Submitted 1 day ago by thingsiplay@lemmy.ml to games@lemmy.world
https://strawpoll.com/e6Z2AEX8wgN
Just for fun, to see what the opinion of the Lemmy crowd is.
R* are union busting assholes. I’m not giving them a single øre.
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).
Downvotes because you decided to block VPNs…
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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Subs 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.
Will pirate in 5 years with dlc and if like the buy 70% off.
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
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.
I probably will, but i wont be happy about it. I’ve got a boy who’ll be 15 by then attending a public school.
If it turns out basically everyone has a copy I’ll need to get him one, you know how it is, and with the license-share on our xboxs itll mean I’ll get a copy too. Hopefully the youth of today are actually a lot more politically-minded than i imagine, or the cost of living crisis will mean nearly no parents buy it for them, but I bet I’m going to be buying it.
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.
Pretty bad results for Rockstar
Lol yeah. I expected less interest from this community, but even then I’m surprised.
Good option would be wait for it to be free on epic or something
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.
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…
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.
Nah.
We’ve got GTA 5, but don’t really enjoy it. (The excessive open-world free-roam, great! The “doing nasty shit” part, not so much.) And THEN there’s the whole “they’re trying to kill discs” thing and just, nah.
– Frost
I really enjoyed GTA 5. I bought it twice in two different systems. I’ll eventually play 6, but it’s gotta be for a sale. Fuck the $80 price tag, and fuck Rockstar union busting and I hope they unionize hard.
When it’s less than 50€ and available as disc…
For which you will need internet to activate/play the disc.
So at this point it became a useless piece of plastic anyway.
If it was like on GoG it would at least make sense.
In GTA 5, that depends in the hardware. For Playstation and XBox, the disc was enough. No code activation required.
Do they change that, too?
The disk isn’t completely useless. It’s a physical license key that is transferable and resellable. I was fully planning to purchase a used console to play GTA 6 with a physical disk, then sell both when it came out on PC. That’s still my best plan I guess.
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.
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).
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.
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.
I will consider the Ultimate Edition on PC once I know what it entails.
If it’s like the current details say: Sale
If it’s semi logical: Buy at a reduced price on somwthing like GreenManGaming or somewhere.
lol, I know what people vote for in these kind of poll VS what they actually do on launch day.
I am not convinced.
I’d have been a day one customer if they’d bothered making a PC version and hadn’t arbitrarily blocked Linux users from GTA Online a couple of years ago. Now they can get fucked.
Probably, but my platform is PC and I’m not expecting it for years.
I fully expect Rockstar to release it for the PS6 first and then we can start an 18 month timer for the PC release.
Yup, they haven’t even announced a release date. But I’m sure they’ll do typical Rockstar shit and charge the full $80 when they release it two years after console.
There’s thoughts it’ll come to PC sooner than five did because Rockstar postponed PC port of five to work on the next Gen console release, but I honestly don’t even care. There’s like 20 games in my backlog and other great games will release before then. The large lapse in time between titles has me feeling totally fine never playing 6.
Nah. Never been interested in the IP, and I’ve come to hate open-world games. They’re always the same sh*t with the same repetitive tasks. How can a game be a game when most of its gameplay is litteraly a list of chores in-between driving sequences longer than a loading screen?
Rockstar open worlds are more like chapter selection screens, where you choose between about 3 different action missions at any given time. Familiarity with the open world not only grounds it in a sense of place but also helps with navigation when you’re plotting a getaway. The checklist of chores is more of a Ubisoft thing.
How can a game be a game when…
Well tbf, just about anything can be a game that will appeal to someone. Somebody could make a game about exactly what you described without hyperbole (like driving around and going shopping or something), call it “daily chore simulator”, and it’d probably sell surprisingly well lol.
Voted not interested, but your question actually has another option: “it will not be launched on my platform”, I don’t think it will have a Linux version, nor even if they will support Proton.
Devs do nothing to support proton, it’s proton mimics windows behavior so game will work. It probably will, it will be a huge initiative to make it work for proton given the interest to this game. Still not going to pay until they make a pc version even if it will require multiple years to wait.
