Lately a new trend has begun to pop up in the video game industry, and it’s not a positive trend according to many.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
"It was so offensive to me"
Amazon Prime subscribers can claim more than a dozen games to keep this month.
so people will buy it from their stores and make the company money, derp
I hate these retailer exclusivities
This might be the worst thing this gen has brought us, even worse than the continuous patching of unfinished games
Sometimes the codes for retail exclusive are reusable. Two worlds two and operation flashpoint dragon rising have exclusive pre order codes and they are accessible by anyone no matter the games purchase source. So it isn't all bad nor suprising. Money is the goal not gamers opinion of the practice.
I find myself this sort of thing is a bit irritating. I can't even say how many different options you had for LittleBigPlanet (and LBP2) when deciding where to pre-order from. It's a bit of an odd choice, although the example used of the AC:B beta being an exclusive part of the pre-order to Gamestop (I wouldn't know, in the UK) was a good one especially since you can guess how much money GS got from the people that otherwise wouldn't have pre-ordered from them.
There are so many different editions to games nowadays. Standard, "collectors", "limited" (which rarely is limited), "special", and then other editions (like with AC:B the "codex" edition, among others). I mean I like special editions and whatnot as much as the next guy when we're not getting ripped off (I'm looking at you EU LBP2 collectors edition) but do we really need all of these editions? I like some special editions but it was much easier when we just had the old simple style of the standard version of a game which had all you need.
As long as they go on the marketplace after a while I don't have a problem with these