Doom: The Dark Ages

[SuperMappy]

[Misfit]

Not sure I'd ever buy this (outside of a cheap Steam key in a year or two), but very happy to see it is on Game Pass so kinda 'free' and will be giving it a go when we have less sunshine.

[grue]

This is not Doom

[Jonesey]

Loving it so far. Loud, gritty, bloody, speedy, loud...did I mention loud?

[Deckard]

Not on the disc though - I thought the fanboys would be screaming about that mega d/l 85gig to play...

https://www.eurogamer.net/doom-the-dark ... uch-bigger

Ok if you have a good d/l not so good if you're in the sticks and have to wait a day or so...

[Jonesey]

Hmm...I knew it was coming to Gamepass so I did an overnight pre-load (giggety)..I'm only on 50Mbps, here..

I just climbed inside a giant version of myself and twatted stuff!

[Misfit]

Not on the disc though - I thought the fanboys would be screaming about that mega d/l 85gig to play...

You can tell you aren't a 'main' console gamer.

Doesn't matter how much is on the disk, games invariably have a day one patch that is pretty much the size of the game (and often many ongoing whilst they finish the game)

Every time I turn on, a game in my library wants an additional 50GB download these days.

[rowan]

I didn't realise this was coming.

What is this new enshittification?
Steam: I can pre-order it for £69.99 [no way. It's more than I'd pay and I never get "pre-orders" on principle]
Or I can actually shell out £99.99 and get "Advanced Access" and play it now?

Preorders used to be a method to pay the absolute most to get the worst version of a game.
But now we can pay EVEN MORE to get an EVEN WORSE version, they're having a fucking laugh.

Unlikely to ever bother for that sheer tosspottery, fuck you Bethesda.

[Misfit]

I didn't realise this was coming.

What is this new enshittification?
Steam: I can pre-order it for £69.99 [no way. It's more than I'd pay and I never get "pre-orders" on principle]
Or I can actually shell out £99.99 and get "Advanced Access" and play it now?

Preorders used to be a method to pay the absolute most to get the worst version of a game.
But now we can pay EVEN MORE to get an EVEN WORSE version, they're having a fucking laugh.

Unlikely to ever bother for that sheer tosspottery, fuck you Bethesda.

Or you could join Game Pass and get the PC or Ultimate tier and get this day one as part of the package (includes all Bethesda games).

And there has been some really good stuff lately, eg Indiana Jones, Oblivion Remastered, Expedition 33

https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/all-ga ... Q7TTC0KGQ8

[rowan]

Or you could join Game Pass

I do realise that but I don't like subscriptions either.
I learnt through "games with gold" that it basically devalues the games to me. I'm not saying I didn't get anything I enjoyed & also things I wouldn't have tried without but overall I think it's a model which probably does more harm than good in the industry.

[MattyP]

But now we can pay EVEN MORE to get an EVEN WORSE version, they're having a fucking laugh.

Unlikely to ever bother for that sheer tosspottery, fuck you Bethesda.

MS have been doing this for a fair while now. Pay to play early essentially. Think the first time I encountered it was on the release of Forza Horizon 4. I didn't bite. Although I did with Indiana Jones as it included DLC as part of the deal. Which funny enough still hasn't arrived yet. Hmph.

Just subbed to Game Pass for a month to see how the Fujima Kaido track is like on Forza Motorsport. Favourite track in FM4 and has been locked into that since 2011. They have released it as part of Forza s 20th(!) anniversary!

I'll have a look at the new Doom at some point. The trailers looked interesting...

[SuperMappy]

Not on the disc though - I thought the fanboys would be screaming about that mega d/l 85gig to play...

Game size now wins out over mame rom sets

MAME 0.238 ROMs (merged) 7zipped 63.9GB complete

[Jonesey]

..that "SPANG!!" noise just never gets old!