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

[Señora Airi]

The biggest downside to games having this obsession with "ultra realistic graphics" - nothing stands out anymore among most AAA slop, because all of it is in the exact same style. Shit, it's been years, and I can still remember parts of Okami, solely off of it having a unique art style.

The main thing that bugs me about the "ultra realistic graphics", is that people will only care about them for like 10 seconds, then move on in the game. So most of the budget for the game feels like it just goes to heavily depreciating eye candy.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

Was GTA online ever actually fun, or was it always just ‘do glitchy races to grind money for cosmetics’?

in the beginning was really fun, i enjoyed when heists first came out and played many hours with friends and strangers. gta online has just made it so gay with microtransactions and shark cards

 

[Commander X]

Been seeing a lot of the "I play GTA for the satire, unlike the heckin' chuds who have no media literacy" bunch who are either saying "I hope the new GTA includes things that make my enemies online ANGRY " or boo hooing about how they think there will be hurtful trans jokes in GTA6. Or alternately crying about the juvenile humor of the previous entries and then going on about how the whole point of GTA 3-6 is to showcase and satirize American culture, only a moron would "play games" to "have fun".

When I got Vice City, the first thing I did was run down the street and steal a car and get killed. I wasn't thoughtfully pondering, "Ah yes Pastor Richards is quite the biting critique of televangelists". It's there but it's not the main point of those games.

 

[Seventh Star]

I would've never expected to see bugmen pretty much say "have faith because its muh gta" in here of all places. Also still lol at people excusing it because muh spring break blacks or whatever. Stop huffing the hopium, it's fucked.

Also I will say one thing that aesthetically it looks more coherent than most current vidya, kind of.

 

[Harvey Danger]

New GTA6 story details leaked.

 

[Nitro!]

Can we all now agree that San Andreas was the worst game of the entire franchise because it was all about niggers?

It was the worst in the entire series because the car physics were hot garbage.

 

[I'm Not Loying]

https://archive.ph/zt34P

Is there any group that ruined things as much as trannies and their enablers? Black people love GTA, it's always trannies that do this shit. This game is going to be terrible. Might be worth it for some of you to crawl around twitter and archive R* staff being fucking faggots like this.

I could tell it was going to be bad when 1. You play as a fucking stupid spic woman and 2. The trailer is extremely bland and has no actual jokes in it. GTA V's first trailer had a tranny joke (Post-Op being the UPS parody). Where was the humor in the new trailer? It was 80% Instagram reels with text that looked like something a narc says. "Finna spin da block with this one!!!!!" WHAT DOES THAT MEAN. WHAT THE FUCK DOES "AYO CATCH A VIBE!!!!" MEAN YOU FAGGOT HE/HIM ASSHOLES. FUCK YOU.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Anybody else kinda wish video games would stop improving upon graphics? Probably me just being an old fart, but if they put half as much effort into the story as they do the graphics, maybe most games wouldn't be piles of steaming shit. Eh, plus I actually find older graphics charming...

graphics is the easy part because computing power keeps increasing anyways. There's not much to it when it comes to grabbing a 3d model and subdividing it more for extra resolution, but creating unique art directions and making sure everything follows consistent style guidelines is much much harder. Focusing on pure realism is much easier, every single asset that needs stylization is extra work and know how that would just make a bloated game extra unfeasible, realism just averages everything for everyone.

 

[A Flying Nun]

I've been in multiple fandoms saying "it's too early to tell, give them a chance".

Would definitely agree there, and I also know why.

Give this a watch and you'll understand why. The tl;dw is psychologists have found that our minds process the failure of brands we like the same exact way it processes a personal failure of ours. So for example if I really love Coca cola and they release a new flavor that tastes like ass after I've been hyping it up for months, I will feel as though I myself have failed, to the point how my mind processes it is indistinguishable from one of my own personal failures where I'm directly responsible. I've always rationalized it as though we see it as evidence we're stupid for thinking it'd be good, or it's evidence we have dogshit taste, and thus a personal failure.

