GTA 6 Speculation & Discussion [Part 5.69]

[Thomas Cavendish]

1 hour ago, AntonGandonBF3 said:

I wanna play as Shrek

Is it you?

[MrNachoManSTRIKESAGAIN]

1 hour ago, Nawaf said:

Good luck on writing stories

thank you arabic man

[killso]

6 hours ago, Kris194 said:

You may think, that it's weird but no, I don't. When I hear specific song I want to think "VI", not "Vice City" or "San Andreas". Just because I would want to revisit Vice City in the 80s doesn't mean, that I would like to hear "Self control", "Billie Jean" and so on.

I would agree if we had a very limited soundtrack, but with gta 5, we've seen how expanded it has become, I don't see the problem with reusing old tracks, it's gonna merge into hundredth of other tracks that we haven't heard in a gta before anyway, and vice city is 20 years old too...

In short, gimme self control 

[Starbeth]

maybe they will have a different soundtracks when you enter the swamp and other regions. like rdr2.

[VercettiGuy]

If there's one song that somehow reminds me of Miami and that I would love to have on the soundtrack, it's this one.

 

If it's set in the 80s:

 

 

If it's set in modern day:

 

[Edward RDRIII]

5 hours ago, Americana said:

I hope swamps won't take 30% of the map being absolutely boring and unusable.

If GTA 6 really will take place in Vice City, then probably 1/3 of the map will be swamplands, just like the Bayou Fantom area surrounding New Bordeaux in Mafia 3. Off-road vehicles probably will be way more useful in this game.

Edited January 9, 2022 by Dudu RDRII
Comment corrected.

[T_o_r_e_n_o]

They're going to announce the game is delayed before they even tell us it's in development.

[Zello]

4 hours ago, VercettiGuy said:

If there's one song that somehow reminds me of Miami and that I would love to have on the soundtrack, it's this one.

 

If it's set in the 80s:

-snip-

If it's set in modern day:

-snip-

More like this

 

[esbe]

7 hours ago, Kris194 said:

You would see it being analysed on every single level, from artistic to technical.

 

I actually look forward to seeing what people come up with. Some of it is really indepth and well thought out, things I hadn't spotted myself... though at other times you do get "Hey look, that's Niko!" or "CJ confirmed for GTA V!!1!"

[Zapper]

There is a very interesting thing I just noticed. GTAO stopped getting more than 2 large updates in a year after 2017.

Spoiler

2015 - Heists, Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1-2, Freemode Events Update, Lowriders, Executives and Other Criminals

2016 - Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, Cunning Stunts, Bikers, Import/Export

2017 - Cunning Stunts: Special Vehicle Circuit, Gunrunning, Smuggler's Run, The Doomsday Heist

2018 - Southern San Andreas Super Sport Series, After Hours, Arena War

2019 - The Diamond Casino & Resort, The Diamond Casino Heist

2020 - Los Santos Summer Special, The Cayo Perico Heist

2021 - Los Santos Tuners, The Contract

I mean I'd expect more support for GTAO given that it's supremely popular and brings in billions of dollars even after all that time but they actually reduced it's support right before Red Dead 2 was reaching it's final development phase and it's not like RDO gets incredible support either, in fact it's quite the opposite.

 

This is another reason why I believe that proper production of the next GTA started in early to mid 2018. That way it'd still be in fairly early stages of development in early 2020 even if they tweaked certain parts of it's design and scope in the meantime. Remember, they didn't even bother to make the Trilogy DE themselves and E&E doesn't seem to a large project or anything unless they're hiding something. They were possibly going for a ~2023 launch which got squandered by the pandemic just like any other company and now they're gearing for 2024-'25 release.

Edited January 9, 2022 by Zapper

[deadasdisco]

1 hour ago, Zapper said:

There is a very interesting thing I just noticed. GTAO stopped getting more than 2 large updates in a year after 2017.

