Just for fun, to see what the opinion of the Lemmy crowd is.
- Poll: https://strawpoll.com/e6Z2AEX8wgN
- Game Website: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI (scroll down to ultimate edition to read and see what it contains)
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_VI
Edit: VPNs unblocked now. There was a setting I overlooked, my bad. I did not block VPNs intentionally. Sorry. Please vote now if you can (and want to).
The last GTA I really got into was Vice City on PS2. I did get San Andreas as a gift but tbh it might still be in its shrinkwrap because WoW was around that time and since I stopped playing WoW, I’ve diversified my gaming to the point where I have a shitload of games I have yet to try across a variety of platforms. And I heard a lot of shit about V like getting griefed by cheaters that I never tried it and at this point the AAA label is more of a repulsor than attractor and I still have all those other games to try.
Why is “buy eventually” not an option? I’m not arranging my life around the PC launch, but I don’t need a sale either.
Agreed. I realized later after reading the comments, that important options such as “maybe later” or something like that is missing.
I’m not at all surprised to see the “not interested” and “wait for a sale” options being massively ahead on Lemmy. Though it’d be interesting to see how different the “not interested” crowd would be if the option were split into “not interested at all” and “interested but wont buy for political/moral reasons”.
The comments here imply most would vote for the second option, but I’m in the first camp myself. I’ve never been interested in any of the GTA games.
I’m in both camps, but also I think there should be a “Arrr” option. I’m also in that camp, mostly out of curiosity. I want to see what compromises they make on this game, and how they choose to accomplish certain tasks. It’s going to be a massive game culturally, and I want to be aware of what they’re doing.
Currently at ~7% would buy one version or another on day one, about 33% would wait for a sale, ~60% dgaf
Voted yes day 1 standard edition but the reality is more I will wait a bit and see if it’s as enticing as have the other ones. So I won’t wait for a sale or anything. I used to buy consoles just for GTA games :-), not gonna do that but I might get hyped.
Right. From the spirit, its the day one answer you are looking for. Because I actually didn’t meant literally day one. It’s a totally normal and understandable approach.
For $20, I’m in …
I chose “wait until sale” because there will apparently be no actual physical release, but I’d consider getting the $80 version at some point if there was one. I was fully prepared to just buy it on release, but $80 digital-only left a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t appreciate Rockstar’s blatant greed and it immediately dropped it from “must-buy” to “buy later at some point, maybe.”
Now, if they made a Bully 2? I’d pay $100 for that.
I’ll buy it if/when it comes out on PC. I loved GTA 3, 4, and 5. I finished 3 and 4, never finished 5 but still love exploring and roaming the map.
Voted “Not Interested” while guessing it was the least common option, turns out it’s close to 60% ! I guess this audience is a little biased towards playing indies, maybe that’s why.
I tried 4 and 5 for a few hours each and the mechanics are all very mid. I have no idea how this series became the juggernaut it did. To me it’s as surprising as some random mobile game blowing up, like Angry Birds or Flappy Bird
Pro-indie, pro-union, and anti-union-buster.
I would if the game came on the disc. I’m not buying a license to play the game at Sony and Take-Twos leisure
No, because the only Rockstar game I have ever bought was Smuggler’s Run Warzone.
Maybe if another one came out, I’d buy that.
lol, I know what people vote for in these kind of poll VS what they actually do on launch day.
I am not convinced.
I don’t think I’m going to get GTA 6 at all. I have a grudge against Take2 since they had Gearbox update all the old Borderlands games right before Borderlands 4 came out to include an anticheat software and the EULA now states that any info the anticheat scrapes can be sold to their marketing partners. So they turned all of those games into spyware. Rockstar and Take2 both stated that the already over-monitized GTA Online is actually under-monitized, so I fully expect the GTA 6 online to be more of a fucking nightmare than EA’s Battlefront 2 on release. And I also hate how as soon as Rockstar saw how profitable GTAO was, they cancelled the single player DLC and shoehorned all that shit into GTAO.
I’m tired, boss. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I spend money on a triple-A game again
they cancelled the single player DLC and shoehorned all that shit into GTAO
I didn’t know that, but always suspected it.
Yeah, they never outright stated it, but this was all found in one of the big data leaks from Rockstar. The first was mostly finished and involved Trevor working with the CIA, doing a heist on the casino, and going on James Bond/Austin Powers like adventures. The second DLC was a zombie survival scenario (probably going to be like RDR’s Undead Nightmare) with Micheal and his family. And the final DLC basically just had concept art of Franklin being sucked up into a UFO.
All the cars and the casino heist from Trevor’s DLC is in GTAO. The cars modified with sheet metal and spikes from Michael’s DLC got repurposed into a Mad Max type of update for GTAO.
I am one of the few in this world that GTA just didn’t appeal to, and I guess I’m lucky in that regard, seeing as how it takes so long to develop a new one.
I tried GTA5 when EpicGames had it as a freebe and put it away after about an hour because the characters were so awefull and stupid, I could not stand it at all. That and driving the cars felt bad, there was nothing fun in the game for me. GTA just stopped being a game for me when it went 3D
The driving is what got me the most. They started off as essentially driving games and they managed to make driving not feel fun somehow
I thought that GTA V wasn’t as good as San Andreas but I still quite enjoyed it. I liked Franklin and his story quite a bit. Michael and Trevor would have been fine as side characters, as playable characters I don’t really care too much about them beyond the Brad, Trevor, Michael, FBI agent triangle
Really, you didn’t enjoy 3 or Vice City? They don’t hold up very well, but they were fantastic games for their time.
Not really. They are not as bad as GTA 5 but the story lost me after a few hours each too. I think that I just doesn’t want to be a criminal scumbag, not even in a game. They may be great games, but they are not for me.
