Neither system needs the internet, I don't think. Some people still don't have internet. I think if the XBO has internet, it uses it, if not, it goes for the disc. That's my guess anyway.
My last install on XBO was Zoo Tycoon and that took maybe a half hour to install. The last game I installed on PS4 was Tales of Berseria and it took almost no time at all. Weird if they both move the disc's info to the HDD.
If Red Box rents at $3 a day, and I might play 8 hours in a day, and have played B2 for 180 hours, then I've gotten something like $67.5 worth out of Borderlands 2. I played B2 first in 2014, 2 years after it came out. So I probably paid $20 for it plus DLC. So maybe another $20. That's $40. I got Handsome Collection for $20, so that adds $10. So I've paid $50 for B2 and gotten $67.5 out of it. Huh. I've saved money on buying not renting it. Definitely justified the purchase and not rental.
Interesting. So If I think I'll get more than 20 hours out of a new game, then I should buy and not rent. (20 hours at Red Box prices is $60). But then again, I use Gamefly and I calculate that cost as 20 hours for $4. I get a game a week for $15 a month, and can spend as much as 20 hours on it. So at Gamefly prices, I've gotten $36 out of it. I should've just rented from Gamefly and kept it for 9 weeks. Gee, it really does pay to rent from Gamefly even if I keep it for months. Interesting.
I liked it for a while, but I thought about using it the whole game, and I thought I would get tired of it.
I just started renting again this year to save money. MS is unveiling a kind of rental service right now. For $10 a month you get access to something like 100 games. Download them and play them as long as they are available. Some may leave this list at the end of a month others wont. Some will be new games and some will be old. It's kind of neat, like Netflix but not streaming. Streaming is dubious with games. Too much to process on today's internet. I would do this but I like renting for all the systems. I buy physical copies of just the few games I can't do without every so often. I just love the idea of trying out games with the rental service and it stops me from buying a lot of used games and then just trading them back in for pennies. I've never had a scratched disc from Gamefly and I've rented from them off and on for many years.
Installs, I'm pretty sure, involve the internet. I think I heard that it doesn't even take the info off the disc, it downloads the game from the net after acknowleging your ownership of it. I guess if you don't have internet it just plays from the disc. The last PS4 game I put in though only had an update download and then played from the disc right away. Xbox takes a while to download/install the whole game.
Oh, they didn't shorten the friend code.
It has a lot to offer in the exploration, story, and looting front. Sometimes the shooting really frustrates me. The game seems to adjust difficulty from mission to mission and it can suddenly make gameplay really difficult. It seems to work best in that first playthrough of the main story. It was only when I upped the difficulty and jumped around to different parts of the game that it got unpredictable.
Sometimes I open up the game to randos, but it makes me nervous because sometimes they are way higher level than me, or they are just better and get to everything before me.
I liked the use of the Johnny Cash song in the trailers. By trailer 2, I was almost ready to see it.
I thought you were going to do your own version of the DK rap. Darn.
