Grand Theft Auto VI

I find that a weird offer, since just about everybody has San Andreas in at least two different places by this point. I've got a physical copy and the Steam version myself.

Still, free shit is free shit, so I might take it just for the principle of the thing.

No, you are required to install the launcher now, even if you bought it on Steam. GTA V now also requires the launcher.

Ars has an article on it, and they are not impressed. Yet another mandatory launcher to clutter up your disk space, just so they can throw ads at you every time you start a game.

So you can't launch GTA San Andreas offline without opening the Rockstar Launcher and login Rockstar Social Club?

I checked, and it seems you can play San Andreas without launcher, for now. GTA V will force you to install it once you try to start it up, though.

What about the others I own basically every GTA except V on my PC, do any of them require the launcher? Or can I put this off until the day I buy it there?

Well, since V is the only one with the microtransactions, I would say Rockstar does not care enough to enforce it for games that will not raise their profit margin anyway.

I was gonna install the Launcher until I read the softwares they wanted to install on my PC which includes a Steam Client.

Yeah, not gonna install it even if they give a free copy of San Andreas. I'll just wait until they'll release the game on gog.com or play the first 2 GTA games you can get for free or other GTA clones.

Well, at least Steam gives you access to many, many games old and new from a lot of studios.

Meanwhile, the Rockstar Launcher just gives you access to a handful of games from just one studio.

Rejecting it because it installs Steam seems a bit like missing the point.

Come on, Steam client at least isn't the Epic Store Launcher...

Rockstar is hiring, and it sounds a lot like a job for GTA VI.

Here is a taste of what flying around in the next GTA might look like.

Also some sad news as Dan Houser is stepping down after an extended break since last spring.

I actually loved that Rockstar introduced multiple playable protagonists, as it caters to any type of players out there. Now I hope that they're not going to limit themselves and get back down to just one. Is this even a plausible concern?

They basically removed huge chunks of the fun for IV and V, so anything’s possible, really.

I don't mind a single character game as long as the story is good. Having three protagonists was fun, but in the end it was still more a gimmick than anything else.

E3 has been cancelled.

To absolutely no surprise, and some fanfare.

Stop Believing Fake GTA 6 Leaks, Says Grand Theft Auto 5 Actor.

Basically, anything we've heard so far is nothing but clickbait and speculation.

A new game is unlikely for now, as V and Online are still doing very well.

Also, Dan Houser believed a new GTA game would be tricky in today's political climate. That would certainly be an added explanation of why the focus is so much on GTA Online right now.

No kidding. Kinda hard to satirize something today without getting somebody angry, especially when the people who take GTA far too seriously are the ones who'd most likely be the targets of it's satire right now.

South Park had the same dilemma over depicting Trump and current politics, but they soldiered on regardless.

And is anyone really playing GTA for the political satire?

...I'm... not playing just for that...

...but I'd be lying if it wasn't a big part of why I like it too...

The political satire is nilhistic and heavy handed to the point of absurdity, but I feel like it’s a package deal. GTA wouldn’t work in their minds without it. I mean, if you go too silly you just get Saint’s Row.

On the other hand, go too serious and you get GTA IV. It may be my favorite of the franchise, but it's absolutely the most tonally unusual of the bunch.

Personally, I've never liked GTA V's satire. It seems to hate and bemoan everything and anything, especially things that care about something, but similarly to my criticism of shit like Family Guy, it never comes around to any kind of understanding except 'Caring about things is stupid' or some other nihilistic drivel. The Main Characters then come across as a bit unlikable while the side characters are clearly framed as annoying, stupid, or shallow.

Personally, I also think it'd be hard to do satire in this climate because not only is the political climate about seriously fucked up things that kind of cross a line to joke about (We literally have concentration camps on our border at the same time as we're going through a mass pandemic our government just ignored...), some of the shit going on in this climate is also too absurd to make an insane satire out of; "Onion Goes Out Of Business Because They Cannot Make Up Shit More Insane Than What Is Going On Now" is a meme for a reason.

The biggest crime in the 2000’s and 2010’s according to most comedians was giving a shit. If you give a shit, you’re the enemy, shut up.