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I'm always amazed at Rockstar's ability to sell a game with the simple sales pitch of "It's GTA". We've basically seen nothing about this game, and they aren't well known for managing their existing games well, yet everyone is convinced this will be
Despite only seeing a pre-rendered trailer up to now. We don't even know any members of the cast on IMDb.
I think we've completely lose the plot on game development.
Why do you think it was pre rendered?, they typically use in engine footage
They still make a bazillion dollars no matter what. I just don't see the obsession with it. I loved gta 1 and 2 and vice city. But then, idk, tgey didn't really innovate anything, except making it look better. Cars are meh, they never added a tachometer, because the cars are actually pretty slow, the walking part is abysmal. It's like driving a tank but with feet. Tgere is no real climbing, the jumping is straight out of prince of persia on windows 3.1. Is it really just people who like that you can vang hookers and drive over people? Who long is this fun? Playing gta online really shows you the kind of people who still like these games
it'd be hilarious for the next GTA to be meh. all those billions invested, all the years, and it's like a 5.5-6 out of 10 lol.
not predicting anything, just think it'd be funny
Itll be really depressing, because itll still be GOTY and bestselling game of all time and make record number of mtx ane subscriptions.
depressingly plausible.
This is what I feel happened with Starfield (not to the same extent, but still).
Everyone hyped the hell of it, it released, huge collective "meh", and two weeks later it was mostly forgotten.
I had already had enough of Todd Howard and Bethesda's bullshit at this point, so I was just wondering why that was even hyped so much to begin with.
At least I used to like Bethesda. I don't even give a shit about GTA, so Rockstar can crash and burn for all I care.
amen
2 will almost certainly be correct. It can be a flaming pile of garbage and people are still going to buy it. It could effect future sales/games, but it's still going to sell like crazy on launch. People are stupid, especially the ones into this hype.
And everyone is going to buy it just like always. Which proves their strategy works.
I will wait until its less then $50 and I will experience the same joy that all the jerks preordering it will have
sure I will have that experience a year or more after they do but I also get a patched product
Oh no, you're going to have to play one of the many great games in your backlog, or maybe some indie titles in the meantime! How are you ever going to manage?
I have people coming into my work trying to build a computer to prepare for GTA6 and its pretty obvious they dont know its not releasing on PC for a while after the initial launch. Dumb people play GTA now, its like FIFA or Madden or CoD.
This is GTA 6. The game could just be Hello World and it would still be the best selling game ever. They could have started taking preorders earlier and it could have also been the best selling game of last year.
People know how popular the last game was, assume that this one is going to be even more, and feel like they need to be first to play it or they will be left behind. They feel like they need to preorder the game so that it doesn't sell out, despite the fact that it is a digital download.
I'm mostly looking forward to the advertisement campaign, because this will be the largest global campaign to date
A cool billion on advertisement is not impossible with the size of this production. It's insanity.
But regarding your pointers;
Goty? Don't think so, tends to go to innovation.
For sure, this will carry so much hype it will sell a fuckton. It's also been like a decade and some, since the last GTA released. It's a huge IP.
absolutely not, I've not seen anyone expecting massive amounts of innovation. It will be a continuation of what GTA already is, likely with better graphics, a huge world (possibly the largest digital open world to date). But innovation? Nah, big investments kills innovation in games. They need a safe bet, they've not pushed 2-3 bn dollars into a game that could be either 10 million of sales or 10 bn. They'd rather take the safe 4 bn