What if GTAV sucks?

[GoaThief]

Well, GTA IV was one of the most boring games I think I've played in my life.
I certainly won't be bothering with V.

IMO: Boring is worse than bad. At least bad is funny. At least bad you can enjoy with a perverted enjoyment of what a train wreck everything is.

GTA IV was far from boring, granted the world wasnt as engagingas previous GTAs and there wasnt much to do outside missions but it was still far from a "bad" or "boring" game. It was poor by GTA standards but overall it was a good game

It's good to know my subjective opinion on what bores me is completely invalidated because someone says so.
I wasn't claiming the game was boring for everyone, but it was boring for me.

Indeed, on a similar note I think GTA IV is the best of the series by a fair margin. Loved it, apart from the phone calls...

As for the OP, it's not going to happen - why should the subject be of importance? I can see plenty of loud enthusiasts claiming it is shit a couple of years down the line just as it's the cool thing to do, much like you hear it regarding IV. Please note this doesn't refer to the above poster.

 

[baconmaster]

It'll get a ton of perfect reviews and sell like hotcakes

Source: GTAIV reviews and sales

 

[Dante dynamite]

Its a good thing I have preemptively disappointed myself for GTA 5 and I haven't per-ordered so if it's bad I can deal with it. If I was as hyped as my friends I might die from the disappointment

 

[TaboriHK]

Then at least we still got Saints Row IV.

 

[Il_Exile_lI]

You said it yourself, they have pretty much already made back development costs on pre-orders alone. Even if GTA V winds up being one of the worst games of all time (which is about as likely as Halo being released on the PS4), they will still make huge profits off of day one sales alone.

I think the worst case scenario for this game is decent/pretty good; anything other than fantastic will be a failure critically, but it is near impossible for GTA V to not be a massive success financial no matter what the final game quality winds up being.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

People will probably be pretty pissed. Rockstar will take a significant loss. More people will lose faith in the GTA series. That's all I can think of.

In reality though, I'm willing to bet it won't suck (I mean universally suck, not just suck to like 5-10% of the people who play it, or don't play it). I'm just holding out on a PC port like many people. My Ps3s HDMI port just fried after 7 years of continuous use, so unless I'm willing to use fuzzy sub-HD, my PC is the only way I've got to play it.

I'd also like to ask the people who say "I won't buy GTAV, or have no interest at all, because IV wasn't that great to me", is that really a fair judgement? So 1 out of the 4 highly acclaimed, award winning games makes a mistake and tries for a more "gritty, mature" story, and because of that, you quit on the series as if Rockstar couldn't POSSIBLY learn from their mistake? Because you know, they so obviously have a very large track record of making terrible game after terrible game, and will never improve. Because that makes perfect sense to me. I'm not saying everyone should buy the game, but if you're not, at least have a better excuse than "Because IV wasn't good to me, so that means none will ever be good again."

 

[Frokane]

it will only be a 2/10 if it has some sort of game breaking bug that makes it literally unplayable.

I can very much see this forum calling it a 6/10. Everyone knows its cooler to be 'indifferent' about an amazing game then to gush over it (unless its done ironically)

 

[teebeeohh]

actually 6/10 would be worse, there are production reasons why a game gets 2/10, it's broken, unfinished and such but 6/10 means you probably did things technically and mechanically right but it fails to resonate with people and GTA is so huge and such a big and important part of rockstars lineup that they need this game to set people on fire since the money they make from it will have to carry them till this gen of consoles is old.

 

[SsilverR]

Looking at the trailer I don't see many ways that it could happen...

 

[vasiD]

I'm sorry, Rockstar North isn't capable of making a bad game at this point. As a fan of theirs for a decade plus I can tell you right now that they've never even developed a mediocre game, much less a bad one.

Seriously, if GTAV is bad (and we're talking bad bad here, people like to ***** about IV and I think they're full-on-pants-on-head-over-helmet-retarded) I will eat my hat.

And it's a super plastic hat from back to the future, so I'm pretty sure that shit will kill me.

 

[Jadak]

I don't see how it could suck, (or at least depending on perspective, suck significantly more than the rest). No GTA game since 3 has done enough to change the formula to risk failing relative to it's predecessor.

The maps change, features come and go and mechanics are jiggered with and the storylines are always kinda lame. But for better or worse every GTA entry has always felt like more of the same to me.

I don't really see GTA 5 as looking any different. A little prettier? Sure. A new map? New stuff? Yep. A lame story? Probably. A more or less solid gameplay experience consistent with prior entries? Can't see why not.

Otherwise, likely relatively similar game mechanics in a generally similar game. I simply don't see what they could do to turn it into a complete fuckup when they're doing pretty much the same thing that's been working forever and still appears to appeal to people as well as it ever has.

The 3 playable character thing is new, but don't really see that being a deal breaker either way.

 

[Harleykin]

i doubt that a gta title will "suck" in a 2/10 kind of way.
i was really disappointed in gta 4 in a lack of side missions humor insane stunts and whatnot but i enjoyed the story a lot! so i'll get my hopes up in a gta san andreas sort of follow up...
(1st post on this forum whoo!)

 

[Saidan]

There's a 1% chance of GTAV failing, consideri- wait... you can parachute jump from a bike? Forget it, there's no chance at all.

