Me watching GTAVI cost 100$+ at launch, have a fuckload of technical problems and still sell billions but still have an announcement of Take Two firing a bunch of people because they spent two billion on marketing
Same. I don't even have GTA5 yet, I have no interest for a game the only thing we really know about so far is that it has graphics that'll likely require a NASA PC to run and make it take like 300 GB of storage.
I don't think I've spent more than 30 dollars on all Rockstar games combined and part of that is 4 different ports of Bully.
I at some point bought the Android port.
I don't remember buying the Android port.
I never installed the Android port.
But I own it.
Same, I heard about it while playing through FFXIV for the first time and beelined GNB as soon as I could, I think the Lion Heart combo has paid several months of the sub fee.
I actually really LIKE gta, but GTA 6 doesn't exist to me until it's playable on PC so I'll start up the hype train in 2030 or whatever the fuck. I'm not buying a god forsaken xbox super plus one X XXL
I at base didn't care but its not helping that every additional bit of information about it is "it was very expensive to make" and "like, the graphics bro"
the dev environment for a decade long release cycle is either so decadent as to make Hedonismbot nut himself to death in seconds, or so agonising as to make the corporates probably liable for worker abuse in any sane country
at some point i think you lose the ability to meaningfully iterate on your popular game bc other people will have copied bits, honed in on them, and perfected them while you were trying to figure out what made that secret sauce so sasucy
thinking of shenmue 3 being turned into dust by the yakuza series, or duke nukem 4 being a pathetic sputter waving its weak fists angrily at halo for crushing it in every way, or even fgo declining while all the new big gacha fixed all of its flaws
im playing it again bc i miss my wife and like. insane how the shop pages ahve No filters. if you want to look for a specific old welfare with the leaf shop you jsut gotta scroll-swipe Sixty Times. there are more than a hundred seperate entries
literally only time i actually had interest in playing it, was when a group of friends were having fun with the physics engine in gta 4... by seeing who could catapult Nico the farthest in a car accident.
There’s a threshold where money and time spent on a project point to the quality going down.
Even if massive finance is being put towards graphics and rendering this isn’t enough to justfiy the budget unless they scrapped and reworked development several times.
I sunk a lot of hours into V but I don't even want a new GTA game, especially not right now. The smug social commentary and South Park-ass politics were cute in the early 2010s but would just kill the escapism now
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I at some point bought the Android port.
I don't remember buying the Android port.
I never installed the Android port.
But I own it.
(please imagine the gimli gif with "And My AXe!"
literally only time i actually had interest in playing it, was when a group of friends were having fun with the physics engine in gta 4... by seeing who could catapult Nico the farthest in a car accident.
Even if massive finance is being put towards graphics and rendering this isn’t enough to justfiy the budget unless they scrapped and reworked development several times.