Rockstar Games (pre-2021)

Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City, United States. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of mh:crappygames:Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had previously acquired from Bertelsmann's BMG Interactive. They're best known for publishing the Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club, Red Dead and Max Payne franchises.

Notable games

 * 1) Grand Theft Auto series
 * 2) Manhunt series
 * 3) Smuggler's Run series
 * 4) Midnight Club series
 * 5) Red Dead series
 * 6) Bully
 * 7) The Warriors
 * 8) L.A. Noire
 * 9) Max Payne series

Why They Were Rockstars Back Then

 * 1) Set the bar for open-world games with the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead franchises.
 * 2) They made some of the greatest video game franchises of all time, such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead, and Max Payne.
 * 3) Unlike some other companies, Rockstar actually takes time to polish their titles before release.
 * 4) They also really care and keep close to their fans, and have a lot of fan service in their games such as the "UFO" and "Aliens" myths that were famous in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that came to live in Grand Theft Auto V.
 * 5) All of their games tend to have awesome stories with really memorable characters, such as GTA San Andreas.
 * 6) Rockstar's games were known to be incredibly dedicated to details to make the games life-like as possible and inserting lots of extra content to increase the value of playing them. Many of their open-world games (specially Grand Theft Auto) tend to have lots of mini-games and quests that are really fun, such as racing, flying or fighting.
 * 7) *Related to the above, their games contain lots of Easter Eggs to discover.
 * 8) *Before focusing themselves to GTA Online, they were still dedicated to their games during the 2010 era in which they gave their games DLCS and expansion packs like with GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption. Despite egregious microtransactions, the amount of content is still worth mentioning the commitment of keeping GTA V alive even if it overstayed it's welcome.
 * 9) They always side with gamers over SJWs. For example, when GTA V was pulled from Target and K-Mart stores in Australia after it was falsely accused of "promoting violence against women", Rockstar's CEO Sam Houser stated that "If you don't like our games, then don't buy them!"
 * 10) When their publisher partner company mh:crappygames:Take-Two Interactive discontinued the OpenIV modding tool for "allowing third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify their software in violation of Take-Two's rights" (even though OpenIV cannot be used for cheating), Rockstar apologized to fans for Take-Two's actions and later re-released OpenIV.
 * 11) When they created Grand Theft Auto Online, it was a good one. That and the company used to be good until 2016.

Bad qualities
They started going downhill in 2021 after mh:crappygames:Grand Theft Auto Online wrecked their reputation, thus warranting Rockstar their own page on the Crappy Games Wiki.

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