Three books in the Sprawl Trilogy. I just looked up and most people prefer the first book over the two sequels. Apparently the sequels are harder to follow because of multiple narratives and sub-plots. I can't even imagine trying to read the sequels, because I had a super difficult time following the story of the first book.
I vaguely recall following it fine, but I read it back in like the 90s so details are fuzzy. I remember not being terribly impressed with his work as a whole. Like I appreciated he was the grandfather of the genre, but I definitely found the games like Shadowrun and Cyberpunk, that had been inspired by his work, to be more personally compelling.
Is there a "scientific" explanation for this? It's not like there's a limited number of physical copies.
Why people pre-order? Because they've been taught for years it proves your loyalty to something, and thus any quality of that thing reflects the quality of the buyer.
Nah I just preorder cause you either get a gift of sorts when you do (I love me some of those bonus artbooks and other trinkets) or it's a game I know 1000% I'll want to play so it just is literally more convenient to have the game preloaded.
No, companies don't get money from preorders, but it does give them benefit since helps them figure out how many units they will sell at launch and how many units to send to different stores and such. At least it did back in the day, with digital distrabution I'm not sure of the benefit to them aside from the fact most people don't cancel preorders.
The ability to preaload, sometimes there are some extras, sometimes someone owes you money and getting a game instead is easier.
There's nothing wrong with pre-ordering a game, you're interested in. Pre-ordering a game over a year before it's a game yet though...
Ghost in the Shell is one of the very few highly rated animes that not only is actually good but really good too. I like the show better than the movies actually. I almost upgraded my DVD set to blu-ray Black Friday but the reviews said the blu-ray releases isn't very good. I got Batman TAS on blu-ray instead.
As much as I like Ghost in the Shell, I feel like it should be pointed out that it's protagonists would be the bad guys in most Cyberpunk games. Maybe not the primary ones: Section 13 isn't a Corp, but it's a "Let them fight" situation when they run up against a Corp
I totally don't get pre-orders either. I'll pre-order a smaller release a few days beforehand if I really want to play it at release because I don't have faith Best Buy will have a copy if I don't. I usually couldn't care less about pre-order bonuses either. I ended up with a copy of the "launch edition" of Ghost of Tsushima and didn't even realize it came with a code to get some extra trinkets and ended up probably getting a few bucks more when I sold it on eBay because I didn't use the code.
Similar to me. You had either games or movies that are way more interesting or compelling:
I'm kinda tired of cyberpunk hyper focus on anarchy so I quite liked that ghost in the shell isn't about scrapy anarchist taking out the evil corp (although at the same time you could claim that if it's not punk it can't be cyberpunk). Company/govenement in GiTS aren't cartoonishly evil which is nice for a change (if I do end up playing cyberpunk I'll totally play corp, hopefully that's not just the mustachio twirling evil playtrough). If anyone want more japenes cyberpunk, check out the appleseed manga, by the same game guy who made the ghost in the shell manga (which is pretty different from the anime/movie).
Your backgrounds seem to only affect some dialogue options where you know different things, it's not something that would affect how the game turns out. Think of it as your origin in dragon age, it gives you a bit of flavor and the first quest you do is unique but it's mostly the same beyond that mark.
