Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-1894551-20120922032229/@comment-174544-20120924215217

Well, have you ever played Dragon Age: Awakening? It was an expansion pack to Dragon Age: Origins, however it was only playable after the main game, and for most intents and purposes was considered a different game.

It still used the same engine, and your main character from DA:O as well as all their equipment was transferable to it (although it could be played with a new character entirely). It needed a seperate disk to run too.

Despite all this, it was still classified as an expansion pack.

Another good set of examples are basically every single Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2 expansion, which while they did add some content to the main game, were basically just new games to play using the same engine.