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So who’s paying $100 for GTA 6 then?

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GTA 5 was so bad I'm glad the game was gifted to me and I didn't spend any of my own money on it. You couldn't pay me to play GTA 6 and I won't let anyone spend their own money trying to gift me a copy of it.

TL;DR - Not paying for it.
What was so bad ? You seem to have tried the previous gamed so I wonder how much changed.
 
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I will not be buying GTA 6 at all. 5's story was just three men yelling at each other for the entire game with too few fun missions.
 
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Every one of those stories is pathetic BS that exists merely to provide a thin veneer of justification for the gameplay, which is:
  • open-world
  • drive vehicles
  • shoot guns
I mean, those are game mechanics, there's lots of games that do this. Doesnt make them bad games, just means you are not a fan of open world action games. Which is fine, we all have preferences.
  • make fun of American societal tropes because Americans think that is edgy and cool
A healthy culture and society can make fun of itself and poke at its own social issues.
  • black characters say the N-word excessively because Americans think that is edgy and cool
You've never hung out in a majority black area in the USA, have you? It's not because it's "edgy and cool", its an accurate representation of conversation, especially for low income neighborhoods and gangster/criminal types, which is what GTA depicts. If they didnt do that, they'd be accused of sanitizing the criminal element of a game focused on committing felonies faster then you can count them. Criminals are not well known for eloquent speech or broad grammar.

To me it's like the complaining over mean words from trash talkers in Call of Duty, a game about *checks notes* brutally gunning down an entire small nations worth of people for fun. It just doesnt make sense to me to complain about it.
 
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I disagree, you're playing a gacha game with digital waifus, you knew going in this was a risk :p

On a related tangent, what happened to anime waifus in your avatar? Most interesting man in the world is boooring :p

True, that. Qiqi needs a vacation, she'll be back soon. What happened is that TPU lately makes me want to drink. It's become that depressive. From delusion to desperation, the place pretty much got completely toxic, and it started to get to me. I can't wait for this GPU launch season to end. Which is when I'll be back posting regularly, I guess.
 

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What happened is that TPU lately makes me want to drink. It's become that depressive. From delusion to desperation, the place pretty much got completely toxic, and it started to get to me. I can't wait for this GPU launch season to end. Which is when I'll be back posting regularly, I guess.
I understand entirely.
 
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GTA5 they abandoned single player DLC, I expect they are going to mllk MP like crazy. The Roleplay craze I expect fuelled a lot of sales.
 
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PC gamer here, I might get the game during a holiday/bf sale in the year it's launched, you know in "5" years time when it eventually gets released for PC.

Faint chance I buy a previous gen console and the game, depending on performance consistency (60FPS).

Interested in the single player story line side of it.
 
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One of my friends yesterday talked about rumours that Rockstar could split up the single player and online part so you have to buy them both if you want the whole experience :wtf:

This take wouldn't be bad for me since I do not play GTA Online today and I tried it once didn't really interest me but if this split is real I do hope Rockstar doesn't neglet the single player side as they have done with V.
 
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What was so bad ? You seem to have tried the previous gamed so I wonder how much changed.
Probably because it was just more of the same from the previous games. Kind of like Saints Row, first couple were pretty good and then playing the same rehashed stuff over and over again and calling it "new" became tediously boring. GTA3 was entertaining and the next entry - was it Vice City? - was okay. Then it was the more of the same in the next release and so on. Perhaps "bad" isn't the right word to use, maybe uninspiring or dull or bland would be more fitting of a description.
 
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