Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[Fuck Y'all Again]

they saw it was cheaper to find another way than to sue them plus the goodguy points they'll get from the community is handy when shilling another shitty demake or even gta6, you can betcha that many folx in preddit and gtaforums are lauding them for a "good decision at least once".

lmao; this lawsuit was dropped because it's filled its purpose (destroying superior competition of mods)

also
>implying that gtasoyrums is representing community
ayy lmao, their admins are dancing to the r* tune; they won't stand for their own users because of their precious exclusive merch/scoops

 

[StacticShock]

implying that gtasoyrums is representing community

yeah they represent the community along with preddit subreddit.
at least from a manipulating consensus perspective, r/saintsrow is the perfect example of how these things roll out.

 

[Fuck Y'all Again]

yeah they represent the community along with preddit subreddit.
at least from a manipulating consensus perspective, r/saintsrow is the perfect example of how these things roll out.

and that's one of the reasons I think that GTA will go Saints Row route, flop and destroy the industry

 

[Kulee Baba]

Can you believe we're only a mere 5 months away from the 10th Anniversary of GTAV? I never would have thought such a universally acclaimed franchise would stop releasing sequels like Rockstar has done.

Yes I know GTAVI got leaked last year, now I'm left wondering is it a total piece of shit because unless they announce something soon I doubt it'll be out in 2024.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Can you believe we're only a mere 5 months away from the 10th Anniversary of GTAV? I never would have thought such a universally acclaimed franchise would stop releasing sequels like Rockstar has done.

Yes I know GTAVI got leaked last year, now I'm left wondering is it a total piece of shit because unless they announce something soon I doubt it'll be out in 2024.

The optimistic outlook is that for the 10 year they announce 6 or at least tease it properly, i am personally expecting a 2024 or 2025 release so they will probably reveal it this year.

 

[Fuck Y'all Again]

Can you believe we're only a mere 5 months away from the 10th Anniversary of GTAV? I never would have thought such a universally acclaimed franchise would stop releasing sequels like Rockstar has done.

Yes I know GTAVI got leaked last year, now I'm left wondering is it a total piece of shit because unless they announce something soon I doubt it'll be out in 2024.

1) development times got bloated
2) perfect shitstorm of covid and Dan Houser's leaving
3) r* strategy of concentrating on one big game (read: GTA VI was in pre-production phase until RDR2 was out)

also even if official reveal will happen this year, no way it will be out in '24; if reveal won't happen, I have no idea when it will be out

 

[Kulee Baba]

1) development times got bloated
2) perfect shitstorm of covid and Dan Houser's leaving
3) r* strategy of concentrating on one big game (read: GTA VI was in pre-production phase until RDR2 was out)

also even if official reveal will happen this year, no way it will be out in '24; if reveal won't happen, I have no idea when it will be out

It's not just Houser who left. Leslie Benzies and Imran Sarwar were the credited lead producers and designers of GTAV and their work date back all the way to the GTAIII trilogy. Sarwar was also the designer of RDR2.

Really makes me concerned over the future of such an amazing studio. It's not fair to judge GTAOnline's cutscenes but this shit is so weak.

Lamarr and Franklin are so toothless now. The parodies of nigga gangsters in The Boondocks had more edge.

I'll die a little bit if GTA VIce City feels like a high end version of the unbelievably bad Saints Row reboot. If you're going to do a parody of Miami I want cocaine and meth all over the place. I want this to continue to be drawings from the R-Rated movies the series always was drawing inspiration from.

 

[Fuck Y'all Again]

Leslie Benzies and Imran Sarwar were the credited lead producers and designers of GTAV and their work date back all the way to the GTAIII trilogy. Sarwar was also the designer of RDR2.

Benzies was fucked by Housers on money tho, so that one was self-inflicted; I dunno about latter

I'll die a little bit if GTA VIce City feels like a high end version of the unbelievably bad Saints Row reboot. If you're going to do a parody of Miami I want cocaine and meth all over the place. I want this to continue to be drawings from the R-Rated movies the series always was drawing inspiration from.

it will be far worse, knowing their community puppets it will be something like "america bad, now laugh #transrights #defundthepolice"

BTW I wonder if real purpose of RDR2 crunch report was replacing Dan Houser with some mushbrained soylem following T2 orders

 

[Kulee Baba]

Benzies was fucked by Housers on money tho, so that one was self-inflicted; I dunno about latter

it will be far worse, knowing their community puppets it will be something like "america bad, now laugh #transrights #defundthepolice"

BTW I wonder if real purpose of RDR2 crunch report was replacing Dan Houser with some mushbrained soylem following T2 orders

Say what you want about Houser, wasn't a big fan of RDR2 but I think my expectations were too high after RDR more or less served as the ultimate revisionist western game. But the satire all the way up to GTAV was so good. So amazing to have such a popular game mock USA Glowies as nothing more than being criminals and bullies.

