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As a PC-only gamer, I suppose this means that I won't get to play this until late 2027 at the very earliest.
Can imagine there may be some story changes with America’s acceleration into fascism.
They're gonna have to have a main cast who is just a literal chimpanzee in a vacation shirt flinging actual shit all the time just to achieve any level of unrealistic over the top satire. The real world is just too ridiculous for anything less to be their usual exaggerated caricature.
I wonder if the next one will take so long that the world it satirises is long gone. Facebook being parodied in GTA V no longer makes much sense, for example
This game is set in Florida. It's pretty evergreen. Especially given the political climate for the past 8 years
... Untill Florida gets absolutely wiped out by a combo of its housing market and tourism economy simultaneously eating shit (this is currently occuring), and then also gets slammed by a, oh i dunno, a series of near record breaking hurricanes ... in a record breaking short amount of time, and then can't rebuild because FEMA either doesn't exist or is massively underfunded.
Oh and way more people will die, and there will be way more property damage than there otherwise would be... becauase all the agencies and funding that went into tracking hurricanes just got cut to almoat nothing.
Its been ... what, over a decade, between GTA V and 6's planned releaae date?
I'd say that chances are actually quite good that within 10 years after 2026, Florida becomes essentially a mostly destroyed disaster zone, with maybe a few parts of semi-civilization... like a swampy version of the first Mad Max movie.
(For reference, GTA V is based on an amalgamation of LA, San Fran, San Diego, out into the sticks... oh and while we are in thr GTA V to GTA VI gap, a huge chunk of LA got burned to the ground, yay climate change!)
(To me, the challenge of GTA VI would be... how do you even fucking do parody anymore? The country has gone batshit insane during the game's development, I will be amazed if they actually manage to work in the biting and underhanded social commentary that previous GTA games had... because it would be essentially impossible. My guess is it'll have some parody and satire, but nowhere near as much as 4 or 5... and the story will basically just be about some cool badasses who are cool and badass and are getting their bag however they can because YOLO)
Disney world and Maralago?
Holy shit, I didn't think of mar-a-fatso. I seriously hope you can storm that place.
That's not necessary. The top secret documents for the government heist are probably located in an unlocked toilet building next to the golf course.
I hope they have at least two cities like Miami (beaches and organized crime) and Orlando (Disney and big business). Could be cool to have a three like SA to add in either Daytona (racing and rednecks) or Tampa (ghetto Miami).
All I know about Tampa is a bunch of the early death metal bands are from there so I'm all for that!
After looking at the jokes featured in the leaks....it hasn't aged a day.
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Conspiracy theory maggots / qAnnon think Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook is downloading your brain to China and the country of Finland doesn't actually exist
Why doesn't Facebook make sense to parody anymore? It's still out there
The world's relationship with Facebook has changed a smidge since 2013.
It's still ripe for parody, but the elements of relevance aren't the same as they were.
GTA Online still brings a BILLION dollars every year.
The next GTA can’t be anything except 100% perfection and Rockstar isn’t in a hurry
GTA Online still brings in a billion dollars every year. The next GTA will try to capitalize and expand on that, and cannot, then, be perfect.
Ftfy
Not sure if the nation this game is based on will be recognizable by the time it comes out.
I feel like you shouldn't release a date if the game isn't in ready for release. After releasing the date, all that should come is polish and minor bug fixing
Rumors are that they want to charge $100 and they're sitting back to see the financial climate with the price increases to see if consumers will bend over and take it without any pushback
Or...switch 2 version taking longer than Expected..
OR. they're seeing the writing on the wall for the console industry and they're going to release VI for all platforms (PC included) next year
Speaking out of my ass, I think the majority will take it without pushback.
I'm sure there's a swath of people with a console just play the yearly COD/FIFA, eagerly waiting for GTA 6 to drop. They'll buy it without blinking.
I will wait till it's $50
I'll wait till it's $10
I'll wait till it's free on epic
$100 minimum.
My guess would be they'll do some kind of tiered release strucructure, and/or have already finished or mostly finished 2 years+ worth of major updates, including new 'chapters' of the main single player story... and basically, you'll have to subscribe.
Like ... $160 for whole game, major expansion 1, 2 and 3, $120 for game + 1st expansion... Or your baseline $100, and then a subscription battlepass mmo monthly charge, or you can pay more for expansions in chunks, seperately.
Something like that.
If I have to sign into a rockstar account through a launcher to play it, I ain't interested.
I guess you’re not interested in it, then
Rockstar’s delay announcement may result in numerous other studios confirming 2025 releases for their own games. Earlier this year a Bloomberg report claimed that rival game publishers were waiting as long as possible to commit to their release dates for next Fall, because of GTA 6’s planned release.
Or they could, you know, make a game that rivals GTA VI. Come on Square Enix, make a Sleeping Dogs successor, I know you have it in you!
The developer that made Sleeping Dogs shut down, and Square Enix had so many misses that they sold off their western studios. You should keep an eye on MindsEye and Mafia: The Old Country though. I've been dying for a good crime story that isn't Yakuza.
So to all those other publishers who have already pushed their games release date out to avoid GTA6, you got a new date to avoid.
Probably a good thing...
But is it just me, or am I the only one who really couldn't give two shits about GTA?
I get it's a massive franchise, like Madden or Call of Duty... don't buy those either.
Hah. I would not compare yearly money graps to GTA. Every 3d GTA has been setting the new standard for the genre.
I care about GTA but the online element of it is of zero interest to me, and it seems that's what it's become.
I get it’s a massive franchise, like Madden or Call of Duty… don’t buy those either.
whew, I'm trying to understand your comment, but this is kinda coming off pretty...holier-than-thou? Which, I do get that because I can find myself like that with movies/tv, but still...we gotta let people like what they like.
In this case though, I honestly think this is a pretty terrible comparison. Madden and CoD don't have massive single player appeal that GTA or RDR have. They are total schlock in that regard (though, I hear CoD's recent campaigns are actually good).
GTA and RDR on the other hand very skillfully mix elements of RPG, immersive sim, and adventure game. They're huge sandboxes for the player to explore and discover new things, within which are nestled very well written stories that critique modern life and touch upon themes that, yes, you could find them in various indie games if you look a bit, but are somewhat unique in the blockbuster gamescape. It's difficult to find other single player games with the scope of Rockstar games, though I think it is getting easier.
But comparing GTA to Madden or CoD is kinda whack unless you're looking at GTA Online in isolation.
They have to wait for the playstation 6 release so yhey can sell it multiple times
Man, development times are getting pretty crazy at this point. Hard to believe that we are starting to see decades between sequels to titles as a normal thing in the high end of the market.
It's no wonder more games are aiming for games-as-a-service style models.
I tend to prefer bigger games delay purely so they don't release as buggy messes (hello, Cyberpunk 2077).
Hoping they use that time to refine what they have and maybe even have it ported to PC for release.