Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch

• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 🖕

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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”.

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• Klear@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  and you’re not just playing as the create-a-character “John Auto”.

  Not a fan of GTA 3, eh?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Klear@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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”.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh, I went with John Auto because whenever there’s a Street Fighter trailer with the generic create-a-fighter for World Tour mode, people call that guy John Street Fighter. We definitely haven’t seen create-a-characters up to this point.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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)

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I very strongly believe the wording is just there to let you know that GTA Online won’t be available at launch, much like with RDR2 and GTAV. I’m actually surprised so many people are reading it any other way.

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