So what do people do? Deny. Deny deny deny. "It wasn't that bad." "You guys are being too hard on it." "You're just jealous."

We do the same thing people do when they get called out for their bullshit: make excuses to try and downplay our mistake.

To me it's precisely why games and other media are able to get worse: because the exact die-hard fans who claim to be supporting a product are actually the very idiots enabling these products to continue to get worse by playing nonstop defense for them, never stopping to ask themselves why they care so much about defending the "honor" of a fucking product.

"Too early to call," to be fair, but there's also reason to be critical of those who are defending it a bit too hard as well. "Too early to call" works both ways: fucking nobody has any reason to claim this game will be good.

 

[12345678901]

If the average Kiwifarms user is willing to close his eyes and eat the goyslob in hopes of remembering his childhood, what hope the normies have?

 

[The Last Stand]

Honestly the realism of IV was a huge draw to me, it felt like the logical next step at the time and the only thing I remember being let down by was the limited character improvement stuff, which they sort of brought back with the stats.

The physics from RAGE makes IV unintentionally funny. Jump out of a car in high speed and watch your character just frail around with momentum. I never expected IV to be like 3D era games with arcade first gameplay, so I treated it as such. Damn those flying pigeons and phone calls.

 

[Tepes Thot]

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Is there any group that ruined things as much as trannies and their enablers? Black people love GTA, it's always trannies that do this shit. This game is going to be terrible. Might be worth it for some of you to crawl around twitter and archive R* staff being fucking faggots like this.

I could tell it was going to be bad when 1. You play as a fucking stupid spic woman and 2. The trailer is extremely bland and has no actual jokes in it. GTA V's first trailer had a tranny joke (Post-Op being the UPS parody). Where was the humor in the new trailer? It was 80% Instagram reels with text that looked like something a narc says. "Finna spin da block with this one!!!!!" WHAT DOES THAT MEAN. WHAT THE FUCK DOES "AYO CATCH A VIBE!!!!" MEAN YOU FAGGOT HE/HIM ASSHOLES. FUCK YOU.

Ok, copium high interrupted.

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

 

[Seventh Star]

Would definitely agree there, and I also know why.

Give this a watch and you'll understand why. The tl;dw is psychologists have found that our minds process the failure of brands we like the same exact way it processes a personal failure of ours. So for example if I really love Coca cola and they release a new flavor that tastes like ass after I've been hyping it up for months, I will feel as though I myself have failed, to the point how my mind processes it is indistinguishable from one of my own personal failures where I'm directly responsible. I've always rationalized it as though we see it as evidence we're stupid for thinking it'd be good, or it's evidence we have dogshit taste, and thus a personal failure.

So what do people do? Deny. Deny deny deny. "It wasn't that bad." "You guys are being too hard on it." "You're just jealous."

We do the same thing people do when they get called out for their bullshit: make excuses to try and downplay our mistake.

To me it's precisely why games and other media are able to get worse: because the exact die-hard fans who claim to be supporting a product are actually the very idiots enabling these products to continue to get worse by playing nonstop defense for them, never stopping to ask themselves why they care so much about defending the "honor" of a fucking product.

"Too early to call," to be fair, but there's also reason to be critical of those who are defending it a bit too hard as well. "Too early to call" works both ways: fucking nobody has any reason to claim this game will be good.

Personally I can't imagine being some bootlicking faggot for a brand or corporation. If it fails it just fails. I used to like stuff that I dropped like a brick once it started sucking and I feel zero shame for it or a need to rationalize it. I have a friend who gets fucked in the ass by Apple literally every time yet he still bugs out and buys their stuff. I can usually put myself in the shoes of others decently well, but for the life of me I can't fathom the concept of blind, idiotic faith, and much less in something as rigorous as current year companies.

 

[MrJokerRager]

preview video is up, unlocks in 15 hours

 

[RotPockets]

Would definitely agree there, and I also know why.

