Interesting article. I especially liked this paragraph:
There’s plenty that can be said about the recent trailer, but if I had to sum up my own misgivings with it, it’s that it has an air less of “look at this cool thing we made, we can’t wait to share it with you”, more dick-swinging swagger, a cocksure sense of, well, you’re going to buy this anyway, here’s some absurdly good-looking beer to tide you piggies over.
Didn’t the original GTA/RDR writers leave after finishing RDR2 anyway? Another worry I have is that this game will have none of the story/writing that made the previous games great, and is just a Rock star cash grab because they own the IP.
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Yup, I’m actively avoiding Take2 because of the KSP2 scam.
On that note, in case you weren’t already aware: !kittenspaceagency@sh.itjust.works
You’ve convinced me.
I was looking forward to seeing how the white house would be bitching about every little detail of this game, but it was delayed until after things will be much worse, I’m not sure anymore if it’ll happen.
Though I also wouldn’t put it past Rockstar to add a bunch of stuff to the game to try to please the crowds complaining about “woke”.
Got to love how a game that is centred around crime can be “woke”.
It doesn’t matter the new horizon game will launch on the same week regardless
Appreciate the post OP, gotta say I’m on team “IDGAF about GTA” though. It’s a wannabe RPG, I’d rather play Baldur’s Gate 3 for the 5th and 6th times instead.
What an unusual take. I’ve never thought about GTA as an RPG but an action game.
The last one I played, you had to go to the gym to level stats that were tied to abilities like sprinting. If you ate the wrong food you got fat. There’s quests to do for people all over town, character customization in the form of clothing etc etc. It’s a hell of a lot closer to the Witcher 3 than it is Final Fantasy but it’s a roleplaying game in disguise imho.
GTA isn’t an RPG tho? It’s an action shooter game with a story
I suppose it depends on which game we’re talking about and how broadly we each apply the term. San Andreas was a lot heavier on the stat leveling for example. I consider anything with breadcrumb quests/missions that drives a main plot and optional side missions/quests to get stronger to be an RPG. If you disagree though that’s valid, it’s not a hill I’m willing to die on.
San Andreas had that weird getting strong or fat thing I never really used when I played it and I didn’t really get negatives from it tbh
For me an example of an actual action RPG would be Cyberpunk more so than GTA since it has skill trees and such. In GTA you just get a few new guns or something and that’s about it, no levels or upgrades except for cars.
The argument would probably start with defining what RPG means. My local gaming journos for example used ‘rpg elements’ to describe multiplayer progression in CoD: MW games. Some people call Far Cry 3+ a sandbox\RPG.
In a sense, topping the numbers may be seen as a sign of an aRPG like Borderlands\Diablo that do no involve roleplaying, but rather a munchkin reduction of the genre to stats, loot, etc. There are a lot of these numbers to empower your MC, including solid perks to acquire - like better weapon handling or rewards for working as a first responders. Nothing we haven’t seen in arcade or action games, but either way people do consider this as a RPG influence at the very least.
Actual roleplay, or rather choices defining your journey, like in choose-your-own-adventure books, are seemingly non-existent. You don’t pick your character like you don’t pick Geralt, but at the same time, you have little to no agency over what happens, unlike what’s seen in Witcher. There are strict win and fail conditions, you can sometimes equip yourself better or pick your route from A to B, but from that understanding of RPG, it isn’t one.
What gives it a fleur of freedom is it being a big ol’ sandbox where you can play with multiple toys and bend it’s rules.
I, therefore, would insist on calling it a sandbox action game with rpg-lite mechanics.
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What a negative thread, here.
Lemmy is a negative place
Honestly I can’t give a crap about the next gta. I highly doubt they are gonna make any actual gameplay changes to their outdated mission structure.
At this point just looking forward to it releasing so that people will shut up about it already. 😂
Yup, I’ll buy it years down the road at a massive discount just to play the campaign; all their effort is going to go into multiplayer and milking those microtransactions anyway
I can’t wait for it to be the next AAA failure getting wrecked by a smaller indie game two weeks after release.
I really hope so, but sadly I don’t think it will be. In the same way that people buy the same FIFA, the same COD, etc every year, it lives off its brand name and FOMO of those who only play multiplayer games.
GTA V still rakes in like $800 million or so from shark cards every year. They release a new vehicle, a new apartment, or whatever and everyone flocks to buy it.
I think GTA 6 will just fill that space
