Comment on I'm tired of GTA
kibblebits@quokk.au 1 week ago
I dislike many games people love. It’s not that the game is bad, it just doesn’t work for me.
I loooove GTAV, but never finished the previous ones.
And what hype for VI? I’ve not seen anything about it here on Lemmy besides the occasional news.
And yes, GTA has always been a game about mocking the United States. Which… is no longer very funny at this point.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I mean, there’s not much hype on Lemmy because this place is generally pretty counter-culture, but you’d have to live under a rock to not think GTA 6 is overhyped. From what I’ve heard, a lot of the gaming industry is trying to duck the fade and either get games out in October or December; Rockstar has scared them off trying to compete with a November release. I think the last time something like that happened was Cyberpunk, which should give you a pretty good idea as to the levels of hype GTA 6 is hitting.
onion_dude@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To be fair it earned the hype. GTA 5 was released in 2013, spanned three console generations and set a bunch of records along the way.
Will GTA 6 live up to it? Who knows. But in an age where people lose their minds over sporting events that repeat every year, GTA 6 has earned its spot as one of the most anticipated games ever made.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 week ago
GTA VI is much larger. It’s the kind of game that, just like its predecessors, will appear prominently in mainstream news and general discourse, because it’s such a hugely influential and well-known thing, well beyond the gaming world. Ask non-gamers about Cyberpunk 2077 and most will never have heard of it - but I can assure you, with GTA, it’s different.
This isn’t unjustified in many ways. The series has never produced a dud, each 3D mainline game has been, on a technical and narrative level, as well as especially in terms of world building (no other studio in the AAA space comes even close here) far above most other contemporary titles, despite obviously not being perfect - and the enormous popularity combined with its player freedom, violent and (often) sexual content, as well as its usually quite biting satire of the current world is also a welcome target for grifters trying to stir up controversy by using moral outrage - or those at the receiving end of the satire being whiny about it.