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[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

good.. don't care. not releasing for PC, fuck off then

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah you know they’re just delaying pc because no matter what DRM they put on it SOMEONE will crack it and they cant get their 100 dollars they’re up charging it for

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 18 hours ago

I think you need to think less immediately and more cynical. It's so they can sell the game twice.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (7 children)

With open world slop being so widespread, what even is the appeal of GTA6?

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Rockstar games are not typical open world slop, focusing more on story and immersion. There's a world of difference between Sasso Creedo #5042389 and Red Dead Redemption 2

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

RDR2 is elevated open world slop

GTA is just a product of a different era

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

5 had the most generic and shortest single player yet and was just a cover for the MMO loot box scheme they released, they're just as sold out as Ubisoft

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

kill cops in South Florida.

for someone who has been killing cops in SoCal for 10+ years, I appreciate a change of venue.

I also am curious about what sort of novel mechanics will be in this one. last one I could take an in-game selfie with the burning body of a cop I killed.

maybe this one will let me make a little in-game cellphone video with music playing while I burn one alive on the beach and shoot an AK into the air.

some open world games are like an easel waiting for an artist to help them become a masterpiece.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I kinda wish they'd get away from NY, SoCal, SoFlo. I wanna see like the Midwest. Give me a GTA set in prohibition, and let me run booze from Toronto thru Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee. Underground speakeasies, tommy guns, WW1 veterans, freaky Christian cults.

Or DC area, with all kinds of corrupt politicians, or Texas with oil magnates, border patrol, and drug cartels. The deep south with Old Money, militias, confederate diehards.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NY, SoCal, SoFlo.

These are the only American places that are actually cities. They had to condense Miami just so they could make it seem like an urban environment and not just a big suburb.

Chicago is a good shout, though.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Chicago is just the most obvious omission, but if Las Vegas gets to be a city, Detroit has got that beat by a mile

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Give me a GTA set in prohibition

Mafia games...

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[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Modern Vice City, I guess. Also It's technically supposed to be the finale of the modern-ish trilogy.

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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Rockstar is way better at open worlds than Ubisoft.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

low bar to clear

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kind of does a disservice to gta and rockstar no matter how kkkapitalist they are to call gta open world slop.

But then again, im not a g*mer

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Open world slop, crime games, cop-shooting simulators, all of these have been done far better elsewhere. GTA seems to be a franchise kept alive through sheer pop culture inertia and console gamers with more disposable income than common sense who keep buying solid gold jets to fly around in the world's shittiest pseudo-MMO online.

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[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Online RP servers of GTA are quite popular, INZOI tried to capture that demographic.

[–] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No better feeling than you and a mixed group of cis women, trans ppls, and gay men all dressed in pink rushing in and beating the tar out of anyone not in pink on Vinewood Blvd

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i can't believe we're getting 2026 before gta 6

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My high school classmate who now works at Cockstar told me it was coning out this year just 3 months ago.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

He’s a gusano techbro so, pretty close

No shit. They're going to delay it to 2027 too, I guarantee it.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

GTA 5 was boring as fuck, one of the only games I would genuinely consider overhyped. Usually when I don't like a popular game I can see the appeal of it for other people, but there is fuck all to actually do in GTA 5. Yeah, you can drive around and shoot things, but the shooting is pretty bland and there's no reason at all to get into random gunfights. The driving is decent, but if I wanted to play a driving game, then I would play Forza or something. There's character customisation, but the outfits are extremely limited and boring, mostly just variations of shirts and pants, there's minigames like darts for some reason, there's fake social media and an in-game phone camera, but there is no point to doing anything. Nothing feels satsifying. I just fuck about for half an hour then get bored. The in-game economy is dogshit, you go from having nothing to everything extremely quickly and money very quickly becomes meaningless, so there's no goals to strive for. Like I can't stress enough how there is no point to getting more money, because all you can buy is guns which kill people with the same effectiveness as most other guns, cars to customise, and properties to get more money so you can buy more properties. Red dead 2 was the exact same, a few hours in money becomes meaningless because the Valentine bank robbery will set you up for life, and that's in the first third of the game. There are no more upgrades to be bought, all you can buy is beans. It gets a pass for having a great story and letting me ride on and rob trains, GTA 5 is just nothing.

anyway yeah i probably wont get gta6

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

gotta disagree with you on rdr2. the treasure hunting and animal hunting, and klan hunting were fun for me. there are lots of little quests & Easter eggs to discover, often with interesting characters.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (7 children)

yeah actually i do like the rdr2 open world a lot more than gta5. i like rdr2 in general a lot more than gta5, its a far better open world, but still far from the gold standard. the shooting is too basic to be a primary mechanic, that's my biggest issue with that game, but i really enjoy pretty much everything else. especially dressing up my sad dying cowboy in a fun flirty outfit

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem with Rockstar games since GTA IV is the weird disconnect between cramming their games full of mechanics but making them completely pointless to engage in. They're basically just there for role-playing purposes

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[–] 51dz31@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah I mean, I liked rdr2, but I also remember that this game was made with the labour of people who worked over 100 hour per week

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[–] Biddles@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Go woke go broke

I hope it never comes out tbh.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

They're definitely going to charge $80+ at launch

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm not surprised, since modern games are so complex and they try to jam the mechanics from 500 different games into a single game these days. I just got Horizon Forbidden West, only played the first few hours (no spoilers please), and there's a chess mini game, all kinds of different fighting mechanics, including melee combos, a weapons crafting minigame, and the side quests are what you'd expect from main quests five years ago.

Games have gotten too complicated. The modern gamer/consumer probably has some wild unrealistic expectations for GTA 6, and it's going to be near impossible to match those expectations. This is not me making some excuse for rockstar games or any of the scummy companies, but just observing where the market is going. Games are no longer what they once were. It's like if every movie was a 10 hour long trilogy, or every song a 10 minute epic. It's too much. And the industry shows no signs of changing course.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most modern gaming design dont know their target audience. They all want to be the 360h action shooter open world romance side plot big twist emotional "deep & mature" with rpg elements and that mishmash of half-baked mechanics, code bloat and "4K HD ultra-realistic cpu-cooking ray-tracking" with uncanny valley facial animations, bug galore that comes out in the end is drowned out by the million other games like that.

They lack the identity and focus of older games. Nor are they boundary pushing or redefining an entire genre.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

They lack the identity and focus of older games.

My entire thoughts on MW5:Mercs and Clans. After stumbling onto the flash in the pan that is a 9-10/10 pvp game (that happens to be stuck behindthe most meh/10 developer imo) in MWO, PGI went and spent two games trying to do everything they can to distance themselves from MWO.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Greedy executives who think that making every AAA slop game an online battle royale survival looter shooter with a cozy life/dating sim sub plot will bring in every demo.

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

PTA delayed to 2027

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

It will be delayed again. And when it finally does release it will be a buggy unfinished mess that won't run well even on the top of the line hardware.

It's Cyberpunk 2077 all over again

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

please let there be one more good gta

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago
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