I knew a discount on 007 First Light would be a long shot, but I'm not paying full price on it given the arbitrary locking of functionality behind an internet connection. I thought Pragmata would be on sale by now for sure, but it isn't. So I only ended up getting Death Stranding 2.

Halo was so broadly appealing in part because it was single player, co-op, and competitive. I wouldn't want them to just stick to single player.

Halo was for sure smaller scope. The amount of work that went into it was less than what went into Destiny. The size of the thing they produced was smaller than Destiny.

Bungie has now been both.

I played this a handful of years back, and I was surprised by how well it holds up. In other areas, it super doesn't hold up. It's got all of the presentation you'd expect from a modern action game with all of the jank that came along with ancient PC games, and it was charming for it. One song during a scene transition came off as anachronistic, and it's because it was! They had to change out a few of the songs due to licenses expiring, and the song they picked as a replacement postdated the game's original release, which was super jarring in a fun way I'd never experienced before.

Different strokes for different folks. A handful of them added a twist on it that made the genre finally catch my eye, and this is one of them, but it's a relatively recent phenomenon for me, for the most part.

Single player was "dumped" in that they delivered it and then didn't deliver more of it. Story DLC was new back then, but it's always been expensive and a low return on investment. I don't think they're going to make single player DLC. I have no reason to think they're not making the same type of single player campaign that they've been making. For whatever reason, this community is full of people making up a bunch of information about this game instead of reading the facts in front of them.

GTA 6 is going to be $80, digital only, with single player locked behind a $100 price tag

Single player is $80. A bunch of extra in-game trinkets are locked behind the $20 upsell.

Contrary to what the industry is hoping, this will not allow other games to sell at $80. Customers are already having a hard time justifying $70.

Where are you getting that it's an offshoot of the mulitplayer? We've seen the cinematic trailers and such by now. There are written characters, and you're not just playing as the create-a-character "John Auto". I think they're just saying it's a single player experience so that people looking for GTA Online know that it won't be there at launch.

Those are some great examples of old games that are real lookers, but quite frankly, I'm on a 5-year-old machine, and there are only a few of the latest games that have made it break a sweat. It runs most of the cutting edge games at high settings, high frame rates, and 1440p.

For GTA5, the single player works on Linux even though their anti cheat prevents playing the multiplayer.

Okay, but you filled in the blanks with a whole lot of your imagination instead of correctly coming to the conclusion that they used the language they did to indicate that multiplayer won't be releasing in this SKU, at least at first.

Console players spend a whole lot more in GTA Online than PC players do. Probably because PC players mod more.

I see no reason to believe that the "single player experience" is anything other the campaign you'd expect out of a new Grand Theft Auto.

I think canonically his name ended up being Claude? But no, I mean the way GTA Online does its missions is that every NPC will talk to you, but your character is silent. And no create-a-character system outputs characters that look as good as the protagonists of GTA 6, where they have human actors as the reference models and performance capture.

From the FAQ on the PlayStation store page:

Q: Does Grand Theft Auto VI have any multiplayer modes or features?

A: Grand Theft Auto VI is a single-player experience.

Meaning that on its release date, there will be no multiplayer. We all know the mulitplayer is coming, whether it's added later (like it was to GTA5 or RDR2) or if it's a separate item in the store. Taking an educated guess, it's probably just going to be added on, so that it can leverage the same game installation.

It's guns, cars, and cosmetics, of which there will be plenty in $80 version. The one part that's hard to evaluate is that the larger edition has more "businesses". An educated guess is that it's the real estate minigame from Vice City, and there are a few properties that are only in the more expensive edition, but that's only a guess. It doesn't sound like whole storylines are locked off.

Sure, but we know exactly who the protagonists are. It's the Bonnie and Clyde dynamic. It's a single player campaign. This isn't a guess; we know this. Even if they hadn't said this publicly, we knew this from leaks from years ago.

Plenty of folks in their right mind are buying AAA games at launch. Being in the zeitgeist, and talking with other folks when they also experienced the same creative work, has value. It's the same reason folks see movies in the theater instead of waiting for streaming or a boxed release.