Video Games Plus, a gaming retailer based out of Canada, and an independent gaming retailer known as Loot Box Gaming have both stated that they won’t be selling GTA 6.
Not huge retailers in the grand scheme of things, but interesting to see at least some taking a stand especially when they are almost certainly losing out on money by doing so.
GTA 6’s launch will be a terrible day for the video games industry.
A lot of releases postponed due to some boring ass game about gangs and crime. For some reason, everyone wants to just drive around and shoot people, instead of experiencing interesting stories? Whatever.
Not to mention all of their shitty decisions, lies, union busting, and more, which will have essentially been forgotten with GTA 6’s launch. No matter how much they lost or will lose in lawsuits, they’ll just make it back tenfold from GTA 6, and continue with their scummy practices.
What a weird take. Every single GTA game has had a story and it’s pretty obvious that this one’s going to have a story too. You can complain about all sorts of things to do with rockstar but that’s just a weird thing to say.
GTA and red dead redemption are usually highly regarded, they usually also came out as single player campaign first, like GTA 6 I believe will as well, then later add on the online part which GTA V is now famous for.
I never really got into the online aspect of GTA but did play through the main story and even my wife would come over to just watch like if it was a movie, so Id say it was pretty good. Ive been wanting her to play red dead as I think that was better but just no time for much games anymore
Have you ever, like, played a game other than GTA?
Did you know they all usually feature stories? I mean, I do understand it’s kinda crazy, but it’s true!
And the stories in other games are infinitely better, too. They’re more than just poorly written characters saying ‘fuck’ or the n-word twice in every sentence.
Honestly, I highly recommend playing video games. Try it some time.
This is an unnecessarily gatekeepy take. I love an extremely wide variety of video games, from Morrowind to Monkey Island, and I think GTA games have had generally compelling stories. Crime drama is a fiction staple and scarcely anyone does it better than Rockstar.
I don’t know where the gatekeeping comes from. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but I literally encouraged the other person to play more varieties of games, which as far as I know is the opposite of gatekeeping.
Though I can agree the ‘take’ wasn’t particularly good. I found the other comment stupid, so I wrote a stupid, maybe mocking reply. That’s all there is to it.
The GTA stories are better than like 90% of what constitutes a narrative in games these days. They’re not better than something like Cyberpunk, but it’s better than a visual novel like Citizen Sleeper.
I guess it depends on what you’re into, but for me stories in GTA are mediocre at best. Just average action movies dragged out into 40+ hour walking, driving, and shooting simulators.
Oh, I’m not judging the actual genre, I’m saying the quality itself. Character depth, subversion of expectation, yet still being predictable to an enjoyable point. The right amount of ups and downs in hopes and fears for protagonists etc. All genre and dressing aside, it’s still good stuff. Again, not masterpieces, but still they at least demonstrate consistently that they care about narrative structure and pacing. Video games these days give zero shits about characters, pacing, emotional up and down beats, a ratio of predictability and subversion of expectation. They often care solely on mechanics and visuals and technical bits and a narrative being bolted on top.
A good video game has a narrative that reinforces the mechanics and themes and the mechanics and themes reinforce the narrative. Very few games do all of that, GTA single player stories at least try and that makes it better than a lot of games these days in terms of a story.
Yes. I’m much more interested in the new The Witcher 3 DLC than in this, for example.