Just for fun, to see what the opinion of the Lemmy crowd is.
- Poll: https://strawpoll.com/e6Z2AEX8wgN
- Game Website: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI (scroll down to ultimate edition to read and see what it contains)
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_VI
Edit: VPNs unblocked now. There was a setting I overlooked, my bad. I did not block VPNs intentionally. Sorry. Please vote now if you can (and want to).
open results for 24 hours mark
Not interested 58.95% (293 votes)
Wait until sale 35.01% (174 votes)
Day 1 Standard Edition for 80 Dollars 3.02% ( 15 votes)
Day 1 Ultimate Edition for 100 Dollars 3.02% ( 15 votes)
Total votes: 497
I‘ll buy and play it on day 1…. for PC. Until then it doesn’t exist for me.
Still haven’t played gta5 story or rdr2
I like gta series, was a huge fan since the very first one. Online is a cancer, but everything else I rather enjoyed.
However I suspect it will be very hefty, and I am absolutely sure my old computer wouldn’t be sufficient to run it even on low. And since ram isn’t made for people to buy anymore, I will never be able to afford an upgrade.
Therefore my answer is “I’ll never buy it even though I’m interested”The game has to run on Playstation 5, and presumably on Xbox Series S. And thanks to upscaling technology, its easier to run high demanding games on lower spec systems. This doesn’t help with CPU or RAM, but I assume there will be lot of settings. There is only so much an old system can do, no idea how old it is.
The only recent aaa game that I’ve played was the new 007 one, and it took me a lot of finangling to make it run somewhat playable, but in the end I have found a set of settings where it works. But the process was long enough for me to believe that it’s probably the last aaa game I manage to play.
I personally won’t because GTA isn’t my thing anymore, but if my brother gets the money by launch, he definitely wants the ultimate edition for PS5.
No
Can’t vote because I use a VPN but no, I try to avoid paying union busters
Oh, that’s bad. I didn’t know they would block VPNs. There was an option to detect unique users, and I chose by IP (but with option Anonymize voter data). For anyone else, I guess the comment section is the only way to express opinion then. Edit: Why the downvote?
Downvotes because you decided to block VPNs… Thats what “by IP” most likely does
But this was just an explanation. Why downvote an explanation? I did not decide to block VPNs, in fact I thought it is possible to vote multiple times by using the option “by IP”. It’s the first time I used this website. And by looking at it again, I can see there is an option that says “Block VPN users” and I simply did not see it when creating and left it the default option. So blocking VPN users is an accident here, because of my incompetence, not because I decided to block them with intentions.
I use VPNs myself often, especially with YouTube, and would not wanted to have them blocked here. My apologies.
I found out there is a setting to unblock VPN users. Please try again, I hope this works now. It was not my intention to block!
I found out there is a setting to unblock VPN users. Please try again, I hope this works now. It was not my intention to block!
None of the choices apply to me. I’m pretty excited to play it. Not gonna pay for it though.
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Sounds like you’re not interested in buying then
Yeah, but that option would put me in the same box as people not interested in the game at all.
That’s not the question being asked though.
Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?
I can’t give my money to a union busting company. I’ll play it though. Probably “borrowed” from “a friend”
lots of friends on the internet lending out their stuff! :D
I have friends everywhere
They helped me out a lot. I’m thankful to have such friends too, could play Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. BFF
No. Rockstar is dead to me.
Voted “Not Interested” while guessing it was the least common option, turns out it’s close to 60% ! I guess this audience is a little biased towards playing indies, maybe that’s why.
I tried 4 and 5 for a few hours each and the mechanics are all very mid. I have no idea how this series became the juggernaut it did. To me it’s as surprising as some random mobile game blowing up, like Angry Birds or Flappy Bird
Pro-indie, pro-union, and anti-union-buster.
I don’t think I’m going to get GTA 6 at all. I have a grudge against Take2 since they had Gearbox update all the old Borderlands games right before Borderlands 4 came out to include an anticheat software and the EULA now states that any info the anticheat scrapes can be sold to their marketing partners. So they turned all of those games into spyware. Rockstar and Take2 both stated that the already over-monitized GTA Online is actually under-monitized, so I fully expect the GTA 6 online to be more of a fucking nightmare than EA’s Battlefront 2 on release. And I also hate how as soon as Rockstar saw how profitable GTAO was, they cancelled the single player DLC and shoehorned all that shit into GTAO.
I’m tired, boss. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I spend money on a triple-A game again
they cancelled the single player DLC and shoehorned all that shit into GTAO
I didn’t know that, but always suspected it.
Yeah, they never outright stated it, but this was all found in one of the big data leaks from Rockstar. The first was mostly finished and involved Trevor working with the CIA, doing a heist on the casino, and going on James Bond/Austin Powers like adventures. The second DLC was a zombie survival scenario (probably going to be like RDR’s Undead Nightmare) with Micheal and his family. And the final DLC basically just had concept art of Franklin being sucked up into a UFO.
All the cars and the casino heist from Trevor’s DLC is in GTAO. The cars modified with sheet metal and spikes from Michael’s DLC got repurposed into a Mad Max type of update for GTAO.
