Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.
Title and link taken from reddit. (Don’t kill me I don’t have a Reddit account anymore)
Will not buy. I do not like rockstar’s business model of “release new GTA, milk the franchise via online mode and microtransactions for a decade rather than making more content and new games”. GTA1-4 and all of the offshoot/expansion games for each, came out in a shorter timespan than GTA5’s lifespan, WITHOUT an expansion.
Also, GTA5 was wonderful technically, but the story was cookie cutter as hell. Even just looking at the “amazing new 3 protagonists”, it’s a white guy in his 40s who just wants one final score before retiring (every heist movie protagonist ever), a black dude from the streets with gang history (b/c he’s black, and a criminal, he’s obviously a gang member), and some methed out white dude (who even the dev team admits is just a character based on “lol gta players will play like psychopaths because the npc’s aren’t real people, isn’t that funny/weird haha let’s make a character about it” — like no the whole point of gta is that it’s a story about being a criminal, so you do criminal stuff and get rewarded for it with points/money/weapons and without real consequence, like when mario jumps on a goomba). two boring stereotypes that and a
Anyway, buying gta6 sounds like a poor life decision to me. i hate yearly franchises, but decade-ly franchises are so much worse. the starcraft 1->2 transition taught me that way before gta5 even came out.
it wasn’t. in fact, this post wasn’t asking for anybody on lemmy to post about it either, regardless of their opinion.
i’m sure whoever wrote this wants us to sign up for their comments section and discuss this there on their website. shall we continue this discussion there instead? that is, after all, what the post is asking us to do.
GTA 4 was already a step down. Like with the Matrix not having sequels joke, I will forever regret that rockstar didn’t make any GTA after San Andreas.
I’m not arguing that this wait wasn’t ridiculous, because it was, but it’s not like they weren’t doing anything in those years. RDRII was pretty epic, and it was a lot more ambitious than RDR. It couldn’t have been an easy development journey. Now I mean that takes us to what, late 2017, I can’t really explain 2018-23. This game should have been released in 2020 at the latest.
We don’t yet know how ambitious this game is either though. It might blow your socks off. It sounds like you are pretty negative rockstar, which I totally understand and can sympathize. But games in the past four or five years just haven’t been doing it for me, we desperately need an awesome GTA, at least IMO.
I don’t want to deal with other assholes online. Same reason I’ve stopped playing Diablo 4 after a couple of months when all the previous games I played for years.
Having the option to play with friends is awesome. I don’t want to play with random people and every feature that is built to facilitate that is negative value for me because that’s not just money that could go towards making the core game better, but now there are elements designed to push me into playing a game I don’t want to play to get the full experience or all the rewards or whatever.
If the single player experience is fun, great. If expansions extend that fun, great. Otherwise I have no use for them.
Will not buy. I do not like rockstar’s business model of “release new GTA, milk the franchise via online mode and microtransactions for a decade rather than making more content and new games”. GTA1-4 and all of the offshoot/expansion games for each, came out in a shorter timespan than GTA5’s lifespan, WITHOUT an expansion.
Also, GTA5 was wonderful technically, but the story was cookie cutter as hell. Even just looking at the “amazing new 3 protagonists”, it’s a white guy in his 40s who just wants one final score before retiring (every heist movie protagonist ever), a black dude from the streets with gang history (b/c he’s black, and a criminal, he’s obviously a gang member), and some methed out white dude (who even the dev team admits is just a character based on “lol gta players will play like psychopaths because the npc’s aren’t real people, isn’t that funny/weird haha let’s make a character about it” — like no the whole point of gta is that it’s a story about being a criminal, so you do criminal stuff and get rewarded for it with points/money/weapons and without real consequence, like when mario jumps on a goomba). two boring stereotypes that and a
Anyway, buying gta6 sounds like a poor life decision to me. i hate yearly franchises, but decade-ly franchises are so much worse. the starcraft 1->2 transition taught me that way before gta5 even came out.
at the risk of sounding too rude, I don’t think the post was asking if u were going to buy it
it wasn’t. in fact, this post wasn’t asking for anybody on lemmy to post about it either, regardless of their opinion.
i’m sure whoever wrote this wants us to sign up for their comments section and discuss this there on their website. shall we continue this discussion there instead? that is, after all, what the post is asking us to do.
I’m just saying it felt like you were grandstanding.
GTA 4 was already a step down. Like with the Matrix not having sequels joke, I will forever regret that rockstar didn’t make any GTA after San Andreas.
I’m not arguing that this wait wasn’t ridiculous, because it was, but it’s not like they weren’t doing anything in those years. RDRII was pretty epic, and it was a lot more ambitious than RDR. It couldn’t have been an easy development journey. Now I mean that takes us to what, late 2017, I can’t really explain 2018-23. This game should have been released in 2020 at the latest.
We don’t yet know how ambitious this game is either though. It might blow your socks off. It sounds like you are pretty negative rockstar, which I totally understand and can sympathize. But games in the past four or five years just haven’t been doing it for me, we desperately need an awesome GTA, at least IMO.
I don’t want to deal with other assholes online. Same reason I’ve stopped playing Diablo 4 after a couple of months when all the previous games I played for years.
Having the option to play with friends is awesome. I don’t want to play with random people and every feature that is built to facilitate that is negative value for me because that’s not just money that could go towards making the core game better, but now there are elements designed to push me into playing a game I don’t want to play to get the full experience or all the rewards or whatever.
If the single player experience is fun, great. If expansions extend that fun, great. Otherwise I have no use for them.