What if GTAV sucks?

[babinro]

Then it will find a nice place alongside GTA4. A mixed bag.

I bought that game after all the constant perfect 10 reviews and only found disappointment.
I sold it to a work buddy within a week of getting the game.

You mix a terrible hand-to-hand combat game with a below average shooting game and a mediocre racing game. Combine that with a large world that's tedious to travel from one point to the next and half your gameplay time is spent going to the next quest giver. It's all the grind of a subscription MMO in a supposed 'action' open world title. The controls felt sub-par and I just don't understand the appeal.

You might think that I just hate open world but that's not true either.
I LOVE the inFamous series.
Mafia 2 was solid as well but suffers from the tedious driving to long to activate quests symptom.
Arkham City was okay. The game started out amazing but the open world quickly grew repetitious and tiresome.

 

[Goofguy]

I'm not a fanboy, I just don't think there's any way this game could get a 2/10. A 6/10 is possible but a 2/10? No way. The amount of work Rockstar puts in to its game completely negates the most objective person giving it such an abysmally low score.

Then again, I've been known to be wrong from time to time. That's why I make no promises about inflicting injury to myself in the supposed off chance it gets a really low score.

 

[Ryan Hughes]

Here are how the numbers for the game break down:

On average, the publisher receives $27 USD for every $60 game sold. Perhaps a bit more for pre-orders, etc. At a reported cost of $267m USD, the game would have to sell 9,888,889 units to be profitable. This is actually very likely to happen, as reportedly, GTA IV sold somewhere around 22m units.

Even if the game is bad, and even if the game's sales suffer, considering the series' past sales and the amount of media exposure this seems likely.

However, keep in mind this is one of the most competitive falls in video game history. MGS5, Titanfall, Destiny, Watch_Dogs, Assassin's Creed 4, CoD Ghosts, Battlefield 4, and two next-gen systems are competing for the consumer's money. This is not even to mention games like Legend of Zelda: Link between Wolrds, Knack, GT 6, etc, which all look good, though they may not directly compete with the more adult enthusiast-oriented titles above.

If GTAV is simply buggy and boring, plus if these other titles conspire to reduce its sales, it could spell trouble for Rockstar and Take-Two, as they would not be able to fund many new titles in the coming years.

Edit: Also, price drops on the Vita and the new 2DS could entice parents to buy those for their kids instead of spending money on GTAV.

Here are how the adult-oriented series break down in sales:
MGS: About 6-7 million units
CoD; about 10-15 million units
Assassin's Creed: varies between 2m for Brotherhood and 6m for AC3
Titanfall, Destiny, and Watch_Dogs are all new, but Ubi is already planning for much future W_D content.

 

[Compatriot Block]

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To be fair, Destiny is definitely not releasing until 2014, and I'm pretty sure MGS5 is in the same boat. The rest of that stuff is accurate as far as I know.

 

[BigScaryBunny]

In my general opinion, I don't believe that is going to suck or be bad. It wouldn't be surprising that it would not live into people's expectation. Since, it is being marketing heavily both in the gaming and general market.

 

[Hazy]

It won't. I'm absolutely positive. I trust Rockstar completely.

 

[wetfart]

Then I will be quietly smug and go replay Vice City.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm willing to bet money that it won't be bad though.

If you pre-ordered, you already did.

 

[Abomination]

GTAIV was still a good game, not as good as San Andres (best in the series IMO). It suffered from poor optimization and intrusive faffing about - SHUT UP ROMAN, I DO NOT WANT TO GO BOWLING!

If it can deliver the graphics and characters of IV with the story and mechanics of San Andreas we'll have ourselves a contender for GOTY.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Will the jetpack come back? Cause if it doesn't then GTAV will suck worse then NeverDead, and I will not be getting it.
Jokes aside, on a scale of meh to good it'll probably be good. If it is good I won't be getting it immediately, I've got standards. (Dark Souls 2)

As for IGN, my factual prediction of how the review will end up will be something along the lines of:
16/10
- some graphical issues
- by no means perfect
+GOTY indefinitely
+better then Mahatma Gandhi

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I don't waste my life on what-if's, and with R*'s track record I doubt it would be glitchy or horribad. Mediocre perhaps, but they didn't farm this one out like L.A. Noire so I don't think it will be anything short of good. Maybe not great because I will say that GTA IV was the worst of the series but buoyed up by its interesting multiplayer and the subsequent expansions/DLC (Ballad of Gay Tony was damn good IMO).
The only thing I really disliked about GTA IV was how the core game, even in the moments I found pretty awesome, felt like a step backwards in the series. San Andreas did a lot of really cool things and IV seemed like it cut out a lot of the awesomeness of SA. Also Niko Bellic just seemed to be a character I couldn't find a reason to relate to... And I did shoot Roman in the head many many many many times because I was sooooo tired of those incessant calls.
I do have faith in R* though because RDR is one of the games I list in my Top 5 of all time for quite a few reasons, mostly because it had a great tone, a good story and characters I quite enjoyed.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Then I'll have more free time this autumn then expected.

