The old Rockstar is dead. Ppl r gonna preorder GTA anyways and defend the company when they get a broken/unfinished product on day one, claiming it can be fixed in the future with updates. Look at cyberpunk 2077 and no mans land.

Like CoD and sports games, they will sell well even if they're shit.

I think flop is impossible, but shitshow and disappointment? Now that seems pretty likely.

I am done with giant open world games. Data point of one but my current preference is shorter, much more narrowly scoped games.

It'll be good, but it won't be as good as its hyped up to be, because even a game coded by an army of time-travelling future-messiahs from every conceivable dimension couldn't be as good as the hype suggests.

What you can look forward to is every single content creator even remotely related to digital entertainment talking about how its the best/worst thing ever, dissecting every single plotpoint, getting enraged/excited over every minor update, endless discussions over the price of the mtx that will generate more revenue than a mid-sized countries GDP.

Even if the game sucks by every objective metric, children and casuals will still throw money at it every chance it gets. The game has to be amazing for me to have any hope.

I honestly hope somebody leaks it 2 weeks early for free and rockstar just lose a bunch of stock money.

I do NOT understand the hype.

The last one was pretty good but nothing groundbreaking.

Why are people so sure this one is the second coming of Vice City?

The online mode might flop, since part of the success of 5's online mode was that it was so generous and buggy at the start that the initial waves of online players became trillionaires in-game. This allowed subsequent waves to be preyed upon by Rockstar but also boosted by the old timers.

There is this YouTuber that is like crazy for the game, always talking about it, saying that's going to be the best game of the world, that nothing could go bad, that Rockstar is like some kind of elves making ancient jewelry. I just want to see his completely breakdown if the game is shit.

All most of the people who made GTA 5 are long gone. The game isn't going to be edgy nor will it be pushing the envelope the way all their other games did. Its going to be safe and filled with inclusive dad jokes that suck the air out of the room... with character banter heavily inspired by wannabe MCU dialogue (which is also shit BTW but they emulate it because they want to be as successful as Marvel)

E: I was being hyperbolic to make a point...

Dan Houser: the bigger loss by most accounts. Co-founder and lead writer on essentially every GTA since the series' 1997 debut through GTA V, plus Red Dead Redemption 2, Bully, and Max Payne 3. He left in 2020, and has confirmed directly that he wrote none of GTA 6 "They're always a new story. It's not going to be a story I wrote or a character set that I developed." He's since said the sheer scale of GTA V and RDR2's workload (450,000 lines of dialogue for RDR2 alone) burned him out before GTA 6 could even get going. He's now running his own studio, Absurd Ventures.

Leslie Benzies: arguably even more central to the actual production side. He was producer on every GTA from GTA III onward and ran Rockstar North as president, credited by some as one of "the three people most directly responsible for the massive success of the Grand Theft Auto series," alongside the Houser brothers. He left in 2016 amid a lawsuit over allegedly unpaid royalties, worth $150 million US, and disputes over who was ultimately responsible for the company's success. He's since founded Build A Rocket Boy (whose own game, MindsEye, launched poorly this year).

They still have Sam houser and their art director, and there are still veteran developers they aren't all gone... I just think most of the mojo is gone from the company that has a game wide impact on its direction.

It really would. Still hoping it's good.

You can help by seeding the leak

After seeing those leak vids it just looks like gtav with slightly better graphics. Watched a scene with dude beating up some people under a bridge and it looked terrible.

"God, please let Chip Skylark play at my birthday party..."

Timmy Turner you dumbass, just wish for it. Praying? Really?

I think it will be. Why are they clamoring to get as much money up front as possible otherwise?

Please no, there's not been a decent one in forever, and people just are so hyped

Nice username

I'll be doing my part

I feel like at this point it's been so over hyped for so long it can only disappoint

Or just come out already so people can stop obsessing over it

John Rockstar has alot to answer for

Sheeesh ya all are downers league. I mean, I agree with OP's meme it would be hella funny but over all, ya all sound like cranky old people xD

GTA is what it is. Either you like it or not. I loved how GTA V openly jested at the, back then recent, climate and the game itself was also enjoyable, if a bit grindey money-wise. But all in all, formula works and if they keep it up, the game will be at the very least good.

That'd be actually fun to see. I wonder what would be happening in gaming world in couple years with the hardware prices.

I sense another cyberpunk, which honestly would be a great outcome

GTA 4 was something of a 'flop'. The cars were very hard to steer at high speeds. That's pretty much the worst case scenario. A car driving game where the cars aren't fun to drive. The only way they could screw it up worse than that is if was full of micro transactions.

Are gangsters and street thugs still cool? Like, I'm a millenial. White kids in my suburban elementary school were flashing the "blood" sign on the playground to be cool and edgy.

Is that still the case with today's edgy 12 year olds? Is it still a power fantasy to steal a car and shoot a hooker and sell drugs?

Like genuinely, stuff like Elder Scrolls works because it's still a culturally common fantasy to be slinging magical spells or swinging a sword in a medieval-coded "high fantasy" world. Being a badass space marine is still a culturally common fantasy, being an OP anime shonen protag is, being a Mad Max postapocalypse raider is, etc. Is "Miami gangster" still mythologized like that?

There's a huge problem with lambasting the downfall of America during the downfall of America.

I'm betting development went something like 2014-2017 lambasting woke, 2018-2021 make fun of Trumpism and woke, 2022 mock fascism (on both sides), 2023-2024 lambaster Trumpism, 2025-2026 parody both sides.... And I'm betting it will STILL release undercooked and come out as confused, probably with some really off putting parts that stop people playing.

"I play all the way up to the Trans part, because in hindsight I'm sorry America went through that."

I think they might even end up shifting the tone after the release and it will probably still be the last GTA in the franchise... Then again, maybe it will just fail because of all the micro transactions and Fortnite BS they put in.

P.S Rockstar accused of Union Busting after firing dozens of staff.

It will be. The fans of gtaiv and gtav were children when those games came out. Their brains and personalities were in utero basically.

Grown ass men in their 40s will play gtavi and see how silly and profoundly lame the GTAverse is.

Genz and gen a will be nothing except offended by everything in the game. I have no doubt they're (rockstar) going to pander to the trans community to save a little face.

I'm certain the game will flop, especially because all their design time was proooobbbabbly, building the entire micro economy and microtransaction store that's going to be the centerpiece of the franchise going forward.

Pbbbbbbhhht. Stinker incoming.