GTA 6 Speculation & Discussion [Part 7] - The one with the announcement

[GTA Plus Enjoyer]

Project Medieval... we can only guess what that could've been  Kind of bummed out about it, same as for Agent, it would've been cool to see new IPs from Rockstar.

[Xquic]

The one with the explosion? 

[Retro_Causality]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Development didn't stop during covid. Development didn't begin when RDR2 was finished.

 

The safest guess based on info we have is that the game has been in development since probably 2013-2014. Those early years were pre-production, ie laying out plans, ideas, prototyping, etc. Full development most likely began either in 2018 or early 2019.

 

The talk of them restarting or rebooting development around the release of RDR2 is iffy, given the timing of the supposed reboot it sounds more like they focused on something more realisticly achievable once the game started to enter full production, which would fit with the Americas stuff that the game was originally intended to be set across a large portion (or all of) the US. Reboot/restart doesn't mean all prior work was scrapped either. 

 

So, in short, the safest estimate is that the game has likely been in development for 8-9 years, with full development taking up about the last 3-4 years of that.

game development sure...but i assume they couldn't Mocap or do any voice recording in 2020

[Jason]

Just now, Retro_Causality said:

game development sure...but i assume they couldn't Mocap or do any voice recording in 2020

 

At one point in time, probably not due to the standard of facilities required, but I doubt that lasted for the entirety of 2020. 

 

Covid slowed development down absolutely and has no doubt, as it has all across the game and wider IT industry, changed how people work due to the rise of WFH. So we can very reasonably say that GTA VI's development schedule was set back by covid, but it won't have stopped completely, at least not for any meaningful length of time.

[Zapper]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

The talk of them restarting or rebooting development around the release of RDR2 is iffy, given the timing of the supposed reboot it sounds more like they focused on something more realisticly achievable once the game started to enter full production, which would fit with the Americas stuff that the game was originally intended to be set across a large portion (or all of) the US. Reboot/restart doesn't mean all prior work was scrapped either. 

 

The Axios report pretty much sums it up, although nobody else corroborated their info.

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It’s an ambitious project but with a scaled-down scope for launch. That tracks with information shared by a source with Axios Gaming who said an earlier plan had called for four protagonists and three cities.

[ueazen]

 

I got bored and created fake GTA VI screenshots lol

[Jason]

1 minute ago, Zapper said:

The Axios report pretty much sums it up, although nobody else corroborated their info.

 

We won't know for sure unless R* themselves spill the beans in interviews but I do get the feeling there's been a bit of a confusion going on among people who have heard legit stuff from their sources.

 

Schreier spoke of a "moderate sized release" and a scaled down game, but I'm getting the impression that it's a moderate sized / scale down release in comparison to the original plan, which was Americas, which was a bonkers sized game that simply wasn't practical.

[Zello]

2 hours ago, Retro_Causality said:

I'll answer this Spider, i am an expert

 

 

imagine that the entire collective of GTA forums is the horse... and the Ocean is Rockstar, all the beauty, power, size...and we are just staring at them

 

what we want is that water to splash us a bit, tease us a bit...... and we are DRY my friend

 

DRY

Usually this is the horse

[THZEKO]

2 hours ago, Spider-Vice said:

Oh he does. And he thinks he hides well.  

Gave me C.I.A vibes with this reply.

My bat sense is telling me that you spy on us and accidentally found out about MRbossFTL account huh spidey?

[Retro_Causality]

16 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

At one point in time, probably not due to the standard of facilities required, but I doubt that lasted for the entirety of 2020. 

 

Covid slowed development down absolutely and has no doubt, as it has all across the game and wider IT industry, changed how people work due to the rise of WFH. So we can very reasonably say that GTA VI's development schedule was set back by covid, but it won't have stopped completely, at least not for any meaningful length of time.

im curious if you know when GTA V started full development? this obviously in a time before Rockstar started to consolidate all their studios to work on 1 project at a time... and they were also working on Red Dead and Max Payne 3 at the same time

Edited October 7, 2022 by Retro_Causality

[TheOriginalGunslinger]

24 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

game development sure...but i assume they couldn't Mocap or do any voice recording in 2020

Could they do the radio station recordings from home you think (well, the voices) followed by the mixing in studio later on? I remember at the time when Lazlow was with Rockstar he went to Kenny Loggins’ and he “did his thing” for the DJ voice recordings on Los Santos Rock Radio as Lazlow mentioned on an Opie & Radio Show during that time

Edited October 7, 2022 by TheOriginalGunslinger

[Zapper]

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

We won't know for sure unless R* themselves spill the beans in interviews but I do get the feeling there's been a bit of a confusion going on among people who have heard legit stuff from their sources.

 

Schreier spoke of a "moderate sized release" and a scaled down game, but I'm getting the impression that it's a moderate sized / scale down release in comparison to the original plan, which was Americas, which was a bonkers sized game that simply wasn't practical.

Yeah, most people don't talk about the part where Schreier himself said that the game would still be large by Rockstar's standards. Almost everything we know is pointing towards what you're saying.

