Due to her popularity among the fans, the shocktrooper Edy Nelson got her own side story, Edy's Mission: Enter the Edy Detachment, and additional skirmish maps in the form of DLC. Her detachment also appeared as cameo characters in Valkyria Chronicles 2.
In the Broken Steel DLC, in the cutscene used for when the player character travels on the Presidential metro, the moving train is not a separate entity programmed to move on its own due to limitations with the Gamebryo engine. Instead, when the player goes on the metro, a script is triggered that equips an NPC underneath the train with a glove that turns its right hand invisible and produces the model for the Presidential metro car on top of it appearing like a giant hat. This then triggers an animation of the NPC's model sitting down and gliding along the ground in an arc that simulates the metro riding along the subway tracks.
Rivet City's Abraham Washington is the name of this NPC and is a reference to two former United States Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
DLC starring Danny Trejo called Dani & Danny vs Everyone was accidentally released ahead of its December 2021 schedule, forcing Ubisoft to remove it in an update.
In the initial release of "The Ancient Gods - Part One" DLC on October 20, 2020, pressing the dedicated Chainsaw button four times while on the Runes tab of the Dossier would bring up an altered logo for the game reading "Doog Eternal". This is a reference to Inugami Korone, a Japanese virtual YouTuber who livestreamed Doom 64 and Doom (2016) in the past. She enjoyed using the Chainsaw weapon and she was nicknamed by her community as "Doog Slayer" (a play on the fact that her model is a humanoid dog).
Three days later, the Easter egg was removed from the game in the Version 3.1 update. The patch notes acknowledged the discovery, but the reason why it was removed remains unknown:
"The DOOG easter egg has been removed, but will live on in infamy… We were wondering how long it would take for someone to notice, and as always, we're impressed with the community's speed!"
On February 3, 2023, 9 days after Forspoken's release, Square Enix released the outline of the Results Briefing held on that day, which showed some insight on the publisher's takeaways concerning its recent game releases.
While the briefing primarily focused on the financial results of numerous underperforming "small and mid-sized titles" that released in the quarter of October-December 2022 to try and fill the gap for declining net sales in the "HD Games sub-segment", the company decided to make a comment on the sales and reception for Forspoken. On page 6 of the outline, Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda stated the following:
"Reviews of “FORSPOKEN,” which we released on January 24, 2023, have been challenging. However, the game has also received positive feedback on its action features, including its parkour and combat capabilities, so it has yielded results that will lead to improvement of our development capabilities of other games in the future. That said, its sales have been lackluster, and while the performance of new titles with February and March release dates will be the ultimate determinant, we see considerable downside risk to our FY2023/3 earnings."
The effects of the game's negative reception would come to fruition on February 28, when Square Enix announced that its developer, Luminous Productions, would be absorbed back into Square Enix on May 1 to "further bolster the competitive prowess of the Group's development studios". Despite Forspoken's failure, Luminous Productions said that they would remain committed to the game in the meantime, releasing patch updates and working on the game's upcoming DLC "In Tanta We Trust", which would later release on May 26, after the studio's closure.
In the English localization of the main game, the Marines are referred to as "Navy", with the civilian Pro-Marine and Anti-Marine factions being renamed "Pro-Navy" and "Anti-Navy" to reflect this. However in the "The Unfinished Map" DLC, they are simply referred to as "Marines" once again.
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During the heyday of Creatures' fandom, a user nicknamed "AntiNorn", a late US Army officer, started posting videos of Norns (the pets featured in the game, which were coded in a manner more closely resembling the human brain than a regular pet simulator game) being abused as a counter-cultural response to the Creatures community favoring idealized fan content that ignored or removed elements of conflict or danger from the game.
AntiNorn provided an abused Norn called "Slave" for visitors to download and import into their games, which horrified certain members of the Creatures fandom. While many players downloaded Slave with the intention of protecting her, she turned out to have a fear of the player character, which she named "God". She had also been trained to eat poisonous weeds as food, could fall unconscious out of sheer stress, and was too frail to live a particularly long life.
Some players did manage to rehabilitate Slave and allow her to live a full life, but AntiNorn later revealed that he had her DNA genetically modified to produce alcohol in her bloodstream, meaning that if players had bred Slave, their entire Norn lineage would be contaminated with perpetually drunken Norns. The response to this was immense and fierce, to the point of AntiNorn receiving graphic death threats, castration threats, plans to inject his eyeballs with hydrogen peroxide, accusations of him being a demon, and descriptions of acid etching his entrails.
