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Am I the only one who no longer cares for GTA series after the Shark Code shitshow series has become ans the dropped promise of single player mods and DLC?
I’m only interested in GTA 6 for the single player game. Never played GTA 5 online for more than 30 minutes. I wish they had given us some single player DLC, but I guess Rockstar decided they could make the more money selling a handful of kids fake in game currency so why bother. It sucks for those of us that like the single player because it means we get a new game once a decade now. Used to be that Rockstar released a new GTA every couple years.
I'm still malding at how they canceled the singleplayer dlc so they could reskin and release the same content over and over on multiplayer (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Gta online was fun at first, when it was all about fooling around in the awesome big map with friends, but after that got old, there's nothing else to do but grind boring missions that all feel the same.
I feel like a nutjob in that I just...don't really care about GTA VI. The graphics look great, I'm sure the world will be awesome, but...after what Rockstar did to GTA V's singleplayer and RDR2 as a whole (abandoning both in favor of printing money through Shark Cards), plus the whole "Rockstar Magic" working conditions thing from awhile ago (and I even forgot about the whole GTA V PC issue), I'm just not really excited for this.
Maybe I'm just disillusioned, but I was much more excited when the Armored Core 6 teaser dropped - a series I had never even played before.
The way I see it they make an amazing single player game and then use the multiplayer to fund the next one.
I never finished the last GTA but RDR2 was absolutely amazing and didn't need any dlc or expansions imo.
Yeah not sure why people want the single player to last forever lol. To me it makes sense for them to focus on the Online afterwards since that's what will stay alive after people finish the single player.
I don't see an open world game lasting as long as a sandbox game without a ton of bloat.. kinda like those super long and repetitive Ubisoft campaigns people always complain about...
I haven't played online since like 2015, but I personally liked playing through the missions with my friends
For me it's not about the singleplayer lasting forever, it's about it being completely abandoned. I agree with the idea of them making a great singleplayer story and using the online to fund their next game, but it used to be that you would see other stories told in those worlds with dlc like the Ballad of Gay Tony or even the wacky fun of RDR's Undead Nightmare. Today, that kind of stuff is relegated to online mission packs and seasonal events. They didn't even bother to do simple stuff like put new guns introduced in the multiplayer of GTA V and RDR2 into the singleplayer. If you have no interest in the online component, you have nothing more to do with the game until they release the next one in another decade.
And this isn't to say that I'm over here being angry about GTA Online. I have my issues with Shark Cards and I had my complaints over how RDR2 Online was handled, but it's been many years since I cared about that and my Shark Card gripes are about the predatory nature of how mtx are used by the industry at large, not with Rockstar in particular.
I'm mostly just feeling like I missed something. I think it looks like it's making a big step forward for graphics in games (hair physics has always been incredibly difficult to get right, for example, and the hair in this trailer looks really good) and nails a perfect vibe for a Miami based city, and I'm sure the story will be fantastic. I never finished GTA V's story, but RDR 1 and 2 are some of my favorite game stories of all time. But I saw the trailer and went "This looks like another Rockstar game, neat" while the trailer was getting 7 million views an hour for at least the first 5 hours after its release. I just don't understand why this has record-breaking hype surrounding it. Maybe it's because I didn't get pulled into GTA V's story and got turned off of GTA Online almost immediately, but this is falling squarely into "I'll pick it up eventually I imagine" territory, not day 1 purchase hype.
Maybe you're not as excited because you're not the target audience anymore.
Think of the biggest games of the last 10 years, they've all been community centered games. Among Us, Minecraft, Call of Duty, Fortnite, GTA Online, Fall Guys, etc.
I think we just grew up in a different era. I grew up playing on the PSX but my younger brother grew up on the PS4. I'm still playing the Tony Hawk remaster by myself and my younger brother is playing online games with like 6 people in the call.
I look forward to the story, but my younger brother looks forward to the online where he can have his own character and create his own story with his friends.
Gaming in general is moving in a community direction and I don't blame Rockstar for moving in that direction as well.
I'm really excited for the single player. I have absolutely zero optimism for online though.
Dude that's why I stopped playing GTA V, I finished the offline story mode and there was nothing else to do for offline.
I mean isn't that the case with most single player story games? You can still do side missions and other activities
Yea but they could've added more main story DLC.
Yep
I'm not even bothering to watch the trailer because I already had decided to never buy anything from Rockstar again prior to this announcement.
The GTAOnline situation is super wack, but R* hasn't stopped delivering great single player campaigns, well technically only one - RDR2 - since introducing shark cards, and it is still completely separate from RDROnline and the paid currency. I won't pre-order GTAVI still, even once it comes to PC, but I'm going to pick it up if the reviews are halfway decent.
I guess so. I have no idea what you're talking about. GTA V was awesome.
You're mad that the online component of GTAV had premium currency microtransactions? Just don't buy them. Also, there are loads of single player mods for V, don't know what you mean.
No, they're mad that any singleplayer content planned for GTA 5 (and RDR2) in the past decade was abandoned for the money printing machine that is GTA Online. There's issues to be had with premium currencies (more specifically the stuff that usually goes along with them like lootboxes), but that's not just a GTA thing.
Also, just because other people created content for a game through mods doesn't mean we should give the company that made the game credit. That's like praising a Bethesda game based on a total overhaul mod somebody made.
This is a weird fucking place, bro.
Like, I thought reddit was full of bitter cynics, but only on Lemmy could I find an entire GAMING community that is angry at the next GTA game.
This place must be full of 55+ year olds or something.
You can't join into multiplayer/gta online unless you disable all mods. For a live service that needs loading Individually it still doesn't operate as good as it should especially when they have the funds for it. They dont care for the player experience. After 4 times having to enable, test and disable mods just to play online with friends, I dropped gta V all together. Wasn't worth co figuring 150+ mods just to have them all break when you have to disable them.
That's to be expected. But if you only play games because mods exist, do you even like the games you play?
if you're that dedicated to mods and online multi, you should probably have two systems. Of course mods aren't gonna play nice with an online mutli.