Honestly I can’t 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 I highly doubt they are gonna make any actual gameplay changes to their outdated mission structure.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.

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.

"Outdated mission structure" just triggered something in me. Last gta I bought was 4. Got fed up with "new mission: drive to this faraway place and do difficult thing, if you fail restart from the beginning of the driving bit". I abandoned 4 at that one mission where I had to lay siege to a skyscraper under construction and I kept losing the shootout and had to drive back there again. Kinda stopped playing, lost interest and never went back since.

Steal from take two, they destroyed KSP2 and should be crushed.

GTA 5 and RDR 2 have checkpoints in missions.

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".

It would be hilariously tragic if GTA 6 flopped.

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.

I have a little flame of hope they waited and milked 5 for too long and now people have lost interest and moved on. Let it be a cautionary tale, there is a happy medium to be had in an IPs release cadence.

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

What an unusual take. I've never thought about GTA as an RPG but an action game.

Yeah, there's not exactly a lot of role playing to be done, especially not in story mode.

No I get his point. The world is incredibly realistic and I could see how role-playing could be fun. It's just not something that I would do in GTA

The weird thing is that you can find lots of RP videos using GTA on youtube and tiktok, but it's always on a multiplayer server

I can’t wait for it to be the next AAA failure getting wrecked by a smaller indie game two weeks after release.

Absolutely not lol. Millions of people will buy it for their consoles day one, and then again three years later when it comes to PC.

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 nonetheless imho.

I remember back in the day when I would level muscles to 100% in San Andreas and none of my friends believed me when I said I didn't cheat. Good times, simpler times...

I remember when "GTA clone" was a type of game that some studios went after, with varying success. Saints Row did a great job at having that which GTA 4 lacked: fun over realism. SR3, the non remastered version, still holds up incredibly well. Being so balls to the wall and over the top was a great choice