GTA VI Speculation & Discussion - Part ∞ - The Leonida Drought

[Yoona]

1 minute ago, trevor31 said:

 

Don't talk to me about reporting! Now I only have one idea in mind: the first thing I want to do in this damn game is find this guy!

 

 

If he's even real. There were NPC's doing stuff in GTA V Trailer #1 that did not exist in the final game.

Edited January 18 by Yoona

[lngtrw]

1 minute ago, trevor31 said:

 

Don't talk to me about reporting! Now I only have one idea in mind: the first thing I want to do in this damn game is find this guy!

 

 

Unless, he will find you first

[REVENGE777]

19 minutes ago, Yoona said:

If he's even real. There were NPC's doing stuff in GTA V Trailer #1 that did not exist in the final game.

GTA V was made in like, 3 years, rushed out the door and was held back because of console limitations at the time. I really do believe things will be different this time. Could be copium, but they’ve had EXTRA EXTRA time to cook this thing to perfection.

[PredatorFTW]

54 minutes ago, REVENGE777 said:

GTA V was made in like, 3 years, rushed out the door and was held back because of console limitations at the time. I really do believe things will be different this time. Could be copium, but they’ve had EXTRA EXTRA time to cook this thing to perfection.

The thing that gives me more confidence this time is just by looking at RDR2. No matter where you went, there was always some world event you came across. Being held up by a gang of o'driscolls, spotting some prisoners that broke free or a woman being kidnapped. Makes me confident that we'll get the same level of unique events (if not more) in GTA VI.

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

I am playing Mafia III at the moment and there alligators in that too.

 

Anyway, I decided to swim across a river with gators in it thinking I would be fine.  How wrong I was 

[Spider-Vice]

2 hours ago, lngtrw said:

Imagine if Rockstar locked GTA VI ONLINE behind GTA+ on PC so it can match the consoles’ “paying for multiplayer” idea

This makes zero sense because it's the console manufacturers getting money for the online subscriptions. It's a really outdated practice and basically no live service would ever (and is not these days) locking access completely behind a subscription - that worked in 2005 (WoW, etc), but would not now.

 

Also, in other much sadder news that the GTA Wiki folks have unearthed - for those who care or like the El Rubio character from GTAO:

 

[Jason]

There are sub-based MMO's still but they are either old and have large established communities (WoW, FF14) or they're new and niche. There hasn't been a successful sub-based game launched, at least in this part of the world, in yonks. Generally speaking when you launch an online game now you want as many people as possible to be able to play it, with one of the most important things being making it easier for peoples friends to try it. It's why buy to play is a massive risk and why most publishers prefer F2P now.

 

GTAO2 will likely be a little out of the ordinary nowadays cause it'll be probably be buy to play as it'll come with GTA VI but a sub fee on top of that would be insanely risky even for GTA.

[Johnb17]

2 hours ago, REVENGE777 said:

GTA V was made in like, 3 years, rushed out the door and was held back because of console limitations at the time. I really do believe things will be different this time. Could be copium, but they’ve had EXTRA EXTRA time to cook this thing to perfection.

Yes exactly 

[Finn_E]

3 hours ago, REVENGE777 said:

GTA V was made in like, 3 years, rushed out the door and was held back because of console limitations at the time. I really do believe things will be different this time. Could be copium, but they’ve had EXTRA EXTRA time to cook this thing to perfection.

I do think it says something that they announced a release period TWO years away from the trailer rather than one. It seems like a more measured approach to reduce crunch and mitigate anger if a 2024 release was delayed. This is hopefully a good sign, but who knows maybe the problem is just pushed back a year.

[Catsooey]

11 hours ago, Buck Rogers said:

Playstation 6 and next generation Xbox will be release in 2027... Nvidia will release their new stuff later this year... I dont want to be the dark horse in the house, but probably GTAVI and other games will be delayed to 2026. AI is coming to the game industry, but it will take some extra time, as always.

What do you mean Nvidia is releasing later this year? Blackwell is launching January 30th.

[Trafficante]

The worst thing that can happen to VI is that it will end up looking like an XSX/PS5 version of RDR2.

 

The best thing that can happen to VI is that it will make RDR2 look like V in comparison to RDR2, or somewhere along that vein of thought.

[Getzmunney]

5 minutes ago, Trafficante said:

The worst thing that can happen to VI is that it will end up looking like an XSX/PS5 version of RDR2.

 

The best thing that can happen to VI is that it will make RDR2 look like V in comparison to RDR2, or somewhere along that vein of thought.

Worst and Rdr 2 don’t go together. But I kinda think I see what you’re trying to say

[met.]

GTA V on PS3 and Xbox 360 suffered a lot, RDR2 kept it pretty well on PS4 and Xbox One possibly thanks to the fact that as a whole it has far less dense detail except for towns and Saint Denis where in fact consoles took a big hit in performance.
I believe that GTA VI on current generation consoles will hold up decently, I wouldn't expect a stable frame rate in dense areas or sharp resolution at all times of course

All this in respect to how they look in the trailers.

[Agent Edward]

7 minutes ago, Trafficante said:

The worst thing that can happen to VI is that it will end up looking like an XSX/PS5 version of RDR2.

