I’d say, if you want to, just pirate the DLC and give it a try. It is better than the base game. With that said, if you played the base game after the DLC released and didn’t like it, you probably just don’t like the game, and that’s fine. Personally, I think it’s pretty good, but I also mod the hell out of it. There’s a lot of smaller things I don’t like about the game that mods can fix, like removing the hacking minigame and things like that.
(Tangent: why does every game thing they need a hacking/lockpicking minigame?! I’ll be enjoying the game, then suddenly I have to spend a minute on some boring ass minigame that doesn’t do anything except take you away from the gameplay. Why? The old-school method of your character just doing a skill check is great, and it doesn’t waste our time. Can we go back to that?)
I’d say, if you want to, just pirate the DLC and give it a try. It is better than the base game. With that said, if you played the base game after the DLC released and didn’t like it, you probably just don’t like the game, and that’s fine. Personally, I think it’s pretty good, but I also mod the hell out of it. There’s a lot of smaller things I don’t like about the game that mods can fix, like removing the hacking minigame and things like that.
(Tangent: why does every game thing they need a hacking/lockpicking minigame?! I’ll be enjoying the game, then suddenly I have to spend a minute on some boring ass minigame that doesn’t do anything except take you away from the gameplay. Why? The old-school method of your character just doing a skill check is great, and it doesn’t waste our time. Can we go back to that?)