Be honest. Have you played a GTA game in the last few years? If you did, how soon do you see yourself replaying?

i played gta 4 in summer of 2023, haven't replayed the other ones mainly because i've already played 3, vc, and sa a dozen times. i have no interest in replaying 5 or playing 6 since i don't care about online.

I very slowly played through IV from 2012-2015 or something. Otherwise I haven't really ever done much with GTA despite also having V since 2015. Did play RDR2, wasn't feeling it after Ch. 1 or 2 but a friend pushed me to keep going.
I have nothing particular against Rockstar stuff and I probably will play it down the road but I'm not champing at the bit to play it.
That said you should know better than to rationalise the hordes making best-sellers out of FIFAs and the likes' actions.
I'm not into streamshit either but I've gathered the impression GTA Online wasn't wholly unpopular either so it might be a factor too for the zoomalphas. Millennials+ will just think "it's GTA" and buy it.

I reinstall gta 5 whenever I feel like just driving around and shooting.

I think about playing gta 4 again but i remember the story too well

Yes most Missions are shit if you don't care for story or characters

I fire up GTA IV every now and then to kill the jews

i have the best hardware with the best mods available right now to do the best gta v replay i could but i just cant get to it, the massive dissapointment and sour taste that the ending left me still feels strong today, i really thought the heists part was at 3/5ths of the game in content but it just fucking ended there and forced us that online slop with 0 sp dlc

Booted V this year to check out RDE 4.1
If VI doesn't have something similar I'll be extremely disappointed

Driving around listening to the radio is comfy as fuck. Yes that is a selling point.

made by one guy and a couple of friends out of pure passion

polished games with solid, fun gameplay, not expensive, got multiple free updates adding new content and even more polish

gorgeous faux-retro graphics, paying loving homage to the 8-bit and 16-bit eras of gaming

Play Retro City Rampage and Shakedown Hawaii instead.

I 100% the definitive trilogy a couple months ago, I had nothing else I wanted to do. I tried GTAV Enhanced just before that, but couldn't play more than the opening hours before uninstalling. I'm only going to play a GTA when either GTAIV gets remastered or GTA6 PC comes out and the game is proven good.

Replayed SA, IV last year. Finally beat III and VC as well. Haven't played SA in 5 years, IV in 10. I don't give a shit about GTA6.

i replayed gta 4 + dlcs not that long ago, i enjoyed it especially the dlcs because i didn't play them before

I played San Andreas on my phone for a few minutes.

Tried installing the updated version of GTA V the other day, after wasting 100GB it then prompted me to install an kernel anticheat when I never even play MP.

Uninstalled and shan't be playing GTA VI if they do the same thing again.

i did the very first thing in 5 like 12 years ago or whatever
no wait. chinatown wars 6 or 7 years ago

Hello marketer. I hope R* pays you well.

Have you played a GTA game in the last few years?

Yes, GTA V.

How soon do you see yourself replaying?

Not soon. Potentially never.

What exactly about GTA 6 are gamers hyped for?

Killing pedestrians, fucking fat booty prostitutes and touching up filthy strippers.

Same old drive-and-shootout missions?

Yes.

Same old ultra jaded social commentary?

Yes.

Let me guess, GTA 6 is going to have gay artsy 'missions' where it tries to tell a meaningful gay story? Or are you gimping single player in favour of multiplayer slop?

And are you scrapping the dry witty jaded social commentary in favour of millennial writing?

replaying definitive edition right now and managed to find a cheap steam key for the OG trilogy

Played GTAV last year. It has funny moments and the game is woke af but normies cant into subtext so they dont get worked up over it. The border patrol guys were hilarious but you're forced to kill them because Trevor is like 'I might be a cannibal rapist murderous maniac but at least I aint racist.'

Played all of them recently.

GTA III

Rotten. Aged a whole lot and it doesn't hold up but I can respect the freedom they managed to give to the player. The missions are short and the story don't really connect with the missions. Last but not least, the difficulty spikes are fucking insane. Playable, but barely.

