The game is just about shooting, driving and stealing shit. It is not this out this world experience haha. The amount of “GTA coming out some day” content that I get is way too much.
People can enjoy things. Why gatekeep?
@Theprogressivist@lemmy.world - was the OP gatekeeping though? Or simply asking a question to understand the reason behind GTA’s popularity?
Was kinda loaded, but yeah, not really gatekeeping imo.
There are two ways to make a game that leads the industry in a genre: invent a new genre, or be the preeminent example of the genre. The GTA franchise has a reputation of consistently being in the latter category.
Maybe because we can live as criminals and do criminal stuff in it without real world consequences…
I could say the exact same about fighting, racing, or other arcade-y games.
People like what they like, why shit on them for it?
i like driving or flying games and shooting games - so why not both? and gta is and has been the best in the genre, so probably the next one will continue that trend
I do want to try Cyberpunk once I get a job and I have enough money to build a decent gaming PC, because I refuse to pay for shit on consoles.
Because you can do whatever you want to do that are illegal to do in the real life.
Never been a fan, but it’s basically a modern day RPG. Roll it to the future and you get Cyberpunk 2077.
GTA was never an RPG, it’s an action game with shooting and driving things.
It really can’t be compared to Cyberpunk which is really focused in the RPG elements, making choices in every single sidequest out there, making your own character build with skill trees, items, body mods etc.
They’re completely different genres, which is also why so many people got infuriated when Cyberpunk came out because it was not the Next GTA™ game they were expecting, even though Cyberpunk never really marketed to be like that.
I liked them when I was a teenager, but I skipped the entire console generation that 4 was on and I’ve tried to play 5 twice and bounced off both times. The sandbox part is excellent but their gameplay isn’t and the story is way too edgy in all the wrong ways for me.
That said I am tentatively excited for 6, purely because it’s giving me Red Dead Redemption 2 vibes which had an absolutely phenomenal story. So if GTA can even hit half the highs of RDR2 story wise I’ll pick it up. Otherwise I’m good.
Reasonably good third person shooter? That’s quite rare.
It’s a fun game series. I love to replay 3, Vice City and San Andreas.
A lot of the hype it’s because it’s Rockstar. There aren’t many studios with their level of attention to detail and budget to make it come true.
I like it when my partner commits crimes and when the heat gets too high she let’s me escape from the fuzz. Besides Mario party and mini golf it’s one of the few games she has fun playing, and we can do it together
Because it’s the only Canadian region with decent rail transit /s
