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Boycott GTA 6 and be done with it (lemmy.world)
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[–] 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (23 children)

GTA5 was out for like three years on PC before I bothered with it. I found it to be... fairly mediocre. There's nothing in GTA6 that would make me feel otherwise. I'll eventually play it... at great discount, or not at all.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Yeah I genuinely don't understand the hype. Maybe I'm just old and fully saturated with GTA already.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Maybe but it's also sloppified. I mean, a casino? Really? GTA V Online lost the irony and became just bad.

    I liked it, but I only owned San Andreas, played a bit of IV and LCS, then V, so I haven't really reached GTA fatigue yet

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Keep in mind...

    0 actual gameplay footage, so far.

    Zilch, 0, Nada, None.

    Also, ... it wont even be capable of hitting 60 fps on a PS5 or Xbox series fucking whatever.

    It might even be locked at 30.

    https://me.mashable.com/tech/52061/gta-6-performance-details-console-frame-rate-capped-at-30fps-pc-version-to-improve

    https://wccftech.com/gta-6-skip-60-fps-entirely-insane-detail-ps5-pro/

    https://www.tweaktown.com/news/112410/gta-6-may-be-locked-at-30-fps-even-on-a-ps5-pro-says-analyst/index.html

    ... where the fuck is the baffled Jackie Chan meme when I need it?

    Yeah this shit makes no sense to be excited for, unless you basically have oppositional defiance disorder, and you just enjoy being snide, in a group.

    Literally... Back a few years ago when that idiot hacked into RockStar and leaked the alpha build of GTA6... (and was then immediately caught because he is an idiot)... thats it. Clips from that are the closest to actual gameplay anyone has ever seen.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    It’s like people with windows computers who complain about Apple

    Some people don’t understand the difference in quality as they lack taste

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Apple does some things well, Windows does some different things well, and increasingly, for the everyday users who mostly thought those were the only two choices, Linux does some things well.

    It's all about what you, the user, care about.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Braindead take.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    I thought it was pretty cool, as a crass story, mockery of aspects of corporations and society, and as a driving sim. My least favourite part of any MMO is its griefing potential. Fallout 76 was okay because while you, a roleplayer/gamer interested in the game, still got hurt by griefers only interested in murdering other humans, it reduced damage to a miniscule level.

    GTA V Online required that you either secede from society entirely with a private lobby or become a true pacifist, meaning no PvE. Later on they stopped selling exclusively weapon-free vehicles to players and the entertainment level of free roam for me dropped to zero. After that it became just a hub for racing, FPS or sitting in the apartment watching TV, all of which can be better achieved elsewhere.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Very early on they had an actual player investible and influenceable stock market, in Online.

    They shut that down quite quickly though.

    Because you could make money too easily.

    Shark Cards only baby!

    Fuck our interesting gameplay mechanic, strip that shit out, MTX, make RockStar into the comically evil tech corpos they mock in GTA V's own story.

    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Heh. I have played a few games, and the only ones with functional auction houses and economies had ways to put real money in, but not get real money out.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Well the original GTA stock market did not let you take real money out.

    That would have been completely insane.

    Basically only EVE online, I think, has anything close to that, kind of, its complicated.

    But the point I'm getting at is... they had a game mechanic that, if you were clever, could make you in game rich.

    They destroyed this mechanic, and replaced it with 'if you want to be in game rich, give us actual moneh.'

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The last good GTA game was GTA 2.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well that's a crazy take, you can just say you don't like the Rockstar narrative open-world shooter style.

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  • [+] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Watched a video recently about how they engineered GTA3 to load this impression of an enormous city on the PS2's miniscule amount of RAM. He showed how the city loads and unloads itself around the player, which was crazy genius for the time.

    He also explains how because of those memory limitations, you could end up going to grab a sweet sports car and would suddenly find everyone else was driving one too lol.

    It was by Game Maker's Toolkit. https://youtu.be/cIbCxbrBCys?is=EtKDSUr8BcpU8tuK

    I love stories like this and I'm not even big on GTA. I sure did like Saint's Row 3 and 4 though. XD

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