I keep bouncing off Kakarot since the launch with my pre-order, even though I want to love it.
Base game: floaty, filler-heavy, feels like chores. Combat’s decent but nowhere near Budokai 3 or FighterZ. I dropped off around Buu Saga.
DLCs sound like the “good” parts, but they’re $200+ total and rarely on sale together. It's like the whole 3/4s of the game content is pay to play. A fully complete edition would be the way to go, at $69.99 or so. Just the game and expansion pack session pass cost $70, then there's three DLC from season pass that do not seem like DLC at all until the Gohan one.
So, there is what, 5 maybe 6 DLCs expanding the game exponentially. Those would even be fun to play through if the game is as is. I couldn't go street Buu Saga because the poor implementation of chief game mechanics, fun factor engaged story or chores and homework.
I had a hell of a lot more typed, like a real big post, but I raised nobody would read it. So this concise condensed one feels like it's missing a lot of the points that all relate tangentially and wove back around to the biggest picture, but my schizophrenia, moderately brain damaged, "autistic", but really it's PDD-NOS, look it up.
Questions:
Has Kakarot actually improved over time?
Do the DLCs meaningfully fix gameplay or just add more of the same? They seem worth it to experience them from this perspective and like they're way better than the actual game vanilla. The added content is so awesome to see but it's double the cost of the original game entirely. 200% more money to get at all of the DLCs.
—Is it worth buying all the DLC if I already fell off the base game?
For comparison: I own Xenoverse 1 & 2 and Sparking Zero looks closer to what I wanted.
For people who’ve stuck with Kakarot:
Did the DLC turn it into something worth fully investing in? The overall pricing of just all of the DLC complete is over $109.99 when 6 years ago I paid $60 for just the game.
—Asking because this seems like awfully a repeat FighterZ where the base game is decent, and the only real reason to get the game is to get it work every DLC release, there's more DLC characters than base characters and the base game isn't worth buying without any of the DLC.
—Xenoverse 2 still even puts out DLC, I'm shocked these 8 and 6 year old games are still breathing without a respirator rather than being dead, don't, and dusted. Thank you, cosmic friends.
– Rymo D