GTA Vice City

Fine wine. The perfect balance between vintage and modern. Mission structure is great and the story is the classic "rags to riches" with plenty of comedic relief. Even though it stems a lot from GTA III's base, it expands on it immensely and feels great all around. Very much playable.

GTA San Andreas

The magnum opus. Holds up well to todays standards, mission structure is great and so is the story and dialogue. Classic "grass is greener" story with loads of amazing highlights throughout. Modern mechanics, absolutely jam packed overworld and fantastic attention to detail for being a 20 year old game. The best.

I got back into GTA Online (mostly for delivery missions since I just like driving from A to B in games) for about a month and also did a full playthrough of 3 and San Andreas in the past five years. I'm honestly already kind of tempted to play San Andreas again. Maybe I should go back to IV instead though.

GTA IV

The hangover. The story, while interesting and deep in it's own, is an early sign of Rockstar blurring the lines between story and free roam. One second Niko says "I promised myself not to kill people" and the next he runs over 39 peds, blows up 7 vehicles and massacres a bunch of russians. Mission structure is all over the place and every car chase is scripted to oblivion resulting in a very, VERY restrictive freedom of choices to take on a mission. Gun play and physics is supreme, heavy and hard hitting. Playable.

TLAD

Depression. Everything GTA IV was, but worse in all ways except gun play and physics. Boring and short story, boring main character, the late 2000's-early 2010's shit filter where no other color than green, gray and orange is allowed. Skip this one.

TBoGT

Fan service. Fixed everything wrong with both GTA IV and TLAD and went back to a more fitting story and character. One which realises he is a killer, and he enjoys it. He doesn't value people who don't matter to him and protects the ones that do by any means necessary. Mission structure is unfortunately still as aggressive as GTA IV and freedom of choice is restrictive. Best of the modern trilogy.

GTA V

The never ending high. Groundbreaking for the 360/PS3. Not so much for neither previous nor current generation. Story is bland and the upped the restriction of freedom to galactic heights. Walk at the wrong direct, fail. Shoot at the wrong time, fail. Take another exit route in a vehicle, fail. Use even the slightest liberty of creative thinking in any mission ever, fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. Physics and shooting was dumbed down significantly as well, and it just got worse each generation. While absolutely gigantic, the map is empty and your optional missions boils down to either collecting miniscule collectibles in the hundreds or doing menial tasks. Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle.

Rockstar games have no replay value and that's fine there mostly sandboxs

EXTRAS

Liberty City Stories

Aged about as bad as GTA III. Story, while better structured than GTA III, is kinda boring as you've basically made it from the start. You're bumping into issues along the way but never feel like you're at risk of anything. Tony isn't interesting and don't make much sense of what he wants other than being on top, which is more or less already is. Physics and shooting is borrowed directly from Vice City, no complaints. Better than III, worse than every other 3D entry.

Vice City Stories

Rockstar Leeds took lessons. After LCS they made their next entry better, bigger, funnier and a whole lot more interesting. Most missions are fun and exciting. More or less an expansion of Vice City in the sense of "rags to riches". Victor is threatened and many lives are at stake. Fun unique vehicles, weapons, and business mechanics. Owning and managing the Vice City crime world is a great feeling. The best handheld choice.

Chinatown Wars

An ode to the original GTA. The story is basically as serious as GTA IV but without the blurred lines of story telling and gameplay. Huang fits perfectly into the story, he's a dangerous criminal and he doesn't fuck around. Unique graphics and drug selling mechanics. Loads of side activities with cities that felt huge and filled with things to do. No stone is left untouched. A hidden gem.

gta 6 will never be as exciting as ps2 games because of realism

I play SA once a year or so. Still fun. V is hard to get into, knowing in advance you have to do that bullshit stock trading cheese to get any real money.
Those fivem servers are fucking on fire though. I don't like to think about 6's online future, given the lessons they're learning from what happened there.

It's been 7 years for me. I still play vidya as much as I did back then but I have no interest in GTA anymore. I liked everything from GTA 1 - GTA IV. There are just too many empty open world games for me to care anymore, plus I already know it's going to be wokeslop and I don't have any patience for that anymore either.

