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i’ll drink that garbage but not enough to save them from what they have done

That’s more or less how i remember the hype for Cyberpunk 2077 on Reddit. And then the game came out and everyone was extremely upset it didn’t live up to their expectations.

one hundred million people i will never discuss video games with will play it and have some fun

It's all but guaranteed to be the (monetarily) biggest entertainment launch in history, but yea that's completely divorced from what creative impact it might have on the rest of the industry or whether it'll even be good lol

And a few months later the dumbest guys on the earth will try to figure out why it didn't do All That and they'll decide it was because a woman was in it

i find it very funny when people talk about it that way. whether its mentioned unironically or as a joke, it makes it seem like the video game equivalent of the rapture. i wonder what the world will look like after gta 6

I'm sure it will have lots of impressive technology that makes your character's nipples hard when it gets cold or whatever

every cutscene with the latina woman is going to be shot like that ME2 Miranda cutscene and you're never going to able to escape it.

Don't worry, it won't be this year either.

It's genuinely so freeing

GTA 6 finally launches and it’s turns out to be a quirky earthbound inspired game that’s secretly about depression.

5 is also a massive live service game which seems to get overlooked by alot of games media

As a dev who's worked in AAA, the impact it has on the entire gaming market and console sales and how saturated of a point that is and how every lead/director/etc references that makes it impossible for me to not take seriously even though on no level do I or will I ever care about Grand Theft Auto.

I'm sure it'll make one bajillion dollars but it will also have the exact same South Park tier writing and while still really fucking annoying and awful that almost feels quaint in the cultural landscape

im also putting money on it having a very outdated elon musk parody selling Deathlas or something

Most of the rockstar games missions are “drive to x location while talking to someone” and then shoot some guys, and drive somewhere else. Really broke the illusion for me when I played red dead and GTAV back to back (10+ years ago??)

It's 2026 why are we still driving to icons on maps to accept discrete linear missions?

I still always think of the gag in Saints Row 2 where one of your guys goes over a really meticulous plan for how you're going to rob a casino and then Johnny Gat knocks over all the little models and says "how about instead we just run inside and shoot every motherfucker between us and the vault"

Crazy that it'll release and be a game where you run around and shoot guys

I agree but entirely on the business side of things because no one will ever have that much time and ZIRP money to play with again

tbf it will probably win most awards. it’ll just also be the worst written game you’ve Avoided Like The Plague that year

Wouldn't it be funny if the game comes out and it's fine, people like it, and it's reasonably popular.

At least rdr2 has a great story. Like I never want to *play* the game, but I think about that story a lot. My time with gta 5 has been memory holed because I didn't care about any character or find it funny or enjoy playing it.

I totally agree... but there will be some competition, it always was.

it feels so bizarre to have zero interest in it. like you said, not in a hater way. i just don’t care. makes me feel so odd

I absolutely believe it will win every award, not because it will actually be that good but rather because video game awards shows are all farcical

This isn't just youtubers this is how the entire AAA industry is acting

I really like V and RDR2 but it's just gonna be more of that then. Those games haven't evolved at all really they're just really pretty open worlds and decent fun

i really try to avoid “i’m an intellectual and on a level above the average NPC” style thinking for obv reasons but every time i’m reminded of gta and the absurd pull it has with the average gamer it gets really hard