Vice City and San Andreas are the only two titles of the series I regularly return to.

I should be hyped as fuck, but I’m not. The more I see and read this feels just soulless.

The first GTA in around 30 years I’ll probably never play.

As much fun as a shooter can be, I would not want to die over and over in real life.

Also Germany banned and censored Killerspiele (killing games) for years and talked down on those creepy gamer bunch. But now that it’s convenient…

Arkane made some absolute amazing games, maybe these two can go in the same direction. Even on a smaller scale I’d put high hopes in an immersive sim by them.

That’s why I love gog, and it’s the only store that gets my gaming money. The games are mine, as long as I keep a backup of the installer. I can do with them what I want.

I see why the newest AAA games are a must have for younger gamers, but as an older one I now have the patience to simply wait until it releases on gog if I actually have the urge to play it.

Digital is fantastic, I miss the boxes and handbooks and feelies, but I don’t miss the discs.

I remember Cyberpunk 2077 sucking me into its world, I sometimes walked slowly through the streets taking in sights and sounds.

I had that all the time as a kid, Monkey Island, Betrayal at Krondor, you name it. For children, like you said, everything is new and a fantastic experience, give it enough years and it becomes not stale, but normal.

Now, many years later it has become rare. But when it happens it’s awesome again.

That’s also my reason for not being excited over GTA 6. It will never live up to feeling of 3, Vice City or San Andreas, even 4. Those times are over for me. 5 was fun, but nothing special anymore.

I don’t think they would leave. They would not risk loosing their sales on the biggest platform on PC. Was it EA or Ubisoft that tried to only release on their own platform? Their sales plummeted, and not long after they crawled back.

I just don’t want to pay 60 bucks for something I could loose in an instant (account hack, company goes out of business etc).It’s pure anti consumer.

What’s the point? They don’t offer the installers, you need the client to install the games.

DRM platforms are DRM platforms. Epic, Steam, Uplay and what not - at least I don’t care.

I wish Steam would remove all DRM. The big companies would not dare to oppose them with Steam’s near 100 percent PC market share.

“Support for all games cannot last forever.”

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Again and again and again… Sigh… Sadly I’m sure many of the comission will just believe that shit…

But then again, the big companies are obviously scared, that’s a good sign at least.

Yes, HereIAm is right, that’s what I ment.

It should be easy for a developer to implement this, I have no idea why they went with this. No program is bug free, so it is just stupid.

The save system (at least on PC) was a mess in the first game. After twenty hours or so the game decided to crash and corrupted the save file. No chance to restore it. All the progress, abilities, just gone beyond repair.

This could have been so easily avoided if the game would have given me multiple save slots. But the Devs decided to only have one, with no player control over it what so ever.

I never touched it again. Sad actually, Control was up to this point pure joy, the setting, the combat, the voice acting, the atmosphere, all top notch.

But if part 2 still only has one save slot I definitely won’t buy it.

I don’t want infinite saves, even saving on certain points in the game might be acceptable, but let me fucking chose out of five slots or so!

I’ve got to give credit to the gaming industry, it never fails to surprise me. They are extremely creative in finding new ways to press money out of gamers. I wish they would put that creative energy into their games, but well…

On the other hand, the gamers are not better. They pay for a weapon skin, a loot box, a mini DLC mission, they preorder, they accept always on line, they accept game clients required running in the background, buggy games on release date, now paid mods, kernel level anti cheat. Did I forget something?

Who can blame good old Todd and all the other guys?

Forgive me in saying this, but this whole discussion has gotten way out of proportion. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that many death threats left and right. But that’s the internet nowadays. Tiresome.

I did not mean that crap of course!

But if technology existed that would enhance graphics of old games to look like stuff from 2016 or so that would be pretty neat. I would definitely use it!

But that won’t happen I guess…

If this could be applied to games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, System Shock 2, Soldier of Fortune, Medal of Honour, Tron 2.0, Call of Duty and all other titles from that era, I would not mind in the slightest.

A man can dream…

One of the reasons to make gog your primary platform. Download the installer, even older versions if you prefer. Voilà.

It’s the most friendly platform for consumers at the moment.

While we are at it, I would really love to see a new adventure of the Honour Among Thieves Party. I loved that movie, please give us more!

Smoke crack all the time. (That can’t be good for me but I feel great!)

Piss in the air when on fire to distinguish the flames.

Put cats on gun barrel for improvised silencer.

We are weird people!

Never really got into the first one, but Postal 2 I still play from time to time. That game is so over the top ridiculous, I love it.

For now there’s nothing of the sort, but I’m only a few hours in. Could it be too good to be true…?

Well, let’s see. It is a AAA game after all…

Edit: No, the game really is fun. 20 hours in, and I must say even if it were only exploring Hogwarts it would be quite worth my time. The music and atmosphere are really neat.

Edit2: I can’t believe it’s a AAA title. There is no ingame shop, everything is obtainable just by playing. The world is beautiful and full of interesting stuff to find. And best of all: it’s fun! The cash grab part is just a lie. If you have an agenda, use arguments, not lies.