Games for Breakfast: Breath of the Wild Expansion Pass

<p><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Georgia&semi; color&colon; &num;333333&semi;">Welcome to Games for Breakfast&comma; a new feature series here on BagoGames&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Georgia&semi; color&colon; &num;333333&semi;">Games for Breakfast&comma; written by Features Editor Angelo De Bellis&comma; is a daily opinion piece of about 250-500 words—I gotta keep it brief—that engages topical game news&period; Every new post will go live at<span class&equals;"apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span>9am<span class&equals;"apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span>EST so that you can grab your cup of coffee and read a brief account of a particular gamer’s take on the latest goings-on in the industry&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>Big news in the <em>Zelda<&sol;em> world&colon; yesterday Eiji Aonuma took to the web to announce an expansion pass for <em>The Legend of Zelda&colon; Breath of the Wild<&sol;em>&period; If you follow Nintendo at all you’ll know this is huge for a company dedicated to shipping &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;whole” games and who&&num;8217&semi;s been outspoken in the past about DLC models&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At first&comma; unlike I assume many Nintendo fans felt&comma; I decided to do away with the negative thoughts&period; Instead of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nintendo is scamming us&excl;” or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nintendo were the good ones&excl;” or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Now that Nintendo is doing it&comma; there’s no hope left for the gaming industry&excl;” I thought about the good it could bring to the series&period; Considering Nintendo handled the <em>Mario Kart 8<&sol;em> expansions so well—a reasonable price for plenty of quality content—I thought&comma; well maybe this will turn out the same&period; Unfortunately that was before I saw the announcement video in its entirety with the information sheet of what is included with the expansion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It’s not pretty&comma; at least not in my opinion&period; Certainly the asking price of &dollar;19&period;99 is not bad at all&comma; but when you see that plenty of its contents—chests with rare&sol;exclusive goods&comma; additional difficulty modes&comma; and a supposed  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Additional map feature”—are things that would have just been included with past <em>Zelda<&sol;em> titles&comma; it’s disappointing&period; The only worthwhile content&comma; the stuff that adds to the game&comma; are the things coming with DLC Pack 2&colon; a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;New original story&comma;” a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;New dungeon&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Additional challenges&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Perhaps these items alone could have been sold as part of the expansion&comma; once more details are given&comma; and at a discounted price of &dollar;14&period;99&period; As far as I’m concerned&comma; the contents of the Expansion Pass Bonus and DLC Pack 1 should have been free&period; What do you think&quest; Will you be picking up the expansion pass&quest; Do you think there is more to the earlier DLC that Nintendo has just not explained well that will make it more worth your money&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;