Up to a quarter of current-gen games are being sold digitally instead of at retail, says Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz in a new report.
The Nerd Stash: “The PS3 marked a turning point in the industry, and among the sea of popular titles came the rare games that are worth more now than ever.”
I don’t collect games for their value I collect games I enjoyed playing. Many games I own are worth a lot of money but they must be games I want to play for me to purposely collect them. Most of this list isn’t games I would enjoy. I may have some of these games because I bought my friends PS2/3 Collection years ago and I never actually looked what was in it. It was a couple hundred games though still sitting in a box and I’m sure there are some good valuable games. I should go sift through it sometime.
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Whatever form the next God of War game takes, it needs to be clear about what role Kratos is playing, lest the franchise lose direction.
I'm pretty sure it'd be a major mistake having Atreus as the main character in the next GoW. Seems to me like at best people tolerate him and his gameplay sections.
Ideally the story for the next game would be that Atreus has gone missing in Egypt, Kratos gets mad about it, picks up Mimir and goes on a god killing rampage.
If that is an option for the dev team then they need to make it a clean slate. No Atreus, No Mimir. That's what happened when he changed pantheons before. Lets Kratos be in that world. But it will be a difficult task to complete. Kratos and his past demons are getting a bit redundant as far as story telling goes.
Yeah there's not a lot of meat left on the bone story wise. Personally I'd happily accept any goofy reason they could come up with for why Kratos is in Egypt chopping off heads. I'm personally not that bothered about the finer points of the storytelling, although they do it well.
They need to bring back the "God of War" in God of War. I was expecting to unleash hell and fury in Asgard against Thor that they really talked up in the first game but all we got was brooding middle aged dad drunk in a beer hall. Ragnarok was still "good" but I left that game expecting a lot more.
Tried Rag... just couldn't get into it. Felt like more of the same. I would welcome a Kratos only game again.
I'm part of that 25%, it's just so convenient especially with preload
Went all digital this gen with the exception of Destiny(thankfully).
25% is a huge number and publishers would be wise capitalize on the market by giving greater incentives such as cheaper digital prices and early access incentives.
Digital Movies have taken to this strategy and it appears to be working, at least with early-access anyway.
Any title that I know I won't sell I'll buy digitally. If they hold back the reviews until after the game comes out but I still want it at launch I'll go physical.
I just can't get behind digital, literally everything about it outside of not having to swap a disc is more limiting with digital. Can't sell it, can't trade it, can't loan it, it's more expensive on console, the game become unavailable on console if the store/servers are shut down and after that if you get a corrupted HDD your stuff is gone, there's so little we know about how digital will be handled on the last gen consoles once those store are done, it's just a mess to me.
I feel like the more digital gets pushed on consoles the more the customer loses on their end, just far to many unknowns for my liking.
I'm not sure if going fully digital is a good thing at the moment. 1/4 of my next gen games are digital but that's only due to the convenience of pre-loading for the midnight launches. I much prefer hard copies for the sentimental value or for that rare case where I'd need to resell the game cos it's a humongous pile of shyte.
But yeh, like most things it has its pros and cons...down to personal preference tbh. Buying digital would be more of a thing if the games weren't the same price as hard copies without a doubt.