Sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills bc that game felt boring and repetitive but so many people gush over it. Like, it was fine but not a top tier experience I’d recommend to anyone. I’ll prolly just watch a streamer do the dlc. I will say that the game's story was better representation than the last film.

I feel the sane way. It had very uninspired, well trodden gameplay (with some aspects quite poorly done) along with a passable story. The highlight for me was just taking in the scenery in the jungle section, almost felt like virtual tourism. But I was hoping for something more original, since I enjoyed the first wolfenstein game from machine games quite a lot. Overall I didn't feel it was worth the price, even on sale.

I felt the same way about Deathloop. These types of games just aren’t for everyone.

Thing is, most of the discussion online is guided by reviews from major publications. If someone like SkillUp says the game is good then there will generally be a positive discussion about that game. Personally, I haven't played it nor do I ever really plan on playing it. Something about it just doesn't catch me eye the way certain games do, I feel like I'd have a similar experience to you if I did play it.

This doesn't really make much sense to me, why wouldn't you play through the game before touching the DLC?

I haven't played the IJ game or seen any details about its DLC, but DLC can sometimes be accessed before the main game is completed. It could potentially be like the Dark Souls 1 DLC, where you can enter the area at any time after a certain point in your playthrough. You can enter Oolacile after you defeat the Hyrda in the Basin and the Crystal Golem in the Duke's Archives. This can be completed at various points in the game before you finish the game.

As far as I'm aware it's like standalone in the sense that it's separate from the main game, like you access it through the menu. And my question is more, what incentive does the player have for playing this before the base game.

I'm playing through it now and the virtual tourism comparison is bang on. I personally don't mind the repetitive gameplay so I'm still having a good time with it the rest of it though.

Oh my God they've discovered *level scaling*!

People _do_ all the time and it makes no sense to me. I assume it's people who are highly motivated by hype and the community conversation to play something while it's in the zeitgeist, the same as people who want to skip stuff to play story games that are direct narrative sequels without bothering to play anything before it, presumably just because it's popular and catches their eye. Probably the same drive that keeps pre-orders and day one sales so high, despite it pretty much _always_ being a better idea to wait a year or so for sales/updates/etc.

I had similar thoughts, especially since the main game has been out for a while. I've played the main game multiple times, 100% it, helped others play it, and I've even done speedruns in various difficulties just to see how long the "core" story would take. Does that mean the DLC will scale for me due to my 100%-ing? Will it be based on my various difficulty settings? Will it be my most recent playthrough? We shall see. In the end, it'll be interesting to see what they do with the story; the main game's story was a little odd for me in one particular case since Indiana Jones ::: spoiler spoiler encountered Noah's Ark ::: in the novels at an earlier stage of his life.