Give this a watch and you'll understand why. The tl;dw is psychologists have found that our minds process the failure of brands we like the same exact way it processes a personal failure of ours. So for example if I really love Coca cola and they release a new flavor that tastes like ass after I've been hyping it up for months, I will feel as though I myself have failed, to the point how my mind processes it is indistinguishable from one of my own personal failures where I'm directly responsible. I've always rationalized it as though we see it as evidence we're stupid for thinking it'd be good, or it's evidence we have dogshit taste, and thus a personal failure.

So what do people do? Deny. Deny deny deny. "It wasn't that bad." "You guys are being too hard on it." "You're just jealous."

We do the same thing people do when they get called out for their bullshit: make excuses to try and downplay our mistake.

To me it's precisely why games and other media are able to get worse: because the exact die-hard fans who claim to be supporting a product are actually the very idiots enabling these products to continue to get worse by playing nonstop defense for them, never stopping to ask themselves why they care so much about defending the "honor" of a fucking product.

"Too early to call," to be fair, but there's also reason to be critical of those who are defending it a bit too hard as well. "Too early to call" works both ways: fucking nobody has any reason to claim this game will be good.

The r*ddit Affect.
They worship consoomer goods like their own offspring.

GTAVI is “compromised”.

 

[ForgedBlades]

 

[Would]

I'm literally going to be an old ass man before they ever make the airports functional so you can visit multiple cities. Only real blackpill

They added that in San Andreas and no one used it. Hell, a fair amount of people didn't even know you could go to the airport and book a flight to travel to another city, complete with (basic) cutscenes.

"Ah yes Pastor Richards is quite the biting critique of televangelists".

I thought he was a critique and mockery of Jim Jones, tbh.

Is there any group that ruined things as much as trannies and their enablers? Black people love GTA, it's always trannies that do this shit. This game is going to be terrible. Might be worth it for some of you to crawl around twitter and archive R* staff being fucking faggots like this.

Dude, them whipping their guns out and taking aim at you doesn't mean they're going to shoot you; why are you assuming they're a danger when we've seen so little? Wait and see before you judge...
Obviously the idPol proggie is going to makes the same jokes and dialogue as the left-lolberts did 25 years ago. Obviously.

80% Instagram reels with text that looked like something a narc says. "Finna spin da block with this one!!!!!" WHAT DOES THAT MEAN. WHAT THE FUCK DOES "AYO CATCH A VIBE!!!!" MEAN

These people champion niggers yes, but they don't actually interact with them. They're like lefties like Ethan Klein who spout nigger worship one minute then confess they don't have a single black friend or any black acquaintance or any interaction with blacks at all.
Nothing but empty platitudes using their estimation of what ebonics write and sound like.

 

[pogoroooo]

Don't know if it was mentioned, but there's a guy I follow on youtube and on one of his recent streams he mentioned something I didn't knew, about how on earlier versions of gta 5 there were troon hookers and how basically everyone comitted TTD on them and then later, since people started complaining about troonphobia, they took them out of the game. I wonder if they're gonna add like a moral system or something similar to punish players who eventually will commit TND. No way they're gonna let you kill hundreds of niggers and let you get away with it like in previous games. And they wouldn't take the niggers out of this one.

 

[Gravemind]

The curse of whenever a thread gets featured.

Whoever screamed at Jersh to feature this thread, I remember someone did it - fuck yourself.

The biggest downside to games having this obsession with "ultra realistic graphics" - nothing stands out anymore among most AAA slop, because all of it is in the exact same style. Shit, it's been years, and I can still remember parts of Okami, solely off of it having a unique art style.

It feels like we've reached the point of diminishing returns on graphics though - there doesn't seem to be as much room for "improvement", especially with how compression and file optimization seem to be dead arts. Everything being ultra realistic probably doesn't help how fucking bloated modern Game Sizes are...

No gamer you WILL buy the new NVIDIA VTX 5080 Founders Edition OC 36 GB VRAM coming out in the next year or two and you WILL have multiple 2+ TB SSDs and you WILL have at least 96 GB of DDR6 RAM in your system JUST for 1080p 60 FPS in the newest titles and it will only cost you as much as it would to mortgage a house.