Grand Theft Auto VI

Nope. It's relatively flat all over, with rolling hills and none of the rugged features of a mountainous area.

One thing I can say for certain, Tom Petty's gonna be stuck playing on a loop in my head for months lmao

Also interesting choice of song overall. Lyrics are about a relationship that decidedly isn't working out despite Tom's best efforts — maybe one of the themes of the story is Jason and Lucia's relationship straining due to the stress of the criminal life?

I honestly would've been okay playing as just Lucia, but we'll see how this story goes.

I'm 99 percent sure that is going to be the main plot of this game, yes. That song is rather blatant foreshadowing, now you mention it, which reinforces my prior comments on said plot.

Me too, and not just because the relationship struggle angle bores me already. We already did that with Michael and Trevor's bromance, why do it again?

Edited by Redmess on Dec 6th 2023 at 7:40:06 PM

I just found out that before the trailer leak that basically prompted Rockstar Games to release it early, there was another leak from the son of Rockstar North co-studio head.

"My dad works at Nintendo" in real life.

The mud-wrestler girl with the American flag bikini is already shaping up to be an Ensemble Dark Horse, especially on /v/ and Twitter.

Edited by HBomb on Dec 6th 2023 at 3:13:10 AM

That was my thought too, yeah.

So the previous games had those unmarked "stranger" missions that you could find throughout the world by exploring, and V upped the ante by making some specific to certain characters. Which, combined with some utterly deranged twitter post I saw by some paranoid alt-right type claiming the game is "woke" because Lucia "looks trans" (I know, drama importation, don't worry I won't go further), caused an idea for one of those missions to pop into my head.

Lucia's minding her business, passes a public restroom, and there's some crazy person "standing guard" to make sure that no "suspicious characters" get in. Their paranoia and bigotry grows more obvious and deranged with every subsequent encounter, until in the final one they accuse her of being "one of them" based on some truly Insane Troll Logic and subsequently get their ass beaten and/or killed for it.

Like, maybe a bit on the nose, but V had a stranger mission chain that ended with you saving a group of illegal immigrants from being killed by a neo-confederate redneck and his Russian nazi friend, so I think it fits

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Dec 6th 2023 at 2:52:13 AM

GTA woke, that would be the day...

Seeing the reaction of certain sorts online towards the trailer has convinced me that my generation has officially become the "boring adults." Waaay too many in my circles that got started with GTA III and even knew about the hookers or joked about how the "Hot Coffee" controversy was absurd now all of a sudden are worried Rockstar might take things too far this time.

Funny enough, the top youtube searches for awhile the other day weren't for gaming-sites sharing the trailer, or Rockstar's own, it was news outlets reporting on the announcement.

Digital Foundry uploaded a video analyzing the tech used in the 1st trailer of GTA VI.

Judging from the trailer, we might be getting a 30 FPS experience, like with Red Dead Redemption II and the 7th and 8th gen versions of GTA V (and the "fidelity" mode of the latter's 9th gen re-release). Though, I would be surprised if GTA VI will also receive a 60 FPS "performance" mode later on. IMO, I don't mind a 30 FPS framerate cap as long as there's smooth gameplay.

I'm just very curious to see how the protagonists compare to the king, Tommy Vercetti.

Sadly we probably won't ever see Tommy's character again due to Ray Liotta (his original VA) passing away a few years back.

And even if they did bring him back... Rockstar is notoriously brutal with their returning characters and their fates. Can't imagine an 80's drug kingpin having any sort of positive outcome.

Edited by SgtRicko on Dec 7th 2023 at 4:31:22 AM

I'm talking characterization wise tho.

Tommy Vercetti is the first GTA protagonist with actual character, motivations and backstory. Had all sorts of depth to him despite being a psychotic convicted killer.

On the subject of returning characters, could you imagine if some characters from GTA V's Online mode were brought back in GTA VI? I think they could bring back KDJ and Sessanta from the Los Santos Tuners update as Strangers & Freaks-type characters that would give Lucia or Jason street race missions. During one of their phone conversations, Jason or Lucia would tell KDJ and Sessanta to shut up, poking fun at the characters' unpopular reputation with GTA Online players.

"Could you two pipe down with your dirty talking? I'm trying to concentrate. I don't even know how the people you worked with in Los Santos managed to tolerate you."

Edited by IvanovTroping97 on Dec 7th 2023 at 12:52:18 PM

Honestly I would prefer/tend to prefer indie game trailers where we see gameplay first.

Youtube search seems to be a bit wonky anyway. I was searching for "bonfire" last week, and it refused to show me anything but pre-recorded fireplace and campfire videos.

Tommy would be born before around 1964, maybe as early as 1950 (he's not really a young man in the games, right?), so he would be at least as old if not older than Michael or Trevor (and remember that that game was 10 years ago, so add 10 more years to that age in V).

Tommy would be a pensioner around now.

The gameplay for this game is likely still being polished/tested at this stage.

Edited by Redmess on Dec 7th 2023 at 12:55:05 PM

GTA VI is already predicted to sell 30 million copies in its first year. This is based on the current console generation install base, and the rough percentage of those users who have bought GTA games in the past.

Help me understand.

What is an install base and how did that lead to predicting 30 million units would sell.

People who already own the PS5 or Xbox X. And then I guess the assumption that a certain percentage of those owners will buy GTA on release (assuming it doesn't also come out on PC at the same time, which GTA usually doesn't).

Edited by diddyknux on Dec 10th 2023 at 6:18:04 AM

Yes, and that assumption is about 20-25 percent, based on past GTA games. People who bought GTA V are likely to want to buy VI, so this is a pretty straightforward prognosis. This would be the baseline to see how well the game is actually doing.

The number is so high because V has been very successful.

Edited by Redmess on Dec 10th 2023 at 1:53:09 PM

I don't expect a PC port of GTA VI to be released until like a year or two after its initial release on consoles.

I remember when we had to wait about a year and a half before the PC version of GTA V came out, which was based on the enhanced PS4 and Xbox One versions rather than the original versions on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Which makes less sense these days, since Rockstar's had time to familiarize themselves with optimizing the RAGE engine on P Cs with GTAV and RDR 2, and both the PS 5 and Xbox are essentially heavily modded AMD P Cs anyways.

If that is the case, maybe the PC release will come a lot sooner. But console first has been their strategy for decades now.