Game News 2.0

And I'm reading its just a port. Fans wanted it redone in the RDR2 engine, Rockstar go the cheap route again. People will still buy it in droves. And at $50, the robbing bastards.

"The port is not a remaster or a remake but does include newly supported languages..."

No way I'd be parting with 50 quid for a game I beat before the 2010 World Cup started.

If it was reduced it would be a decent purchase but no way is it worth 50 quid.

Rockstar feels like a zombified version of itself in recent years, I think Red dead redemption 2 will probably end up as the last good game they release.

Ten years and counting and three console generations with GTAV (the game you buy to get access to Online so you can give them more money for old rope) and the leaked footage of GTA6 looking like more of the same doesn't paint a fantastic picture of Rockstar going forward.

All the creative talent is more or less gone and the accountants have taken over the show at Rockstar.

They were a fantastic developer once, everything comes to an end eventually though.

The infinite money cheat that is GTA Online has made Rockstar too big to fail and they know it.

The build of the game isn't really the issue, it's more the fact that the concepts are just rehashed stale and uninspired.

The narrative was supposedly much more complex a few years back before the decision was made to scrap the work that had been done and head in the "Bonnie & Clyde" direction it went with as seen in the leaks.

Maybe it will be amazing, I'd love if it was, but in all liklihood GTA6 single player will just be window dressing for the next iteration of GTA Online, a product so devoid of purpose it boggles the mind how so many are still invested in it.

I've bought every GTA on launch day since GTA2, I don't see myself buying GTA6 in a hurry, granted mostly because it's still more than two years away to begin with.

The fact that a more complex narrative was jettisoned is a worry.

Rockstar could have just gone with a female protagonist without much fuss, plenty of blokes have been playing games like Tomb Raider since before GTA even existed so there's really no need to to ease gamers into a female playable character even if GTA has avoided that for it's entire history for some reason.

The fact that the creative talent that built Rockstar has all but completely left the company is the problem here, modern Rockstar are proving to be a different animal to what we knew previously, this will be their first new game released under the new structure and their temptation has been to do as little as possible over the last couple of years, which sets my expectations lower than they've ever been.

Warner Bros has entered the chat.

Out on gamepass now too

Runs a bit wonky on the MS Store version. It refused to play fullscreen on my pc and they've removed the recoil on the machinegun.

Yeah, Steam version ran without that issue of not running in fullscreen, the machinegun recoil is still gone though. I know the recoil was very strong in the original, much higher than modern standards but there's still no need to remove it altogether.