Massacre

Well, shit. Now I want it, too.

Finally, a Madden game that looks like it might be fun for a few minutes. They should call this intentional so it'll look like they did something new, for the first time since the franchise started.

YER TOO FUCKIN' FAT AN' JESUS DON'T WANT YA BREAKIN' THE GODDAMN PEWS, YOU FAT BITCH. IF YA CAN'T SQUEEZE YER FAT ASS INTO THE CONFESSION BOOTH, THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO CONFESS IS THAT YOU NEED TO LAY OFF THE FUCKIN' BURGER SHOT. Every picture of Doug includes a caps lock caption, in my mind.

*Ships bobs up and down in the water, cannons at the ready* *Everyone in the session is DMing downtown* "Hey, guys? Can someone come to the coast, please?" "... Guys?"

This seemed to fit better than Shelley.

*Emails Rockstar*

I thought you were going for lumberjack. Ah well, either option specializes in the handling of wood. Ba-dum-tsh.

FUCKING QUITTER

Blue vest. Wal-Mart greeter. Done.

I can't find my banjo anywhere.

There's a lot of class in this image.

They wouldn't do what they'd need to do in order for heists to be worth the wait. Las Venturas cannot stand on its own as the setting for a future GTA. There isn't enough there. They need to bring in LV for story mode and online, with an entirely new singleplayer story revolving around hitting major casinos, and the three protagonists acquiring their own casino, a la San Andreas. For GTAO, maybe they could use the new location to give us some kind of story and tell us why we should give a fuck about any of the missions we're offered, because I have plenty of money, meaning my character has no reason to do anything for anyone. None of this will happen, of course. It would be too smart and enjoyable. Heists will end up paying $100k, tops, with the smaller banks throughout the map possible to rob for a $50k take. There might be some stylish new masks for us (including the gas mask I should've had from day 1), and maybe, if we're lucky, some better housing. Dare I say... mansions? Even that's too generous, I'm sure. It won't be worth the wait.

Neither of those things have been announced yet. When they are, we'll have it on the front page immediately.

I'm hoping for the same thing, but so far all we've gotten is insignificant fluff for GTAO, a year with no heists, and not a word about story mode DLC other than "soon" I'm having trouble being optimistic about it.

If you get involved, I'm kind of obligated to also hire GunSmith to be our weaselly accountant. Our filthy, sniveling, gold-hoarding, universally-loathed utter scumbag accountant.

Indie studio Undead Labs renewed my faith in zombie games, so, yeah, if it comes to it, hopefully someone does the same with open-world crime games. I could always start a studio of my own. Dup? bOnEs?

I'm trying to withhold judgement about their potential sellout status until GTA VI. I know GTAO is still one big, greedy pile of shit and shekels, but I'm not willing to declare time of death for GTA as a whole, yet. It's not an easy pill to swallow when you were raised by GTA. A lot of us were.

Can you stop reinforcing my concerns that GTA V's success made them sellouts? Fuck, man, go to bed. Also, the original Silent Hill (haven't seen the sequel) has been the only good video adaptation, thus far. Box office aside, Need for Speed was painful to watch. The deep pit of fail that is the game movie genre should keep Rockstar and GTA at bay, at least until Assassin's Creed and Warcraft are out. If those movies turn out well, then every game company is going to start making horrible decisions.

Link. No, I'm not finding it myself. Rockstar has been saying for years they wouldn't do a GTA movie, but they certainly wouldn't need Activision for anything if they have indeed changed their minds. A GTA movie is a terrible idea, no matter who has the rights, but that's beside the point. There's nothing worthwhile Activision could do for them that they couldn't ultimately do on their own. All they have to offer is money, just like EA, and Rockstar makes plenty on their own.

Take-Two will make more money as they are now than if Activision bought them. A little stock bump is meaningless, in the long run.

*Begins emailing Rockstar about beards for women* Fucking Rockstar.

Couldn't happen that way. At best, they'd end up merging, like Activision Blizzard. Activision does not have the money or weight to push Take-Two into pushing Rockstar into fucking up GTA any more than GTAO has. Activision would lose more than they'd gain, trying to make GTA into anything other than what Rockstar wants it to be. Besides, do you really think Take-Two and Rockstar want to share all that money they're making from raping GTA?

You and I tried to play one time within the first month of release, and I was living in the middle of nowhere, using a 3G phone signal for internet. Mercy and I didn't start playing until I'd already gotten real(-ish) internet. By that time, you weren't playing anymore.

Why a playlist? Why don't you guys just meet up like usual and wing it from there? I don't get it.

Mhm.