Are PS4s going up in price now? I have an barely used PS4 with some games.
Oh, and I found some insight on VCS's development (A) . What caught my attention in context with your post was how Sony was struggling with the PS2, PSP and PS3 around 2005-2007, so both Sony and R* had an uphill battle: release games that would be system sellers and resourceful software for the PSP. That explains why VCS appeared more ambitious than LCS.
Nah keep waiting, I got my PS5 new from Swappa for 350 bucks a few months ago, you can do better
I wouldn't be surprised if they'd jump the gun at $80-100. Ten years of development for a game that would likely be the same as V but more visually appealing? Then, you'll have to ask yourself, why did I spend that much money on one game?
As in the thing that gave VC and SA its signature look.
IV is a funny case, because Sony originally approached Rockstar to make IV PS3 exclusive. Plans fell though though, and MS instead got a year of exclusivity for EFLC.
Fair, but it didn't help that since the PS2 released a year earlier in 2000, they had more development time for III on that console.
I think you can probably find better. 400 under is what I'd say you should go for.
The 100 dollar mark is done by retailers, not game publishers. Sony consistently prices PSN games at 110-130 dollars, so I'd assume VI will launch at that mark as its RRP, while places like Target or Big W will try to get lower prices for more sales. I think they'll push 130 on PSN, but not more than that. I wonder though if retailers will decide to price it at 130 at launch simply becuase it's gonna gather a fuck ton of sales. For the people living in the US, I think they're gonna do 80 USD since Nintendo's already set the bar for them. Then again, Take Two was the first to price their shitty sports games at 70, so who knows.
That doesn’t make sense. They’re arguably more powerful systems, why wouldn’t there be post processing for the smug or baked sun?
I can only assume that it's because all of that post-processing was written for the PS2 and the PS2 only, and back in 2005 you couldn't reliably replicate all of it under DirectX, and it's also possible that 2005 hardware combined with DirectX couldn't give the smae result that PS2's EE+GS did. The PC versions had some very drastic rendering pipeline downgrades, but with time modders have ported just about every missing link from PS2 as well as Xbox, and even a few extras like VCS/LCS/Mobile car reflections+cubemapped ones, and then that one modder expanded it with stochastic texturing and a wind shader.
One of the things that really irked me about VCS and LCS was the DJs would talk over parts of the songs and the songs themselves would be truncated. With the original games, the DJs might talk over an opening or ending of a sing, but only over an instrumental part, but with the prequel games they would talk over the singing too and then cut the songs short. I suppose this was done for piracy reasons and it would rear it's ugly head in the rest of the series releases in various ways (mostly with DJs talking over the starts of the songs like real radio DJs do) but it was just so badly obvious in the prequel games.
That I don't remember for LCS, I could listen to a couple radio stations to verify. DJs would play at the beginning and end without cutting the songs. But that DID happen for VCS a lot.
Actually, from the source I found earlier, it was based on compression and space issues from the UMD optical media. Leeds was pushing the PSP to its limits.
Ooh, I hate that shit. IV has that but only for The Beat. Off the top of my head, parts of Swizz Beatz's song Top Down is covered by the DJ and fucking shoutouts. It's realistic but it's still gay.
That's nothing compared to The Classics 102.7, DJ Premier would mix mid song and scratch excessively making the songs unrecognizable.
So many good songs in VCS: You Can't Turn Me Away, Sexual Healing, Ecstasy, Easy Lover, Freaks Come Out at Night, all cut short from poor editing/mixing.
How easy was it to avoid spoilers?
You’re goddamn right they did.
LCS, yes. There's less in LCS compared to VCS, but it has its own charm. Think of VCS as a dark British comedy and Miami Vice, think of LCS as a rise of a mobster story. Advance, yes as a curiosity. The events of Advance have little continuity to the 3D era games.
They aren't as good as VCS, but yeah, go for it.
I will agree the end resolution and antagonists were anti-climatic compared to previous, even later GTA games. That said, your point about GTA LCS being "sunnier" than GTA III, you're right and wrong. Yes, the writing has more quirks and whimsical characterizations but I think it perfectly encapsulates HOW much of a crapsack world Liberty City is.
Dude, it is quite literally a sunnier Liberty City in LCS over III.
IDK about all that...
Did you even read the instruction manual for III? No one who read the first pages of The Liberty Tree would say III takes itself seriously. It is the most pulp of all the 3D/HD games and was made by a DMA Design that wasn't restricted by Take-Two in what they could and couldn't say.
You say that like GTA III was R*'s first game or if III was 'the first GTA'.