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50/20/30

After getting free financial advice from my friend in D.C., I'll be putting 50% of my "salary" towards needs, 20% towards loan repayment, and 30% towards wants. Sounds like a good system to me,hoping I can follow it. 

GTA

Been playing GTA III lately, just wanting to finish the game. I've always liked GTA, but never really played these old ones since my parents didn't allow me to. I played a couple missions as a kid, but my older brother would have known if I started a save file. When GTA III came out, I was 11 and he was 17. This is my first time even seeing Staunton Island, the second of three major land massees in the game.

I've also played a few Vice City missions when III pisses me off. It's so easy to destroy a vehicle in III. Also gets annoying dying in water. I've played Vice City before, but only the first few missions I've been playing again recently. I like it a lot more than III, especially cause of its 80s setting and music, but I kinda want to finish III first before going much further.

San Andreas I started up, but haven't played a mission in yet. I have actually never played it. It seems to be the fan favorite of the series, but by the time it came out I think my brother was in college, so no PS2 in the house. I've never played IV either, but I own that one on Steam. 

In fact, I own III, IV, VC, SA, and Liberty City Stories on Steam because of a $15 bundle, but I bought the 3 PS2 titles for my PS4 for $17 on sale because the 360 controls on Steam suck and it feels weird to me playing these games with keyboard/mouse. Hoping IV's controls are better and it works on my PC. 

I've been kind of obsessed with the history of Rockstar Games lately, watching a few YouTube videos and documentaries. Never knew DMA, the studio behind Lemmings, played such a major role in GTA. Wish there were more interviews and behind the scenes for these games. Just feels like a gaming era/revolution I kinda missed out on while it happened due to age restrictions. Also never really cared to play these non-linearly the way friends did. For as much as they introduced open-world games, I mostly liked to play the missions or at least do the side quests like Crazy Taxi, Vigilante, and Fire Truck missions. I know those are outside the main story, but they're still missions to me. Actually free-roaming has never appealed to me all that much. In fact, I'm kind of annoyed I have to find a bunch of UFO parts and letters to 100% GTA V. Wish these games came with a teleport system so I didn't have to keep going around the giant maps to get to my destinations.

Red Box Rentals

To answer a question Julian posed in a recent NWP podcast, yes it sucks to download updates for Red Box rentals. The good news is you can play them without updating and it usually only takes 20 minutes. I think you can do 3-night rentals for $6 instead of the one night for around $3, which I'd have done had I known that for ESO. Only other games I have rented have been CoD: Black Ops III becuase I wanted to play with my friend Austin who likes FPS (I never really got into them, but I like couch multiplayer sessions) and now Mad Max for free cause I had a code for it. 

Too bad the disc was scratched. I emailed them about it and they said I now have a free DVD. Which is nice and all, but I wanted my free game, which is a higher value. I'm glad there's a way to rent games immediately and offline still; I actually really miss Blockbuster for that. Too bad there's so much shit that goes along with doing it now.

Extra Features

Am I the only one who would really like to have extra behind the scenes features and commentary on games as we do with movies? I really want to know how the sausage is made. Maybe have access to older games too, like have the Blu-Ray of GTA VI come with the first two games. 

But really, I'm asking you guys: Do you want games to have behind the scenes features in addition to the main content?