people to buy and keep the game. Most people would not spend $60 game on a single-player game like Bayonetta only to be finished with it within a week never to touch it again. Those people would probably rent such a game. Those that do purchase the game probably will sell it back to Gamestop once they've beaten it. However, if the consumer is aware that DLC is planned after the release of the game (e.g. in the form of extra levels and missions) then this is a game that has more legs and would be more worthy of a purchase. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free (in this case not free but a lot cheaper). DLC gives me reason to buy the cow. Because of this, I will probably be renting Bayonetta instead of buying it.
Rusty Ghia's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 13:09
Rusty Ghia
And the fact that it has no DLC is just another reason for me to buy the game instead of renting it. I will support game companies that respect their customers enough to give them a COMPLETE game when they pay for it, instead of hacking the game up into pieces to sell it back to customers piecemeal.

Fuck DLC, and fuck DRM.
JLanphear's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 14:18
JLanphear
This just means the game is going to be complete, and SEGA has no plans to be douchebags and leave stuff out even though it's on the game disc. Good job, SEGA. I'm glad you guys are nonconforming.

Now give me this game plz.
Arttemis's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 14:38
Arttemis
Thank god.

Ninja Gaiden 2 clearly cut content specifically for the purpose of selling it at a later date. I'm glad Beyonetta is following in DMC4's footsteps with giving players what they want when they buy the game, and not piece-mealing the material.

@Infinite Combo - It's unfortunate that you feel that paying additional money to receive content that undoubtedly could have been included in the original purchase price invalidates incentive to purchase the game itself. I see this is a sort of gift from the developer who wants to deliver a complete product instead of a spliced-and-overpriced set of micro-transactions.
Infinite Combo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/25/2009 19:55
Infinite Combo
@Arttemis - Just because a developer chooses to release planned DLC for its games doesn't mean that the game you purchase on day 1 is incomplete. DLC when done right gives an old game new life and keeps the game relevant. Just look at games such as Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto 4, and Burnout Paradise. You cannot call those games (in their orginal form) incomplete just because the developers chose to release additional DLC for it. All I'm saying is I probably won't be paying full price for a game that I'll only play just once. DLC is the hook that can keep me attached to a game for the long haul - not just a week.
Kaden101's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/26/2009 03:16
Kaden101
Infinte Combo,

I agree with you about the 3 games you presented, but there is definitely DLC out there that's questionable. RE5 versus, & PoP epilogue (yeurgh!!) to name 2.

We all used to pay the full price for PS2 & Xbox games. Why is it now a problem having all of the content on the game disc in the first place? (where it should be). It does depend on the game, but if it's good enough to stand on it's on merit then DLC should be irrelevant to sales of the full disc based game.
The Kojukinator's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/27/2009 16:05
The Kojukinator
If Bayonetta turns out to be another Bullet Witch, I'm going to keep shaving my pubes until I have enough to glue together a fist which I will use to punch them all in the face!
The Kevster's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/27/2009 17:42
The Kevster
Dat pic = Dat ass!
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