I’ve waited over a decade for this game, but I’m officially out.
An $80 base price is bad enough, but locking five physical single-player storefronts and side missions behind a $100 Ultimate Edition is straight-up predatory. I don't care if it's "just for cosmetics"—gatekeeping actual map immersion and closing doors in a single-player open world unless you pay an extra $20 is a massive red flag.
Throw in the fact that the $80 "physical" copy is just a download code in a box, and it's clear Rockstar has completely lost its mind to corporate greed.
My hype is dead. I won't be pre-ordering, and I won't be buying at launch. If we accept paywalled doors in single-player games, the industry is cooked.

For context, WoW just means World of Warcraft. And this is Holly Longdale, Blizzard's VP. A few months ago, she said something very similar to this.

It's the reason why WoW and MANY games are failing to connect. And it's the reason why people are concerned for games like WoW because they lose their identity.

And WoW is a good example too. WoW used to be really cool but over the years from Shadowlands to now, WoW has lost the elements what made WoW cool. And even Metzen himself said that he wished that WoW wasn't named Warcraft because it sounds intimidating. Like WTF?!

If a game is meant for everyone, you have failed to connect to a audience and doing so CAN RUIN your game.

Devs need to know that its okay to not please everyone.

Its why good games are successful.

BG3 is a rpg for adults who love DnD, Game of the year and continued winning awards after

Ubisoft knew AC Odyssey was going to be only for rpg enjoyers, Game of the year nominee

Even indie games know this.

Like Hades. The devs knew that it wasn't going to be for everyone, and it did WELL and won, indie game of the year

Space Marine 2. A game made for adults who like violence in games. Saber knew the audience and continues to get really good reviews

etc.

What do you think?

For me, it’s Final Fantasy X.

I’ve played a lot of games with incredible stories: Mass Effect, The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption 2, NieR: Automata, but nothing has stayed with me like FFX.

It starts as what seems like a simple journey to defeat a monster, but slowly unfolds into a story about grief, faith, sacrifice, love, and breaking a cycle that has trapped an entire world for a thousand years.

Every major twist completely recontextualizes everything that came before: Tidus, Sin, Jecht, Yuna’s pilgrimage, even the world itself. And that ending… more than 20 years later, I still don’t think another game has hit me as hard.

What’s your pick, and why?

Love Rockstar games but I'll have to go with capcom here, much more varied experiences and more variety also more frequent output (they've actually released even more games like MHW, Kunitsu Gami, Megaman 11 but I wasn't able to include them as I didn't have space to fit them in)

Truly incredible what CAPCOM has accomplished in the past 8 years, while their live service efforts like Exoprimal have failed they continue to be great at what they do best; single player and CO OP experiences, what they do need to improve is, is the optimization on some games like MH Wilds and DD2

Hopefully we get a new DMC soon though

I'm gonna be completly honest for a second, I will grant that a couple of the pals designs are clearly based off of pokemon, but I think the lengths people go to to say that certain pals a knockoffs of pokemon are ridiculous.

Now that 1.0 is out the game is fresh on everyone's mind and it's become extremely popular again, which has pokemon fans (not all or even most pokemon fans to be clear, but predominantly pokemon fans) angry about the game again and comparing pals with pokemon, panthalus in particular is one they're pointing at. Like let's take this comparison dead seriously, take all off the features from both of these creatures, body structure, limbs, patterns, colors, details, now discard anything that the two of them don't share. The only thing you have left is a blank teardrop shape with two eyes. What is the argument at that point? As the first guy pointed out, the only thing the two designs have in common is legitimately just the fact that both of them are whales.

People are reaching so far with some of these comparisons that some of them don't even make sense, like I've seen people claim wixen is a copy of braixen, and I'm just thinking "...no?"