the funniest thing they could do is announce it's a top-down shooter
reject modernity, embrace tradition

GTAV's character models still very much look like spruced up late 7th gen models though so that's definitely something they could improve.

The thing that gets me about Rockstar games is that they're simultaneously hyper-detailed to a ludicrously lavish extent yet incredibly shallow and arcadey because they're the most popular games in the world and have to be accessible to everyone. They also have a reputation as consequence-free silly sandbox games where you can go on therapeutic murder sprees with miniguns and tanks

I'd just like an open world immersive criminal sim

I don't think there is anything wrong with a plateau in graphics. I'm not looking for 100% realism from any game.

We still haven’t had a game combine Red Faction Guerrilla and Tears of the Kingdom.

But then again, giant leaps are really only a video game thing.

Movies in a lot of key technical ways haven’t changed in generations.

Music as well.

Not having a huge leap forward means the game has be Great and interesting.

Like books.

I said this elsewhere today but GTA 5 sucked.

I'm hoping the best that can come out of this is that GTA 6 ties with Vice City in quality. I'm hoping for the plateau because 5 was the decline, in my opinion, and I've been playing GTA since literally GTA 1 on a shitty PC in the 90's but 5 was the worst. GTA 4 was still cool as it followed GTA 3 closely in quality but GTA 5 just didn't step it up the way it could and was arguably worse than its spiritual predecessor: San Andreas. And I truly think GTA 6 will be the last GTA to come out within my lifetime at least anyway, considering it took over 10 years between GTA 5 and 6, so if it ends with a newer iteration of Vice City then I will be happy.

They better import the horse testicle shrinkage in cold weather, it's the only worthwhile feature from RDR2.

Also just the fact your not a kid anymore 🤷 , youve already experinced all this stuff before

GTA has been the same game since 3, change my mind.

As a Pokemon fan, I am an expert on this

I feel like this pattern is kinda just how media goes. Who in the indie scene is looking for inspiration coming from Grand Theft Auto? And if they are, are they drooling over the next gen or are they looking to capture some nostalgia from the first couple in the series?

What got me about GTA 5 is that there's fuck all to do after you finish the game. For a game lauded for being an open world sandbox, all there is to do is drive around, shoot people and customise cars until you get bored. You can't pull off any interesting crimes or heists at all outside of the story

I'm not sure what the problem here is.

San Andreas was the last time anything "new" was put into a GTA. Everything in GTA5 existed in San Andreas, and arguably the gang territory war is a gameplay feature that sets it apart from all others.

I'm ok with it though? Like. I'm more interested in better animation, better characterisation, and what story they tell than any significant change in gameplay. Expansions to the sandbox reactions in the world will also make playing around in the sandbox more fun. I also didn't particularly enjoy the driving physics of 5, they were OK but I enjoyed 4's physics more compared to the arcadey feel of 5. I'd like more realism, but I suspect that's not what we'll get from a return to Vice City.

honestly i wish it were the norm for a good game to just be left to stand on its own. i understand the economics of game development demand constant releases, either sequels or expansions or microtransactions, for the rare original concept to get made, but i basically haven't been excited for a sequel since high school when i realized that it's almost always just "the same thing, but bigger."

I was seriously thinking that they'd just never release another. I still won't believe in GTA VI until I'm playing it. It just seems like safer money to keep releasing new content for GTA V instead of releasing GTA VI. Are they still doing that? My PS4's been in storage for a while.

When you can no longer breed faster horses, you invent the car. There's many ways in which GTA can still make a leap to a new quality level. Imagine if you could destroy buildings and then see it being repaired for weeks before coming back to a functioning state. Imagine npcs like those of cities skylines 2, each with their own stats and needs and living their life in the simulation. Imagine a custom made AI to give life to those Npcs so they react to your actions and the news in the papers in a realistic way. Maybe even let you talk to them with your mic.

Imagine you go to a random npc house and kill the adults living there, leaving the teenager son alone in the world. Now he starts selling drugs to survive and that causes a new side quest to appear related to that drug-selling. Not something that was baked into the game but generated automatically based on your own actions.

Traffic too. Imagine traffic laws changing to react to the accidents you cause. Speed bumps showing up in streets with frequent crashes. People avoiding certain roads after frequent police chases. New roads being developed dynamically in the city in reaction to problems in the old ones.

Imagine you hiding in some bushes for your wanted level to go down and a few npcs are walking by and you hear them talking about the crimes you just committed, mentioning the number of victims and where the police had been chasing you.

Most of those ideas are within the means of an AAA budget game now.

The one (unsubstantiated) rumor that has me excited is the prospect of a dynamically destructable open world. If they're able to pull something like that off in a GTA game it would really be something "next gen". But I admit that's mostly just wishful thinking on my part.

Just give me more Vinewood Boulevard Radio to drive around to while high, I'll pay to consume the product, so Rockstar execs can laugh all the way to the bank.