I'm going to admit something here and you're certainly allowed to judge me for it, but I've only ever completed Grand Theft Auto IV. I tried playing the older games back in the day, but they didn't interest me. I got through about half of Grand Theft Auto V, but certain characters just weren't my thing.
Why am I admitting this? Because, while I've not played the games as much as others, I still recognize the powerhouse that is Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto experience. I see why people do play it and why each trailer only drives more people to the series with its slice of life that mimics a world we recognize while shining a light on the most ridiculous elements of it.
How has Rockstar captured this lightning in a bottle? Why haven't more companies been able to take how this company has been able to make games and keep people returning over and over?
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "While not carrying the same heft it enjoyed long ago, last year was one of the adventure genre's most commercially-successful years in this century. A Telltale-esque adventure eclipsing 3 million sales in three months would be the talk of the town were it not for another adventure game hurdling over 10 million sales in two. Though not all finalists reached those heights, each did share a greater amount of spotlight compared to similar titles within their respective sub-genres.
Past any sales thresholds and popularity contests, 2025 also deserves credit for its creativity; the last time our entire shortlist consisted exclusively of new IPs was for Best Adventure Game of 2020. An impressive year for the genre, with even greater potential ahead."
Inti Creates’ vibrant action platformer Majogami will shed its Switch console exclusivity and strike PS5 on 28th May, the Japanese dev has announced.
Bandai Namco announced today that its popular flight simulator-lite Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has passed another sales milestone.
Great game, and deserves all its sales. Ace Combat has always been a great series. I should replay AC7 again for the fourth time.
It’s unfortunate that Ace Combat8 won’t have vr, as the devs felt it would be too much work and they would be essentially making two games.
Would love a release of Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but I’d be fine with Ace3,4&5 remasters for PS5 with updated tightened controls.
Looking at the trailer my keu takeaways are
Rockstar claims when GTA IV came out the hd universe would be seperate from the PS2 era and characters wouldn't cross over but clearly.
Phil Cassidy returns as a gun seller
Maybe Brian has some relation to Avery Carrington
Jury is still out if Jason is a cop I feel like they are playing on that thread maybe he was a cop double-crosses have occured throughout the series from lance Vance to Michelle/Karen
The animations are beyond really anything we have seen meaning that even if this game is running at 30 animations will be fluid and it will still feel great.
This is captured on ps5 not ps5 pro I think we can expect 30 fps for the base model ps5
I don't feel like we will see this scalable to run on switch 2 or really any portable PC system I hope I'm wrong but the hair physics alone would Melt most portable systems. Xbox series s will be the bottom floor for this game.
R* attention to detail at that scale is beyond anything I have seen in gaming. They also have an immense amount of talent. And they made a catharsis machine that lets you be an as#h%&$ in it. You know, all the stuff people can't do in RL.
I'm excited for it but I'd rather just keep my expectations in check.
I bigged up GTAIV and was super disappointed with it where I felt like it had lost that "fun" factor the others had. I bigged up GTAV to the high heavens and even though I thought it was a solid game I didn't stick around as long as I would have liked upon completing the main game (Trevor should have really been the main and only character in my opinion).
I figure if I keep my hype levels low I'll enjoy it more, and the delay isn't bad, there's plenty of good games to keep us going until next May.
I just hope story wise they don't do any double cross / betray one another at the end of the game storyline, I feel it would be far too predictable. I'd rather them stick together and go out guns blazing Bonnie and Clyde style.