General Videogame Thread

Why would you buy a digital over one with a disc drive with the exception of a cheaper price? I literally know nothing about these things these days.

I'd be Fifa, GTA, a racing game and maybe one or two others. Wrestling perhaps too. But mainly football.

Having things on disc means you can buy, sell and swap games + use any backward compatible old discs. If you go digital you have only the option of buying the download from the official store.

The future is digital but some people like to have something tangible and like to be able to use their old games.
 
Also be aware that going digital only reduces your buying power. You're restricted to digital only outlets, and for some titles, particularly the smaller ones, I have only ever seen the PlayStation Store carrying them, so you pay whatever they list them at.

With a disc you can still take advantage of digital sales, plus grabbing discs when on offer or even second hand.

A key example of this is pre orders. Sony will want £60 or so digitally, whereas on disc you may pay £40 for pre order as Amazon, Argos, game, Tesco, asda, shopto and others compete for your order. So far Sony have been restrictive over availability of digital keys via non Sony outlets and I don't see this changing. They have a monopoly on digital ps4 sales. Microsoft isn't so bad as deals do crop up for keys on cdkeys and others, but it's a similar situation.

Personally I have too much of a backlog, and also too many bad launch console experiences (2 x red ring of death xbox 360s and a yellow light of death PS3) to jump right in, although admittedly this generation have resorted confidence in hardware build quality.

Happy to wait a year or two.

I think you only upgrade when a game comes along that you really want and need the latest box for.
 
Having things on disc means you can buy, sell and swap games + use any backward compatible old discs. If you go digital you have only the option of buying the download from the official store.

The future is digital but some people like to have something tangible and like to be able to use their old games.

Can buy digital copies cheaper online, don't have to pay the price from the official store, and haven't for years.
 
digital games are a rip off ? unless you can resell them then you don't own them, also you have to pay a subscription fee to log on the main sites then download them onto your account and not the game console ?

always buy a disc game that way you get a chance to sell it on, ok you will lose money but its better than losing the full price of a download copy

what the main game console should do is download the game to the console and its part of your console forever and if you sell the console then its got games built in
 
Right so I have stuck with Crusader Kings 3 and put in a good number of hours and get whats going on.

Its still absolutely shit. I really have no idea why people are loving this game. I'm a big Stellaris fan but this game is about marrying your children, trying to murder people and chasing armies about a map. Its bloody awful. Its a glorified family simulator?

Too many repetative pop ups constantly interrupting game play . Don't like conquering a full island then just giving it all back as if nothing just happened. Similar to the claim system in Stellaris, but somehow worse! Just seems totally poor. No proper army building or conquests, the map gets really messy after a while and the game just completely kills off alliances once a king or queen dies, which is again madness.

Probably the worst grand strategy game I've played. Completely and utterly underwhelmed. Picked this over Iron Harvest aswell...fuck.
 
Football Manager 2020 is free on epic games store usual price is £39-99 grab it while the offer is on folks
 
Have there been any good racing games recently? Used to love the original gran tirismo, but it’s been an age since I’ve played one.

Played about 10 hours of Stellaris and really struggling to get into it.
 

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