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Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ (www.bloomberg.com)
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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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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

GTA is more popular than HL by orders of magnitude. HL is popular, but HL3 has more meme power than anything. I don't think many console-only players care too much about Valve titles.

...Or maybe your comment is also part of the meme and went over my head.

Edit: But personally I also look forward to HL3 more... If it ever materialises :(

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    GTAV is one of the best-selling games of all time. I also prefer HL but there are hard numbers here.

    Even my 'non-big-gamer' friends talk about GTAVI coming out. It's FIFA, CoD, and GTA for that crowd.

    Edit: Second highest selling game of all time, only behind Minecraft, with RDR2 being no. 8.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're comparing a white whale (HL3) to a big fish (GTA VI)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    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.

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