Following this, AntiNorn would start a website called "Tortured Norns", which contained more provoking downloadable content including cocaine pipes for Norns, recipes made from Norn babies, and a Norn wired to associate reward with punishment and therefore only able to experience pain.
In the data for the "Heists" DLC, there's unused assets of casual clothing and a white bikini for Karen Daniels to wear, neither of which made it in the final game.
Filepath to find this data in the game: Grand Theft Auto V\update\x64\dlcpacks\mpheist\dlc.rpf\x64\models\cdimages\mpheist_streamedpeds.rpf\ig_karen_daniels\
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In late 2023, Yandere Simulator creator YandereDev was accused of grooming a minor after the person in particular revealed several screenshots and audio recordings between them, prompting some of the game's developers and voice actors (including Michaela Laws, the voice of main character Ayano Aishi) to leave the project. Additionally, two games that had previously crossed over with Yandere Simulator announced that they would be severing ties with the game. First, Glowstick Entertainment announced that they would end all future sales of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals' crossover DLC with Yandere Simulator, as well as officially cancelling Ayano's Lovesick Labyrinth (a planned crossover between Yandere Simulator and Dark Deception, previously shelved). Later, Sad Panda Studios announced that they would be updating Crush Crush in order to replace Ayano (who had been added as a guest character) with an original character named Ayeka.
In "The Indigo Disk", the second half of "The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" DLC, a unique rock formation with a cliff can be found in the Savannah Biome just north of Crispin's battle arena. When you travel up to the edge of the cliff, a wild male Pyroar overlooking the Savannah will spawn in, and is a fixed spawn point for this specific Pokémon. This appears to be a reference to the 1994 animated film "The Lion King", where a kingdom of lions reside on Pride Rock (which this rock formation looks extremely similar to) and rule over the Pride Lands.
In the files of the Donkey Kong Adventure expansion, there are unused files for Rambi the Rhino as a party member, including a model; menu icons; and skills. He would have taken up two spaces on the board and been able to charge through any destructible terrain that enemies are using as cover and destroy it instantly. In the final DLC, Rambi would not appear physically in any form, but would have a gun made in his image. Rambi's model looks closer to his appearance in Rare's Donkey Kong games than his appearance in the Paon and Retro Studios Donkey Kong games, a design change that would also be carried over to Super Nintendo World's iteration of the character after Donkey Kong Adventure's release.
In 2023, the character Leone Abbacchio was added to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R as a DLC character over ten years after the original game’s release. Despite being a main cast member of the fifth part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, he was previously only playable in the 2002 Japan-only PlayStation 2 game Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze, due to the developers having trouble trying to make his ability Moody Blues, which causes his opponents to replay their moves, viable for combat. This led to him becoming a very highly-requested fighter for the game before he was eventually added.
According to the game's producer Tetsuya Nomura in a livestream on Square Enix's YouTube channel on January 26, 2023, he hinted that a sequel to the game was possible if word-of-mouth about the game spread through the DLC's completion and proves that it's a title that has "really resonated with everyone". However, it is important to note that Square Enix largely bases its new games on what will make money, so the odds of a sequel would still be unlikely even if it spread through word-of-mouth.
In the DLC update, Ninja Gaiden Black, Ayane's kunai messages featured fully voiced dialogue, which was not a feature in the original version. In Ninja Gaiden Sigma, the text and dialogue that explained the controls were changed to reference both PlayStation 3 controls and altered mechanics.
On the day of the game's release, the character Kung Jin was confirmed by writer Dominic Cianciolo to be the first homosexual character in the Mortal Kombat series. This was notably hinted at during a conversation with Raiden in Story mode:
Raiden: "Go to the Wu Shi Academy. Join the Shaolin, like Kung Lao before you." Kung Jin: "I can't. They won't... accept-" Raiden: "They care only about what is in your heart. Not whom your heart desires."
When Tanya was added as a DLC character, one of her prefight interactions with Jin also references his lack of interest in the opposite sex:
Tanya: "Quite a handsome Shaolin." Kung Jin: "Barkin' up the wrong tree, sister."
Bubsy: Paws on Fire! attempted to raise funds for DLC with a Kickstarter campaign before its launch, which would've added new levels with new themes, mini-games, costumes, and Commander Video from Bit.Trip as a guest character. The Kickstarter was heavily criticized for the confusing structure it had, where the funding goal would merely add extra one-liners and two costumes for Bubsy while the stretch goals were individual parts of a short extra world, known as the "Impossible World". The campaign did not reach its base goal, and Paws on Fire! recieved no DLC.