This is pretty much how VI looks like in Trailer 1, a improved version of RDR2 graphics-wise, I like it.

 

I think we've reached a point that if games keep searching for a 1:1 realism with real life they'll start looking boring, just like life is.

[Retro_Causality]

These next two weeks should be interesting lol 

[Yoona]

I'd rather have stable frame-rate over any upgrade to the graphics at this point. Just get rid of the bugs/artifacts and try to have FSR looking the best it can.

Edited January 18 by Yoona

[Agent Edward]

6 minutes ago, Yoona said:

I'd rather have stable frame-rate over any upgrade to the graphics at this point. Just get rid of the bugs/artifacts and try to have FSR looking the best it can.

I made a topic in the beginning of 2024 about the biggest issues of RDR2's version of RAGE that should be fixed in VI, those are more important than the graphics improvements themselves in my opinion.

 

 

And of course, the same issues should be fixed in the current gen versions of RDR2, whenever Rockstar feels like doing them.

[SpiderVice_Sucks]

This is a good idea combining social media with the typical GTA action. An event or mission like this would be sick and would fit Leonidians 
 

 

Edited January 18 by ionutx02

[ClimateLockdowns]

1 hour ago, Trafficante said:

The worst thing that can happen to VI is that it will end up looking like an XSX/PS5 version of RDR2.

 

The best thing that can happen to VI is that it will make RDR2 look like V in comparison to RDR2, or somewhere along that vein of thought.

And when PS6 comes out it will look even better and then another updated GTA VI on PS7 in 2035 

[JohnCGaming]

I think having more police departments is going to make this map feel a lot bigger in terms of using your own imagination. Having only two real ones (and hopelessly generic ones at that, LSPD doesn't even use LAPD style cars, they use a generic advertising ford police interceptor skin, WTF? The LSSD is in charge of Blaine county?) in GTA V made the map feel much smaller. Always found that to be a very strange oversight from a studio that is usually all about little details. 

[Paper Mario]

13 hours ago, Pashaforever said:

 

lol, i never knew! well, that's kinda funny then

[Thomas Cavendish]

Tbh, I think RDR2 graphics are superior to VI trailer for now. (except the flamingos scene maybe)

[El Tigre chino]

4 hours ago, Spider-Vice said:

This makes zero sense because it's the console manufacturers getting money for the online subscriptions. It's a really outdated practice and basically no live service would ever (and is not these days) locking access completely behind a subscription - that worked in 2005 (WoW, etc), but would not now.

 

Also, in other much sadder news that the GTA Wiki folks have unearthed - for those who care or like the El Rubio character from GTAO:

 

This is devastating news I hate that we are just finding out about this almost 2 years later something is not right about that. I always thought El Rubio was gonna play a role in GTA 6 and that Rockstar was building up to something seeing that cayo perico is in south america and not that far from real life Florida  RIP Joseph.

[Bexter]

3 hours ago, Trafficante said:

The worst thing that can happen to VI is that it will end up looking like an XSX/PS5 version of RDR2.

 

The best thing that can happen to VI is that it will make RDR2 look like V in comparison to RDR2, or somewhere along that vein of thought.

whats wrong about a gta looking like rdr2? i would take it 100% 

[Retro_Causality]

This is also going to be the first gta with all rockstar studios 1000+ devs firing on all cylinders the level of detail this game is gonna have is going to be insane

[Thomas Cavendish]

15 minutes ago, Bexter said:

whats wrong about a gta looking like rdr2? i would take it 100% 

He didn't mean it.
He said the worst case scenario is VI looking like rdr2, which still would make it one of the best game ever, even in 2025.

[Spider-Vice]

40 minutes ago, El Tigre chino said:

we are just finding out about this almost 2 years later something is not right about that.

It was discussed in actor circles publicly (as seen in the tweet and Instagram post linked in my OP) but the family requested that it was kept as private as possible which means there were no high-profile announcements about it. Not a bad thing to respect the family's wishes during that period, at least until it spread more today.

[Trafficante]

55 minutes ago, Bexter said:

whats wrong about a gta looking like rdr2? i would take it 100% 

There’s nothing wrong with RDR2 but there’s a lot wrong with GTA VI looking like RDR2 after… 12 years between the last installment.

 

Basically the good news is that at its worst, VI will look like RDR2. But if VI looks like RDR2, that’s a terrible news.

 

I’d read that again if it’s hard to grasp 

Point being, we’re gonna feast either way.

[Goldstein]

 

1 hour ago, Bexter said:

The worst thing that can happen to VI is that it will end up looking like an XSX/PS5 version of RDR2.

 

 

 

There is no PS5 version of RDR2. Its the PS4 Pro version. The latest version of RDR2 is on PC which looks astonishing.

 

VI will look and feel completely different, its the next RAGE version, updated to fully use current gen consoles. It will look just as good as the trailer but most of us know that it will look even better on release.

[VercettiGuy]

What I absolutely love about GTA VI and every single other Triple A game released on consoles is how worked up people get over 60FPS just for it to never happen in the end.

 

There's always this shimmer of hope just for those guys to be utterly disappointed every single time  

 

Spoiler

I genuinely do not care if the game is 30 or 60FPS. In fact, I get some kind of motion sickness from 60FPS.