I won't be happy unless this game can simulate the universe, solve cold fusion, and resurrect my hamster. Anything less isn't worth £60.
60? I wouldn’t be surprised if Rockstar uses this to start up $/£80 games…
Sterling being worth shit was fun while it lasted.
How about a 1:1 simulation of 72% of Argentina, lukewarm fusion and your hamster is undead? Mummy in the standard version, lich king in the deluxe.
I have very little hype for new rockstar games considering I know right now it's not going to have story dlc and it's going to be simply a vessel to get people into the online mode to spend buckets of cash on cards.
GTA IV had the radio crackle right before receiving a phone call just like how GSM radio interference worked at the time.
GTA V had in the middle of a restricted part of the map a drain overflow which has runoff to a floor light that was shorting out as a result.
Rockstar's commitment to detail in their open worlds is unlike anything else, and they can never release any DLC again or support a title after launch at all and turn it into a vessel for funneling to their online money maker all day long and I'll still eagerly await whatever morsels of that single player vessel I can get my hands on.
Yeah, they want to funnel you to multiplayer...but I'm not gonna sit here and pretend the funnel itself isn't great. People were saying all this about RDR2 and while I think it lacked in certain design choices, it was not lacking in content and attention to detail.
My thoughts exactly. However, it excites me that Rockstar still managed to make RDR2, and it was a masterpiece. Even so, I never played "Online" MP mode, nor have I ever played GTA's, and I hope they noticed, lol.
Yeah. RDR2 is absolutely a masterpiece. It's why I'll still consider buying Rockstar games, but not on launch. They don't get day one buys from me :D
Yeah I have no hype considering what they did with gta online pay walling all but a few of the cars
Oh my god, am I dead?
Folks, seriously though, things are going to get very exciting very quickly. It's fun to get on the hype train, I know I will, but please remember that this will be another game. Marketers are going to try to tell us they redefined gaming but they didn't. Don't let the hype get so high that it ruins the experience because nothing can live up to your hopes.
Get excited, but have realistic expectations. That'll be the best way to enjoy the game.
Oh my god it's going to have so many microtransactions it's going to be awesome. Not.
we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto.
I bet this is a massive troll and they'll release a trailer for a GTA IV remaster.
Or their VR game
Now we’re pre-hyping the hype trailers
I swear this game is going to flop because of the massive expectations people are going to have. I may be wrong and also never got the appeal of those games, so take my opinion with a grain of salt
The massive hype and popularity means everyone and their mother will buy it day 1 even if it ends up being trash. They don't need to keep you happy, just to buy the game
I hate that you’re right. Because that’s what gaming is boiled down to today. How to maximize day 1 profit, no need for down the line customer enjoyment
I wouldn't be so sad about it. That's just what happens with AAA games. I cite Cyberpunk (which honestly great in CDPR for how much post-launch work they've put in, but we gotta admit it was launched when it was as a means to pull in profit fast), every modern Fifa or CoD or Madden. Diablo 4 has been the king of this crime.
On the other hand you have amazing games being pushed out by indie devs, or smaller franchises within those big publishers. Hell, doesn't even need to be either of those, Nintendo still puts out mega-hyped high quality games like Super Mario Wonder or BoTW/TotK.
BG3 probably game of the decade btw.
Am I crazy to not be excited in the slightest for this? To me it seems that every sequel to a huge title that has come out lately has been hugely half passed because the studio that made the original doesn't really exist anymore.
I'm not really excited because I felt like V basically took all of the fun detail out of the story and main world and saved it all for online.
The missions and world in V had so little charm and so little of the detail that made IV and previous so amazing. The world was massive but felt totally empty.
But I know they made a bunch of money with online so I'm sure that's how it's gonna be again this time.
Honestly, I don't think you're alone in not being excited. I feel the same about this one.
Personally it has more to do with the infection of MBAs into AAA game dev space than the old guard retiring.
Nono this is exactly what I'm getting at. Monetization at all costs, art be damned.
No, I think that's fair. I miss being excited about new games, but the disappointment usually hits quick and hard if I ever allow myself to. Between rampant AAA shittification that's accelerated recently, and the fact that a lot of AAA wasn't all that good in the first place, it's hard to really build up any enthusiasm.
Looking at Rockstar/Take-Two's behavior in specific, since GTAV at the very latest, it's even harder to be optimistic. I bet they'll even find a way to cram shart cards into single-player, the fuckers.
At least it's rumored they got the FiveM guys to do the multiplayer, so maybe it'll be less abjectly, pathetically, monstrously shitty than GTAO. I assume they'll still find some way to ruin it, though.
Now, if it turns out it's great, I'd be ecstatic. I'm not buying this one anywhere near release but if it seems like a drastically better deal than I'm expecting, I'll be very, very surprised - and I'd like a game to surprise me pleasantly for once.
Is that a press release for a trailer? Are you going to release a trailer for the trailer next? Just fucking tell us the release date and shut up until then. It's not like you need to introduce the GTA brand to anyone.
I will buy it.
On PS5, PS6 and PS7.
Also available on whatever terribly named console Microsoft comes up with next.
XBox Series One X 360
Do you hear that? That's the sound of a million NSFW mods for the female lead character!
Did they ever say it was called GTA VI, or did we all just assume that?
They keep saying next grand theft auto game. I guess we won’t gonna learn it until first trailer.
mfw it's called "Next Grand Theft Auto"
Grand Theft Auto New!
I think it should be called Grand Theft Auto: Vice
I don't think they've ever officially said GTA VI
I hope this is one of those times were the company making the the game knows just how intensely popular their game is and don't advertise and hype it for 2 years prior to release. It'd be nice if they just launched their trailer, then have the game come out a month later.
There's no way they're launching this game in January. Start telling yourself now that it's not coming out until fall 2025, that way anything sooner seems like a bonus.
Oh I know, I'm just saying I wish we didn't have 2 straight years of hype coming.
Can they please make the online mode better. Spawn in get blown up, spawn in get shot, spawning get run over, it's boring.
Hopefully they just make GTA Online it's own separate standalone game so then maybe they'll actually add content for a single player game after release for the first time in nearly 20 years and not just keep shitting out new microtransactions.
I'll eat a sock if they do this. Take2 are some real hoes for microtransactions and have no issue cranking out half-baked content to the masses
Word. I tried it, I wanted to get in on it and have access to all the extra content. But when it’s like that, I start with a new character and then immediately have to contend with some little shit with a rocket launcher, welp, I’m out. I got rid of PlayStation+, or whatever the hell it’s called, altogether because I otherwise don’t care about online multiplayer.
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