I finished GTA 3 on the PS2. I tried playing the later ones, but I always gave up, it was just more and more of the same. It also just started to take itself more and more seriously which wasn't much fun.
This might be the last game they ever make. I'm shocked there's not more of an effort to make an open-source world sim. It's also a shame that given that they will milk this for a decade at minimum, that none of the developers are involved in any kind of profit sharing.
Now we're going to see an absolute torrent of release date announcements from all the other game publishers that have been holding back to avoid the blast zone.
GTA6 taking this long cracks me up, feels like they just keep moving the finish line - you think all the waiting actually makes the game better, or just build up way too much hype to ever match?
I don't think there's any way this game can live up to the hype. So much time, a rumored $2 billion budget, and a series with the premise of committing offensive actions that pissed off conservative moms in the 90s but now pisses off the liberal activists that run the western gaming industry.<p>Or maybe it's just too big to fail, even if it's not good.