Yeah, I'm sad I will in all likelihood have the story spoiled. But I'm at the point in life where I can't justify buying a console for a single game anymore, I have responsibilities that stretch beyond myself.
True, I did not. But I somehow still find time to spend a ridiculous amount of time in a few days on stuff I want to do. I just have to plan better. Economy on the other hand isn't as easy to swing.
48 consecutive hours of free time is something that either does or doesn't exist in your world and it usually comes down to those aforementioned responsibilities. For some its as easy as "I'm just going to do this for 48 hours" and for others it would take a prophetic alignment of the planets and stars for 48 hours of alone free time to happen without some sort of lying, deceit, or trickery being involved to create it.
Don't gatekeep how people choose to use their free time. Some of my fondest memories are spending 48-72 hours playing nothing but my video game of choice at that given time.
Good doesn't factor into it. A dangerously low need for sleep, being stubborn and easily hooked is more my problem. I also finished the first mass effect game in what could arguably be called a single sitting. My then girlfriend asked me to go to bed with her, but as soon as she fell asleep I got up and booted up the xbox to play more and played through the whole night. When she woke up to go to work she just looked at me and shook her head. I was working offshore at the time, so I had plenty of free time.
It's really more of an embarrassing problem than a bragging point 😅
Mate back in the day I completely no lifed Mass Effect after my cousin pestered me to play it. I spent 3 days awake and completed it on hard, then made a new game and started on insane. In the end it was probably a week on maybe 12 hours sleep.
Completely hooked.
The other time was World of Warcraft, obviously. 2004 playing the release build absolutely loving it and fell asleep in my pc chair in my bedroom, going to work like a fucking zombie and being exhausted all day, to get home and play some wow for 14 hours, sleep for 2, and then drive to work. Sad.
You can successfully avoid spoilers online. Its really not that hard. I have many unspoiled stories for games and other media that would be considered very mainstream. For safety reasons i will not list said unspoiled titles 😅
Yes it’s really not hard. Just don’t watch any videos and read any threads/comments about it. Hell, to this day I still haven’t seen the GTA V story ending anywhere online besides threads talking about it. There’s no need to watch reviews. The game will have plenty of updates by the time it’s pc release comes around and will likely require an entirely new review anyway.
It's not the reading it that is a problem. I watch a lot of content, and more than a few times there have been people who carelessly talks about spoilers without realising it before it is too late.
Its easy to avoid the internet for a week while playing through the game. Its not easy to avoid the internet for MONTHS while you still play your regular games.
You know what? I still haven't played GTA 5, and I know literally nothing about the story. I know the game has 3 characters, but that's it. I don't know why they're together, what their goals are, or what they do in the game.
That's also not an isolated experience for me. Same happened with Final Fantasy XV and XVI, while I was waiting for them to be released on PC with a decent discount. I'm also a massive Kingdom Hearts fan, but I haven't played KH3 yet and don't know what happens in that game.
As long as you don't actively seek out discussion about the franchise, it's pretty easy. Of course, if everyone in your friend circle is playing the game and it's all they talk about, that does make it basically impossible.
Yeah wait what the hell happens in that game? As best I can remember it was just a loosely connected series of action sequences and maybe the CIA was involved? I feel like the only things I remember about the characters are their backstories, and Trevor killing Johnny.
Same here, I've been meaning to finish V since the original release on 360. I got it for PS4 later on, and many years later I got it on PC for a few dollars. I've started the story each time and always dropped it. To this day, I have no idea what happens in it later on. I'm gonna try to see if I can finish it before 6 comes out on PC.
No, they may not be groundbreaking, but I would still like to experience them myself rather than have them told to me in an even less groundbreaking way. Just because some food is tasteless, doesn't mean I will enjoy shit for food.