Why is “buy eventually” not an option? I’m not arranging my life around the PC launch, but I don’t need a sale either.
Agreed. I realized later after reading the comments, that important options such as “maybe later” or something like that is missing.
Yeah, a lot of people wait a few months for the bugs to be ironed out.
No, but also I was never going to buy GTA6.
I loved GTA3, Vice City & San Andreas. Played for hundreds of hours. I played GTA4 for a few hours but it never really clicked the same. I also played Saints Row 2 and Saints Row 3, which I really enjoyed and scratched that same itch (those games eventually went a little over the top, but I still had fun.)
When GTA5 came out all I ever heard about it was it being “online” which turned me off of the series completely. I think I later understood that there is a single player component and an online component, but by then I didn’t really care.
If anything I’m likely to try revisiting GTA4 this year. Maybe.
GTA 4 went for a lot more realistic vibe, it’s very gray and a lot less arcadey. GTA 5 is a lot more colourful, both in visuals and gameplay. They even brought back fill frenzies/rampages, in an interesting story-friendly way (most of them are a character’s psychotic breaks, some are a drug trip).
When GTA5 came out all I ever heard about it was it being “online” which turned me off of the series completely.
Well the game launched without an online component. So at launch, it shouldn’t be talked about it being an online game. I purchased it way back on launch for Xbox 360, and that much later on PC for sale. Never played the online part, not interested in that. The single player campaign is pretty fun though, especially the character Trevor. No spoilers (in case you don’t know much about details).
BTW I never finished GTA 4 (on PC). I like the driving much better in 4 over 5. Driving in 5 is more simple and approachable, but I don’t like that.
I looked it up, since I wasn’t sure, it looks like online launched about two weeks after the single player game. But it also was console exclusive for two years. When it came out for PC is when it actually began to catch my attention, and it launched on PC as both GTA5 and Online.
So that’s probably where my confusion came from. I already hadn’t played GTA4 so it wasn’t high on my list to investigate further.
It’s funny I looked into GTA4 and GTA5 support on the Steam Deck. GTA4 says playable and online reviews say it works well. GTA5 says unsupported but online reviews say it also works great, but you can’t play it online. So both are options for me.
The stories and single player is definitely what interests me, so maybe someday.
GTA 5 is playable on Linux and I think on Steam Deck. And even GTA Online, that is part of GTA 5 basically, was playable on Linux. But one day after years, Rockstar said “nah, no online for Linux users anymore” and since then its not functional for us anymore. But the single player campaign is playable.
That’s where the confusing messages are about the support. Partly because two different products share a single rating, but also because one part was functional before.
Edit: Ah another thing. Original GTA 5 was replaced by Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced https://store.steampowered.com/app/3240220/Grand_Theft_Auto_V_Enhanced/, which is basically the Playstation 5 version of the game. They renamed the original GTA 5 version something like GTA 5 Legacy https://store.steampowered.com/app/271590/Grand_Theft_Auto_V_Legacy/ and is still available to those who had purchased it before. You can’t purchase the original version anymore!
I looked it up, since I wasn’t sure, it looks like online launched about two weeks after the single player game.
And it was a mess and they had to relaunched it some time later. I played it a little, but it was pretty lame even after the relaunch, never understood the hype around it.
If it is the single player and story that interests you then just stick to GTA 4. In my opinion the story in 5 is boring as fuck and very quickly falls into a loop that is just mind numbingly dull.
GTA 4 looks more like a traditional movie and is a bit more serious than the goofy GTA 5. But I also like the goofiness and over-the-topness of it. It’s a different style, wouldn’t say its better or worse. And they also tried to appeal to the mass even more with 5, partially the 3 characters is evidence of it. But I have to say, I care more about the characters in GTA 4 than in 5.
GTA V is really good, but both Red Dead Redemption games are masterpieces.
I’m in the same boat, I’ve played all of the older GTAs, but I never played GTA5. I even got the game for free from Epic… Maybe I’ll try it out eventually.
I’m not very interested in buying GTA6, but I’ll probably check out some gameplay/highlight videos to see if there’s any new/interesting tech in it.
No, but I get the sense this is a skewed audience. I would not be surprised at all if this is one of very few corners of the internet not 98% invested in it.
I’m not at all surprised to see the “not interested” and “wait for a sale” options being massively ahead on Lemmy. Though it’d be interesting to see how different the “not interested” crowd would be if the option were split into “not interested at all” and “interested but wont buy for political/moral reasons”.
The comments here imply most would vote for the second option, but I’m in the first camp myself. I’ve never been interested in any of the GTA games.
I’m in both camps, but also I think there should be a “Arrr” option. I’m also in that camp, mostly out of curiosity. I want to see what compromises they make on this game, and how they choose to accomplish certain tasks. It’s going to be a massive game culturally, and I want to be aware of what they’re doing.
Yeah, I also imagine there’s lots of folks who have their handful of games in rotation that wouldn’t care to buy a new game anyways. And then also lots of folks, who just don’t have the hardware for it…
