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If its fake it's some amount of effort gone into it. I think there is too much in the hour long footage for it to be fake. The attention to detail to it being in gta universe would be impressive.

A lot of the character movement looks very clunky, so it's definitely a Rockstar game anyway.

The video of the diner robbery pretty much shows it's legit. A blend and evolution of the heists from GTAV and RDR2.

I'm thinking Rockstar release a lot of info and a teaser sometime in the next few days to get one up on these leaks.

It is probably out of date by now, and seen as how the game probably isn't coming out for 2+ years I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I agree with your criticisms though, RDR2 was the last straw for me, I am not putting up with their clunky controls anymore. There is no excuse for it anymore. Their awful context-sensitive mission design needs to **** off too.

I have only watched about 2 mins of one of the videos but yea, hopefully they learn their lessons. I'm OK with them adding more systems like a backpack etc - as fiddly as it was that wasn't the problem with RDR2 and I could get used to it. They need to fix the controls and the awful mission design. It is really irritating that they spent all that time and money on an immersive open world with all these complex systems but every single mission devolved into either a shootout or riding/driving away. Everything outside of that is a context sensitive button-pressing exercise. It is no different than it was 20 years ago, it just looks nicer. The genre has moved on since then and they need to catch up.

YOUTUBER DANALLENGAMING EXPOSED AS BEING “THEREALINSIDER

Saw this go down last night, the below thread has more info

That Era thread is mad, when people like this leak info they lap it up like crazy, then he gets exposed and they are calling for his head. What he did was **** but actively hoping for the giant corporation to sue him into poverty is just weird.

As far as I'm concerned his biggest crime is using the word 'addicting'. Why do Americans insist on using this word when it has absolutely no reason to exist?

I feel the exact same way about Star Wars fans. Much like Grandpa Simpson, apparently I am not what is referred to as a Star Wars fan anymore, and what is considered a Star Wars fan seems strange and confusing to me (as well as sexist, racist, homophobic with the mental age of a 10 year old).

These new Star Wars fans hate The Last Jedi way more than TROS, but if you REALLY wanted to annoy them you would point out that the lead actor in the Acolyte is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns. That should make their head explode.

So, game companies stopped engaging with reputable games journalists, instead deciding to go the route of working with 'influencers' of dubious moral fortitude, buying favour by dazzling them with paid trips to see games, early builds etc?

'Well well well, if it isnt the consequences of my own actions' , springs to mind.

Did they stop engaging with reputable games journalists though? Even then, you would expect that influencers would be happy to get the early access and would adhere to the NDAs, especially because it would allow them more access in the future with other companies and build their channels. It's entirely mutually beneficial, but subject to strict NDAs which are legally binding.

This guy was apparantly doing really well. I think I read on that Resetera thread that he's doing a playthrough of Red Dead Redemption with the guy who voiced John Marston. I don't think games companies can be blamed for trusting him.

Think I saw a tweet somewhere from Alanah Pearce (may have been an old one that someone retweeted, can't seem to find it again) that for the NDA for RDR2, she had to agree not to play it with her screen facing a window and had to lock the console away when she wasn't there. Whether she or others actually did all that or strictly adheres to every point in the agreements is one thing. But this Dan guy literally had another account and was purposefully and publicly leaking information subject to the NDAs. The fault and consequences are his alone to bear.

I would say that the industry as a whole did move away from press releases etc and have gone the route of less traditional coverage. Even the most recent call of duty reveal was packed with heads who spend 99% of their time on YouTube or twitch bitching about this and that in the game, but once they were all on the red carpet for the event it was nothing but fawning over Activision. It's just awful disingenuous.