Trailers are an intrinsic part of game advertising; some would even say the most important part. And if social media users’ reactions to Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V‘s gameplay trailer are any indication of the game’s future performance – it’s going to be one hell of a ride.
In fact, it was so good it made Hideo Kojima depressed. The nearly 5-minute long gameplay trailer full of criminal craziness dropped Tuesday and at the time of this writing has accrued over 90,000 mentions on Twitter, according to Topsy. What’s more, the trailer generated more than 4,500 YouTube comments (many of which revolved around masturbation – who knew self pleasure could be so closely aligned with gaming ). And being the strange beast that the internet is, somebody took those comments and put them over beautiful sunset photos to create the Tumblr Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Comments. Let’s just say, people of the interwebs got a little weird.
But with reason. The addition to the GTA franchise is the first since Grand Theft Auto IV back in 2008, making for the longest gap ever between games in the series. Fans were certainly bursting for another taste of the Los Santos mayhem.
Below are just few reactions our team got a kick out of:
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Some of it got a little weird:
