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New GTA is coming 8 years after Red Dead Redemption 2. EIGHT YEARS. GTA III to San Andreas was just 4 years. The last GTA was 12 years ago.

A lot of people found the gameplay of Red Dead Redemption 2 to be boring as fuck. But the thing is they put in a LOT of money into a lot of pointless little technical "realism" aspects. Does your horse's balls rising up when he gets in colder parts of the map really make the game much better? Not really but for jaded game critics they'll go "wow never seen that before!" 10/10

Anyway OP reminiscing about "when dev teams were all composed of a bunch of regular nerdy dudes?" is flawed since a lot of the most successful modern games since DOOM were made by even less than 6 people (Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddies). You might not like those games but now is probably a better time to be an Indie dev. John Carmack is super proficient at programming but I doubt he has anywhere near the money of Notch for Minecraft or the guy who made FnAF.

Sure it's not EVERY dev team but lots of Indie games still getting pumped out by a small number of nerdy dudes.