Final yr, everybody type of hated Rockstar’s baffling option to port 2010’s Purple Lifeless Redemption to Swap and PS4, not likely add something to it, cost $50 for the sport, and proceed RDR’s decade-plus snub of PC players. We had a quick second of pleasure on seeing that the lauded cowboy sim will lastly launch on Steam October 29, however I’ve had a giant actuality verify on seeing the value.
It is not precisely a shock that this port is not seeing a worth drop relative to final yr’s PS4/Swap launch, nevertheless it nonetheless sucks. It is an assertion of the sport’s worth, that not solely is a Rockstar recreation price ready 14 years for, it deserves to be practically the value of a full-fat, new triple-A launch. Following final yr’s fracas over the value, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick asserted that the fee was “commercially correct,” and even that the bundle of RDR1 with its Undead Nightmare enlargement was “an incredible worth for customers.”
Zooming out, the going fee for a digital obtain PC port of a stone chilly basic from 2010 appears to be like to be about $20, lower than half of what’s being requested for Purple Lifeless Redemption. Bayonetta, Arkham Metropolis, Alpha Protocol, and Mass Impact 2 (as one third of the $60 Legendary Version) are all simply 20 bucks. RDR’s PC model boasts some niceties over the Xbox 360/PS4/Swap variations—ultrawide, HDR, DLSS, and excessive refresh assist—however these are frankly the naked minimal I might count on from a a number of console generations-delayed port, the issues we lambasted the Steel Gear Grasp Assortment for lacking at launch.
Is Purple Lifeless Redemption twice as useful as Mass Impact 2 or Bayonetta? I actually do not wish to pay $50 for it. There isn’t any scarcity of how to blow that a lot cash on Steam, and I do not recognize being instructed {that a} port of a 14 year-old recreation that ought to have come to the platform ages in the past (or on the very least a yr in the past) is a “nice worth.” It is a irritating reminder of Rockstar’s imperious stance towards the platform forward of the doubtless yr or extra of additional wait we’ll have after Grand Theft Auto 6 involves consoles.
