Leslie Benzis - lead producer

Probably just retire. 20 years is pretty standard in vidya

Lazlow on O&A was cool because they'd occasionally pressure him into dropping info about upcoming GTA games

Benzies is already developing a new game under his own company with two other ex R* employees. Think he's trying to make the next big MMO life sim.

>people only liked rockstar games because they were impressive and fun
Whoaa..

Way to give yourself out as a sub-human that can't get anything out of a video game unless he is acting like a 12 year old on GTA. Good job.

>videogame violence bad!!
dilate you fucking dominionist

>defending third-world sub-humans
Not a good look, Juanita. Don't you have to go to a BLM rally, or something?

I remember some former employees put up a bunch of reviews of their workplace and they said the Housers would just show up once in a blue moon and grill people to meet their deadlines.

everything’s got to end sometime. at least RDR2 was them going out at the top

>if you like gta that's the only game you can like
damn..rly makes u think

Ok.

>take two defense force, ASSEMBLE!
lmao what are you gonna do pussy? cry about it to some game magazine about how they're gonna ban GTA?

Yeah, if you like GTA you're mentally deficient and can't appreciate anything else. You'd probably be into The Last Of Us 2 or some other shit like that since that type of game gives out the same retard-friendly energies as GTA does.

Nobody likes take 2 user, you don't even what the threads about

Having any sort of video game preference doesn't make you smart, they're fucking games.

No more V-Rock?

I don't mind that GTA is dead, it just annoys me that there literally is only ONE just ONE gta clone that exists and it's shit. This is popular genre... make more games faggots

Mongo the trucker, you're on the air. MONGOOOOOOO!

>buy every GTA title
>claim you don't like take two
Oh no... It's retarded...

>Rockstar games always sucked ass and only gained traction because third-world sub-humans
Way to prove you'd literally never heard of the series before gtav. Stay in your zoomer containment threads please

What about chess?
>i-i-i-it's not a video game
It can be

I never claimed it make you smart. I said liking GTA made you retarded. I don't think I'm a genius for seeing past GTA's simpleton-friendly approach.

Who the fuck buys games because of the publisher? Is that something you do user? Because its deranged

Why? Because I'm not talking about GTA 1 or 2 or London? I'm not mentioning them because those three games might as well not exist based on the modern audience for GTA.

RDR and GTAV had the same bugs carried over from who knows how many previous games. Horrible multiplayer experience (and iirc it was one of those idiots who specifically resisted investing in multiplayer out of some stupid principle, when it was obvious to anyone GTAV multiplayer was, and is, the entire point of the game).

I have a feeling these old fucks were the reason the genre was stuck on modeling horse testicles instead of actually developing what mattered. Hopefully now we'll see some true change, so GTAVI and RDR3 can finally be worth playing.

I gurantee this guy's favorite games are some really embarassing weebshit

>12 year old on GTA
The fact that you call it "GTA" while referring to the online component of GTAV clearly marks you as underage.

This series is fucked.

If you don't like Take Two then why did you buy GTA 5 twice?

Hilarious how people like OP cling to the idea that Benzies lefting the company is bad when he was the guy who came up with the idea of GTA Online in the first place, the same game they say is destroying Rockstar.

What?

>those three games might as well not exist based on the modern audience for GTA
What the fuck are you even saying? I played 1 and 2, I'd buy 6 too.

take your meds

How delusional do you have to be to think that GTA hasn't been big with 12 year olds since GTA 3? Maybe you're the zoomer.

GTA4 wasn't very fun either, nor was LA Noire. Whatever they had for the 3 trilogy was lost long ago.

Smarter people will likely do better in chess with the same practice but in and of itself it won't make you a smarter person for playing it over checkers or whatever. A total dullard might have as much fun playing strategy games as someone with a high IQ might with DDR.

soul...they lost soul

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>I played 1 and 2, I'd buy 6 too.
What's that supposed to prove? That you're retarded?

Wonder if he'll head over to Benzies new based department

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Rdr2 is terrible. 1 wasn’t much better but it was the first of its kind so it was alright. 2 was just the same exact shit pretty much so who the fuck cares except people who never played the first. Story is boring and overly realistic in all the wrong ways. They could have made it pretty great even only if it wasn’t catered to consolefags who can’t aim, which spells for disaster for the gameplay in an era where the guns all have slow rate of fire

instead of shots counting, since you can’t aim with controllers, you have auto-aim, and the difficulty is in the fact that enemies are bullet sponges and or NEVER STOP COMING even though it makes no fucking sense especially for the setting

