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[–] glimse 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Female main character?? What is this woke agenda garbage??? /s

Felt kind of weird to see gta with more realistic movements. Not complaining, the whole thing looks really good

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow this post was fast lol, only 18 minutes ago

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I got that thumb on the pulse haha. Jk, the person I was watching pulled it up.

[–] SharkyAttack 14 points 11 months ago (10 children)

How does the video have 86,000 views and 2.1m likes? What am I missing?

[–] NIB 14 points 11 months ago

Views dont update in real time.

[–] BassaForte 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] SharkyAttack 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My question is of mathematics, not popularity. Sorry I wasn’t more clear, I am excited for the game too!

[–] BassaForte 1 points 11 months ago

Ah. Like count updates faster than view count.

[–] chemical_cutthroat 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Everyone here is missing the point that the video has more likes than views, by a few orders of magnitude...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's because after a certain point, YouTube stops updating the view counts in real time. Some other stats (such as likes) will still update, though.

[–] SharkyAttack 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, thank you. I get what the massive appeal to the game is. I’ve played all the GTAs (yes I’m old), but something is fucky if it has that many updoots and not even 100k views (at the time).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Views don't update in real time but likes do. Always happens with big videos like this. It's something to do with YouTube reconciling the view counts across multiple servers, which gets very difficult with large numbers. It's a bit easier for them to create a stable like count when each user can only like it once, so they're essentially adding that user to a list and then counting the length of the list.

[–] SharkyAttack 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting, thanks for explaining!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is the most expensive game ever built.

[–] SharkyAttack 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I get that. I’m excited for it too. My point is 80k views but 2.1 m likes. How could 2.1 m people like it when it hasn’t even been viewed 100k times yet? As soon as you load the page it’s a view, so at least 2.1m people would have had to open the video to like it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It was linked through a third party like twitter.

[–] Doorbook 0 points 11 months ago

The view counter is different than the like counter. If checked after a couple of days most likely we would say the views more than the likes.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

More expensive than Star Citizen?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

GTA is the most successful media franchise of all time.

[–] MajesticSloth 1 points 11 months ago

It is way down the list, not even top 30. Pokémon tops all at 88 billion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You're looking at the sequel to the game that is still within Steam's Top 10 active player count, 8.5 years after its release.

https://steamdb.info/app/271590/charts/

People have been speculating on GTA6 for well over 5 years at this point, it's no surprise this announcement is popular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

YouTube view counts can lag a few hours behind when videos get sudden huge views like this

[–] kromem 2 points 11 months ago

YouTube probably updates views on a periodic basis and likes in realtime.

My guess is you'll see views as higher than likes once activity dies down and the latter catches up to the former.

[–] Skipcast 2 points 11 months ago

The video was up early with a premiere scheduled, so people could start liking it before the video was available.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Money. Money buys everything.

[–] RGB3x3 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Coming 2025

Fuck me, it's still at least a year and a half off. I'd bet it's either coming September or November 2025 or being delayed until 2026.

Which would make it at least 12 years since GTA 5's original release. That's absolutely nuts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

better than releasing a half finished game that is unplayable in the first 6 months and then barely playable for another 6months and only with the dlc 3 months later they bring features they promised on release.

Dont get me wrong i'd love to play RIGHT NOW, but i'd rather wait for a polished experience than to get disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

100% it’s a good thing they are taking their time.

[–] RGB3x3 1 points 11 months ago

IDK, I said the same thing about Cyberpunk, No Man's Sky, Diablo IV, Starfield, and what feels like every other AAA game that comes out these days.

Delays and long development times no longer mean quality, if they ever did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That can't be right, GTA 5 just come out in.....fuck.

[–] kromem 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's almost unbelievable that the graphics are this good.

Rockstar always releases their first trailer a little under 2 years out from the planned release date, so 2025 was no surprise.

Also, they are one of the few developers who release the first trailer where it really looks like the end product, so I know it's legit, and the hair indicates there's FSR, so it really does seem like this is what we might see on release - but that's still kind of mind blowing given the gap between this and what's been out so far.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 1 points 11 months ago

I think FSR should not be in any game at launch. Too many developers use it as a crutch to hide bad performance and optimization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely unreal. 50 million views in 9 hours. The game looks amazing! First viewing I was a little underwhelmed, but watching the trailer again on a bigger screen and it does really look fucking great! This is going to be the biggest selling game in history, without a doubt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

For some, that game never truly died.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell it's in Vice City. Cool!

[–] BowtiesAreCool 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Was it the giant VICE text that gave it away?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

maybe lol. GTA VI(ce)? VCI airport was the first tipoff for me, half a minute before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think it was just the general Florida-man vibes that gave it away for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Predicting a Jeffrey Epstein mission at West Palm Beach

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Only have to wait till 2025...

[–] CADmonkey 2 points 11 months ago

I wish one could play GTA games without the stupid Rockstar account.

[–] VelvetStorm 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Definitely won't be able to run this with my 2060 super lol also won't be paying 150 bucks for it assuming that rumor stays true.

[–] objectionist 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it was never true in the first place, just a ginormous misunderstanding

[–] VelvetStorm 1 points 11 months ago

Well, thank god for that. Now I just need to be able to completely rebuild my pc to be able to run this at the low end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

bear in mind that R* now distributes GTA V with Razor1911 cracked binaries because of how much better they are performance wise than R*'s own

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have liked all the GTA's except 4. I'm sure I'll get this one too. I hope that the single player campaign brings back some of the niceties from San Andreas. I want to have a garage of cars, rare ones that I've found and customized, and I want to be able to wreck them and be able to get them back from garage (without having to buy them again). Same with planes/boats/etc.

I.E when I play through the game I should be able to permanently unlock things, not have to repurchase them with basically micro-transactions, even if the money is easy to get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Man I loved 4. So many people seemed to dislike it but I thought it was a fantastic game and a MASSIVE step up from the previous gen titles (in graphics and physics etc.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The physics in 4 were the best in the series IMO. The car handling was perfect, and not MidnightClub-style arcadey (point and vroom).

Plowing through pedestrians at the park had real replay value in GTA IV, with very interesting reactions each time. In GTA V this became somewhat canned in terms of animation diversity.

GTA IV felt grimey and real to me. I loved it. Just wish they had planes and parachutes (albeit Ballad of Gay Tony brought the latter in)