I have played every GTA before, some even got popular like Vice city for some reason. And I am not as hyped as everyone online. It’s just another GTA don’t make it more deep then it is. Back in the day people made GTA clones as a massive meme to make jokes.
I care about it about as much as another season of The Simpsons.
There are things to care about whether or not you’ll play the game. This game is of a dying breed of max budget AAA+. The result of the launch will determine the future of consoles since so many people are still on PS4 for example.
GTA is so big that big titles will watch it, take note and study it for the next decade and whether or not sales hit targets will decide the future of AAA gaming.
AAA can die for all I care, I only play indie games anyway but this is still going to be a major point in gaming. Will it be the last ride of the AAA, will other studios refocus away from live service bullshit because GTA and Elden Ring did crazy well, will it flop despite the budget, effort and delays?
I’m not going to play GTA 6 for next 5 years but I’ll be watching.
GTA 4/5 got old so fast. The graphics were good and some of the dialogue was funny, but they both had clunky controls and so. much. repetition. I put in 60h on each one with no interest in ever playing either one again. I will play GTA 6 if the price ever comes below $20.
I played rdr2 a year ago and it’s literally the same as gta in playstyle. All the mission are pretty much the same. Just go somewhere and shoot a billion people and that is it. Towards the later half of the story I was barely able to pish through the shitty mission design just to reach the end of the story.
Same! I wanted to like that game sooo much but it was repetitive and slow (and gorgeous)
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Never cared for GTA 1-5.
This isn’t an opinion, nor is it even a preference. It’s simply an anecdotal statement that offers no real value beyond perhaps being controversial.
However, I would bet there’s a video game, television show, or movie franchise that you care deeply about. That’s GTA for its fans. If you personally cannot recognize or appreciate why some of these games were groundbreaking and offered genuine value to the gaming industry, that’s your problem. Perhaps you should take a moment to examine your own perspective before making a declarative statement that has absolutely no bearing on the people who genuinely love the games and the franchise.
Disclaimer: I’m not even a particularly massive GTA fan, and my hopes and expectations for GTA 6 are abysmal. In fact, I genuinely believe this installment could ruin the franchise. I don’t think they’ll make their money back, and I suspect it could become the biggest commercial flop in gaming history.
So brave.
I’m an absolute outlier at work (IT), as I’ve never even seriously tried modern gaming, let alone GTA.
It’s ironic, as I was big into 16-bit gaming until I was 15 in the 90s, but where I live it was social kryptonite and when drinking and the opposite sex came along I didn’t have enough social cachet to stay involved, so now I’m the odd one out, and I kinda regret being so swayed by what other people thought.
In my 30s I dipped into Portal and a few games but have literally never played an open-world online game.
However, my kids are nearly teens and love their gaming (albeit not GTA yet), so I’m planning on having a renaissance at some point, but who knows, maybe it’s too late. Definitely feel like I missed the boat.
I’ve been playing GTA since the first one, it’s been a huge part of my life, it’s always been there for me, it’s given me more hours of entertainment than any other franchise across any medium. I used to be a fairly prolific gta v modder back on the day, making the first fuel consumption mod (which is now a feature in gta6), I also had a goal of being a top 100 GTA v speed runner which I accomplished many years ago.
So GTA has been a huge part of my life, in good times and through the hardest times. I’m excited for a new entry in the series.
But your right, it’s just a game and if GTA doesn’t appeal to you thats fine. Just like I couldn’t care less about online shooters or MMOs or sports games.
I played a bit of GTA 4 for about 20 hours. But, for whatever reason I got side-tracked and never went back to playing GTA games. So, GTA 6 feels mostly irrelevant to me. But, I am curious enough to see how GTA 6 will push the hardware.
My first GTA was 2, on the PC. Played the hell out of it.
I am also not getting it, not paid at least. There’s simply no point to it. It’s just gonna be used as a vehicle to farm people’s wallets in GTA:O. GTA V did not get any SP content. Hell, even all the cars they added over the years, could only be gotten with a trainer in SP. What a joke.
I’ve been playing GTA since the 90s. I’ll pass unless I’m satisfied that their union is being treated fairly. No union, no buy.
Im only excited because there’s a female protagonist. So I do look forward to wreaking havoc as a Latina.
You’re on Lemmy, this isn’t unpopular here. Hell go look at the Top of Gaming over the last 6 months and you’ll see everyone is just dogpiling on it. Lemmy’s full of hipsters in their own way. Way too cool for anything that might be mainstream.
God help you if you are excited for GTA 6 on Lemmy.
People can have valid reasons for disliking even popular stuff. I could never get into the franchise because all the mechanics are extremely mid, to the point where I’m really not sure why the games became as successful as they did. I put in a few hours with 4 and 5 and wasn’t really having any fun so I quit
GTA 3 was pretty much the first game to integrate driving/shooting/whatever missions seamlessly into a “living” 3D world you could navigate around and interact freely with.
In hindsight it feels obvious that’s where gaming was going, open world games existed to some extent; but Rockstar (North) was there at the right time and did it the right way and it’s secured them an absolutely massive legacy and die hard fans worldwide. Despite their kind of shitty development and business practices which basically everyone acknowledges, they’re basically printing money at this point.
Indeed, it is hip to hate union busters around here
ACAB
I am interested, I will be watching streams and videos. But I will probably never play it myself, unless like a mate has it and offers me to give it a go. But I will be watching. I think it’s easier to be intriqued here where it is not forced for months after months. Now that I think of it, I don’t think I have seen a single post or meme about this… Am I sheltering myself too much? Probably not… When does it even come out? Is it soon?
I wanna say the 18th? I dunno, it’s hard to get excited when there’s no hard copy. It’s like oh yeah, just buy it some day and download it at your leisure, that’s the release date. Then when you want, download the patch to make it playable. Or don’t. I’m going back to bed.
Yeah its the eighteenth I’ve had the ultimate edition preordered for awhile now.
You shouldn’t do that, it rewards bad behaviour
I’m going to buy it no matter what anyways so I do t see a problem.
One of the vary many reasons which make the bed more interesting…
Nothing is more alluring to me as bed these days. It’s like booze, meth and heroine all rolled into one cozy, soft safe space. I crave it constantly.
For me, it doesn’t even really exist until it’s released on PC. Once that happens, -then- I’ll where about whether or not I want to buy it.
Same, I’m sure I’ll see the inevitable flood of videos that’s incoming but I haven’t turned my xbox on in probably 8 months and I’m not going to for a digital download.
Once it’s out on PC I’ll re-evaluate and see how I feel about it.