GTAO was bad for this reason too. You steal a shitty sports car from a gang and they send literally 50 people and 10 helicopters after you because you are a bullet sponge and if you die it’s completely inconsequential
Rdr2 online is even worse, it’s so fucking shit. Every mission is designed to waste as much of your time as possible, and none are actually difficult unless you’re pointlessly trying to do things that require groups as a solo player when it doesn’t even pay more. There’s no way to take more risk and get more reward by having high skill. It’s all about getting players to invest (waste) time and then making them bored so they fall for the sunken cost fallacy and pay 2 skip grind. Also the online of their games is generally just buggy trash

The people designing this shit just hamfist the campaigns just to make abysmally shit skinnerbox multiplayers where retarded kids throw even more money at them relative to the effort of developing it

They don’t even put multiplayer content in the singleplayer like cars or guns or weapon lockers, so you’re stuck having to scroll through 50 guns by the end of the game which is just garbage

Not to mention the complete lack of any effective anticheat on the only decent platform, PC

I hope they go out of business

The vast majority for the sales of all GTA games are in the US and Europe, so saying the popularity of the franchise was sparked by 3rd worlders is pretty fucking retarded user. The only reason its even popular in countries like Brazil is because of the series immense popularity in the culture exporting 1st world countries. But you already know all this youre just seething and lashing out for some reason

People do like to talk him up, that's true. I guess it's down to how he left the company in an outrage around the time GTA went to shit, but people overlook that this wasn't a question of integrity so much as a financial dispute.

>expecting that GTA, the biggest product in the world, will stop being a product just because a couple of old farts left the dev studio
Delusion.

WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS & MORE WORDS!!!
SHUT UP FAGGOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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why are you projecting all your actions onto me? Take your meds user

The fact that Lazlow had a lot of peeps from the channel in RDR was pretty awesome as well.

Why are you babbling about your white privilege? Is it because you can't disprove the fact that GTA 1, 2, and London are nowhere as popular, and aren't even known by the kids who started playing with San Andreas? Or maybe you can talk about how the franchise is just a product at this point, and anyone clinging to it is either mentally retarded, or just doing it out of sheer brand loyalty.

If I were the CEO of Take-Two, I would fund a The Orange Box-like product consisting in brand-new IPs produced by their studios to refresh the brand.

>he thinks people are actually going to read his shitty wall of text

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Good points. The previous replies are evidence that the GTA audience are just 12 year olds angry that people are dismantling their little toy world.

cringe

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This board has done nothing since 2013 but seethe over how "Rockstar is dead", "Rockstar lost its soul", "Rockstar this, Rockstar that", 'MUH OLD GOOD, NEW BAD". Meanwhile the company has two major hits back to back and its probably at the top of their game right now and even the rest of the industry agrees on that. But hey, let's keep playing doomer predictions like that its gonna change at any point now.

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Serious question. What the fuck can they do to make GTA V on PS5 worthwhile?

Yes user, a 12 years old blew my car in GTAO too.

samefag

Regardless of what Take Two orders Rockstar to do, you'll buy it anyways because you are a dumb corporate paypig.

I'll just keep playing better games while you, Paco, Tyrone, and little Timmy Alvaroz Johnson play whatever Online farce Rockstar craps out.

chatterbox in gta 3 was pure SOUL and kino

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The co-writer of your beloved RDR2 left Rockstar.

same fag

>you do things in the game and they are bad because I said so

The current discourse on game criticism has sure gone downhill since 10 hours youtube video essays became a thing.

>replies to all of the same post
This is the brain-power of the average GTA player, ladies and gentlemen.

>you'll buy it anyways because you are a dumb corporate paypig.
I only have bought retail copies of Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City for Microsoft Windows.

Unironically why did they all leave? GTAV was a piece of shit but RDR2 is arguably their biggest masterpiece.

fucking LAZLOW LEFT??????

after hauser and the benz left it was basically confirmed that GTA is dead and will never be the same, this is just the final nail in the coffin

>after 20 years
So how old is the guy? I assumed he's made enough bank to retire early

When I was growing up in Argentina nobody played GTA. It was all about Worms Armageddon.

Good for you. Why are you in this thread?

>unironically talks about white privilege
>thinks he has the rights to call anyone retarded
jej

cope kid

You're right. Americans do love gta.

How does Rockstar not self publish their games? With how insanely popular their games are you'd think they'd be able to self publish their own games unless they have some really long contract with take 2

Maybe because Take-Two has interesting plans.
>Engagement first, monetisation second
>Take-Two plans to only release games with 'recurrent consumer spending' hooks

Your personal experience proves nothing.

there is already plenty of arcadey western shooters out there, whats wrong with one trying to be more grounded?

There is no work being done to improve the gameplay in any significant way in rockstar games

All they’ve done is refine the controls. The missions are still ps2 era tier where even going slightly off the rails makes you fail instantly

I thought this was obviously implied in what I was saying though, or that everyone just realized this already

See

from how things are going we'll be begging and crying for the ''good old days'' of gta5 and rdr2

you just fucking know gta6 will be a complete shitshow and a travesty