If you mean the rating of Rockstar games, it’s as close to a fact as it can get. Ratings for every GTA since 3 up to RDR2 has been, on average 90+/100. Each game is considered a cult classic. It’s the consensus.
What else needs to happen for a piece of media to be considered “good”?
Sure but that’s not measuring ambition or impact, just what individual players/cricits thought of the game. That has nothing to do with what you said.
Also, forgot about this when typing the initial reply, but your claim was not that the game was “good”, it was that it was “it’s still the most ambitious and massive piece of interactive media produced by humanity so far.” (literally copied from your comment).
How is that claim not a fact? Do you know of anything more ambitious or expansive?
Whichever metric you choose, resources invested, size and detail of the world, size of the script, there’s nothing that compares.
How is that claim not a fact? Do you know of anything more ambitious or expansive?
Define ambitious and expansive. If by expansive you just mean big world, that’s not saying much. And by that definition there are even more expansive games, ones that are procedurally generated for example. And the term ambitious is even more ambiguous.
resources invested
Sure, but that doesn’t say anything about the quality of the game or your claims of “most ambitious and massive”.
size and detail of the world
We don’t know anything about this besides marketing.
size of the script
We also don’t know this.
there’s nothing that compares.
You’re right, because there’s nothing to compare. The game hasn’t released yet.
Historically, Rockstar hasn’t lied about their claims. This isn’t about ads or hype it’s just extrapolating. Every entry has always been the most ambitious and their claims held up. Until they lie, one can safely assume the next one will be as well.
Not to mention there’s plenty of official and leaked gameplay footage.
Also, I never said that just dumping resources into something makes it good, but it certainly does make it ambitious.
You state that as if it’s a fact. It’s just your opinion.
If you mean the rating of Rockstar games, it’s as close to a fact as it can get. Ratings for every GTA since 3 up to RDR2 has been, on average 90+/100. Each game is considered a cult classic. It’s the consensus.
What else needs to happen for a piece of media to be considered “good”?
Sure but that’s not measuring ambition or impact, just what individual players/cricits thought of the game. That has nothing to do with what you said.
Also, forgot about this when typing the initial reply, but your claim was not that the game was “good”, it was that it was “it’s still the most ambitious and massive piece of interactive media produced by humanity so far.” (literally copied from your comment).
How is that claim not a fact? Do you know of anything more ambitious or expansive?
Whichever metric you choose, resources invested, size and detail of the world, size of the script, there’s nothing that compares.
Historically, Rockstar hasn’t lied about their claims. This isn’t about ads or hype it’s just extrapolating. Every entry has always been the most ambitious and their claims held up. Until they lie, one can safely assume the next one will be as well.
Not to mention there’s plenty of official and leaked gameplay footage.
Also, I never said that just dumping resources into something makes it good, but it certainly does make it ambitious.