Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.

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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I think I’m giving GTA too much credit to put it next to HL3 like that.

    So no, hard disagree there.

    This is a whisper. HL3 announcement would be a bang that would grind the internet to a halt.

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        Gross sales is not predictive of hype surrounding a series, especially when that series hasn’t had a release in nearly 20 years.

        You… Are out of your element.

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          Out of my element? I think we only know about as much as each other mate.

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            You’re comparing the release of FIFA to the release of HL3.

            That’s adequate information to know you are out of your element.

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              I don’t mean the release of FIFA, I mean the games that groups of people play and are aware of. If even non-big-gamers are hyped for a game, then oh boy.

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                  Yes, but I (unfortunately) think more people are hyped for the big fish.

                  A discussion of hype is all conjecture anyway if we can’t measure its weight in a bottle so we’ll probably get nowhere fast with this,

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                    You do not understand what a white whale is in this context.

                    I’m really not going to entertain this discussion further.

                    You’re, at best, sea lioning at this point.

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      The avg gamer/person doesn’t give a fuck about Half Life. That ship has looooong sailed. Without the memes that game series would just be a historical footnote somewhere when discussing Counter Strike.

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        Exactly, like duke nukem for example.

        There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.

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        150k people went out of their way to buy a $1k headset on top of a fancy PC so they can play the half life VR spinoff. People today would absolutely pay $30 for Half-Life 3 if it was innovative and impressive. The ship hasn’t sailed, the bar was simply raised.

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        Exactly, like duke nukem for example.

        There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.

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      You’re comparing steak and a big mac here. They have largely separate target buyers and operate at different levels of quality/craftsmanship. Yes, HL3 would grind the gaming news media to a halt while this fluff article about GTA6 is just fluff.

      But the steak isn’t selling more copies that the big mac. This is what people are arguing with you over.

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        That’s not what is meant by “anticipated release”, though.

        FIFA2025 will outsell GTA VI. No one is biting their nails waiting for it to happen. It is in no way a highly anticipated release.

        GTA VI is a pretty highly anticipated release, yes, but to compare it half life 3 is… Silly.

        By this metric, Half Life 3 is way, way way way more highly anticipated. Steam servers would go offline.