Title and link taken from reddit. (Don’t kill me I don’t have a Reddit account anymore)
Edit: confirmed
A spokesperson for Rockstar didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment sent after business hours.
Shocked! Shocked, I say!
I am not interested in the slightest into this game. If you’re waiting for a proper GTA game, you probably won’t be getting it. This is GTA Online 2.0 and nothing else. Don’t be fooled. This is the only thing that Take-Two cares about now and this is what it will be.
You will get your single player because of course but I wouldn’t be expecting much from it. I’m expecting something that probably won’t hit as hard as previous entries did. GTA V was already large step down from GTA IV. I’m expecting a very basic single player game with very basic lukewarm social satire.
This game will be primarily focused on GTA Online, and I know you’re going to tell me that GTA 5 was like that, but I don’t think they expected to make as much money as they did from it. This one though, they know they will and therefore they will have focused everything on it to make it an even larger money maker.
If you don’t believe me, I invite you to take a look at Red Dead Redemption 2, which was an amazing game with an amazing single player, but they tried to make money from the online component and didn’t manage to do so, and therefore look at what happened to that game. The online component and therefore its community has been completely abandoned, and that game is now buried in the older generations of console, forever stuck at 30 FPS with medium to lox textures.
We will never get a next-gen update of RDR2 and we will never get another game like GTA 4. GTA 6 will be the absolute final boss of live service games. And even with a stick, I’m not touching that one.
We’ll see how it turns out, but I don’t see myself grabbing/playing this game.
GTA V was good for the time I guess, but to be honest for me the single player was just okay, and while I enjoyed some multiplayer sessions with some friends (heists and other activities were kind of cool), many other sessions were ruined by hacked lobbies and whatnot. They need to have dedicated servers to host the lobbies to get cheaters somewhat under control, but I don’t see that happening as that would cost money.
My biggest issue with GTA Online was never the hackers but how tedious it is. They basically make you do the same missions for hours just so you can get one car and get killed by someone who bought an Opressor with Shark Cards.
Tbh, I expect the singleplayer to be a massive improvement over V, which lacked a lot of the small things that really make a GTA game for me. We’ve already seen some pretty cool stuff in the leaks, like a more limited weapon inventory returning (looks to be somewhere between the old GTA style pre-V and RDR2) and most excitingly for me: fishing. But seriously, I think, depending on what you disliked/found underwhelming about V, VI might end up improving in those areas.
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.
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.
GTA 4 was still solid, in my opinion. It’s a way better game than 5.
I’m looking forward to 6. I’m hoping 5 was a minor blip sandwiched between great games, like GTA 2. I never play online but I hope this game is truly on par with Vice City in quality.
I can get with that. For me 4 was kind of ok, but I’m terms of humor and gameplay some cracks started showing. The story didn’t grab me and the return to a single city, where Andreas seemed endless was a bit disappointing.
So for me it marks the beginning of the end, however it’s was not a bad game at all.
I can see that, too. It is smaller but I liked the return to Liberty City but in a new and improved engine. It was fun and had the kind of classy setting I liked from driving around at night in GTA 3 to classical music.
GTA 5 really disappointed me because that was the actual spiritual sequel to San Andreas. 5 had one large city but the rest was rural areas and small rundown towns. It made it feel way smaller than San Andreas’ three cities to me. I still prefer San Andreas to 5.
Yup Andreas’ map was so very cleverly put together. It felt way bigger than it actually was. 5 is rather big, yet bland in comparison.
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 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.
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.
Article without paywall: https://archive.ph/7gEM1
I wonder how long it would take them to hack it