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2015 - Heists, Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1-2, Freemode Events Update, Lowriders, Executives and Other Criminals

2016 - Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, Cunning Stunts, Bikers, Import/Export

2017 - Cunning Stunts: Special Vehicle Circuit, Gunrunning, Smuggler's Run, The Doomsday Heist

2018 - Southern San Andreas Super Sport Series, After Hours, Arena War

2019 - The Diamond Casino & Resort, The Diamond Casino Heist

2020 - Los Santos Summer Special, The Cayo Perico Heist

2021 - Los Santos Tuners, The Contract

I mean I'd expect more support for GTAO given that it's supremely popular and brings in billions of dollars even after all that time but they actually reduced it's support right before Red Dead 2 was reaching it's final development phase and it's not like RDO gets incredible support either, in fact it's quite the opposite.

 

This is another reason why I believe that proper production of the next GTA started in early to mid 2018. That way it'd still be in fairly early stages of development in early 2020 even if they tweaked certain parts of it's design and scope in the meantime. Remember, they didn't even bother to make the Trilogy DE themselves and E&E doesn't seem to a large project or anything unless they're hiding something. They were possibly going for a ~2023 launch which got squandered by the pandemic just like any other company and now they're gearing for 2024-'25 release.

I've started to suspect ages ago teams started shuffling in 2017 and built up to full production at some point. They have many outsourced contractors who could of easily worked on art assets.

[Orthur]

21 hours ago, Yarrow said:

speaking of narcos heres another tv show

 

this teaser gives me hype even tho the movies been out for 2 years. I want VIs teaser to have that same feeling. 

 

I haven't actually watched Narcos, just thought that intro was very cool. But I've watched Breaking Bad, El Camino and Better Call Saul (actually I'm rewatching BCS right now but I don't wanna go too offtopic). 

 

I think VI's trailer will be something more like this :

 

I really love this trailer and the song choice is so good. Gotta say I loved the movie. The trailer you sent is a really good one but just too vague and it will be better to have something more like a trailer after 4 years of waiting since their last game lol.

 

I'm saying a 'trailer' but it'll be just a one minute showcase of parts of the map and some action shots with not much dialogue or story related stuff just like the debut trailer of GTAV and RDR2.

[Zapper]

2 minutes ago, deadasdisco said:

I've started to suspect ages ago teams started shuffling in 2017 and built up to full production at some point.

It does make sense honestly. RDR2 was supposed to come out in 2017 but it got delayed, that doesn't mean Rockstar needed every man on board in 2018 and that work was mostly last minute changes while bulk of the team were moving onto future projects.

That and how pandemic changed the variables perfectly explains how Rockstar is acting now. If we take The Know report from early 2018 (which stated a 2022 release for the game) in face value, it also lines up with what we're speculating here.

[Dr. Ugs]

9 hours ago, Starbeth said:

maybe they will have a different soundtracks when you enter the swamp and other regions. like rdr2.

For the swamp:

 

Edited January 9, 2022 by AntonGandonBF3

[Zello]

 

[Donald Lov]

12 hours ago, MrNachoManSTRIKESAGAIN said:

i admire dan houser so much and i've been searching alot about him recently. im planning on becoming an author/writer and dan houser has been my biggest inspiration for making stories and writing dialogue that feels so natural and organic

[VercettiGuy]

4 hours ago, Zello said:

More like this

 

That has to be one of the worst songs I have ever heard 

 

I mean the new "version", obviously. Can't go wrong with the original.

[Len Lfc]

58 minutes ago, Notorious_Jack said:

So immersive. San Andreas really makes you feel like a motherf*cking piece of sh*t gang-banging cocksucker!

[Volatollotalov]

On 1/7/2022 at 12:52 AM, Dudu RDRII said:

How many developers Rockstar has across the world? I wonder what 10 studios have been doing ever since 2018, apart from GTAO and RDO updates.

 

Well, in 2020/21 there were an average of 1213 employees in Rockstar's UK studios - so that does not include the studios in North America and India.

