How did they trick the general audience into forming the consensus that they were the most prestigious highest quality developers of the finest games in the universe?
By nobody else being able to match them. Which is the definition of being the most at anything.
>>720243118Sell your games console-first. Console cucks are a) thirsty as fuck, you only need to make a barely-above-standard game to become the console's greatest masterpiece.b) Young, too young to compare your trash to better games from times where the bar was higher.By the time you release on PC, the retards' opinion of your game being the greatest thing to ever happen will not be swayed by anything.
their games are good. no tricks
>>720243118their singleplayer stuff was always mediocre but gtao has been the best multiplayer gaming experience of the last 10 years
/v/ wants rockstar to make a generic rbg gta with quest logs, crafting mechanics and dialogue choices so badly and it's pathetic.
>>720243118They only made the most iconic gaming franchise of all time?
>>720243118nobody makes gta likes anymore because they can't compete with gtao
>>720243193/thread
>>720243118they are legitimately exceptional in crafting detailed open worlds. a lot of the content within that is mediocre or even below average but not every dev can say they're literally the best in the world at something.
>>720244363this but ubisoft
>revolutionize gaming with GTA III's open world 3D environmentJust a trick!>expand on the positives of GTA III ten-fold with GTA:SA, introducing gigantic new map, new gameplay mechanics, well-written characters and storyline. Basically a Tarantino movie with Michael Bay-tier actionHa! Merely a simple ruse!>Prove to the entire world that gaming can be a medium used for serious story telling with GTA IV and releasing the best-looking, most in-depth game engine available at time of releaseA clever guise! But a trick nevertheless!>Print literal billions with their online gamemode for GTA V. Consistent free updates, the pinnacle of sandbox online gaming. 13 years after release still one of the most popular games in the WORLD.I am on to your tomfoolery, Rockstar!!>Release the most thoughtful, immersive, gorgeous game world ever created with RDR2. Largely agreed upon to be the literal MAGNUM OPUS of all of video games, with a free online-mode to boot.W-w-wait.... are they for real? No! It is simply a trick!!Kill yourself faggot ass OP bitch-made cocksucker. Rockstar is king, and for good fucking reason.
>>720243834Mario?
>>720243118they didn't. normies don't say that at all>inb4 but ecelebs abd journosgo ourside and ask
>>720243193/threadweeb faggot OP BTFO
>>720243118>you need to upload an ID to buy shark cardsGTAVI is DOA
>>720243118By making technically impressive city simulations
>>720243118>name their drm service "social club">use fancy fonts and flat design>not caring about gamers, making casual moviegames but in open world
>>720244649You deserve the slop you're eating, you cunt.
>>720245487He's not eating anything, Rockstar only put out one game in the last decade.
Why do PC vegans hate R* so much?
>>720243118Don't worry, GTA 6 will be extremely pozzed that it'll leave a negative reputation in the long run for future sales.
>>720245620He freeze-dried the remains and still picks at them, frugally.
>>720245696gta 5 already did that for me
>>720245721It's for the same reason that I listen to Radiohead more than any other band to this day. Why bother with more recent shit if there are better alternatives? For the sake of modernity? You are incapable of forming thoughts of your own.
They have the most money, dipshit
>>720244649>Prove to the entire world that gaming can be a medium used for serious story telling with GTA IV and releasing the best-looking, most in-depth game engine available at time of releaseCasuals are so funny.
>>720243118it kind of helps that they're the only AAA dev to not completely shit the bed yet the 3/vc/sa remake was a start to that though
>>720244651I'd argue GTA is comparable with Mario in terms of raw single release numbers and normie recognition. I don't think you zoomer new faggots are ready for the ocean of threads that are coming when GTA VI releases. During V's release in 2013 /v/'s catalog was flooded for months with endless GTA threads (and when GTA Online dropped). Half the reason /vg/ was made was as a containment board for game general threads like the endless GTAO threads.
>>720246056It's quite sad that normalfags didnt completely turn on Rockstar for releasing the same game 3 gens in a role and milking that shark card racket for a decade. Even worse many are defending the possibility of a $100 base game release price.
>>720246662i don't care about console pigs paying for their slop, as second class as rockstar treats pc it's been the better route for gtavgetting the modern console enhanced version for free was nice
>>720246662>in a rolein a row* I mean
During the PS2 gen they were just unstoppable. Banger game after banger game, and their experimental deepcut stuff like The Warriors, Bully, Midnight Club and Manhunt are still great to this day. That version of rockstar is GOATED in my opinion, but those days are long gone. They don't do cool shit like that anymore. OP's post is completely reasonable if he wasn't around to experience those times. It sucks becuase we know damn well once GTA 6 is out that's all we're getting for 20 years.
By releasing movieslop every 5 years and being secretive and le mysterious>secretive and mysterious = good
No one thinks that. They just spend hundreds of millions in marketing to pretend that they do.
>>720245913Wazzock.
I heard rumors that they had some journalists beat up a few years ago, over hitpieces and bad reviews. Probably not true but I find that "Darker side of the industry" shit to be interesting. I think it's what made all that gamergate stuff in 2014 stick becuase it came out Quinn was fucking and cucking multiple game reviewer people to shill her Depression Quest game.