As for a financial success, shit, that's probably already covered. How many pre-orders are in for this game, and how many of them are for the super duper $120 edition?

And as much as GTA4 was a weak GTA game, it was still a decent game. They've already shown that V will have a lot more to do and play with. It already looks to me like I'll have all the toys I'll want to play with (miniguns, tanks, custom cars, military jets) without having to buy a $20 dlc pack.

GTA has a pretty good formula and they've been working on this for a while, it should be pretty cool; at least worth $60.

 

[The Hero Killer]

It it'll suck. It wont be the first disappointment I bought ::cough::...Resident Evil 6...::cough::..Metal Gear Rising...::cough::...Tomb Raider...::cough::

But even if ONLY contained that which has been displayed in trailers and previews, it already has gotten a "GOOD" rating from me.

 

[major_chaos]

Honestly even if it was awful it would still sell a million copies. While I don't think it will "suck" I'm sure as hell not going to buy it until someone can tell me its not as bleh as GATIV which I couldn't even force myself to finish.

 

[00slash00]

I have very little interest in GTA 5. San Andreas was the last GTA game I played. I found it boring as hell and probably only got a few hours in to it. GTA 5 looks fine. Nothing about it makes me think it would be awful, but nothing about it seems special to me either. You said they already made the money back so there's not much risk of Rockstar shutting down or anything. If it sucks then it sucks, if it's great then it's great. the gaming industry will be unchanged regardless of what happens. Your concern of publishers not wanting to take risks confuses me. Publishers already don't take risks, except in a few rare cases, and GTA 5 doesn't exactly look like an example of a publisher taking any big risk. I haven't followed the game much but it seems like pretty much the same game they have always done, but with a character selection option

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I haven't enjoyed GTA4 as much as I regard it the messiah of sandbox games, I found it rather bland and boring. I had to slog through the story to finish it. Started to hate Niko with a passion.

Regarding GTA5, if it sucks, which is not likely because R* has been working on it for at least 5+ years then it won't be the end of the world.

Regarding myself about the title, it really depends if R* does in fact want to port the game to PC and "bundle" it for next gen as well alongside the PC port then I'm only interested if it takes to a maximum of 6 months. Any more than that and I really don't care for it anymore.

 

[Snotnarok]

Despite reviews GTA IV was one of the most worst games I played of that time with bland missions with simulated social friends between each mission. It was an excellent tech demo, however it was not a very fun game and I loved every GTA I played till then.

I'm sure the new one will be more of the same, really impressive, some great technical feats but won't be much fun, to me anyway.

 

[jdavies655]

im so confident that if GTA V sucks I will eat my own left nut

Its very unlikely that it will suck, I mean VERY unlikely given the expense of this game, the experience and resources available to rockstar not to mention they have a very proven track record and the series has an unprecedented loyal fan base

by whose standards does it have to suck by? if everyone else hates it but you like it does it suck?

 

[Not Matt]

let's look at the chart and figure out shall we:

awhhh well, get to your doomsday bunkers boys and girls because the gamer community is about to go insane.

 

[Callate]

It's hard to see that happening. 6/10 mediocrity I could see: their reach exceeds their grasp, the new mechanics become cumbersome, the expanded city and characters either prove more shallow than people had hoped or demand the player's attention in ways that become a burden. It would still sell, and there would be people bitterly defending the much-loved franchise, and others decrying it as the death of modern gaming.

But 2/10? At that mark, you're talking about something that fails on a very basic level, and I think Rockstar knows how to make a game by now. If they were putting that alleged $260-odd million into their game and it was in danger of being a 2 out of 10, I think they'd recognize it and push back the release date. Too much is at stake for them to do otherwise.

(By way of contrast, Duke Nukem Forever was a crap game, and I don't think even it deserved 2/10. 3/10, maybe...)