• Ech@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Turns out every game sounds bad if you purposefully describe it badly.

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      7 months ago

      I mean, this is the essence of 95% of GTA missions. Just like 95% of RPG missions are a variation of clear dungeon, kill boss, retrieve item.

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        7 months ago

        The key is making the dungeon/boss fun. The quests are just to lead you through the content.

        If you don’t like fighting through dungeons and fighting bosses then the game may not be for you.

        Like with GTA getting to places needs to be enjoyable.

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    7 months ago

    At least Vice City had fun missions like dropping bombs in trashcans with the world’s most fickle RC helicopters

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      7 months ago

      That’s San Andreas. I loved all their missions and even though they also could be reduced to only, driving, flying and shooting they all felt distinct and memorable.

      Invading Madd Dogg’s mansion and stealing lyric book and delivering it back OG Loc who had a party in your hood was fun. Stealing jetpack for a hippy, burying alive someone in construction site while they are in portable toilet, doing heists with Catalina, all that was fun.

      I can’t seem to recall a single GTA 4 or 5 mission / moment truly memorable besides the line “Causin, let’s go bowling”. Maybe it’s all related to when I played SA and probably my memory was better then.

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        7 months ago

        Your memory may indeed be a bit flaky, because that mission (demolition man) is quite definitely from Vice City :)

        I agree with the sentiment of your post though

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    7 months ago

    This is every game for the people that skip dialog and cutscenes.

    Now do a recap of a TV show, except skip all the parts where they aren’t shooting a gun or stuff isn’t exploding. I don’t get that TV show, nothing had any context and there was no motivation or lessons to learn, stuff just randomly exploded from being shot at.

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      7 months ago

      Now do a recap of a TV show, except skip all the parts where they aren’t shooting a gun or stuff isn’t exploding

      The Office would be pretty short

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    7 months ago

    Pretty sure Minecraft was the most profitable game of all time.

    And you can be that reductive for pretty much all games. Run right and jump on mushrooms. Watch shapes rotate and fall. Punch cubes. Three of the other most profitable games of all time.

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      7 months ago

      Minecraft is the highest selling game (beating out GTA V by 110 million units sold source), but it’s not the most profitable. GTA does have it beat there ($9.9 billion vs $3.3 billion). Though CoD has them both beat at $31 billion (source).

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        7 months ago

        CoD as a FRANCHISE beats them both, but you have to keep in mind that metric for GTA V and Minecraft are indeed, for single video games.