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.
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.