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Some Retailers Are Refusing to Sell GTA 6 Due to the Lack of a Disc (www.ign.com)
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Video Games Plus, a gaming retailer based out of Canada, and an independent gaming retailer known as Loot Box Gaming have both stated that they won't be selling GTA 6.

Not huge retailers in the grand scheme of things, but interesting to see at least some taking a stand especially when they are almost certainly losing out on money by doing so.

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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For some reason, everyone wants to just drive around and shoot people, instead of experiencing interesting stories?

What a weird take. Every single GTA game has had a story and it's pretty obvious that this one's going to have a story too. You can complain about all sorts of things to do with rockstar but that's just a weird thing to say.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    GTA and red dead redemption are usually highly regarded, they usually also came out as single player campaign first, like GTA 6 I believe will as well, then later add on the online part which GTA V is now famous for.

    I never really got into the online aspect of GTA but did play through the main story and even my wife would come over to just watch like if it was a movie, so Id say it was pretty good. Ive been wanting her to play red dead as I think that was better but just no time for much games anymore

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  • [+] -18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Have you ever, like, played a game other than GTA?

    Did you know they all usually feature stories? I mean, I do understand it's kinda crazy, but it's true!

    And the stories in other games are infinitely better, too. They're more than just poorly written characters saying 'fuck' or the n-word twice in every sentence.

    Honestly, I highly recommend playing video games. Try it some time.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is an unnecessarily gatekeepy take. I love an extremely wide variety of video games, from Morrowind to Monkey Island, and I think GTA games have had generally compelling stories. Crime drama is a fiction staple and scarcely anyone does it better than Rockstar.

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  • [+] -11 points 2 months ago

    I don't know where the gatekeeping comes from. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I literally encouraged the other person to play more varieties of games, which as far as I know is the opposite of gatekeeping.

    Though I can agree the 'take' wasn't particularly good. I found the other comment stupid, so I wrote a stupid, maybe mocking reply. That's all there is to it.

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