I have played every GTA before, some even got popular like Vice city for some reason. And I am not as hyped as everyone online. It’s just another GTA don’t make it more deep then it is. Back in the day people made GTA clones as a massive meme to make jokes.
I’m an absolute outlier at work (IT), as I’ve never even seriously tried modern gaming, let alone GTA.
It’s ironic, as I was big into 16-bit gaming until I was 15 in the 90s, but where I live it was social kryptonite and when drinking and the opposite sex came along I didn’t have enough social cachet to stay involved, so now I’m the odd one out, and I kinda regret being so swayed by what other people thought.
In my 30s I dipped into Portal and a few games but have literally never played an open-world online game.
However, my kids are nearly teens and love their gaming (albeit not GTA yet), so I’m planning on having a renaissance at some point, but who knows, maybe it’s too late. Definitely feel like I missed the boat.