I'd love to see another 80s based GTA but not a VC remake thanks. I wish some Canadian streaming service would get Miami Vice going up here.

I played through GTA1 2 and 3 fully, then basically missed the rest until GTA5. Played through (decent sale price) GTA5 fully expecting some great writing, based on the reviews and comments, and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. I'll probably skip GTA6 until it's on some ridiculous sale, if at all.

These games seem overrated to me. The driving is okay, the flying is a bit weak, the combat is atrocious, and the writing is average at best. Voice acting, to be fair, was pretty good.

If people are playing just to drive around and listen to the music, well I can see that, at least.

Probably play it, but I'm really disappointed with Rockstar for not supporting GTA5 or RDR2 with single player expansions, so I'm not really excited about it like I was for GTA5

I have boxed copies of the first 3 in my collection. (first one is actually missing a box I think) I own the famous hot coffee version of Vice City(?) as part of my box collection...lol. Everything else is digital versions...and I just haven't gotten around to playing them. Weird.

bhcompy wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 14:22:
Probably play it, but I'm really disappointed with Rockstar for not supporting GTA5 or RDR2 with single player expansions, so I'm not really excited about it like I was for GTA5

Lost and the Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony were some of the best expansions I've played for games like that. Same world, different characters, new stories.

After successfully predicting some of the announcements for Battlefield 2042, internet sleuth Tom Henderson is now taking a leak all over the Grand Theft Auto series.

I see what you did there Blue!

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 13:29:
If people are playing just to drive around and listen to the music, well I can see that, at least.

That's what I ended up doing! Cruise the city and enjoying the radio

I'd suggest '70s New York as a gritty, funky, heroin addled inspiration.

The soundtrack alone would be amazing.

They've already brilliantly done the '80s Miami thing.

I'm not buying anything from Take-Two Interactive after the diversity and inclusion crap they pulled at this year's E3. Moreover, the key guys who made previous GTA's great have left Rockstar Games, so you can guess what kind of trash GTA VI will be.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 13:29:
I played through GTA1 2 and 3 fully, then basically missed the rest until GTA5. Played through (decent sale price) GTA5 fully expecting some great writing, based on the reviews and comments, and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. I'll probably skip GTA6 until it's on some ridiculous sale, if at all.

These games seem overrated to me. The driving is okay, the flying is a bit weak, the combat is atrocious, and the writing is average at best. Voice acting, to be fair, was pretty good.

If people are playing just to drive around and listen to the music, well I can see that, at least.

The series had great writing "for the time" when in the early 2000s, and 90s games didn't have strong story elements, but the writing hasn't evolved like the graphics have. I think the ultimate appeal for GTA games is for teens and young adults - I remember enjoying just being able to drive around exploring an open world with some cool music on, but once you've had a driver's license for a while, it's more fun to just drive somewhere nice in real life imo.

Plus the 'open world' concept in games is pretty common now too, so they no longer have a several draw cards.

I've played GTA 3, Vice City, SA, and GTA 4, and a tiny bit of 5. And I've never finished a single one because I always get tired of the missions, it doesn't take long before it feels like you are playing courier simulator, at which point you want to be getting paid

Maybe they need to do a nuclear apocalyptic one or something like that.

KezClone wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 16:08:
I'd suggest '70s New York as a gritty, funky, heroin addled inspiration.

The soundtrack alone would be amazing.

They've already brilliantly done the '80s Miami thing.

I like this one. But wouldn't that be sort of similar to GTA 3?

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 13:29:
I played through GTA1 2 and 3 fully, then basically missed the rest until GTA5. Played through (decent sale price) GTA5 fully expecting some great writing, based on the reviews and comments, and I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

GTA5 was hot garbage. Everything about it was mediocre. The big point about the character Trevor being a psycopath was dumb because it was clearly written by someone who hadn't so much as read a Wikipedia article on psychopathy.