I hope they went back to the drawing board and realized that a game titled "stealing cars" should have the possibility of driving the cars. I installed a driving mod with 9 years of development and the game still sucked.

Said driving mod in 6 will now cost you $50, or $15/month to rent.
And you'll never have access to the full code. It will always have to phone home to decrypt to work.
Those are the kind of lessons rockstar's been learning.

GTA III is just as good as it was back in the day.
VC is still the weaker game but that has been my opinion for 20 years.
SA is still great and especially benefits on the pc side from mods to polish some of the rough edges.
I've warmed to IV over the years but it still isn't as good as the 3d era games.
I still dislike V but I do occasionally want to reinstall it and throw graphical mods at it to get some real nice looking screenshots but that means playing V which is the part I dislike.

As long as their anticheat doesn't work on Linux GTA is dead to me

I just beat 4 on PC yesterday with console content restoration mods. It was a pretty great 25 hour experience. I think the story got bogged down by all the mafia stuff but at least the Irish mob missions were interesting. Far too many missions with no variation on "Go here, kill these gangbangers, leave" but it gave me more appreciation for the missions that weren't just that. It's a shame how much weight and groundedness we loss from 4 to 5 and I haven't played it but from what I've heard RDR2 suffocates under it's weight and groundedness on top of heavily scripted mission design. I really hope GTA6 goes less scripted on the missions but does more than 5 in making the world feel less gamey, better driving, better NPC behavior (like using turn signals like they do in 4)

I've never played GTA. It looks boring.

I used to play quite a bit of GTA Online. Haven't in about 3 years. Didn't download the free high res update when it came out on PC, just didn't entice me to replay because it looks shinier. I'm def gonna buy GTA 6 because at this point I'd feel like I'm missing out on a cultural event.

i finished gta3 2 weeks ago and started vice city yesterday. they are nice chill games when you are burned out from playing more intense ones

i tried out iv. pretty boring. v was much the same. last time i enjoyed this shit was III VC SA when i was a kid so idk what VI might have to tide me over

What is your opinion on people who've played the series for decades but have never finished the story?

Personally I feel like if you've played since 3 and you've genuinely never ONCE finished a GTA story you're missing out.

I get why people never finished 4, the penalty for failure is really annoying and if you take the missions any way but slow, you're more than likely going to die. I beat the game almost twice as fast as my roommate because of PTSD spending 6 hours on the same heist with my friends in GTA:O and getting really good at 1 tapping the enemies as well as not running blindly into enemy fire.

I replayed GTA 4 recently and the expansions, they sucked. Tried 5 for the second time, dropped it because it was so boring. In retrospect I only like gta because I played it with friends. As a solo game it was a terrible franchise. We also had more fun playing Smash or Mario Kart or any multiplayer game.

the closest thing akin to play a GTA game I did 6 months ago, was to open youtube and the wikia to check the Yakuza Stinger as I bought a Tamiya Carrera GT to mildly convert it into a Stinger

If I really want to play a GTA game, then it's just GTA2 as the first 3d games exhausted me and it's been more than 15 years since I lastly touch them

Have you played a GTA game in the last few years?

Last time I played GTA was... GTA4 in 2011 for a few hours. I've played every GTA before 4 pretty thoroughly.
I've never played GTA5. Not for any reason other than I keep passing it up.
Tangentially, I have been playing Saints Row 4 and Gat Outta Hell recently only because the latter was free through Prime.

I played GTAV a good bit at the time. But only ever single player. Well, I did try online, but it's a pay2win mess infested with cheaters, don't know how anyone sees it as fun.

GTAV was the one that finally made me kind of get over the franchise. I mean, it's not a terrible game, but the map is so bland. The city is all towards the bottom of the map, and besides that, like 80% of the rest of the map is pure wilderness and nothing. It's a slog driving through it. Also, the game is too hand holding by far. If you deviate even a little from the scripted sequence, or God forbid, try to be creative, the game will instantly give you a mission failed screen. You have to do the missions the EXACT way the devs intended, and that's a shame. It ends up being an open world, with an extremely linear gameplay loop. I'll play GTA6 only after it's been out a few years and on a discount.