 

Interestingly (or maybe not!) there were 1175 UK employees in 2019/20. So an increase of only 38. If you look at the number of job vacancies in the UK studios that increase seems kind of low, so maybe there's a high-ish turnover rate of staff joining and leaving.

 

Kinda normal I guess, some of the skills they need are in big demand everywhere and people come and go...

 

Edited January 9, 2022 by Volatollotalov

[Spider-Vice]

Some people hate swamp areas but I bet they'd be a hell of a spot for some sunrise/sunset pics in VI.

[Zello]

Swamps in GTA VI

[VCPR]

10 minutes ago, Zello said:

Swamps in GTA VI

appropiate rapper as well 

[Kris194]

1 hour ago, Volatollotalov said:

 

Well, in 2020/21 there were an average of 1213 employees in Rockstar's UK studios - so that does not include the studios in North America and India.

 

Interestingly (or maybe not!) there were 1175 UK employees in 2019/20. So an increase of only 38. If you look at the number of job vacancies in the UK studios that increase seems kind of low, so maybe there's a high-ish turnover rate of staff joining and leaving.

 

Kinda normal I guess, some of the skills they need are in big demand everywhere and people come and go...

 

You have some very, very old data. Nowadays they have about ~1170 employees at Edinburgh studio only. I'm not even gonna mention hundreds of testers at Lincoln. Rockstar is way, way, way bigger company nowadays than 10 years ago. Hell, they employ way over 500 people at Rockstar India alone.

 

https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/69179/grand-theft-auto-studio-rockstar-norths-headcount-almost-doubled-between-2017-and-2018-financial-years/

Edited January 9, 2022 by Kris194

[Orthur]

1 hour ago, Spider-Vice said:

Some people hate swamp areas but I bet they'd be a hell of a spot for some sunrise/sunset pics in VI.

Right, the swamp area in RDR2 already looks amazing at sunrise/sunset especially with all the volumetric lighting and stuff. Now imagine that but better... Oh boy.

[Dr. Ugs]

RDR2 swamps are pure magic. They did a great job.

For GTA6 I hope they improve the ocean and beaches. I don't want always the same tides and waves no matter what weather.

[Kris194]

 

8 minutes ago, Orthur said:

Right, the swamp area in RDR2 already looks amazing at sunrise/sunset especially with all the volumetric lighting and stuff. Now imagine that but better... Oh boy.

I'm wondering what will come first, 32" OLED 4K 120Hz monitors or maybe next-gen GTA for PC. Some proper screens are needed to display that beauty. I already have OLED TV but compared to it my monitor absolutely sucks.

Edited January 9, 2022 by Kris194

[MrNachoManSTRIKESAGAIN]

someone answer me please! rdr2 was made on the base ps4 right? and got ported to pc where its full potential came through. I've read that the ps5 is eight times more powerful than the ps4... gta 6 is going to look better than real life.

but also something i really don't understand and that i'm very worried about is how are they going to put thousands of npcs that have personalities and unique routines? that thought has been stuck in my head for the past weeks!

are they going to put thousands of actors to do mocap and voices? or are they going to get alot of voice actors and have them do various other characters that have different voices?

[VankeX]

If they ever made GTA 6 it will be in Vice City and story will be focused on drug trafficking

[Kris194]

19 minutes ago, MrNachoManSTRIKESAGAIN said:

are they going to put thousands of actors to do mocap and voices? or are they going to get alot of voice actors and have them do various other characters that have different voices?

They already do this, for GTA IV only they "hired" hundreds of actors. For Rockstar it's like "just another day at work".

Edited January 9, 2022 by Kris194

[MrNachoManSTRIKESAGAIN]

1 minute ago, Kris194 said:

They already do this, for GTA IV only they "hired" hundreds of actors. For Rockstar it's like "just another day at work".

hmmm... ok! but why did you put quotation around the word hired??...