From the leak we saw one of the opening missions being the Duo-Protagonist couple robbing a diner, that obviously calls back to Pulp Fiction. I'm fine with that GTA was always imitating Tarantino who was imitating the 70s films. I just hope the new game covers more ground because GTAV's campaign felt so short. It was so disapointing to have Franklin and Lamarr be the essentially new Grove Street and then their feud with the Ballas was essentially dropped so they could have Michael and Trevor's world take up everything. It's weird how Franklin takes the protagonist role (the player starts and ends the game with Franklin) but he hardly developed as a character and didn't really get an arc.

 

[The Last Stand]

Laslow left too, so radios will feel muted as well. It'll be GTA in name only with the key players gone.

 

[jje100010001]

1) development times got bloated
2) perfect shitstorm of covid and Dan Houser's leaving
3) r* strategy of concentrating on one big game (read: GTA VI was in pre-production phase until RDR2 was out)

also even if official reveal will happen this year, no way it will be out in '24; if reveal won't happen, I have no idea when it will be out

1 and 3 go together- arguably this is really the result of GTA evolving over time into the Housers' quasi-Hollywood blockbuster directing opportunity + Take Two's online demands from Rockstar.

Yes I'm concerned- the games have gotten so demanding that Rockstar has expanded its scope in India massively to cheaply farm out production, they have sucked up all the activity from other studios so that everything is relying on those single releases now (RDR San Diego should have been free to work on the RDR franchise), and they have also become less flexible gameplay-wise and more reliant on on-rails cinematic gameplay.

Overall Rockstar almost needs a reset and reorganization- one might argue that Houser's departure is a good thing, but I have doubts with Take Two in charge.

Benzies was fucked by Housers on money tho, so that one was self-inflicted; I dunno about latter

it will be far worse, knowing their community puppets it will be something like "america bad, now laugh #transrights #defundthepolice"

BTW I wonder if real purpose of RDR2 crunch report was replacing Dan Houser with some mushbrained soylem following T2 orders

I hope Benzies's new game can get off the ground, though I have some doubts about its premise.

The RDR2 issues IMO were entirely self-inflicted and reflective of Rockstar becoming too bloated, and from that perspective, Take Two was almost too lenient on them.

There really is no reason for the game to have gone through gamedev hell for like 8 years, only to rush through gamedev in the last 2 years and end up cutting a lot of stuff in the end. Heck, they even botched the online version so much that it never got off the ground, even though the formula was right in front of them (single-player but with friends).

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Has anyone else heard the rumors that the entire point of having every studio pitch in on games was because RDR1 was apparently a cluster fuck that needed saving?

If that were true, it's funny that RDR2 was even more of a cluster fuck after they got everyones dick in the pie.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Member that shitty GTA V companion app to take care of Franklins dog that should have just been content in game

I hated companion apps

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Recently been playing MC2 and holy shit is the ai in this game ruthless. One small fuckup and you gotta start all over still great game.

 

[Spud]

Member that shitty GTA V companion app to take care of Franklins dog that should have just been content in game

I hated companion apps

I remember using it to make my custom licence plate when GTAO dropped

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Yeah, the companion app is dead and now they're coming up with some new way to make custom plates, I think.

No idea if they give a shit about the Chop stuff

The only thing cool about the companion app was that you could use it to hack some inaccessible shit onto your cars early on IIRC

 

[The Last Stand]

Yeah, the companion app is dead and now they're coming up with some new way to make custom plates, I think.

No idea if they give a shit about the Chop stuff

The only thing cool about the companion app was that you could use it to hack some inaccessible shit onto your cars early on IIRC

I can't believe they waited so long to implement a feature in game.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I can't believe they waited so long to implement a feature in game.

Thank god we got Taxi missions.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Member that shitty GTA V companion app to take care of Franklins dog that should have just been content in game

I hated companion apps

The funny thing is that they made it sound like it was a very interactive thing to use to get inside the mind of a dog. For me, I only used it one or two times and forgot about it because back over a decade ago, they used to make YouTube videos of jokes showing Chop getting ran over by a car or just straight up leaving Franklin after not paying attention to him.

To put it short, it was a very confusing app.

 

[The Last Stand]

The funny thing is that they made it sound like it was a very interactive thing to use to get inside the mind of a dog. For me, I only used it one or two times and forgot about it because back over a decade ago, they used to make YouTube videos of jokes showing Chop getting ran over by a car or just straight up leaving Franklin after not paying attention to him.

To put it short, it was a very confusing app.

It punished you for not using the app by having Chop crap in your yard.