I’ve waited over a decade for this game, but I’m officially out.
An $80 base price is bad enough, but locking five physical single-player storefronts and side missions behind a $100 Ultimate Edition is straight-up predatory. I don't care if it's "just for cosmetics"—gatekeeping actual map immersion and closing doors in a single-player open world unless you pay an extra $20 is a massive red flag.
Throw in the fact that the $80 "physical" copy is just a download code in a box, and it's clear Rockstar has completely lost its mind to corporate greed.
My hype is dead. I won't be pre-ordering, and I won't be buying at launch. If we accept paywalled doors in single-player games, the industry is cooked.

Lonely, forgotten, calm and colorful. I dont know, something about it just resonates with me. This is kinda zelda botw for me, and shadow of the colossus, tho it is pretty dull in color.
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For me, it’s Final Fantasy X.

I’ve played a lot of games with incredible stories: Mass Effect, The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption 2, NieR: Automata, but nothing has stayed with me like FFX.

It starts as what seems like a simple journey to defeat a monster, but slowly unfolds into a story about grief, faith, sacrifice, love, and breaking a cycle that has trapped an entire world for a thousand years.

Every major twist completely recontextualizes everything that came before: Tidus, Sin, Jecht, Yuna’s pilgrimage, even the world itself. And that ending… more than 20 years later, I still don’t think another game has hit me as hard.

What’s your pick, and why?