r/videogames • • Aug 29 '26

Image / Video Bro had a good take

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u/Smcblackheartia Aug 29 '26

My personal thing is I just don’t care about gta. Never have, never been my thing but if people are excited good for them. I do not understand people wanting games to be completely different from the last game in a franchise that is so dumb. Like that’s why I played x game, cause I like it

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u/Ambitious-Crew-7132 Aug 29 '26

You say that but have you seen gta1/2? The game changed a lot over the decades, is it that weird people want something fresh?

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u/Cuniving Aug 30 '26

I guarantee that if they had taken the game in a completely different direction the exact same people would be screaming that 'this isnt GTA'. Also since the franchise transitioned to 3D it has basically just been incremental change between titles with no major departures bar what the next gen of technology allows - and this game delivers on that the graphical, physics and AI difference between it and gta5 is massive when you actually put the 2 side by side. The issue is that some people spent like 15 years hyping this game to be bigger than god and when its not that they made themselves dissapointed and then theres also the fact that people are just far more out there looking to engagement bait or be contrarian then they were prior to 2015.

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u/Head_Statistician_38 Aug 30 '26

It is funny because I work with someone who is 18... He was 5 when GTA 5 came out. So basically, this is the first GTA game to release in his life. So of course he is gonna be way more exited than your average person.

But yeah, people have been hyping it up for so long and I do hope it is everything they want, but that is dangerous and I have learned to take a step back and not get too excited until things are closer to release.

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u/Hungry-Initiative-78 Aug 31 '26

" just far more out there looking to engagement bait"

could have summed it up with this part alone. Social media drives on negativity. That's it. Even this guys video is evidence of that.