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

[The Last Stand]

The GTA V community is toxic and gullible as hell. They’re all guinea pigs to produce free marketing for a consumer product. It’s the first I’ve seen where there’s no gameplay or price point, yet hype and speculation is at an all time high.

I almost want GTA 6 to bomb so that everybody involved can learn a valuable lesson. If the gaming industry collapses as a result, so be it.

 

[Star Classic]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKQnb1OswXg
The GTA V community is toxic and gullible as hell. They’re all guinea pigs to produce free marketing for a consumer product. It’s the first I’ve seen where there’s no gameplay or price point, yet hype and speculation is at an all time high.

I almost want GTA 6 to bomb so that everybody involved can learn a valuable lesson. If the gaming industry collapses as a result, so be it.

I think he forgets he's talking to mostly children, or people who might as well be.

 

[The Last Stand]

Alright, I've gotten all three games from the Internet Archive. Now I just have to find out how to get them running.

Thank you and you’re welcome.

This scares me. Guest characters in gtao. GTA plus is already a battle pass wouldn't surprise me if they switch it up to yearly options and of course tiers for this cash cow.

Well, there was Dr. Dre from The Contract. So, canonically Dr. Dre exists in the GTA universe. And he doesn’t even play video games.

 

[Shekelslovakia]

During the Quarterly Take Two earnings call yesterday afternoon they repeated multiple times that GTA VI is still on track for a November 19th release date, good news for the delay believers
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[Jungle Jim Jones]

GTA plus is already a battle pass wouldn't surprise me if they switch it up to yearly options and of course tiers for this cash cow.

GTA+ offers nothing worthwhile. $500,000 a month? You can easily make that in half an hour. A 100 slot garage? The CEO garage offers 60 and the Eclipse Boulevard garage offers 50, plus all the many other properties you can own have garages that range from 10 to 30 slots. A car workshop? A bunch of other properties have it too. Free games? It's mainly games made by Rockstar, so you probably already own them anyway. Everything else is negligible.

What I'm saying is, while the introduction of GTA+ isn't a good thing, they knew what they were doing when introducing it because it's all stuff you can easily achieve by playing the game normally and with relative ease. According to that financial data that leaked a while ago, only about 4% of the player base pays for premium features (3% buys shark cards and 1% pays for GTA+ access), and it should be acknowledged that Online has been around for 10+ years with completely free content updates. I know this all sounds overly optimistic, but I'm just saying that there is reason to believe Rockstar hasn't fully lost its way.

I think he forgets he's talking to mostly children, or people who might as well be.

That's pretty much what's left of his viewer base. It's difficult to take this guy seriously when his content format is painfully outdated. Only really gained any fame at all because he used to make decent guides on how to best make money in Online, but now that relevance is mostly gone because Rockstar has been consistently increasing payouts in the past 5 years.

 

[William Murderface]

Red dead redemption 2 has a good melee system going for it and it shines the best in the first fight demonstration the series had before release in the mission with the big man bar fight where he tossed Arthur out the window. Probably the best they've done aside from Bully/Warriors. I feel the intensity of every punch, and I love knocking enemies into walls and slamming their heads against it, but I wish they let you actually grab and direct enemies like Bully did. To this day I think Bully was their best melee game, I don't play Warriors much.

However it was very satisfying to find out the special moves Niko has when you really get good at the melee fight system. The way he can finish off NPCs was really cool and I wish GTA V still had that and with different fighting styles between protagonists.

I think even Luis and Johnny Klebitz had their own unique melee finishing moves.

Warriors was the best for melee with objects. Being able to grab a random brick on the ground and then hurl it at someone while some disco tune played was the best.

 

[StacticShock]

okay this discount got a chuckle out of me.
although the gayness of kike zelnick to get kids to fork shark cards can be felt, some random goon has perfect accuracy with a fucking minigun and can kill you while in cover is pretty fucking annoying.
yes i tried running doomsday finale with a couple of people how can you tell?

 

[Jungle Jim Jones]

yes i tried running doomsday finale with a couple of people how can you tell?

The juggernauts just wanna show you a good time, that's all.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

The GTA V community is toxic and gullible as hell. They’re all guinea pigs to produce free marketing for a consumer product. It’s the first I’ve seen where there’s no gameplay or price point, yet hype and speculation is at an all time high.

I don't know why The Professional wants to die on this hill so badly.

If people are fucking retarded and get fooled by clickbait and fake leaks, just fucking let 'em. Especially if they get mad when you point it out.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

does kids even care about gta at this point?