Devs do nothing to support proton
Probably true for most games, including GTA series. But there are devs who officially support the Proton version. I have no list at hand, maybe lot of Indie devs do, but one I know for a fact is Marvel Rivals (even being an online game). Sometimes devs do actually update the game to get the Great on Deck Verified-rating. That includes default settings, ingame settings for Deck in example or other Linux related notes, while being played through Proton. That in fact can be classified as Proton support, just not marketed as such.
That’s not necessarily true, games that have kernel level anti-cheat purposefully don’t work with proton. Similar to that there are other things dev can inadvertedly do that causes issues with Proton. In short it’s not that devs have to do something specific to support Proton, but they have to keep it in mind, not every game works, and if the dev doesn’t care to make it work it might never work.
I’d say there’s a 99.99% chance singleplayer works on Linux. Everything does now, unless they choose to not support it. The big question is if online does. It looks like maybe GTA5 Online works, but may require some work. Some things say it has kernel level AC, but some things say they’ve gotten it working. I’d say there’s probably a 70% chance online works.
I’m not purchasing it regardless though.
The platform would be PC. But yeah, that point is a bit unclear how to interpret. I am personally on PC and consider the game launching on “my” platform. However the implication is, that the single player will be playable on Linux. All previous GTA games are playable, so I would assume GTA 6 will be too.
For $20, I’m in …
I chose “wait until sale” because there will apparently be no actual physical release, but I’d consider getting the $80 at some point if there was one. I was fully prepared to just buy it on release, but $80 digital-only left a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t appreciate Rockstar’s naked greed and it immediately dropped it from “must-buy” to “buy later at some point, maybe.”
I am one of the few in this world that GTA just didn’t appeal to, and I guess I’m lucky in that regard, seeing as how it takes so long to develop a new one.
I mean you can still enjoy gta and other games
No. I find virtually all AAA games for the past decade or so to be unsatisfying. I only pay for indie games nowadays.
I’m trying to recall the last AAA game I even played when it was relatively new… Starfield I think and yeah, it sucked.
Loving an indie called Surroundead right now. $5 zombie survival open world and some guy just made a multiplayer mod and I can’t wait to play with my buddy.
What does VfM stand for? I see it has something to do with with the playtime and money rate, but I don’t know what that term means. Its okay for me to spent 30 Euros to play 8 hours. It can be incredible. Then there could be a game that cost 6 Euros and has a playtime of 35 hours, but it could be less fun and exciting. Just my opinion, not saying you are wrong or right, just not the way I appreciate games.
Looks like “Value for Money” - ie how much you get vs how much you paid
“Value for money”!
You’re right! E.g. some story-heavy games with great mechanics and immersion might be worth spending more on; it’s just a general rule of thumb I have!
(maybe it takes a bit more time for me to familiarize myself with the characters, controls, mechanics etc, so I don’t prefer a game to be too expensive or too short; and in general I consider it a bonus if a game has huge replayability, support for mods, and procedural generation for example)
But in any case, I still find the ratio to be a useful tool!:
So the per-hour ratio is more about putting the prices of the games in some context between eachother, in order to be able to decide if <feature you value> is worth paying <X%> more than other games you buy; Every player and the genre of games they choose are different, so it makes sense for anyone to set a different amount as a baseline! 😊
I tried GTA5 when EpicGames had it as a freebe and put it away after about an hour because the characters were so awefull and stupid, I could not stand it at all. That and driving the cars felt bad, there was nothing fun in the game for me. GTA just stopped being a game for me when it went 3D
I thought that GTA V wasn’t as good as San Andreas but I still quite enjoyed it. I liked Franklin and his story quite a bit. Michael and Trevor would have been fine as side characters, as playable characters I don’t really care too much about them beyond the Brad, Trevor, Michael, FBI agent triangle
The driving is what got me the most. They started off as essentially driving games and they managed to make driving not feel fun somehow
Really, you didn’t enjoy 3 or Vice City? They don’t hold up very well, but they were fantastic games for their time.
Not really. They are not as bad as GTA 5 but the story lost me after a few hours each too. I think that I just doesn’t want to be a criminal scumbag, not even in a game. They may be great games, but they are not for me.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I mean, it’s not likely to run on the steam deck and that’s my only gaming device, so. . .