I did notice that actually. Thought I was imagining things.

So it is actually something different - wasn't sure. I wonder if there's anything else that's changed we don't know about.... haha

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I did read it.

I'm on digital, there's the occasional pop up for me when I'm either going really fast or it's a fast moving scene/cut scene. Otherwise minor details.

no I have disc and super slim. Also an upgraded hard drive.

I too have the disc version on PS3 and not only had seen NPCs desappear and some pop-in, but I had the funniest glitch ever: Michael's clone!

I was playing with Michael, went inside Trevor's place, switched over to Michael, back to Trevor and than again to Michael (one right after another). And there I was, controlling one Michael and a second Michael was right beside me (the place I was before switching). I taunted the doppleganger into a fight, just like a common pedestrian... Beated myself with a crowbar! Epic!

EDIT: I was playing initially with TREVOR not Michael (my bad), Michael was just laying on the sofa with the hostage [name not given to avoid spoiler].

I also had seen both the Hostage and Franklin's aunt duplicate plenty of times... There are plenty of bug/glitchs in this game even on PS3 disc version, but it's no dealbreaker, some are actually lots of fun, like when I switched to Franklyn and he was somehow abandoning my fine bike under the water, I first thought it was some random event I had not seen before, so I desperately swin to surface while my bike is sinking and to my surprise I come out in one those shallow concrete channels of LA river (so shallow that Franklyn simply stand up and the water is knee deep)! It appears Frankly simply spawned under the map when I switched... LOL

What about the "Corqette?!?!"

There are tons in fairness. The Bucaneer is a Pontiac GTO, the Gauntlet a new Challenger, the Coquette to me is where the Corvette should be going styling wise, there is an SLS AMG mixed with a Jaguar F Type, the Adder, the R8 lookalike, the Aston Martin V12 Vantage look alike. It goes on and on down to a standard hatchback or the brand new Range Rover which isn't even altered from what it looks like in real life. The Entity is a blatant Koenigsegg. The Elegy is a Nissan GTR.

Basically an Audi R8 but with the Audi logo cut in half lol.

its a hard bet to make. hindsight is always 20/20.

After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.

Futbol.

Agree that all you just posted are great games. Expedition 33 is one of my favorites. Spent a large chunk of time on BG3 in 2023. Another for my all-time list.

My point though not well articulated in the OG post is that we would get more of the games of the quality you mentioned if so many valuable resources were not allocated to FTP slop and/or heavy monetization schemes. Some of what used to be my favorite franchises have been ruined by them.

To sum it up, I would like to see games like 33 outperform the profits made by games like Fortnite so more resources are allocated to great games. When heavily monetized FTP games are at the top of the list, we end up being stuck with a significant chunk of games that are not good. Or worst case scenario games that spend years in development, but get cancelled due to industry trend chasing.

Perhaps, and I hope you’re right. A shift is needed IMO