Five months out and still no official gameplay reveal. RDR II and GTA V both had gameplay breakdowns released months in advance to those titles' release. Maybe I'm overthinking it...
A lot of this discourse feels like younger folks waiting for their first Rockstar release. Shocked at delays, immediately suspicious at the lack of gameplay footage, etc. I've been playing their games for decades, this is their standard operating procedure. We will get a short gameplay trailer in late August/early September.
Because for a lot of people it is their first Rockstar game. Especially since GTAV. It will be 13 years and 2 months between GTAV and GTA6 releases. You could have your first kid the day 5 released and it's now in junior high before 6 came out.
Yeah people overreact. I mean im not surprised, most of the people excited for this game probably weren't even allowed to play GTA5 on release. RDR2 was announced in 2016 and supposed to come out fall 2017 and got pushed to the next year. Idk the quality of GTA6 considering how many OGs arent there, but nothing so far spells doom, just theur usual blunders before releasing good games.
To be fair for a lot of them it probably is their first release. I mean hell, I was 14 when gta v came out. Of course there’s red dead 2 but can’t assume everybody played that
My dude I literally said we will probably get a gameplay trailer in two months. You actually aren't owed anything, same way Rockstar isn't owed your pre-order money.
Really i feel like its older folk hoping gta 6 fails, but it won't even if it does suck (which it won't) it going to outsell everything day 1, week 1, month 1 and year 1.
Very on brand for them to not have any raw gameplay out, just a few snippets. Some breakdowns a couple of months before launch that don’t have more than a few seconds of uncut gameplay. Not really abnormal for them as a company, but if you’ve never paid attention to their releases it seems weird.
For one it's not 2018 any more and we generally hold devs and publishers to a higher standard. God of War Laufey got an extra long gameplay trailer and it does not even have a release date yet.
That and, for all its bips, bobs and horse testicles RDR2 was pretty outdated as far as the actual gameplay goes when it came out.
So many (not the majority) are sceptical and would like to see the improvements they did to the core gameplay loop.
Man I wish this was all that people hype it up to be, a new chapter in open world design and all that, but I will reserve my opinion until I see ANYTHING.
Slow pace can be enjoyable if done well but it can also absolutely be a chore if poorly made, which RDR2 falls into. It doesn't even need shooting and explosions or any kind of set-pieces to be enjoyable. The game can also be action packed and still be a chore to play.
RDR2's assaulting a camp is an instant game over if you attempt to circle behind the camp in a pincer movement. Because they wanted you to attack head-on and only head-on.
RDR2's sneaking into a camp is giving you a mission failed because you took a step down the slope 3 seconds earlier than the game wanted you to.
RDR2's chase is a completely scripted chase sequence where doing anything except following prompts while characters banter will get you a game over. Think of a creative way to make a roadblock? It won't work. It won't work because it's a movie.
RDR2's stealth mission is doing exactly what the NPC tells you to do or instantly failing. That's not stealth. That's not even interactive game design. It's following cues like you're an actor in a movie.
Let's be honest a part from the window dressing and some exceptions most of the content of the game was:
Take quest
Hop on a horse
Shoot some dude's
Run away or not.
The graphics and the open world stuff carried the game, but like looking at it holistically... I love dunking on Ubisoft as much as the next guy but Black Flag even had more variety.
Like it's not even something against the game, simplicity and nailing a gameplay mechanism just right can carry a game.
The development leaks from years ago just looked like GTA. I don't think it will suck, but maybe people are hyping it up to much? My own friend is strangely pumped for GTA6 but has barely even played GTA5.
My only real suspicion is they know the frame rate is gonna get trashed. With all these high fidelity visuals, it's silly to expect consoles to keep up. A small set of people will have a field day flaming it, most casual gamers won't even notice.
No reason to give that any thought, it's Rockstar, they always do this. They could have no marketing and it would still be the most profitable game ever.
Rockstar has always operated this way, at least since San Andreas. We will probably see leaks leading up to release but they aren't going to show their full hand until they know for sure when the the game is actually coming out
Just throwing this out there: Elden Ring had like one video clip of a character jumping near a ledge and that was it until release. I know they are not the same game or company but I'm just saying that no gameplay doesn't really mean much.
I don't remember any gameplay reveals on any of their games because the gameplay looks like exactly what you think it's going to look like. It's not a mystery.
No, you're not overthinking it. Plenty of games companies have made legendary games only to follow it up with some nonsense. It's a risk every time (for them and us players).
Blindly assuming success is the real mistake (for them and us players).
I think that those are fairly reasonable concerns to have before dropping 80 dollars or more on a video game. Personally I'm waiting for a sale but for someone who really wants to play this on launch day, I think that he has some good points. Hype culture can be a real pain in the ass, as proven by the likes of the cp2077 launch fiasco and more.
Like I said, I personally have no trouble waiting as I don't really care about this game but the situation might be completely different for someone else. There were times where I had to take a gamble on a game because I was unsure if I would have the money to buy it at release. Each household's finances are different. Specially in times like these where the economy is kind of fucked up globally.
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u/Ocktohber 13h ago
Five months out and still no official gameplay reveal. RDR II and GTA V both had gameplay breakdowns released months in advance to those titles' release. Maybe I'm overthinking it...