• Ex Nummis@lemmy.world
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    GTA5 was out for like three years on PC before I bothered with it. I found it to be… fairly mediocre. There’s nothing in GTA6 that would make me feel otherwise. I’ll eventually play it… at great discount, or not at all.

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      Yeah I genuinely don’t understand the hype. Maybe I’m just old and fully saturated with GTA already.

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      I thought it was pretty cool, as a crass story, mockery of aspects of corporations and society, and as a driving sim. My least favourite part of any MMO is its griefing potential. Fallout 76 was okay because while you, a roleplayer/gamer interested in the game, still got hurt by griefers only interested in murdering other humans, it reduced damage to a miniscule level.

      GTA V Online required that you either secede from society entirely with a private lobby or become a true pacifist, meaning no PvE. Later on they stopped selling exclusively weapon-free vehicles to players and the entertainment level of free roam for me dropped to zero. After that it became just a hub for racing, FPS or sitting in the apartment watching TV, all of which can be better achieved elsewhere.

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        Very early on they had an actual player investible and influenceable stock market, in Online.

        They shut that down quite quickly though.

        Because you could make money too easily.

        Shark Cards only baby!

        Fuck our interesting gameplay mechanic, strip that shit out, MTX, make RockStar into the comically evil tech corpos they mock in GTA V’s own story.

        $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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          Heh. I have played a few games, and the only ones with functional auction houses and economies had ways to put real money in, but not get real money out.

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            Well the original GTA stock market did not let you take real money out.

            That would have been completely insane.

            Basically only EVE online, I think, has anything close to that, kind of, its complicated.

            But the point I’m getting at is… they had a game mechanic that, if you were clever, could make you in game rich.

            They destroyed this mechanic, and replaced it with ‘if you want to be in game rich, give us actual moneh.’

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        Well that’s a crazy take, you can just say you don’t like the Rockstar narrative open-world shooter style.

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          I can also say I didn’t want to buy it, but gta1 and 2 were great arcade games. They were ready to emulate too.

          I don’t know why I played saints row and not gta. I blame zoidberg

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        Are we at the anti-rockstar coping phase where we pretend that most of their games are trash already? 🤣

        GTA3 was revolutionary and legit one of the most important, best games of all time. Vice city was arguably even better of a game. 5 is just an insane open world, the likes which we’ve never seen in a game.

        Now I say this as someone who has no interest in GTA6, got a free copy of GTA5 on 360 and sold it unopened, and hated GTA4, so don’t assume I’m some GTA fanboy.

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          Watched a video recently about how they engineered GTA3 to load this impression of an enormous city on the PS2’s miniscule amount of RAM. He showed how the city loads and unloads itself around the player, which was crazy genius for the time.

          He also explains how because of those memory limitations, you could end up going to grab a sweet sports car and would suddenly find everyone else was driving one too lol.

          It was by Game Maker’s Toolkit. https://youtu.be/cIbCxbrBCys?is=EtKDSUr8BcpU8tuK

          I love stories like this and I’m not even big on GTA. I sure did like Saint’s Row 3 and 4 though. XD

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            Yep it was a genuine technical marvel. 4MB of VRAM and 32MB of system ram for that. Absolutely incredible.

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      I started playing GTA 5 shortly after launch and could make the same statement.

      I’ve bought launch day on this series for a few iterations now.