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One plan that management has laid out for the next game, a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, is to start out with a moderately sized release (which, by Rockstar’s standards, would still be a large game) that is then expanded with regular updates over time.

 

[Jason]

16 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

im curious if you know when GTA V started full development? this obviously in a time before Rockstar started to consolidate all their studios to work on 1 project at a time... and they were also working on Red Dead and Max Payne 3 at the same time

 

Uh someone else might know better than me on that one, we did get the message that it had "entered" full development in 2011 was it? I doubt that was the day it started when they announced it, but probably 2010 if I had to guess, someone else might know more.

 

It's fruitless to use it as a comparision however as development times for games have went up massively across the board.

 

11 minutes ago, Zapper said:

Yeah, most people don't talk about the part where Schreier himself said that the game would still be large by Rockstar's standards. Almost everything we know is pointing towards what you're saying.

 

 

Yea and the same with the reboot stuff. As I said, I feel like the message was Americas was the plan and when it entered full development that was scaled down to something more practical and achievable - and somewhere along the lines the term reboot/restart was used to describe this process.

 

We're all going off leaked info that could be wrong or off the mark or misleading or whatever, but going off what we know from people who aren't just wanabe reporters and journalists with "sources", then the timing of the supposed reboot is just iffy IMO, as that would have been around  the time it went into full production for the first time. Not saying those people who are reporting that (Tez and Schreier in this case) are wrong, but it's perhaps some poor phrasing, wires have been crossed, or whatever.

 

That is unless full prod started earlier than 2018/2019 and they had a sizable team already crunching on it (literally, probably, back then lol) which we have no reason to believe or suspect right now.

[KoolHoven]

Even if it was rebooted, we dont know how big it was. and even then the idea that everything they had done was scrapped is illogical 

[Punkd]

[Part 7] - The one with the explosion

 

Wait, what? Announcement is gone?! 

[Anda7x1]

Explosion of spam posts

[Zapper]

Spoiler

Technically, RDR2 is RDR3, so the dude is actually talking about a current-gen remaster 

 

[GTA Plus Enjoyer]

1 hour ago, ueazen said:

 

I got bored and created fake GTA VI screenshots lol

 

I feel like a certain bossman might be using these in his thumbnail soon.

 

Good job, though, looks pretty cool.

[Anda7x1]

1 hour ago, ueazen said:

 

I got bored and created fake GTA VI screenshots lol

For the love of god ,put some watermarks or something...this might get stolen

[Vice Cit]

183 pages left to go.

Edited October 7, 2022 by Vice Cit

[jonnhy_xv]

well today was a disaster 

[LegacyKillaHD]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Development didn't stop during covid. Development didn't begin when RDR2 was finished.

 

The safest guess based on info we have is that the game has been in development since probably 2013-2014. Those early years were pre-production, ie laying out plans, ideas, prototyping, etc. Full development most likely began either in 2018 or early 2019.

 

The talk of them restarting or rebooting development around the release of RDR2 is iffy, given the timing of the supposed reboot it sounds more like they focused on something more realisticly achievable once the game started to enter full production, which would fit with the Americas stuff that the game was originally intended to be set across a large portion (or all of) the US. Reboot/restart doesn't mean all prior work was scrapped either. 

 

So, in short, the safest estimate is that the game has likely been in development for 8-9 years, with full development taking up about the last 3-4 years of that.

Pretty much this lol

[Zello]

ANNOUNCE GTA VI

[ueazen]

39 minutes ago, Anda7x1 said:

For the love of god ,put some watermarks or something...this might get stolen

Maybe I will put next time, if I do another one. I created for fun so I don't care that much.
 

40 minutes ago, GTA Plus Enjoyer said:

 

I feel like a certain bossman might be using these in his thumbnail soon.

 

Good job, though, looks pretty cool.

LOL. Thank you, I just wanted to see what we will be getting so it's kinda preview for me. I thought I should share so you guys can see too.
 

[franloradr]

Rocktober is full of halloween stuff for GTA Online

[Len Lfc]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Uh someone else might know better than me on that one, we did get the message that it had "entered" full development in 2011 was it? I doubt that was the day it started when they announced it, but probably 2010 if I had to guess, someone else might know more.

The build/bug log dates back to April 2009. So, that's the earliest known* date for the game existing.

*= To my knowledge

[Sword_of_Dusk]

@Zello Where does that ridiculous (in a good way) image come from? Been wondering for a while.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Sword_of_Dusk

[Zapper]

13 minutes ago, Sword_of_Dusk said:

@Zello Where does that ridiculous (in a good way) image come from? Been wondering for a while.

I've only seen it in @khanimax's profile picture.

 

Edit: oh sh*t, how did I not recognise Louis? 

Edited October 8, 2022 by Zapper

[avgGTAenjoyer]

8 minutes ago, Sword_of_Dusk said:

@Zello Where does that ridiculous (in a good way) image come from? Been wondering for a while.

I think it's one of the Left 4 Dead characters being....manipulated in Gary's mod

[MrBreak16]

GTA VI will be announced on October 23