Where are you getting that it’s an offshoot of the mulitplayer? We’ve seen the cinematic trailers and such by now. There are written characters, and you’re not just playing as the create-a-character “John Auto”. I think they’re just saying it’s a single player experience so that people looking for GTA Online know that it won’t be there at launch.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI was going to buy it in ~5 years on PC for the single player campaign…
But if they’re describing it as a “single player experience” it’s going to be a shitty offshoot of multiplayer instead of a ring campaign that has a multiplayer slapped on.
It sounds like a minor difference, but it means the entire “experience” is just reskinned multiplayer and will push people there so they spend money.
This one will likely be bad
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
cinematic trailers are just lies… they are never true representations of the game. they are afterall, CINEMATIC…
the word experience, implies it’s NOT single player… but you can experience what single player could have been, of they gave a shit.
gta5 already proved they don’t give a single fick about customers, or single player.
companies use words for specific reasons… to mislead, deceive and lie to you. they make you think A, when Infact they are delivering 🖕
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
There’s a big difference between “this cut-scene shows something cooler than what I can do when I’m in control” and “extrapolating the word ‘experience’ out to mean that anything single player is going to be half-assed”.
Klear@piefed.world 9 hours ago
and you’re not just playing as the create-a-character “John Auto”.
Not a fan of GTA 3, eh?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I think canonically his name ended up being Claude? But no, I mean the way GTA Online does its missions is that every NPC will talk to you, but your character is silent. And no create-a-character system outputs characters that look as good as the protagonists of GTA 6, where they have human actors as the reference models and performance capture.
Klear@piefed.world 8 hours ago
I think he’s been Claude Speed even back in GTA 2. My point was that “Claude Speed” is practically the same name as “John Auto”.
Katana314@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
GTA Online has introduced many characters and campaigns. It just doesn’t center around a specific voiced protagonist, or hold any kind of long-term writing stakes. It’s possible some of those cinematics come from their online missions as a result.
Lots of live service games have made that effort; apparently even Fortnite builds some semblance of “story” to justify each battle pass? (I don’t play it so I’m not sure)
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Sure, but we know exactly who the protagonists are. It’s the Bonnie and Clyde dynamic. It’s a single player campaign. This isn’t a guess; we know this. Even if they hadn’t said this publicly, we knew this from leaks from years ago.
Katana314@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Part of my point is that we don’t know how much of its implied expansive story is actually singleplayer. A game with three singleplayer tutorials missions that end with “Now play multiplayer!” can likely make a cinematic story-based trailer based around key protagonists, and advertise “A singleplayer experience”; Battlefield has basically done this several times.
I certainly hope it leans towards a complete singleplayer, but the past decade of GTA Online makes me worried otherwise.
popcar2@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
But if they’re describing it as a “single player experience” it’s going to be a shitty offshoot of multiplayer instead of a ring campaign that has a multiplayer slapped on.
This is a massive stretch with zero evidence…
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You could have asked me to fill in the missing steps you’re having trouble filling in…
That would have resulted in you gaining understanding about this specifically, and how people use logic and critical thinking in general.
That’s crazy man, instead you did that, and now I’ll never see an actual question you ask me.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You could have asked me to fill in the missing steps you’re having trouble filling in…
Dude, come on, you say completely unsubstantiated bullshit on here all the time. It isn’t their job to ask you to explore your stupid, baseless, bullshit claim.
CybranM@feddit.nu 5 hours ago
Haha, what kind of asinine comment is this?
I think you should do some self-reflecting and look into solving your issues before lashing out at other people
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Same thing man.
You could have asked why I think it’s obvious the single player will just be a hamstring multiplayer, and I’d have explained it.
Would’ve been so easy
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Wow
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 35 minutes ago
Sounds like they just mean no gtao…