GTA V: Scooter Brothers, A Love Story

[Bolivar]

So I'm browsing The Twitter and game journos are either teasing "Our review of gta v GOES UP MONDAY!1" and asking "who ISN'T getting gta v!?" (I think that might be Rocket Edge's PSN status actually) I consider myself fairly current with the ongoings in gaming but I feel completely out of the loop with the hype on this one. We hardly talk about it on here, outside of the Saints Row fans bringing up how hard it's been surpassed.

I actually really enjoyed GTA IV but gaming had changed so much in the last 5 years and I just can't get myself as excited for this one. I'm getting the feeling 5 is not going to enjoy the same level of popularity the series has accumulated so far.

Are game journalists trying to manufacture interest that's no longer there or is it just me? Is this still a must-play series and why?

[Madame Adequate]

It's... it's just you. Nearly everyone I know is going completely berserk over this game, and having watched some streams from people who grabbed it early over the weekend, so am I. I love SR4 but god damn, GTAV looks like it's on a whole other level. I've seen people buying PS3s or 360s just for this one game, knowing full well the console generation is at an end.

[Del Murder]

I've never been into the GTA series but even I've seen the hype everywhere for this game. I think it's a big deal.

[escobert]

don't care. I've shot/run over enough people in my lifetime.

[Denmark]

i've played the original GTA and GTA3. once each, for at most about an hour each. and not within the last decade. i'm apathetic about the series.

[Skyblade]

Eh, I'm with Bolivar here.

Granted, I've never liked the idea of the "gangster simulator", and have avoided the series entirely since GTA2.

But, to be honest, I haven't seen much hype about this game anywhere. I've seen maybe two commercials for it, one poster in my local Gamestop, and that's about it. I haven't seen anyone talking about it anywhere.

And the thing is, the game comes out tomorrow. And I only know that because I just Googled it. For THE MOST EXPENSIVE GAME OF ALL TIME (and, wow, I didn't know hardly anything about the details of that article), this game has been remarkably quiet. Normally, any release this big, I'd be hearing about it everywhere. There would be threads here, discussions on other games or on "what are you playing" threads would be hijacked to bring this up.

For me to learn more about the game in the five minutes I've spent finding information and links for this post than what I've known in the months since its announcement is an indication that this game is not carrying nearly the hype of most major releases.

I admit that I've been hiding from the series. But it's not normally nearly so easy to hide from. GTA4 was a major event. I couldn't avoid it, no matter how much I wanted to. But GTAV? If it wasn't for this thread, I'd have completely forgotten about it.

[Bolivar]

Yeah I didn't realize the release was so close until I saw all the ads in the subway this weekend. I couldn't find a thread of it on the first page so i had to make this one myself. I've been asked if I was buying it as a passing curiosity but I don't think any of my irl friends are getting it. Contrast with 2008where we couldn't stop talking about all the different new features we were hearing about.

[Slothy]

I've got to agree with Skyblade to some extent: for a game that's supposed to be so big, thing's have been quite quiet in the corners of the internet I frequent.

Personally, I'm indifferent at the moment. I'm sure I'll play it at some time in the future and come to my own conclusions about it first hand, but I'm in no hurry to try it if only because GTAIV managed to be one of the most boring games I've ever played. I'm still not even sure how you make a game that's about committing crimes, murder, prostitutes, drugs, etc. boring without deliberately trying.

[Bunny]

You guys must only visit a handful of sites because I cannot go a day without seeing dozens of threads, articles, etc about it. Regardless of whether they are hyping it though, the game cost about 265 million to make and they made twice that in preorders alone. So whatever they are doing, regardless of visibility, it worked.

[edczxcvbnm]

I will eventually get and play this game but I am in no rush. I have not heard as much news about this one than previous entries but that might also be because I am turned off by this game (I don't like their 3 character concept). I see plenty of articles and chatter about it but not the levels I was thinking I would see.

[Vyk]

I'm with the minority, none of my friends are interested, save one who is maybe -slightly- interested. And none of the places I go to on the web is hyping it up. Not typically into Triple-A titles anyway, and have never been entertained or impressed with a GTA game. I've tried a few of them, and they just don't do it for me. Saints Row gets it right more often, and that's good enough for me. But then again, I've tried quite a few of Rockstar's franchises and none of those really grabbed my attention either. So I may rent GTA V in a year or so, but otherwise, not interested in the slightest, and extremely glad I'm not hearing about it every 10 seconds online

[Pike]

Although I'm not a big GTA person myself I know that Huxley has plans on getting this the day after he flies over. That's right, he's coming to the States not just to visit me but to play copious amounts of GTA on my 360

[Aulayna]

It's 8:25pm here and there's already a massive queue outside the Gamestop next to our office building for the midnight launch. It's bigger than the queue they had for The Last of Us (which is saying something as they had nearly 100 people queue up, in friggin' smalltown Cork, Ireland for The Last of Us).

[Pete for President]

Couldn't care less, really.

GTA III was awesome, Vice City is legendary. But ever since San Andreas started the one-man-army and heavily scripted missions I have lost interest.

My friends are really hyped about it, which I don't really get.

[I Took the Red Pill]

I'm so stoked for it. Seems like GTA4 gets a lot of hate these days but it's still one of my favorite games. I'll probably lock myself in my apartment for awhile with my cell phone turned off, start pissing in Mason Jars, and ordering enough pizzas to keep the local place in business for a decade.