I'm convinced that rockstar is afraid of GTA now, because a miss of that magnitude will destroy them, so they have to put their best efforts into it, or they'll die off.
My only reasoning behind it is the mad money GTA V makes them. If they have to handle that one and VI at the same time, they're going to buckle every day, instead of just every so often when it's busy on the weekends. I personally haven't played GTA V since checks Steam November of 2018.
Also one of the issues is how much they've had to pour into it in order to sustain it.
Sure it made them mad money, but I'm sure those servers are not cheap.
The other big reason why I know they're all in on GTA:VI is the list of games they've released since GTA:V's release date back in 2013, 11 years ago.
Between the 97 release year of Grand Theft Auto, up to 2008, 11 years, there was several rockstar dev houses making a ton of games, and not just the GTA games. Here they are, to the best of my memory, skipping the titles only published by Rockstar, otherwise this list would look even more embarrassingly long, comparatively.
Wild Metal Country
Grand Theft Auto 2
Midnight Club: Street Racing
Smuggler’s Run
Grand Theft Auto 3
Smuggler’s Run 2: Hostile Territory
State of Emergency
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Midnight Club 2
Manhunt
Red Dead Revolver
Grand Theft Auto Advance
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Midnight Club 3
The Warriors
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis
Bully
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Manhunt 2
Grand Theft Auto 4
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Between GTA:V's release and now, 11 years just like the previous list, there are the following games:
I know it's not exactly underrated, but I'm always happy to see these games mentioned because they were my jam back in the day. I'm not the kind of person who enjoys grinding in games but somehow I could play those campaign races over and over to the point I have the other racers' dialogue burned into my memory. Lately people in Japan have been uploading clips from an arcade game with a similar name (Midnight Coast) and I don't know if it's related but I want to get into that one.
I really liked the midnight club series. Specifically 2 and LA because they, unlike most other companies, kept adding great things each time, while refining what made the previous one so good. That started to get rare to find in games when a lot of them felt like more of the same around that time. It didn't matter if the other guy's game wasn't even in the genre, if they did something cool, and the game was popular, it had to be in every other game.
To stay relatively on topic, you'll notice that a ton of the elements in Midnight Club: LA got absorbed into GTA:V The ability to slow down time became Franklin's driving special move. The transitional map move thing that would begin races became the loading screen for GTA:V when you switched characters or began playing the game.
And while Rdr2 gameplay, graphics, and mechanics are fucking amazing, the writing dept was clearly contaminated with woke activists that really ruined the game for me
I'm convinced that rockstar is afraid of GTA now, because a miss of that magnitude will destroy them, so they have to put their best efforts into it, or they'll die off.
My only reasoning behind it is the mad money GTA V makes them. If they have to handle that one and VI at the same time, they're going to buckle every day, instead of just every so often when it's busy on the weekends. I personally haven't played GTA V since checks Steam November of 2018.
Also one of the issues is how much they've had to pour into it in order to sustain it.
Sure it made them mad money, but I'm sure those servers are not cheap.
The other big reason why I know they're all in on GTA:VI is the list of games they've released since GTA:V's release date back in 2013, 11 years ago.
Between the 97 release year of Grand Theft Auto, up to 2008, 11 years, there was several rockstar dev houses making a ton of games, and not just the GTA games. Here they are, to the best of my memory, skipping the titles only published by Rockstar, otherwise this list would look even more embarrassingly long, comparatively.
Between GTA:V's release and now, 11 years just like the previous list, there are the following games:
I know it's not exactly underrated, but I'm always happy to see these games mentioned because they were my jam back in the day. I'm not the kind of person who enjoys grinding in games but somehow I could play those campaign races over and over to the point I have the other racers' dialogue burned into my memory. Lately people in Japan have been uploading clips from an arcade game with a similar name (Midnight Coast) and I don't know if it's related but I want to get into that one.
I really liked the midnight club series. Specifically 2 and LA because they, unlike most other companies, kept adding great things each time, while refining what made the previous one so good. That started to get rare to find in games when a lot of them felt like more of the same around that time. It didn't matter if the other guy's game wasn't even in the genre, if they did something cool, and the game was popular, it had to be in every other game.
To stay relatively on topic, you'll notice that a ton of the elements in Midnight Club: LA got absorbed into GTA:V The ability to slow down time became Franklin's driving special move. The transitional map move thing that would begin races became the loading screen for GTA:V when you switched characters or began playing the game.
And while Rdr2 gameplay, graphics, and mechanics are fucking amazing, the writing dept was clearly contaminated with woke activists that really ruined the game for me