 

[StacticShock]

does kids even care about gta at this point?

yesn't, manchildren fo'sure and thirdies because GTA-SA, regular kiddos like alphas and new ones? probably not because they can find something similar on bobox or whatever the fuck new games them kids play, they might hear about GTA6 and check it out of curiosity but really caring about it? nope.

I don't know why The Professional wants to die on this hill so badly.

you didn't watch the video, he mentions why he goes on war with these clickbait videos since it "affects" him, even on GTAForums.

 

[Jungle Jim Jones]

they might hear about GTA6 and check it out of curiosity but really caring about it? nope.

Back when Fortnite went mainstream and Roblox became even more child-oriented, Minecraft went through a brief resurgence since most of the children effectively moved out. I kind of wonder if the same will happen with GTA 6. It's strange to think of GTA as a franchise that ISN'T infested with children today when a lot of us have been playing since we were children (even if we weren't supposed to).

 

[Problematic User Forever]

you didn't watch the video, he mentions why he goes on war with these clickbait videos since it "affects" him, even on GTAForums.

I've watched multiple of his little freak outs about clickbait and fake leaks over the years, but you're right I didn't watch this one because these videos are his worst content.

I don't feel like watching another half hour of him complaining about click bait, so how exactly would these people "affect" him if he didn't complain about it so much? Because last time I remember he was losing subs because people didn't want to hear it.

 

[StacticShock]

II don't feel like watching another half hour of him complaining about click bait, so how exactly would these people "affect" him if he didn't complain about it so much? Because last time I remember he was losing subs because people didn't want to hear it.

his bitching is mostly because people go to gta forums to bait him, also he says some retarded shit about "credibility", like nigga you make videos for a videogame for a living, if you think you have any credibility here's a spoiler: you don't, you're an entertainer.
still, i just noticed that someone in my friend list that cheated the fuck out of their stuff has merged successfully, like nigga's account date is only a month before GTA EE launched, i hope GTA6 is as that easy to cheat on too.

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't feel like watching another half hour of him complaining about click bait, so how exactly would these people "affect" him if he didn't complain about it so much? Because last time I remember he was losing subs because people didn't want to hear it.

Most I would do is make a community post to ask people to not discuss leaks as video ideas. I see where his anger comes from since he is passionate about his craft. Most GTA V YouTubers love to clickbait for content/views, which can dilute the YouTube search algorithm.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Been playing through GTA III, and just hit the third section of its map.

I gotta say, it is impressive how detailed the world is for a 2001 game. You can really see all the roots of later open-world games in it. For that, I have to give it respect.

Shame that it really shows its age with really frustrating mission design, not helped by the lack of a map, fast travel, and checkpoints. Heck, I had to install mods that gave me the ability to quick save and see a map just because of how tedious it was without those features.

And now I'm about to hit what I've heard are the most frustrating missions in the game. Heavens above, please help me.

 

[The Last Stand]

Shame that it really shows its age with really frustrating mission design, not helped by the lack of a map, fast travel, and checkpoints.

The lack of checkpoints itself isn’t too bad, provided you don’t die or get busted without saving since the main penalty is driving back to the mission giver.

No map is definitely a hindrance since the minimap isn’t detailed enough to give direction. Shoreside Vale definitely suffers from that because of the dam region.

Fast travel, meh, since Liberty City is compact itself. Gives more reason to drive and explore naturally as if you’re a resident there.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Lack of checkpoints isn't normally an issue unless the mission is an extremely tedious one, which sadly seems to be getting more frequent the further I get into the game. That, plus driving all the way back to the mission giver, alongside losing all my weapons when I die in them, which is often.

One mission that I have yet to experience, Espresso-To-Go, looks absolutely horrendous btw.

 

[Nameless One]

Lack of checkpoints isn't normally an issue unless the mission is an extremely tedious one, which sadly seems to be getting more frequent the further I get into the game. That, plus driving all the way back to the mission giver, alongside losing all my weapons when I die in them, which is often.

One mission that I have yet to experience, Espresso-To-Go, looks absolutely horrendous btw.

It's not that bad. But emulating the ps2 version with save states makes things trivial lol.

A more official way is saving every time you beat a mission even if it's a hassle. That way you have your weapons the entire game and get higher stats in the menu for the ego.

 

[The Last Stand]

If/when I obtain a PC, first thing I’ll do is to have the trilogy to try those hardened mods I see from live streams.