>>720243118because no one could compete
>>720245679Because their games are always PS5/Xbox first and theyre coping. Hard.
>>720243118i never played a gta game and never intend to
>>720243118shrinking horse balls
>>720243704>gtao has been the best multiplayer gaming experience of the last 10 yearsLying on the internet isn't cool
>>720243118GTA peaked with San Nadreas and its only gone downhill since then
>>720243549cope all you want, pcshart, but you're not playing gta vi anytime soon. let the seethe and cope flow through your autistic brain.
>>720243193>go from a nobody studio in Scotland making a shitty racing game that had a half decent traffic system>find that it was more fun to play destruction derby and flatten people over sticking to the course>pivot and do this before jumping into the 3D era And the rest is history. The fact that everyone practically gave up to produce money laundering sloppa like Concord rather than give Cockstar a go at their own genre just shows how borked the whole thing is. You had attempts like Saints Row, True Crime, Sleeping Dogs, Mercenaries, Driver etc that all went the way of the Dodo. Nobody wants some gay narrative that beats you over the head with how much of a bad person you are. They just want a semi convincing openworld with the freedom to be an absolute bastard in. Any bonuses along the way like a simulated response from the world itself, good driving and some light RPG stats just add flavor to the whole experience.
>>720243118It's because 90 IQs like this guy >>720244649 are extremely impressed when you jangle a hundred different keys in front of them
>>720247085>released tons of games in the space of one gen>EA kneecaps the entire industry by buying out Renderware and forcing everyone to pay them a toll>Rockstar decides to try their own hand at engine creation while buying exclusive rights to the Euphoria physics engine>sets them back by four years to make GTAIV that is practically a step down from SA just from the lack of planes, trains and a few automobiles
>>720243118By getting a couple kinos under their belt. Now when they release shit on a stick people will tell you its gold
>>720243118Because they literally are. RDR2 is still the greatest looking and technologically advanced game yet and it's been 7 years.
>>720243118I'm being deadass here. I enjoy Ubisoft games more than Rockstar games.
>>720243118By being the poster child of video game controversy. Every time something happened and people quested if video games made people violent it always showed GTA as the example.
>>720250862Frankly, Saints Row 1 and 2 were more fun to play than any GTA ever released.
>>720244649Delusional
>>720253492they can make good games but i swear they drank the open world juice and never recovered
>>720253492Rockstar games are kinda boring to me.
>>720254817The first two Saints Row were the most fun I've ever had with an open world game. Three onward are a travesty.
>>720254817>had the perfect opportunity to make up the void that GTAV has left for the last decade>squander it all for some chump change that Uncle Larry may or may not have given youSaints Row 1 and 2 must've been living rentfree right up until they handed in their liquidation papers. You already had your fun with the wacky dildo swords and time traveling. But the thought of going back to the second game was enough to make you shoot yourself in the back of the head twice. Because death is preferable to making the game that a vocal minority wanted. Doesn't help that Idol Ninja's work on the port practically went out with him.
GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas are dogshit to play, there i said itI spent hundreds of hours in those games as a kidBut as an adult with a brain i can see they are dogshit that was impressive/unique for the time
>>720256346filtered
>>720243118What the actual fuck are you talking about.
>>720243118>watch GTA 5 trailer 1>looks pretty much like the final game>watch RDR2 trailer 1>looks pretty much like the final game>unmatched and autistic levels of detail in their games>very entertaining hollywood-esque stories and direction>reactive open worlds that actually feel lived in instead of being simple playgrounds like Ubislop gamesWe can argue all we want about the mission design, controls, slow gameplay or whatever but in the end it's not that hard to understand why the masses enjoy their games so much. Also they usually don't lie in their marketing in terms of what their games look like, the shit you see is pretty much what you get in the game and I think people value that, although I'm still finding it hard to believe they made a game look like what they've shown in the trailers for VI with hardware from 2019. I'll have to see it with my own eyes running on my PS5 to believe it.
>>720255167Their design is outdated and has been for over a decade>>720255282I even liked SR3 but you're right about the rest
>>720243193I'd say Naughty Dog is or at least was better until the woke shit.
>>720243118They made a few unmatched masterpieces in the early 2000s, back to back. They have gone downhill though, and now their reputation is maintained by nostalgia and peer pressure, not by masterpieces.
>>720256192You mean to say they rather go bankrupt and be homeless than make another Saints Row?What? You ok anon?
>>720243118This medium is for retards so go figure
>>720243118because they are?name a better studio
Because of all the good games they made
>>720256735Uncharted 4 looked absolutely gorgeous but they lied their asses off with rhe reveal trailer about how the game truly looked. And it was a pretty linear game so in the end I still think making RDR2 look like that on a PS4 is a way more impressive feat.Same with TLOU1, it was gorgeous but it ran like shit, meanwhile Rockstar made GTA 5 run mostly okay on a PS3.So in the end I still give the edge to R*
>>720243118They took all of the money that they made from being edgy and anti-establishment during the Bush administration and dumped it into impressing dumb casuals.
