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.
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 :(
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
