How come Rockstar is way ahead of any AAA game-making company?

[LordWallDeMart]

They make one game every 5-7 years, but when they make it, dear lord, it becomes a benchmark for other games.

They know,

• the elements on making a good game (engaging gameplay, best plot, fluid game mechanics, alive environment etc.)
  
• the implementation to make a game as realistic as possible.
  
• how to cover a target audience
  
• how to consistently be really good

I cant stop wondering.



Share your thoughts!

[オナニー]

Yea they are way ahead. Using peer to peer instead of dedicated servers for online, having cheating problems, somehow having modders affect your singleplayer game, giving the greenlight for a broken remaster for a treasured series.

What a stunning company

[Alliesaurus]

They aren't.

[Masque]

GTA 5 singleplayer and Red Dead 2 singleplayer are indeed masterpieces, in every way.

Online? Hot steaming garbage, using the assets from the masterpieces.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Now only if their launcher would be equally ahead as well...

[Masque]

Цитата допису Rumpelcrutchskin:

Now only if their launcher would be equally ahead as well...

I finally got RDR2 on Steam last week -- now I finally have zero Rockstar launcher games.

The Steam version let me add the newest DLSS 2.5.1 dll, which the Rockstar launcher version doesn't. Unfortunately the Steam version also introduced audio crackling, which I fixed by changing the in-game buffer options and the bitrate in Windows settings.

But no more Rockstar Launcher is wonderful.

[Rhila]

Цитата допису ZR:

They make one game every 5-7 years, but when they make it, dear lord, it becomes a benchmark for other games.

They know,

• the elements on making a good game (engaging gameplay, best plot, fluid game mechanics, alive environment etc.)
  
• the implementation to make a game as realistic as possible.
  
• how to cover a target audience
  
• how to consistently be really good

I cant stop wondering.



Share your thoughts!

GTA 5 has no competition. there is no other option other than GTA 5.
like Fifa from EA has no competition. people forced to play Fifa, some of them hate Fifa but they cant quit.
i wish Ubisoft all success because they have all the tools to compete against Rock star games.
i am very excited for GTA 6 but also afraid it going to have the same online system peer to peer with no real servers. which is very unsafe.

[Hammer Of Evil]

i think rockstar is pretty bad. the applications it makes are technically sound and interesting to look at but, i'll compare it like this:

minecraft is a game for kids which treats you like an adult and gives you a ton of tools.

rockstar makes games for adults but treats you like a kid and gives you zero tools and forces you to play a single way.

edit: oh and the lack of anti cheat on their online. you can go and cheat on any rockstar game any time you want without any repercussions. they were manually penalizing people at one point, but that stopped after a year or so.

any dev that brings a game to online where pvp can be involved and doesn't have an anti cheat - instant dead game.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Цитата допису Hammer Of Evil:

minecraft is a game for kids which treats you like an adult and gives you a ton of tools.

rockstar makes games for adults but treats you like a kid and gives you zero tools and forces you to play a single way.

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[Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...]

i can't even buy lemmings on steam. ♥♥♥♥ rockstar. gta5 was ♥♥♥♥ and the only reason it sells is so single moms have a baby-sitter for their delinquent brats while they wait for them to get old enough to move out of the single-wide and into prison.

[LordWallDeMart]

Цитата допису piккµмi:

Agree.... Online is not good...

I was talking about how well they make games that stand aloof.

[LQIM]

Цитата допису videomike_Ultimate_Plushie:

Цитата допису Hammer Of Evil:

minecraft is a game for kids which treats you like an adult and gives you a ton of tools.

rockstar makes games for adults but treats you like a kid and gives you zero tools and forces you to play a single way.

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Me when the no chat report encrypted chat

[Masque]

Rockstar's biggest, most egregious artistic blunder:

The singleplayer GTA 5 was a work of art, and the online is just a cynical money grab.

The art -- the assets, the scenery, the city and whole map -- was wasted by not making at least two more entire games in the same setting, like they did with Lost and the Damned, and Ballad of Gay Tony. Like they did with old Liberty City and Vice City.

It's a sad shame, really, what could have been done with that city in singleplayer, in all these years since. It's like a city building an amazingly detailed Olympic stadium and Olympic village, using it for the Olympic Games one year, and then never using it, ever again, and letting it erode to ruin. You want to enjoy it still? Watch the 20xx Olympics on DVD. Again. And Again. The same f&&&&&& Olympics.

We live in the wrong timeline. This one sucks.

Come to think of it, they could have made two more entire games inside the vast, beautiful set of Red Dead Redemption 2, as well. But no. It was "single use". Like a paper plate.

[Dracoco OwO]

GTA V has more cheaters than basically any game i can think of at the moment.

[kilésengati]

I think we should wait until GTA:VI being released before praising Rockstar again.
They lost a lot of respect with me for not releasing singleplayer add-ons for GTA:V and RDR2 whilst simultaneously screwing the modding community multiple times and making their respective Online modes cheater-infested IP-leaking grindfests.
Their history with (self-)censorship isn't speaking for them either.

Now that the original creative leads have left, I don't think there's much good but luke-warm raked up garbage coming from that company.

Also who the actual ♥♥♥♥ buys Shark Cards?!

[Dracoco OwO]

Цитата допису kilésengati:

I think we should wait until GTA:VI being released before praising Rockstar again.
They lost a lot of respect with me for not releasing singleplayer add-ons for GTA:V and RDR2 whilst simultaneously screwing the modding community multiple times and making their respective Online modes cheater-infested IP-leaking grindfests.
Their history with (self-)censorship isn't speaking for them either.

Now that the original creative leads have left, I don't think there's much good but luke-warm raked up garbage coming from that company.

Also who the actual ♥♥♥♥ buys Shark Cards?!

I have a friend who loves to make fun of peoples that buy shark cards when you have random cheaters buying really cheap mod menus just cheating infinite money when they need it.