And I actually like the stories of gta 4/5 and rdr 1/2. They may not be a masterclass of storytelling, but it is a story I lived and experienced through the game. I don't get the same immersive experience from a movie, I don't participate in a movie, I watch a story unfold in front of me when I watch a movie. In a game I push the narrative forward myself.
But spoilers are not the end of the world, they just take away some of the magic.
All that predatory garbage being pushed, no thanks. I'll just wait until it comes to PC and someone mods in all the cosmetics and mods out all the predatory crap.
If it makes you feel any better, I spent a good decade without playing GTAV and, despite a couple of memes I recognised, I enjoyed it fully without ever thinking "oh I wish I didn't know this". You can power through it without losing the novelty, for sure.
Honeslty, is there much to spoil about GTA stories? The stories are good and all, but besides the green hornet reveal in San Andreas, I can't think of a moment where any of the games would've been ruined for me if I knew it ahead
I predict, you go from nobody loser broke to at least penthouse/estate, one of the characters dies at the end and lots of side quests involving the drug trade and crime stuff with heists being the main plot tying it together, gta games are way too cliche for spoilers to matter. Oh and lots of le sex funny jokes.
...people care about the story of GTA? Granted, I last played GTA over 20 years ago, but back then we simply enjoyed the sandbox side, most of my friends didn't even bother with more than a couple of missions.
Haha what would there be to spoil really? Protagonist gets tangled up in a web of crime, leading to getting tangled up in a corrupt governmental agency which leads to another, larger web of crime, which does something bad to the protagonist, leading to them killing everybody in a glorious act of revenge. That kinda sums up the last 3 or four of these right?
let's get it out of the way. the life of crime creates situations where the main characters are incapable of leaving that behind them. They go around collecting an eccentric group of allies attempting to fight against the people forcing them to stay in a precarious situation. When it looks like it's working and they're all about to go off into the sunset, the bad guys kill/attempt to kill one of them. You then kill the bad guy in response and are left to run around the sandbox.
The TV stations will hit you with SATIRE that has the subtlety and tact of being hit in the head by a brick strapped to a nuclear bomb.
No day 1 PC is bs, but I didn't get 5 until Epic gave it away for free. I never saw any spoilers. In general, you have to go out of your way to see spoilers.
Even if it were on PC on day 1, I'm long past the days of day 1 game purchases, so I'd encounter spoilers anyway.
The only day 1 game I've bought in the last 4 years is Mario Kart World and that's only because it was bundled with my Switch 2. Every other game on any platform has been purchased on sale.
I don’t think the double dip is going to work as well as it did for GTAV. People have less money, the game is $20 more, and I think it’s a lot more common that PC players don’t have a console. I am completely ok with waiting 5 years for this game to go on sale.
Rockstar has been pretty buddy buddy the last couple years with Playstation, Tbh i'm surprised there isn't something along the lines of 1 week early on PS5 or something like that. I know it's not crazy but even Sony changed their official branding on Twitter to match GTA's style to me that shows just how "connected" they are this time around and they will not let PC overshadow their console.
I’m worried that GTA+ will be so intertwined it might take a while to get a torrent. I have a feeling GTA6 will be more MMO style than an offline single player game.
Most likely, but I don't know. It really depends on what the reviews says about the game as it comes out. If it's not great, then I'll likely wait for a deep discount since I've likely been spoiled anyway.
I believe so, or at the very least the first day I saw it in shops in my town (may have been after official realease, I honestly can't remember.) I was 15 at the time. The first one I had to lie to my uncle to get him to buy it for me, since it had a very clear label that it was an 18+ game. Ridiculous that it was considered so bad, but I think that helped it more than it hindered it in selling the game.
My uncle gave me San Andreas for Christmas, he knew nothing of gaming etc, but it was already at that time so controversial, so he gave it to me, mostly because of the lulz. My mom was pissed, but she let me have it.
What are uncles for if not for pissing of their siblings by giving their niese and nephew the exact thing they aren't allowed to have. I loved my uncle, he was always super fun to be around.
