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Well the games for sure haven't for the most part gotten any better. Maybe with the exception of the Rockstar games, like I totally get all the hate, but their games are also always next level.
And the dial up days lol. My dad wisely and thankfully got a second phone line.
Also I remember those underpowered computer days too lol. We got a 200 Pentium MMX the spring of 97, and that thing was cutting edge at first, but it quickly got pretty dated, like even around 2000 it was starting to struggle with some of the newer stuff. The old man insisted on riding it into the mid aughts. I was long and away at school and afterwards, with my own computers by then, but he rode that thing into the ground, and oh boy was it crawling at the end. We'd come home from school, where we had like wide open broadband, and have to suffer through Christmas break at dial up speeds lol.
Rockstar is so obviously just money grubbing for the last 5+ years that it is pathetic.
Yes, they do put out groundbreaking shit, truly S tier in many ways... but I won't be playing GTA6.
Oh boy, two idiot criminals have shennanigans happen to them in Florida while they look cool and hot and do crime and appear to be basically morons with no personalities.
Meanwhile the GTA6 youtubers spend months, fucking months, inventing new gameplay mechanics by noticing random details and doing pattern matching like a schizophrenic.
Remember when GTA4 had like... a really serious and biting commentary on US society?
And then GTA5 was basically 'nihlism, but expensive, and also infuriating!'
And now GTA6 seems to me to just be 'lol thug life, life fast die hard, respawn, do it again.'
... Sorry, I could apparently write a fucking novel on how disappointed I am with Rockstar, they realized GTA online was a Steam like money spigot and then just never looked back, ruined everything in the name capitalistic profit they once artfully, and sullenly, exposed.
I hate GTA online. Actually I have to admit I still don't understand the appeal of online gaming, it has never scratched the itch for me.
I'll play GTA 6, but I'm going to keep my expectations in check. I also agree, GTA IV was thus far the pentultimate. I really like RDR2 as well, both are definitely in my top 5.
RDR2 was legitimately fantastic, unbelievably good story telling in single player, astounding graphics imo.
But, it also has (had?) an online component, and dear god what a shit show. monestized as fuck, full of bling'd out cowboys and cowgirls, broken network mechanics and hackers everywhere... and they basically just abandoned it because GTA V online was way more profitable.
You can have a good time in an online game, but basically, you have to find a rather rare and niche game that has somewhere between a small to tiny community, that is actually both politr and has a good sense of fun.
Back in the day, you could find that with some clans for some games, but most of that devolved into toxic bs and petty power struggles.
perhaps ironically, many of the simulation level military/flight type games, some tactical shooters... basically stuff that by default has an older audience on average, thats usually gonna have at least a better chance of having a non toxic community.
but, on the other hand, if you just don't care for multiplayer games, i totally get that, most game players online are literally idiot racist children, lol.