• Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    This is just a racket to get money from streamers because they need to be the first ones to see it to drive up engagement. I will wait until some youtuber makes a video with the most important parts. What I find unbelievable is that they made an announcement for an ad for a game.

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      3 hours ago

      “Most important parts”

      I’m really not understanding what would be so important in the ad… They’re not creating anything revolutionary.

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          2 hours ago

          But it’s an ad for a game. Cut scenes aren’t going to be gameplay and any gameplay will be done in a controlled code stable version of the few seconds they’ll show at a time with heavy editing.

          The games going to be a buggy mess when it releases. I’m sorry to break the news to you.

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            Is that Rockstar’s track record now? I remember RDR2 releasing in a pretty stable condition. Regardless, bugs or no, I think people deep into gaming usually see the most important parts as what the gameplay is shaping up to be. So that would be, how has the driving changed, is there more thought and effort put into the non-violent side-content, how intractable is the world and to what degree is the world responsive? Stuff like that. The folks I usually listen to are mostly on that track since graphics are generally irrelevant now and the story is… Gonna be a Rockstar story, and won’t be anywhere near GTA IV, so it’s not that exciting.

            It sucks, but GTA is one of our last tentpole entertainment products. I understand people being a little excited to participate, and that also means the corps milking it for every last cent. The Netflix thing makes sense in the same way superbowl commercials make sense. And it does look like this is supposed to be the big gameplay showcase, so wanting to tune in as a gaming insider also tracks. It is what it is.