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GTA 6 is a retro revival of the series now, GTA has been without a new release for longer than Mega Man was when Mega Man 9 came out. Same time gap between sequels as Prince of Persia. Wii games were still releasing when GTA 5 came out. Also GTA was never good.
I was talking to someone about the time gap and the overall timeline of GTA games a couple months ago, and pointed out that the length of time between GTA 5 and GTA 6 has been the same amount of time and longer than the time between the first and last entries in the entire series before GTA V:
the end of history
we are not that far from this point with elder scrolls and fallout also
A main entry for Elder Scrolls is 15 years so far. Fallout is 11 years.
i guess fallout is still a ways off. but arena to skyrim was 17 years. almost there
Arena to Skyrim you had 4 mainline games and 3 spin offs. Modern AAA gane development has slowed to a crawl.
you're right, gta 3-san andreas were great.
Real kids played driver 3. The miami freeroam music plays in my head sometimes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3w91tvdVC0
:this:
Unironically i love Driver 3, it was basically GTA IV on the ps2/xbox for kid me. Also Driver 1 and 2 are cool too, Driver 2 had Rio de Janeiro and Havana as playable cities.
I adore driver 1 on ps1 and its goofy af music
That tutorial mission tho
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I'm confused by the Mega Man comparison: if you mean between 8 and 9 (12 years) there were so many entries in the other series (especially Battle Network) that I don't think it qualifies. It's not like there was a parallel GTA series the past 13 years.
Otherwise the gap between 10 and 11 was 8 years, between 11 and the new game next year will have been 9 years.
I mean between Rockman & Forte and Rockman 9, a decade, less if you count the GBA version :) and yeah other Mega Man series did go on in that time, but people still crowed for a new classic Mega Man.
Also to be fair, most of the subseries had run their course by that point. ZX Advent in 2007, Star Force 3 in 2008. I do note how long it takes for new megaman games to come out though! Megaman once a decade!
Much has been written about Inafune's departure as a cause, but somewhere I heard an interesting fact that around that time, Capcom was also changing how new entries were approved.
Mega Man was never big sales-wise. Only Mega Man 11 has exceeded 2 million copies after a steady trickle over 7 years; the number of games that exceeded 1M is in the single digits. But the games were cheap to make so they still achieved high ROIs, which at the time was enough to greenlight a sequel, but then they started prioritising total sales volume.
Star Force 2 and 3 sold less than half of what the latter Battle Network games achieved, ZX didn't catch on and if you look at reviews of the time, critics were sick of what they saw as cheap, samey sequels flooding the market with outdated gameplay.
Now Capcom wants to harness more "core IPs" and keep them relevant by interspersing occasional new games with rereleases of older games and cameos in other games (Mega Man is in Fortnite now). That way they hope to prevent either absolute silence or "oversaturation".
I know this thread is about GTA but c'mon, look at my pfp.
Y'know, the sales thing gets me. When the famicom was current, the ~2m sales that Mega Man 2 made were very big numbers. The series just kinda got outclassed by Capcom's later hits like Street Fighter II, (12m units on home platforms alone by 1994) Resident Evil, (over 5m on PS1 alone, game also had PC and Saturn ports) and Monster Hunter. (PSP entries selling 1-4m units per entry, World selling 30m units) Idk why Mega Man never hit it massive though. Difficulty? Seems weird, but the clamoring for Megaman online is always way louder than the sales let on..
This is nasty as hell to me. I know they made like eight or nine RPGs in as many years between Battle Network and Star Force, but tbh I've always thought the MM seeies broadly was really versatile. Also "outdated" is so silly.
Sure would be nice to see them do that Mega Man X9 they teased in the X Legacy Collection...... or a new Legends 3 Idk.......
Also na this is a Mega Man General Megathread now