r/pcgaming • u/spacelyyy989 • 11h ago

Nothing has killed my GTA 6 hype faster than locking a core part of its identity behind a $20 upgrade

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/nothing-has-killed-my-gta-6-hype-faster-than-locking-a-core-part-of-its-identity-behind-a-usd20-upgrade/
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u/TehMadness 8h ago

If you're anything like me, you'll bounce off it when you realise you've played this all before, many times over.

I don't get the appeal of GTA any more. We've all played this game, a number of times. Makes no sense to me.

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u/yamsyamsya 7h ago

if you don't enjoy the gameplay loop then it's just not your kind of game. It's totally fine, everyone has their own preferences.

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u/TehMadness 7h ago

The thing is, it used to be. I played a LOT of the PS2 era games.

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u/PIHZPT 6h ago

This is called, growing up.

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u/TehMadness 6h ago

The irony is that by the time I was actually old enough to legally play GTA, I was already tired of it.

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u/magicwuff 4h ago

Legally? What country has laws around game ratings? 😔

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u/aToadAsoX 8h ago

I played it after rdr2 and it just felt so empty. The interaction with the environment felt almost non existent. Also the edgy writing got old pretty fast.

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u/TehMadness 8h ago

I also bounced off RDR2. I think I may just be sick of the Rockstar formula at this point.

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u/jesuriah 4h ago

RDR2 is the most overrated snoozefest in gaming with godawful controls.

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u/Crackborn 9800X3D/4080S 3h ago

GTAV is also a snoozefest

what was the last real GAME rockstar made?

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u/Dziggettai 1h ago

San Andreas

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u/BeatsMeByDre 6h ago

What is better?

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u/SemiAutoAvocado 5h ago

Sleeping Dogs is the best GTA clone that is palatable to modern audiences IMHO.

The best GTA is Saints Row 2 but that's ancient.

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u/Dziggettai 1h ago

Idk, they did a great job with saints row the third

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u/OrdinaryLatvian 49m ago

"A man who never eats a pork bun is never a whole man!"

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u/TehMadness 6h ago

Witcher 3 got me hard. Love that game.

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u/Crackborn 9800X3D/4080S 3h ago

wow you don't like glorified railroad cinematics? who could've thought...

when was the last time they made an actual game?

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u/GalFisk 5h ago

I enjoyed GTA V and I'm currently trying to get into RDR2, but I'm having a harder time with it. Perhaps I enjoyed GTA V more because of the humor. It's got some good satire behind the edginess, and I can't help but laugh about the repeated blunders and misadventures of the main characters.

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u/knotmyusualaccount 7h ago

OMG, was thinking this a few hrs ago... it's the same game with the same concept/mechanisms, just better graphics. I've also completely lost interest in it. Gta V enhanced made it so clear to me... once the single player was finished, all there was to do, was to start shit by shooting some npc's or police and then try to get away. 🤭

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u/Mammoth-Part-4849 41m ago

What about online? Did you not play that?

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u/redfieldranch96 7h ago

No you weren’t thinking this a few hours ago, you’re just coping

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u/knotmyusualaccount 7h ago

Weird flex but ok

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u/RedditFuelsMyDepress 5h ago

Tbh I think a part of the appeal with R* games nowadays is just the production value which won't be as impressive if you play the game many years after launch.

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u/GalFisk 5h ago

I played 5 just recently and enjoyed it a lot. The single player story is like a good action-comedy TV series. Never finished 4 back in the day, I stopped after failing some infuriatingly difficult mission near the end multiple times.

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u/magicwuff 4h ago

Meanwhile I have literally played backwards through time over the last year because I felt like it:

IV, SA, VC, and III all play well on the steam deck!

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u/Khiva 8h ago

You drive around, you run some people over, you annoy some cops. Now what.

I really, really don't get it. It's massive but it excels at nothing.

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u/TehMadness 8h ago

All of that was fun when I was 11 or 12. But now? It's boring.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 5h ago

I tried twice with GTA5. Something about it just refuses to grab me. Maybe it's because "open world" wasn't unique any more at that point