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Just for fun, to see what the opinion of the Lemmy crowd is.

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

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[–] 2fm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely not, not ever of my own doing.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I only have a pc so I'll be waiting .

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

I don't think I'll get it. Maybe if it's on deep discount on PC eventually, and it doesn't have horrible DRM, and the reviews are good.

I didn't really like gta5 that much. It's very on rails / Simon-says in a lot of the stories. I guess they're going for something cinematic. I'd rather have something more like an immersive sim.

[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Never really understood the appeal of it though the shitty DRM and PC ports they had didn't help. Tried to play GTA SA(?) more than 10 years ago but the bicycle controls were so bad ona tenkeyless keyboard I couldn't progress. Same thing with the drone controls in Vice City. GTA IV was unplayable due to securom nonsense which after I bypassed, ran into some GFWL error that I gave up on. GTAV was extremely boring for me with how slow the gameplay was. For a game called Grand Theft Auto I was expecting a lot more action. Being forced to do yoga and deliver cars was not at all enjoyable for me.

On the contrary, I found the pre-reboot Saints Row games really fun and so did Sleeping Dogs. All of those games scratches the itch that I had expected GTA to scratch and did it better than GTA did in my opinion. Maybe I'm just not the target audiemce.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago
[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Never played a GTA game, and I have no interest in starting.

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

No but ill probably check some streams out just out of pure curiosity. I hope there will be RP that happens in this. That was by far the best thing to come out of gta5 for me.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I‘ll buy and play it on day 1…. for PC. Until then it doesn’t exist for me.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No. Not a fan. I bought IV out of curiosity and I had a review copy of Chinatown Wars. That's it.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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"

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No, because the only Rockstar game I have ever bought was Smuggler's Run Warzone.

Maybe if another one came out, I'd buy that.

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't vote because of my VPN... but I'll wait for a sale before purchasing Grand Theft Auto VI. I don't agree with spending $70+ for a game that I might enjoy for a handful of hours. No game is worth that price to me. I firmly believe in voting with my money, so I won't support the industry that keeps inflating game prices.

Plus, I never buy games at release anyway. No game seems to be perfectly polished at release now (unless it's been in early access for over 5 years) and I'd rather wait and let others find all the game-breaking bugs and get them patched first.

I remember a time when games were strictly offline. A new game released and whatever flaws it had were just part of the experience forever. Game studios were especially careful to ensure their games were as close to perfect as they could get.

Now with everything connected to the Internet, game studios just release a messy pile of code and drop day-one patches to make it semi-playable, with the expectation that gamers will find and complain about other problems that the studio can patch out later. There's no more pride in making a quality game anymore, it's just pushing garbage as fast as possible and fixing it in post.

I'll wait maybe a year or so until Grand Theft Auto VI drops to $20-30 during a Steam sale and then buy it. I have plenty of other games to play in the meantime; I'm in no rush to experience it.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The last GTA I really got into was Vice City on PS2. I did get San Andreas as a gift but tbh it might still be in its shrinkwrap because WoW was around that time and since I stopped playing WoW, I've diversified my gaming to the point where I have a shitload of games I have yet to try across a variety of platforms. And I heard a lot of shit about V like getting griefed by cheaters that I never tried it and at this point the AAA label is more of a repulsor than attractor and I still have all those other games to try.

[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll probably buy it for PC but they haven't even announced if they're making a PC port. The PC version of GTA 5 didn't come out until 2 years after the original release date and wasn't even based on the original version of the game. The PC port was based on the enhanced edition.

I wonder if by time the game launches for PC if there will even be an ultimate edition or if it will just all get rolled into an enhanced edition or something.

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