It's staying power is in multiplayer alone and the rampant cheating that goes on in it. It's become a metagame unto itself.

bhcompy wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 14:22:
Probably play it, but I'm really disappointed with Rockstar for not supporting GTA5 or RDR2 with single player expansions, so I'm not really excited about it like I was for GTA5

I kind of agree. I really, really can't believe we didn't get an RDR2 expansion, particularly with how well set up it was for an American Nightmare 2. That said, I definitely got my money's worth out of the single player of GTA5 and RDR2.

That said, to others' point, I feel as if the writing in GTA5 was beyond horrible. It was unacceptable bunk gibberish. When the only likeable character is your "psychopath," you have a major issue. What it thought was "satire" just kind of felt like when the kids on South Park wrote a book - it was what a bunch of 9 year olds would think was deep, provocative, and dirty.

Yet some RDR2 was poignant and melancholy and excellently written with a fantastically defined world. By the same guy. Who I also think did a great job with Max Payne 3.

Is it going to have cars?

If they give a console an exclusivity period then I will skip this release as well.

What did you guys think of the previous four GTAs' writing?

bhcompy wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 14:22:
Probably play it, but I'm really disappointed with Rockstar for not supporting GTA5 or RDR2 with single player expansions, so I'm not really excited about it like I was for GTA5

You're disappointed that you got dozens and dozens of hours of SP content in the base game and didn't have to pay extra to get a little bit more?

*Disappointed*?

And they say gamers are overly entitled...

yonder wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 17:46:
You're disappointed that you got dozens and dozens of hours of SP content in the base game and didn't have to pay extra to get a little bit more?

*Disappointed*?

And they say gamers are overly entitled...

When we got hundreds of hours out of Skyrim, "dozens and dozens" is laughable.

Sepharo wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 17:39:
What did you guys think of the previous four GTAs' writing?

Don't much remember, but I think garbage. I don't remember GTAIII. I didn't play Vice City. San Andreas felt dumb to me, particularly because you found your way to being a billionaire that owned a casino yet you kept having to go back to "save the block," but I get that's the genre it was going for. Didn't play IV.

V, though. Everyone in Michael's life sucked. It wasn't funny sucking, it was just sucking. And I know some here get angry when I say this, but every single woman was terrible in that game. Not a single female character had a single redeeming quality. Basically, you learned that the women in Michael's family slept around a lot. Oooo, good satire! On top of it, Michael himself mostly sucked. No fun in him, or Franklin. Don't get me started on how terribly written, how unoriginal, and how unfunny the son was. Any time spent around him in a mission was a chore. I'd rather have stabbed myself in the eyes than spent another minute with anyone in Michael's family, which perhaps was the point, but making a video game unpleasant to play because you're (in the beginning) forced to be around unpleasant characters as a statement on how unpleasant being in your late 40s is just isn't fun. Also, I don't think that was the point, because the game definitely thought Michael's family was funny.

Saints Row 1 initially also felt way too stupid and try hard. "Freckle Bitches" was one of the worst gags, or "satirical jokes" I can remember in a game. But it moved way the hell beyond GTA in 2. And 3. And probably 4.

GTA V seemed to think it had something to say about life, but "let's film that actress having sex until she kills herself trying to get the tape back" wasn't really a good point, particularly when she's the butt of the joke and supposed to be seen as overreacting. I bring that one up because it keeps with the theme of "women in this game are bad because they have a lot of sex, yet no one has sex with our 3 protagonists."

yonder wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 17:46:

bhcompy wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 14:22:
Probably play it, but I'm really disappointed with Rockstar for not supporting GTA5 or RDR2 with single player expansions, so I'm not really excited about it like I was for GTA5

You're disappointed that you got dozens and dozens of hours of SP content in the base game and didn't have to pay extra to get a little bit more?

*Disappointed*?

And they say gamers are overly entitled...

I don't think one is entitled by having an opinion of Rockstar's business model.