We are very excited to let you know now that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto. We look forward to many more years of sharing these experiences with all of you.

Thank you,
Sam Houser

  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    594·
    1 year ago

    I won’t be happy unless this game can simulate the universe, solve cold fusion, and resurrect my hamster. Anything less isn’t worth £60.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    343·
    1 year ago

    Oh my god, am I dead?

    Folks, seriously though, things are going to get very exciting very quickly. It’s fun to get on the hype train, I know I will, but please remember that this will be another game. Marketers are going to try to tell us they redefined gaming but they didn’t. Don’t let the hype get so high that it ruins the experience because nothing can live up to your hopes.

    Get excited, but have realistic expectations. That’ll be the best way to enjoy the game.

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    1 year ago

    we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto.

    I bet this is a massive troll and they’ll release a trailer for a GTA IV remaster.

  • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    1 year ago

    Now we’re pre-hyping the hype trailers

    I swear this game is going to flop because of the massive expectations people are going to have. I may be wrong and also never got the appeal of those games, so take my opinion with a grain of salt

    • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      The massive hype and popularity means everyone and their mother will buy it day 1 even if it ends up being trash. They don’t need to keep you happy, just to buy the game

      • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        I hate that you’re right. Because that’s what gaming is boiled down to today. How to maximize day 1 profit, no need for down the line customer enjoyment

        • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t be so sad about it. That’s just what happens with AAA games. I cite Cyberpunk (which honestly great in CDPR for how much post-launch work they’ve put in, but we gotta admit it was launched when it was as a means to pull in profit fast), every modern Fifa or CoD or Madden. Diablo 4 has been the king of this crime.

          On the other hand you have amazing games being pushed out by indie devs, or smaller franchises within those big publishers. Hell, doesn’t even need to be either of those, Nintendo still puts out mega-hyped high quality games like Super Mario Wonder or BoTW/TotK.

          BG3 probably game of the decade btw.

  • Jode@midwest.socialEnglish
    247·
    1 year ago

    Am I crazy to not be excited in the slightest for this? To me it seems that every sequel to a huge title that has come out lately has been hugely half passed because the studio that made the original doesn’t really exist anymore.

    • abracaDavid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      144·
      1 year ago

      I’m not really excited because I felt like V basically took all of the fun detail out of the story and main world and saved it all for online.

      The missions and world in V had so little charm and so little of the detail that made IV and previous so amazing. The world was massive but felt totally empty.

      But I know they made a bunch of money with online so I’m sure that’s how it’s gonna be again this time.

    • Haru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, I don’t think you’re alone in not being excited. I feel the same about this one.

      • Jode@midwest.socialEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Nono this is exactly what I’m getting at. Monetization at all costs, art be damned.

    • amio@kbin.social
      73·
      1 year ago

      No, I think that’s fair. I miss being excited about new games, but the disappointment usually hits quick and hard if I ever allow myself to. Between rampant AAA shittification that’s accelerated recently, and the fact that a lot of AAA wasn’t all that good in the first place, it’s hard to really build up any enthusiasm.

      Looking at Rockstar/Take-Two’s behavior in specific, since GTAV at the very latest, it’s even harder to be optimistic. I bet they’ll even find a way to cram shart cards into single-player, the fuckers.

      At least it’s rumored they got the FiveM guys to do the multiplayer, so maybe it’ll be less abjectly, pathetically, monstrously shitty than GTAO. I assume they’ll still find some way to ruin it, though.

      Now, if it turns out it’s great, I’d be ecstatic. I’m not buying this one anywhere near release but if it seems like a drastically better deal than I’m expecting, I’ll be very, very surprised - and I’d like a game to surprise me pleasantly for once.

    • johnthedoe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ll def play it but not hyped for it. Hopefully they have a good amount of single player story. Rockstar has a way of writing story and character that’s so special. Hope that hasn’t changed

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      Yes, you are crazy.

      The core development studio is literally the best in the world.

      Every time they release a game it is so far ahead of everyone else in its commitment to a living open world that it moves the entire industry forward by leaps and bounds.

      A few leads are no longer there, but this isn’t some Ayn Rand vision of game development where Benzies and the Houser brothers are the shoulders the game quality rests on. Do you see the shit Everywhere is looking like it’s turning into? Clearly not all the talent that left was a golden goose.

      It’s the hundreds of people that are still there and who have come up through developing the prior games that are the lifeblood of the studio and whose efforts make an open world come alive.

      There’s simply no other games that have the budget and resources behind them as Rockstar’s core games.

      And it’s not like we’re jumping from GTA 5 to 6 with nothing in between as a reference point for what the studio can produce. RDR2 was in the middle between those, and was pretty darn impressive with how it moved things forward.

      The only thing I could see as potentially being crappy would be if they are aiming to release it as cross generation to maximize sales. If they are really making it current gen only, I’m sure it’s going to be unlike anything we’ve seen so far.

      • Aganim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        The core development studio is literally the best in the world.

        Every time they release a game it is so far ahead of everyone else in its commitment to a living open world that it moves the entire industry forward by leaps and bounds.

        And yet I haven’t finished any GTA part after Vice City. After the initial ‘wow look at all this new shiny stuff’-rush wears off Rockstar games just bore me out of my mind. Same for RDR2. Yes, it is a technological masterpiece with an incredible attention to detail (although it took them years to get the map and UI working properly on 5120*1440). But how ever much I tried to like it, for me in the end the quests, gameplay and character handling feel tedious and just… not fun.

        • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not all things are for all people. But it is objectively true that no studio in the world makes open world games at the same bar as Rockstar, whether or not any given player vibes with the underlying game.

  • hdnsmbt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    Is that a press release for a trailer? Are you going to release a trailer for the trailer next? Just fucking tell us the release date and shut up until then. It’s not like you need to introduce the GTA brand to anyone.

  • Blue and Orange@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    Do you hear that? That’s the sound of a million NSFW mods for the female lead character!

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    I hope this is one of those times were the company making the the game knows just how intensely popular their game is and don’t advertise and hype it for 2 years prior to release. It’d be nice if they just launched their trailer, then have the game come out a month later.

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      There’s no way they’re launching this game in January. Start telling yourself now that it’s not coming out until fall 2025, that way anything sooner seems like a bonus.

        • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, it would be nice, I feel like games shouldn’t be announced any more than 6 months from release, and preferably less, but this is the world we live in.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    74·
    1 year ago

    Can they please make the online mode better. Spawn in get blown up, spawn in get shot, spawning get run over, it’s boring.

    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully they just make GTA Online it’s own separate standalone game so then maybe they’ll actually add content for a single player game after release for the first time in nearly 20 years and not just keep shitting out new microtransactions.

      • kryllic@programming.devEnglish
        72·
        1 year ago

        I’ll eat a sock if they do this. Take2 are some real hoes for microtransactions and have no issue cranking out half-baked content to the masses

    • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Word. I tried it, I wanted to get in on it and have access to all the extra content. But when it’s like that, I start with a new character and then immediately have to contend with some little shit with a rocket launcher, welp, I’m out. I got rid of PlayStation+, or whatever the hell it’s called, altogether because I otherwise don’t care about online multiplayer.