The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[garbon]

The one demo I liked in NextFest was the one that was narrative RTS about Hittites trying to survive after the invasion of the sea peoples. Not sure how it'd play as a full game though.

[HVC]

While a unique game idea it would probably be incredibly frustrating in practice

[The Minsky Moment]

Was it any good?

It played like a good but not spectacularly innovative tactical RPG.  The setting definitely piqued my interest though, enough to wishlist it.   One of the few games that drew my attention this Next Fest, along with Devil's Due (Balatro derivative with a wild west setting and demons).  Also if you like traditional metroidvanias, I'd check out Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster.

[Syt]

 

[Syt]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/gta-6-price-confirmed-the-standard-edition-will-set-you-back-80-but-on-the-bright-side-at-least-us-pc-players-have-plenty-of-time-to-save-up

Awooga, awooga, GTA 6 price alert! The money number the rest of the industry are seemingly looking to as a guide of how much they might be able to charge for their own games has been revealed. For the standard edition, it's $79.99, which is right in line with what finance types had been pushing for and predicting.

Rockstar confirmed that launch price via a press release on parent company Take-Two's website. The game's ultimate edition - Rockstar have also just revealed the extra bobbins that'll include - will cost $99.99. So, $20 more if you want a host of extra cars, clothes and other bits.

It's worth noting that since GTA 6 is only hitting consoles at launch (shakes fist), these prices are just confirmed for PlayStation and Xbox at current. Maybe it'll be cheaper whenever it arrives on PC? I know, pigs might fly, but a man can dream. Rumblings that GTA 6's US price would push beyond the $70 mark have been near constant as a number of delays have pushed the reveal further and futher back over the past couple of years. Back in April, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that in deciding the price, the company were looking at it in terms of "how do we deliver something amazing, and how do we make sure that what people pay for it feels very reasonable".

For the rest of the industry, the argument's long been that if GTA 6's price pushed a tad higher than current norms, its status as the biggest dog on the market could offer other publishers a chance to push up their prices for future releases without having to take the PR hit of being the first company to do so. We'll see if that's the case.

Returning to Rockstar's press release, it emphasises that in terms of bang for their buck, players will be getting "a single-player experience set in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet". There's no mention of any new multiplayer element that would pick up the mantle of huge cash cow GTA Online, in line with the fact Rockstar have been coy on that subject whenever they've been asked about it to this point. Possibly not too surprising in terms of this launch rundown, as GTA Online wasn't there on day one, debuting in October 2013 following GTA 5's release that September. Though, it is interesting that the release notes list among GTA 6's pre-order bonuses "a free month of GTA+ for digital pre-orders, which will be the best way to get the most out of the ever-evolving world of GTA Online".

So, the 'new online bit????' question is still hanging in the ether alongside the much more important 'when PC???'. Ah well, at least there are a tonne of new pictures of protagonists Jason and Lucia arranged in a multitude of saucy poses and bedecked in ultimate edition swagger to gawk at.

[garbon]

Another reason it will be a while for me. Though perhaps not having a current Gen console is more of an impediment.

[Syt]

Bethesda are probably thinking they should have charged those prices for Skyrim and every re-release.

[Josquius]

It will be interesting to see how it holds- Switch game prices resolutely refuse to drop. So keeping it the same forever can be done...

[garbon]

It will be interesting to see how it holds- Switch game prices resolutely refuse to drop. So keeping it the same forever can be done...

I feel like that is Nintendo's typical approach.

[Josquius]

It will be interesting to see how it holds- Switch game prices resolutely refuse to drop. So keeping it the same forever can be done...

I feel like that is Nintendo's typical approach.

There were always rarities that kept their value a bit then rose sharply. But broadly if you wanted wii, n64, etc... Games some time after release they had gone down a fair bit.

[Valmy]

It will be interesting to see how it holds- Switch game prices resolutely refuse to drop. So keeping it the same forever can be done...

I feel like that is Nintendo's typical approach.

God I fucking hate that. A game from a decade ago is still 60 dollars.

[Tonitrus]

I kinda wonder how video/PC game prices track compared to inflation...I remember ~$50 being the standard price for games in the 80s/90s...they've seemed pretty inflation-proof overall.

[Syt]

I remember paying DM 140 (= EUR 70) for the original Legend of Zelda back in the day.