Plenty will take this as an excuse to pirate, and I understand completely. I think it sends a stronger signal to spend your money where you actually get to own stuff. In this case, in a world where there is no DRM-free movie/TV show store, that means buying the discs. And for what it’s worth, having recently gone back to Blu Rays, it’s been a nice reminder of how much better the quality is off of the disc compared to the compressed image they send you.
I’m not in that big of a rush, and I like having Steam’s refund policy at my disposal. I’m sure both Pragmata and 007 will have a sale by the end of the year.
I knew a discount on 007 First Light would be a long shot, but I’m not paying full price on it given the arbitrary locking of functionality behind an internet connection. I thought Pragmata would be on sale by now for sure, but it isn’t. So I only ended up getting Death Stranding 2.
Bungie has now been both.
Halo was for sure smaller scope. The amount of work that went into it was less than what went into Destiny. The size of the thing they produced was smaller than Destiny.
Halo was so broadly appealing in part because it was single player, co-op, and competitive. I wouldn’t want them to just stick to single player.
I played this a handful of years back, and I was surprised by how well it holds up. In other areas, it super doesn’t hold up. It’s got all of the presentation you’d expect from a modern action game with all of the jank that came along with ancient PC games, and it was charming for it. One song during a scene transition came off as anachronistic, and it’s because it was! They had to change out a few of the songs due to licenses expiring, and the song they picked as a replacement postdated the game’s original release, which was super jarring in a fun way I’d never experienced before.
Different strokes for different folks. A handful of them added a twist on it that made the genre finally catch my eye, and this is one of them, but it’s a relatively recent phenomenon for me, for the most part.
Single player was “dumped” in that they delivered it and then didn’t deliver more of it. Story DLC was new back then, but it’s always been expensive and a low return on investment. I don’t think they’re going to make single player DLC. I have no reason to think they’re not making the same type of single player campaign that they’ve been making. For whatever reason, this community is full of people making up a bunch of information about this game instead of reading the facts in front of them.
Are you aware that there’s a subscription available for GTA Online 1 right now, by the same name, and it isn’t required for access? There’s no reason to believe they’re going to lock access behind a subscription; it’s become very unpopular, as they find they make more money without that barrier.
Okay, but you filled in the blanks with a whole lot of your imagination instead of correctly coming to the conclusion that they used the language they did to indicate that multiplayer won’t be releasing in this SKU, at least at first.
Those are some great examples of old games that are real lookers, but quite frankly, I’m on a 5-year-old machine, and there are only a few of the latest games that have made it break a sweat. It runs most of the cutting edge games at high settings, high frame rates, and 1440p.
GTA 6 is going to be $80, digital only, with single player locked behind a $100 price tag
Single player is $80. A bunch of extra in-game trinkets are locked behind the $20 upsell.
Console players spend a whole lot more in GTA Online than PC players do. Probably because PC players mod more.
It’s guns, cars, and cosmetics, of which there will be plenty in $80 version. The one part that’s hard to evaluate is that the larger edition has more “businesses”. An educated guess is that it’s the real estate minigame from Vice City, and there are a few properties that are only in the more expensive edition, but that’s only a guess. It doesn’t sound like whole storylines are locked off.
For GTA5, the single player works on Linux even though their anti cheat prevents playing the multiplayer.
From the FAQ on the PlayStation store page:
Q: Does Grand Theft Auto VI have any multiplayer modes or features?
A: Grand Theft Auto VI is a single-player experience.
Meaning that on its release date, there will be no multiplayer. We all know the mulitplayer is coming, whether it’s added later (like it was to GTA5 or RDR2) or if it’s a separate item in the store. Taking an educated guess, it’s probably just going to be added on, so that it can leverage the same game installation.
Oh, I went with John Auto because whenever there’s a Street Fighter trailer with the generic create-a-fighter for World Tour mode, people call that guy John Street Fighter. We definitely haven’t seen create-a-characters up to this point.
Since at least GTA4, Rockstar has nearly cornered the market on crime stories like you’d find in Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorcese, Guy Ritchie, or Michael Mann movies. The appeal is playing out an action game that would feel like one of those crime stories.
Drive-by spoilers haven’t been a struggle for me to avoid for about a decade now. There’s just too much to watch, and hardly anything gets that groundswell of people I know all watching the same thing. The last time it happened was probably Game of Thrones.
I had one friend recommend Ted Lasso to the rest of us; most didn’t bother checking it out, but it does in fact rule. I’m still waiting on season 5 of The Boys. The Boys, btw, was one of the starkest differences in quality between streaming and disc. I’m not even on HDR or anything, but the blacks are so much deeper than whatever Amazon is doing to wash out the image. They did kind of half-ass the subtitles though, so the defaults aren’t set properly when Kimiko starts doing sign language.
And it’s nice that I can rip my discs, but whose idea was it to make ripping them this much of a pain in the ass? MakeMKV feels like a hack, probably because it is. It’s only Blu Rays made in the past few years that even bother to put labels on the tracks so that you know what each file is, and even then, it’s probably only because it fits some standard with LCD readouts on modern 4K players meant for the living room.