Namco Plans New "Eatertainment" Chain

[Yoshi]

I'm holding out for Tecmo's strip club / arcade combo.

[Chux]

Money says if this goes through Namco takes the old Disney Quest location in Chicago and turns it into whatever it's going to be.

[GohanX]

What's the latest Namco game to have an unreasonable amount of DLC? (This is a serious question, the last one I can remember was Katamari 360, and that was years ago)

Ridge Racer Vita, the game is literally nothing but overpriced DLC, and the game was full price.

[Bacon McShig]

What's the latest Namco game to have an unreasonable amount of DLC? (This is a serious question, the last one I can remember was Katamari 360, and that was years ago)

You kidding me? Namco wrote the book on ridiculous amounts of DLC, Capcom just cribbed from it. Total this mess up:
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Pr...5-d8024e4d081c
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Pr...5-d8024e4d083d
http://marketplace.xbox.com/ja-JP/Pr...5-d8024e4d07db

The most recent Tales games on PS3 have hundreds of dollars of shit, too.

[NGEFreek]

I guess Nickel City was lucrative enough to Capcom that Namco had to get their hand in the pot too.

[gameoverDude]

Nothing makes me want to play an arcade game like watching a kid with pizza fingers play before me.

And I'm sure the game prices will probably be $1.00 minimum, with new gun games being $2.00 a play. Gameworks used to have Time Crisis 4 at $2.50 and After Burner Climax (2P sit-down) at $3.50 for 5 lives. Nuts. These tags did drop after my location closed and returned as KDB. Redemption games will probably be taking up a good 20% of the floor.

Hopefully they'll crib from D&B/GW with an 18+ rule after a certain time (though I'd also add a clause for no one under 13 after 6PM as well). Once at D&B I had a credit on deck in Razing Storm, and some unaccompanied 6 y.o. came up and stole it to join on 2P side. And also, they need to keep the gameroom fairly dark. Their Time Out location I used to go to was too brightly lit, leading to grave screen glare that I'd rather not have to deal with.

Galloping Ghost arcade
This sounds even better. 368 games on the floor... fuck yeah. And you pay a single-shot $15 fee for unlimited play- no cards or tokens needed. Now THIS is the real deal.

Ridge Racer Vita, the game is literally nothing but overpriced DLC, and the game was full price.

They already lost me when it dropped to 30 FPS. That said, Europe does have the Ultimate Edition by download with all the Gold & Silver pass content being included in the price. You still would have to download it individually. The cars/courses/BGM show up as "FREE" on the store menu.

DLC is getting ridiculous. By the time you buy all DLC for the average $60 game to get the full experience, you've spent enough for a Neo-Geo cart. If Skyrim didn't come from Bethesda, I'd bet it would end up as a $260 game. You'd probably have to pay another $40 each for the Thieves Guild, Companions, Winterhold College, Dark Brotherhood, and Civil War quest lines. Good job to Bethesda for keeping it reasonable.

[Josh]

No, that's the Capcom establishment.

They have the purification ingredient already hidden in the pizza, you just have to pay to find it.

[Dolemite]

I think I just won't touch games with DLC. Fuck that.

[Yoshi]

I think I just won't touch games with DLC. Fuck that.

It all depends how it's done. If it's truly additional content that extends the life of the game, I don't have an issue with it. That doesn't mean I'm going to buy it every time though. gameoverDude's example of Skyrim is a good one. The DLC for that is exactly how it should be done, and no one could reasonably argue that they couldn't get $60 worth out of the base game.

[Diff-chan]

I'm totally fine with DLC, I just judge it on a game-by-game basis. It's the only way to judge it, really. At its core, it's just a way for fans to get more of a game they enjoy.

A game like idolm@ster exists just to suck a continued stream of money out of a hapless fanbase, so I can't get mad at Namco for doing just that.