 

[choreo]

I just don't think it's possible. I imagine there may end be things that are annoying about the game, as with GTA IV and Roman calling you every 10 mins to go bowling, but overall I'm sure it's going to be the most important release of this generation and we'll all still be playing it well into the new generation's lifetime.

 

[jebara]

Well, GTA IV was one of the most boring games I think I've played in my life.
I certainly won't be bothering with V.

IMO: Boring is worse than bad. At least bad is funny. At least bad you can enjoy with a perverted enjoyment of what a train wreck everything is.

GTA IV was far from boring, granted the world wasnt as engaging as previous GTAs and there wasnt much to do outside missions but it was still far from a "bad" or "boring" game. It was poor by GTA standards but overall it was a good game

Fuck no, it was a boring , repetitive game with nothing to do.
I can honestly say that playing it was the most bored I've ever been with a game.

I hated everything about it, from its brown blurry look to its annoying characters,the boring minigames, its uninteresting story... what else?...that's it, not the complaints, that's basically all it has to offer,it is a boring stripped down, barebones sandbox game.

 

[chuckdm]

What if?

Ok, let's put it this way. I play Fallout: New Vegas, that came out in 2009, four freaking years ago. It already looks better - graphically speaking - than either Saints Row 4 or GTA 5. And it's four years old. Skyrim came out in 2010 and it looks a LOT better at 3 years old. So if we assume the people buying GTA5 (I'm not, never got into the whole gang thing. I don't even like the gangs in Deus Ex 3 and all I have to do with them is kill them.) are in it for the graphics, then it will bomb, 100%.

If these people are in it for the music or the culture, then it'll do well, so no chance of failure.

But considering the previous success of the series and how awful the GTA4 graphics were, I'd say the crowd that likes this just likes the gameplay. So it'll sell well.

What if? Not gonna happen.

However, if somehow a temporal vortex opened in high orbit and sucked all of Compton into space? Well...I'd be selling my Rockstar stock, if I had any. Without its small, loyal audience, GTA as a series would be doomed. And I can't think of any audience for any of Rockstar's games that is composed of many other people, so the company as a whole would be hosed.

Rockstar would be wise to pay those gang voice actors very highly. They REALLY need them and their culture to stay alive.

 

[TheComfyChair]

What if?

Ok, let's put it this way. I play Fallout: New Vegas, that came out in 2009, four freaking years ago. It already looks better - graphically speaking - than either Saints Row 4 or GTA 5. And it's four years old. Skyrim came out in 2010 and it looks a LOT better at 3 years old. So if we assume the people buying GTA5 (I'm not, never got into the whole gang thing. I don't even like the gangs in Deus Ex 3 and all I have to do with them is kill them.) are in it for the graphics, then it will bomb, 100%.

If these people are in it for the music or the culture, then it'll do well, so no chance of failure.

But considering the previous success of the series and how awful the GTA4 graphics were, I'd say the crowd that likes this just likes the gameplay. So it'll sell well.

What if? Not gonna happen.

However, if somehow a temporal vortex opened in high orbit and sucked all of Compton into space? Well...I'd be selling my Rockstar stock, if I had any. Without its small, loyal audience, GTA as a series would be doomed. And I can't think of any audience for any of Rockstar's games that is composed of many other people, so the company as a whole would be hosed.

Rockstar would be wise to pay those gang voice actors very highly. They REALLY need them and their culture to stay alive.

I'd say unmodded GTA 4 > unmodded skyrim for graphics on PC In fact, GTA 4 looks pretty good on PC, as does saints row 4. Doesn't matter, of course, because they shot themselves in the foot with a .50 cal by making GTA 4 use GFWL.

But aside from that tangent, i agree. People buy GTA because of its gameplay and story/humour.

 

[MrBaskerville]

They got away with Vice City, a game featuring horribly broken and scripted missions (racing missions and that damn helicopter level anyone?) and it's still one of the best rated and most well liked games of all-time for whatever reason. I think they can get away with anything at this point, if he world is huge and filled with things to to, nobody will care if major aspects is completely broken, not even critics.

captcha: Gone Fishing
very odd, considering i just popped Bad day to go fishing in my dvd player.

 

[Kittyhawk]

This is a good post.

I'm not buying GTAV after getting GTAIV and getting bored with it. Some of my friends thought I was mad when I told them this, but I was set in my mind. I hated the driving, which felt more like torturous work than fun, that not even playing the radio could ease. Besides that it felt like Rockstar had spent ages giving players all these little distractions to do in the game, but you had to search for them. Because of this, I never scratched the surface of GTAIV when the whole game started to feel like busy work. Also had a bad check-pointing system.

I'm sorry to those who dig GTA, but I can't go there again as Rockstar's realism doesn't always equal fun IMO.

 

[Harleykin]

I hated the driving, which felt more like torturous work than fun

to be honest i don't get this.
the driving was part of the fun because the map was huge (like san andreas) and 4 just gave you a cab. i NEVER did drive myself anywhere. i just called a cab got there shot ppl and got a cab back to the save house.
at first i felt like it was saving me time (wich it totally did) but then i realised it took part of the experience i was hoping for.

still the mechanics of fighting and the story were awesome to me.
but you take away insane stunts, fun weapons(gta 4 had like 5 guns?!), side missions and so on and you ruin a gta game.
especially after a game like san andreas.