Judging by all the shark card crap they jammed into the last GTA, I fully expect them to shovel a bunch of crap in to make more money: $70 base games, deluxe editions, DLC, micro transactions, social club integration, required internet connections, all of it.

I miss the old GTAs before they got greedy.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As an optimist, I expect more expansions like Gay Tony and for them to simply make fun of microtransactions on the radio.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Ah, full expansion DLC. That'd be nice.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, do people still get excited for GTA? I thought GTA V online killed a lot of goodwill for the series.

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously questioning whether there is any hype for GTA?

GTAV Online may have hindered Rockstar's goodwill for fans of the single player mode, but the Online mode rakes in cash.

RDR2 released in 2018 and is widely considered one of the best single player games with one of the best open worlds, strongly signalling to fans that Rockstar hasn't lost its mojo.

GTA VI is, unquestionably, the most anticipated game of the year. To suggest otherwise is to be insanely disingenuous on your part.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago

The main writers have since left Rockstar. Dan Houser left in 2020. I feel GTA will lose it's charm with this next entry, I hope I am wrong, but something just feels off. Either way, won't be buying it until it's on a good sale, reviews dependent too.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Take your console exclusive bullshit and shove it up your ass. I'll play it when it's on PC. And only on PC.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And only on PC

That's going to be a long wait my friend.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather wait than buy a console for a single game that will barely hit 720p/30.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I think they mean it will never be PC only, so it'd be an infinite wait. Or maybe some future release version will be console only.

Also, "720p/30" lol

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just don't have the patience to wait even more. I have a PS5, so why wouldn't I play it on release??

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would you want to pay $70 for a pay to win game at all?

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh? For £70 I'm getting -

Huge open world
Very fun and emergent gameplay
Likely a world with multiple competing systems and subsystems to play with
Incredibly detailed world to get lost and immersed in
Given the RDR2 writing, likely a really well written story

But you've decided to latch onto one aspect of the previous game (the Online mode) to try to be as contrarian as possible?

I sure as heck will pay £70 for the above. And so will many millions of others. Sorry if that does a poo on your hate-train.

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude thats crazy. I havent paod full price for a game in years, have a little patience and you can get a bunch more games for that much.

Isthereanydeal.com

Games are always on sale.

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good for you! For GTA VI, I definitely wanna play it as quickly as possible and £70 is a pretty reasonable price for that.

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why the rush?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I'm with you on not paying full price in general, but they answered your main question before and you didnt acknowledge it.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Companies need to grow a spine. Good games sell regardless of what’s out. If your confidence in your own game is so low that you’d push it to a slow release date, it’s probably not worth playing anyway.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago

Ask Titanfall 2 how well launching between Battlefield and CoD went for them

Release dates of big games matter, people only have so much disposable income

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not quite sure why they're so concerned. I suspect they're actually not and this is just things "analysts" say.

I suspect that the release of GTA VI is going to be lukewarm compared to the release of GTA V, because everyone remembered what Rockstar did to GTA V. People are going to wait around and see how they handle GTA online because they need to do better than last time because last time was ridiculous.

I'm certainly not all that interested in getting it day one and I know a lot of other people aren't either.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago

because everyone remembered what Rockstar did to GTA V

Released a fantastic game worth replaying multiple times?

GTA Online =/= GTA V

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If your game can't even complete with a game nobody knows anything about and doesn't even have a set release date, maybe your game just fucking sucks?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago

What's with half the commenters acting like GTA V isn't a great game?

Y'all know GTA Online is a different game technically, yeah? The single player of GTA V is still there and even better now that Enhanced is on PC. Rockstar didn't fuck Up RDR2s single-player Mode so why assume they would on this?