The answer is yes, they’re high- high on subscription service bullshit. These games that used to regularly sell for a few dollars now have their prices permanently inflated to make owning them outright seem unattractive next to the “incredible value” of subbing to EA Play for a month or two.
If you’ve fallen for this nonsense, you’re a mook, goober and a palooka
Dang, you might be right about there not being a sale. I swear there was a Halloween/Autumn sale or something just recently and I assumed it was still going on since I just bought a horror-adjacent game on sale for 2€ (regular price 39,99€)
The pricing fuckery happening with the first two Dead Space games sticks in my craw specifically because while I have not yet bought them for myself I have bought them as gifts for friends at those prices. I played Dead Space 1 and 2 a ton on the Xbox 360 and I just didn’t feel the itch to replay them until a year or two ago when the prices had suddenly jumped up a lot. Dead Space 1 being 8€ during Christmas sales annoys me to no end. It’s not that much money but for like 10 years I kept seeing it on sale for 2€ and I passed on it every time assuming it’d just go further down in price by the time I’d want to revisit it.
DS 1 & 2 is missing the console-exclusive DLC too, which is annoying.
How do they run on RPCS3 these days?
No idea. My PC doesn’t seem to like emulation that much. At least with Dead Space 1 the DLC’s just some minor weapon bullshit, but Dead Space 2 has a whole backstory chapter DLC that’s kinda’ important to the game.
There were a couple of other multiplatform games in that generation that also only released story DLC on consoles, like that one Prince of Persia game