It's actually more likely that I play the game for 2 minutes and then forget about it. ;)

3 was the last one I played where I felt really engaged by it overall. I never bothered with the "do nothing" aimlessness that usually comes with the territory as far as these open world games go. I was more hooked on the story of 3.

I dunno, I had played open world games before in different genres and such, but something about GTA 3 just felt revolutionary to me at the time. I remember talking to guys at school about how crazy it was you could get out of the car anywhere and rob anybody, stuff like that. It quickly became the standard though and I haven't felt like open worlds were something amazing ever since then I don't think. Maybe Oblivion's infinite draw distance compared to Morrowind's fog.

Story wise I loved Vice City and GTA 4 most I think. GTA 5 annoyed me a lot because I hated everything about Trevor and it was like nails on a chalkboard when he was around.

That is not the way it goes with me. I didn't play e.g. San Andreas until a few years ago, I liked it, and I was always interested in playing it, _at some point_.

The "problem" is the wealth of options. I can't play all my thousands of games in the backlog at the same time, so I have to prioritize. It affects also that I prefer playing many series of games in order, ie. I wanted to play GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas before playing IV, and at some point V (I have briefly tried GTA 1 and 2 too but quite soon decided I'll skip them; mainly due to the overhead view which makes it hard to see what is ahead of you while driving, and the maze-like towns).

It was the same with the Elder Scrolls games, I started with Arena (finished it), proceeded to Daggerfall (decided to skip the rest of it) etc... just because I didn't jump right ahead to Skyrim, doesn't mean I am not interested in the game. Or the Deus Ex series: last year I finished the original Deus Ex (modded) and Deus Ex: IW (modded), and now feel I am ready to proceed to Deus Ex: HR.

Naturally you might have a different definition of being interested into a game, like that if you don't buy and play a game within the first few weeks or months of its release, then you were never interested in the game. I have a different definition.

Single-player games that I am playing at the moment:

Delta Force:
- liking it, and looking forward to playing the sequels.

Heroes of Might & Magic 1
- still undecided what to think about it, I've yet to fully grasp how I am supposed to play it.

Homeworld 1 Remastered
- I finished the classic Homeworld last year, liked it for the most part, and now playing the remastered version; later proceeding to the sequels (classic & remastered)

EDIT: From your earlier messages I recall you might be concentrating to much fewer genres than me, which might partly explain the difference. Mainly I am not keen on playing at this point e.g. point&click adventures (boring), grand scale 4x4 strategy games (they often go way over my head) and sports games (boring). But almost anything else goes.

An example of a famous game that I can also admit I am not really interested in playing is Minecraft. I am not looking forward to playing it, so I will not claim I am interested in it.

EDIT2: And I forgot the most obvious one why I am postponing the playing of many new-ish games: I don't necessarily have powerful enough PC yet to play them properly. So I buy and archive the games till I have one. I am currently thinking of buying some gaming laptop with hopefully some 8-core Radeon CPU and NVidia RTX 2060 GPU, hopefully costing no more than 1300€. Waiting until I find good enough deal, but not in a hurry as I have so much to play anyway even on my current PCs.

I think my current two laptops are powerful enough for playing GTA IV, but not GTA V. So even if I redeem it, I wouldn't start playing it right now even if I had finished GTA IV already.

What I recall about playing GTA3/Vice City/San Andreas was that I was mostly interested in proceeding with the missions, than doing random shit. Well, ok, driving around and exploration was also interesting, which is what I liked also in e.g. Far Cry 2, which I've many times called "GTA in a first-person view".

I guess that's the power of the GTA series (and similar), it caters to different kind of gameplay styles, both for people like me who want a more organized "campaign" with missions, and those who just want to run around randomly in a sandbox setting.

That is why I am not really interested in e.g. Minecraft because, from what I can tell, there is no real objective or goal in the game, and also I never play skirmish matches against the computer AI in RTS games, but always want a proper single-player campaign with missions in my RTS games.

The obvious question: does this freebie miss some must-have (single-player) DLC?

I think the only thing you can purchase in the game with real money is fake money.

Ok so there are no separately sold DLCs for the game then?

(I can't check it myself right now as I am on Linux... I'll go redeem the game later when I boot to Windows.)

Heh, they misspelled "Red Dead Redemption 2". That's so Epic...

arguably there is - beating the Ender Dragon

And I misspelled "The Witcher"... That's so me. :)

I was hoping for the original RDR. Remastered.

I might consider getting it, if they pay me to play it.

That's okay, everyone knows that this was clearly meant to be "Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis" anyway. :P

But they still have your data forever,

Oh ok, so it isn't yet available, but in about 4 hours? I rushed there for nothing...

I don't understand why the Epic client requires the 2FA code each and every time I run the client. Yes the "Remember me" box is checked. Bah, clients...