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headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

there are lots of popular things that aren't for me. that's normal. but watching the GTA 6 hype from outside the bubble feels different. what do you mean there's a gameplay reveal exclusive to netflix. why is the tone of every announcement if this game doesn't sell 100 million copies we're all dead

headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

GTA 6 feels less like a game and more some kind of totem for a certain kind of dying gamer identity, that cannot economically or culturally sustain itself anymore. it represents a million different things and seemingly the least important of them is that it is an open world mission based video game

gay sophisticate
@codhoward666.bsky.social

ive felt a very big disconnect between the hype of gta 6 as a mystical object and the reality of gta 6 as, a gta game, a normal open world videogame that you play like any other videogame

gay sophisticate
@codhoward666.bsky.social

the obscene hype around gta6 feels very performative and born out of the prolonged wait and its status rather than reality, but maybe normies are just like that for gta

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Tangle Nathair
@tangle.bitch.space

I'd say that normies are just like this about GTA. back when V was new to PC, their anti-cheat started (repeatedly) banning me from GTAO over false positives, and every site where I'd ask for help, people would yell at me for cheating. even rockstar themselves hung up on the phone with me over it.

Stone Tower Temple Pilots
@bighomie39.bsky.social

It is entirely hype around the two facts that GTA 5 is one of the biggest games ever made and is also a PS3 game from 2013. It's like if the last CoD game was Black Ops 2 and gun-and-ball gamers had to wait over a decade for their beloved slop franchise to return