GTA 6 and Ocarina of Time, Pokemon Combat, Moonlighter 2 - The Shane Satterfield Show Episode 31

Greetings and welcome to Boss Fight, which is a segment that gives me a chance to discuss some of the hot button topics in the games industry for the week.

And I'm just going to be honest, I just got done watching the whole Grand Theft Auto 6 Netflix extended look thing.

And I watched it, I went online, kind of checked in on all the communities to see what they think of it.

Checked our community to see what people think of it there.

Trying to get the feedback on how people have reacted to it.

And I'm going to share how I've reacted to it as well.

But I think what I want to discuss here is expectation.

And how maybe we need to lower our expectations a notch or two because I think what we've discovered through this entire process with Grand Theft Auto 6, which has lasted 13 years at this point, I think what we've discovered is that there's never going to be another game that just completely rewrites how the big-budget AAA game space operates, works, etc., etc.

So, look, it's not 13 years of development for Grand Theft Auto 6.

It has been.

But they restarted it at least twice, at least according to my sources say that they restarted it twice.

And that this latest version is roughly seven years old or something like that, once they kind of locked down what they were going to do.

Most developers never get seven years to work on a game.

Naughty Dog is an exception.

But there aren't many other exceptions.

So what we're seeing here, I believe, with Grand Theft Auto 6 is the ultimate achievement of what money and really skilled game developers can accomplish with unlimited resources, unlimited time, unlimited money.

And so the reactions I've seen across the internet for this reveal, the GTA fans are losing their freaking minds.

They think it's the greatest thing they've ever seen.

And I'll get to my impressions of it here in a minute.

At least certain aspects of my impressions.

I want to save some of that stuff for Game Face, obviously, with Matt.

But it appears that the fans are losing their frickin' minds, and it's, like, their dream game.

And then I think you have this other segment of people who have never really liked GTA on principle.

And I'll honestly say that I have not been a big fan of GTA throughout my life.

I do not like games that glorify random violence or... harming other people for no reason, or just kind of mean-spirited gameplay.