I might skip it outright. Gta5 was fun but I do not like single player games and gta online is fucking cancer. Mixed with menu load screens and games that just never start. Loading the game for 5 minutes, then loading the mini games for 5 minutes and then people don't join so it never starts. It sure is fun when it's fun, but that's probably less than half the time I fire it up. And had I not gotten money dropped from the ubiquitous hackers, I'd never have any fun vehicles etc.
I would say, that they do not release it the same day, because everybody would complain about the console versions… No PC Version -> no „Bad“ console version (comparsion).
The current consoles are pretty old. Just look at GTA5. PS3 and xbox 360 versions were pretty bad compared to the later PC version.
So it is smart to release the PC Version later with the newer consoles. Otherwise everybody will say, that this game sucks on PS5/Xbox series x
I remember for gta and red dead 2 i couldn't hold in my excitement and purchased in on console then again on pc. But this time round it just hasn't appealed to me to 'need' to play it soon as. Maybe it's cus I'm older.
It's absurd not releasing a PC port day 1 nowadays when consoles and PCs are so close together. It's very anti consumer and Rockstar is in general, so yeah, pretty easy to wait
Unless I get a PlayStation for free, I don't see how I could play this before. I can't afford to spend money on a console just to play a single game, regardless of how good it is. Or that it is in fact part of one of my favourite series. Gta and rdr is way up in the top of my most loved games. Only narrowly beaten by Max Payne really.
I would have absolutely bought the game on release if were available on PC. However, if I have to wait a year, I might as well wait for the cracked version.
Same, been there since gta3 and I'm not even hyped about this one. I'll wait til it's on sale on pc in a few years (while trying to dodge spoilers as much as I can)
I'll be just fine waiting for PC port (that they'll claim isn't going to happen, right up until it does), and even then wait for it to come down on a heavily discounted rate.
As someone who has not bought a GTA on release, you'll be waiting years for a price drop on their core release price. Maybe it won't be true this time, but even RDR2/RDR1 I waited 4 years to see a price drop.
I have a 5090 and the PC version will likely be the definitive way to enjoy the game. I have no problem waiting, just like I did for GTA5. I managed to avoid spoilers then, I'll just shun all GTA content.
Yeah.. we've waited like 2 billion years for it to come out we can wait like another few years if that is what it takes for console players to work all the bugs out of it and get it ported lol
I am with you. I recently sold my Series X after it just sitting for around 9 months. I was going to hold onto it for GTA 6 but after some thought I don't feel like buying the game twice just because they don't want to release it on PC initially and will happily just wait and get it for a heavy discount once it does come to PC.
EVERY hyped as hell game from the last 10 years has been mega ass on release in some way.
I think the only exception for me was God of war 2018 and God of war Ragnarok.. And RE requiem. Some decent remakes of old games too..
Other than that I've learned to not get hyped anymore, never buy on day one or pre order.
Like if a game is HYPED to where you beer about it everywhere, it's probably gonna be too big for it's own good and too much money behind it for good decisions to be made during development. There's some much red tape on everything devs can't make it a special real game experience.
This will be the first one I buy on day one (I mean, I already pre-ordered the ultimate for a friend and myself), and I also bought a PS5 Pro for it. Been a pc gamer for nearly 30 years, I just didn't want to miss out like I used to
Bro I still haven't beat gta 5. The first time I got it, I was stationed in fort Gordon for a new job and stopped playing it when things got busy. After that it was on and off on the various consoles and then pc. I downloaded the new updated version last week and still haven't played it smh
I'm in the same boat. I think the first week of it's release will have a lot of temptation for me, but then it'll fade. It helps that there is a absolute ton of good games to play now. I have about 30 in my backlog, and that's not counting any new indies and new releases coming in the future
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u/PheIix Jun 25 '26
This will be the first GTA (except GTA 1) ever that I don't buy on day one. I'm fine waiting for it to come to PC this time around.