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What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?
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GTA
I just don't get it.
It's a momentum from early 2000s. Rockstar (or was it Take 2 by that time?) set a lower moral line in the gaming industry and published games like Man Hunt and GTA III, where you can commit crime without much consequences. The gaming experience was nouveau and a thrill.
The game series also mixed in a lot of mafia movie vibes and satire.
Then Rockstar realized you can release a lot less content by pushing online gameplay, stopping the release of single player content.
I can see that, if the style of humor doesnt click with you, then it's got a pretty repetitive mission formula.
I don't really like games that are overly realistic, or a simulation of real life. GTA falls into that group. Like, I'm playing games to get away from reality, not revel in it.
If it was GTA with spells, it would be more interesting. But guns (and by extension melee weapons) just feels too boring
I tried to explain to my friends but they don't get it. Like it's too grounded in reality
Yeah and some dragons, and fairies, and magical elves!
Actually spent hundreds to thousands of hours playing gta5 with my friends after school. Getting thrown into a city with your 5 best friends and finding your place amongst the total anarchy of 30 players all fucking around was so much fun. Add on to that the various mini games, heists, vehicles, attire, weapons and customisations for all of those things and yeah. Pretty good game.
Gta online was peak, we played for like 4 years straight, you make your own fun, it's a sandbox, if you dont find a sandbox with vehicles, weapons, planes, and murder fun, we wouldn't be friends, it was emergent gameplay up the ass, ider the games wed make up there were so many, wed all play with aim assist off and get ppl playing with us to do it, made it more fun on console
Balancing kinda killed it for us over time
You run over hookers and get your money back.
I tried to play it like a normal RPG and remember just trying to walk around the neighborhood to find every random person I tried to talk to would just beat me up for getting close to them so I noped out of it
I really like GTA 5 except most of the plot.
GTA without some greasy greasy plot and without sadism would be great.