On January 29, 2024, the Steam version of Postal III received a large content update adding various features and improvements originally made by the developers of the Zoom Platform version of the game as well as fixes and content by the series' fan community. The update notably included streamlined mod support, a high quality release of the official soundtrack, several bug and graphical fixes pointed out and contributed by players, updated versions of the game's official German and Japanese localizations, three new localizations in Portuguese/Brazilian, French and Polish translated by fans, and worldwide access to the previously Russian-only Fart Gun DLC.
On February 1, 2024, Illumix made a Reddit post announcing that the game would be delisted from app stores by the end of the following day, and that the game would be sunsetted on March 14. For the final six weeks that the game would be online, Illumix started an event called "Final Delivery," which would give every user the chance to do anything the game provided for free by translating all the purchasable items into Faz-Coins, including the game's DLC, "Dark Circus: Encore!". The event rewards would provide large amounts of parts, Faz-Coins, Remnants, and other items for the player to use freely.
The Artorias of the Abyss DLC for Dark Souls was notoriously convoluted to access for newer players, requiring them to quit and reload their game in a cove at Darkroot Basin behind the Hydra boss to even start the sequence to get to the DLC levels. However, returning players had a better idea of how to access the DLC before it released by discerning the location where the levels are accessed through the DLC’s trailer and certain NPC dialogue.
Game designer Yuki Nakamura, who was in charge of writing the DLC episode "Turnabout Reclaimed", used the concept of "lighthearted fun" to set it apart from the episodes in the base game. The episode featuring an orca and taking place in an aquarium was the first thing she decided on, but she struggled to come up with the rest of the story. One scrapped idea had the orca stealing treasure from the aquarium and attacking people by the shore as it escaped to sea, with the mystery involving the reason for the orca's behavior. The draft for this version of the episode opened with Bobby Fulbright and some guards vaguely referring to somebody escaping. This was intended to mislead players into thinking that they were referring to Simon Blackquill, before it was ultimately revealed to be the orca.
Due to her popularity among the fans, the shocktrooper Edy Nelson got her own side story, Edy's Mission: Enter the Edy Detachment, and additional skirmish maps in the form of DLC. Her detachment also appeared as cameo characters in Valkyria Chronicles 2.
In the Broken Steel DLC, in the cutscene used for when the player character travels on the Presidential metro, the moving train is not a separate entity programmed to move on its own due to limitations with the Gamebryo engine. Instead, when the player goes on the metro, a script is triggered that equips an NPC underneath the train with a glove that turns its right hand invisible and produces the model for the Presidential metro car on top of it appearing like a giant hat. This then triggers an animation of the NPC's model sitting down and gliding along the ground in an arc that simulates the metro riding along the subway tracks.
In the initial release of "The Ancient Gods - Part One" DLC on October 20, 2020, pressing the dedicated Chainsaw button four times while on the Runes tab of the Dossier would bring up an altered logo for the game reading "Doog Eternal". This is a reference to Inugami Korone, a Japanese virtual YouTuber who livestreamed Doom 64 and Doom (2016) in the past. She enjoyed using the Chainsaw weapon and she was nicknamed by her community as "Doog Slayer" (a play on the fact that her model is a humanoid dog).
In the English localization of the main game, the Marines are referred to as "Navy", with the civilian Pro-Marine and Anti-Marine factions being renamed "Pro-Navy" and "Anti-Navy" to reflect this. However in the "The Unfinished Map" DLC, they are simply referred to as "Marines" once again.
In the data for the "Heists" DLC, there's unused assets of casual clothing and a white bikini for Karen Daniels to wear, neither of which made it in the final game.
In the files of the Donkey Kong Adventure expansion, there are unused files for Rambi the Rhino as a party member, including a model; menu icons; and skills. He would have taken up two spaces on the board and been able to charge through any destructible terrain that enemies are using as cover and destroy it instantly. In the final DLC, Rambi would not appear physically in any form, but would have a gun made in his image. Rambi's model looks closer to his appearance in Rare's Donkey Kong games than his appearance in the Paon and Retro Studios Donkey Kong games, a design change that would also be carried over to Super Nintendo World's iteration of the character after Donkey Kong Adventure's release.
On February 1, 2024, Illumix made a Reddit post announcing that the game would be delisted from app stores by the end of the following day, and that the game would be sunsetted on March 14. For the final six weeks that the game would be online, Illumix started an event called "Final Delivery," which would give every user the chance to do anything the game provided for free by translating all the purchasable items into Faz-Coins, including the game's DLC, "Dark Circus: Encore!". The event rewards would provide large amounts of parts, Faz-Coins, Remnants, and other items for the player to use freely.
