Completely agree with everything apart from price, no game is worth that much.
And yet in another topic you say
I would pay over the odds for a GX4000 version of Outrun!
How much would that be? For an 8-bit video game cartridge that even if using the Plus features will still not be quite the same as the 30 year old arcade game it's based on? How is that worth 'over the odds' yet approx £50 is far too much for a high quality state of the art video game that took at least five years of development and cost millions of dollars to make, offers many hours of gameplay and from what I've heard and read is highly replayable after the main story is completed (I haven't reached the end yet so cannot confirm but I bloody love playing it)? Console games have always been expensive but some are definitely more worth it than others. It's a lot more difficult for a system exclusive game to sell a lot than it is for a multi-platform game to do so yet a lot of exclusive games are cheaper than those (Sony's first party dev games like God of War and those from Naughty Dog such as The Last of Us and the Uncharted series have all been far cheaper than games such as those from Activision and EA). I always like to see these kinds of games do well (when they deserve it which these ones clearly do) and it pains me to see when great games don't sell well and the developers are disuaded from doing anything else in that genre. For example, Housemarque are a company who have done a lot of great arcade shooters for PlayStation and PC but their best game Nex Machina, which is a superb top down shooter made in collaboration with Eugene Jarvis of arcade classics such as Defender, Robotron and Smash TV, sold so poorly they have now quit the arcade shooter genre because they just couldn't afford to do it anymore. Their new game is apparently some kind of Battle Royal thing (like Fortnite, PUBG and all that kind of thing) which I personally have no interest in. I mean great if it can help them pay their bills but them quitting the arcade shooter genre they were so damn good at makes me wish I'd at least bought Nex Machina at full price of £15.99 rather than had waited for the sale price of £7.99. I kinda feel guilty when I play it now. Knowing I'm at least a tiny bit responsible for the non-existence of follow up titles. I like to see quality game developers rewarded. Even in the 8-bit scene I happily buy new releases when available of the digital versions of 8-bit games even for systems I don't care for (I've bought many C64 titles) even just for appreciation of the scene (even though I don't play those much I'm often impressed by their quality and ideas and such). I don't buy the physical versions for various reasons (I don't buy physical of modern system games either) but I buy almost all the digital versions and have even given a few quid each to various developers when they've released games for free. Just to show my appreciation that they'd made a game I thought was fun or interesting. I can't go nuts cos I'm long term unemployed. God of War motivated me to do a 'spring clean' of some old stuff onto eBay finally (and I made about three times the cost of the game anyways.
). Yes there's difference between hobbyist indie developers making 8-bit games in their spare time and those folks full time employed making AAA modern games but at the end it's all people putting a lot of their hard work into creating these things. I've been meaning to give
@reidrac some money for the enjoyment I have got from his games. I can't recall if maybe I already offered and perhaps he declined? I shall have to check. I do have the posters of Magica and Golden Tail at least.
Ugh I probably babbled but anyways those be some of my reasons why I not only feel God of War is worth the money but also that quality developers of any scene should be encouraged more when they create something that clearly has so much love and effort put into it and money is gonna always come into it with these things.
Anyways I hope you do enjoy it when you decide which price you feel is worth it. It's a really good game that I'm hoping will do really well (I already know of a few Xbox folk buying a PS4 just for it so that's encouraging in itself, especially since Xbox is seriously lacking in exclusives..and the ones it does have... well... You wanna look up Sea of Thieves if you wanna see a game that is not worth the money. It could be good, but there's barely any content in it for an expensive game). Ok I'm done with this subject. I doubt I can change your mind at all but I felt I should explain why I feel about it the way I do.
Anyways BACK ON TOPIC.
Just got home from rehearsal where I ad continued my Chase HQ game from this morning while waiting for my scene. My one scene in the whole darn show. And then I played Stryker in the Crypts of Trogan (I like that it push scrolls at the edges rather than Switchblades flick screen and the character is actually still controllable during the fast scroll onto the next screen. It may be basically a pseudo-sequel of Switchblade but it does have some nice engine improvements).
