GTA 6 Speculation & Discussion [Part 8] - The Rabbit Hole

[Kris194]

On 1/11/2023 at 10:47 PM, happygrowls said:

Do it using Traffic Rules outside of Missions, and 100% it.

I've kinda followed your advice, slowed down massively while playing, I try to stick to traffic rules (except speed limit) and I think, that I've rediscovered that game. I feel like only now I can really see how much love and passion Rockstar put in this game. I admire the design, cinematography, dialogues, animations, sounds effects, VFX and so on and on. I still have an issue with things like very few interiors or AI or physics but GTA V really hits different now. I feel, that overall I will probably spend thousands of hours in next GTA.

Edited January 22 by Kris194

[Zapper]

5 minutes ago, ArmanM7503 said:

It's simple really.

1 + 8 x 8 = 65

Three 8's after the "," so 3 + 8 = 11

Therefore 65 / 11 ≈ 6

So you see they are just teasing GTA 6, they thought we wouldn't decrypt the number, those f*ckers underestimated us

[Spider-Vice]

19 minutes ago, lngtrw said:

Web-shooters?

Damn, GTA Spider-Vice-Man finally happening?  

[(Vip)Met]

1 hour ago, CommanderBlack said:

188,888 GTA$ is a strange number for me, has it a meaning for the New Lunar year or is it a secret message?

 

1+8+8+8+8+8 = 6

[cashncarrylarry]

has no one called 555 - 188 888 yet

[Kris194]

8 minutes ago, (Vip)Met said:

 

1+8+8+8+8+8 = 6

 

All of you digging deep while number 188,888 is just made of 6 digits 

Edited January 22 by Kris194

[Rm93]

r a b b i t = 6 

[AgentJizzle]

[jacqueks]

1 hour ago, lngtrw said:

Wonder what  the equivalent of the Lasso will be in VI? 

 

Web-shooters?

Maybe you'll have the ability to ziptie a pedestrian

[Retro_Causality]

I'm confused with R*'s direction with VI on one hand back in 2020 they said it was going to be "moderately sized" and expanded via updates to minimize crunch...but then in Feb 2022 they said they wanted it to move "significantly beyond "anything they did before

https://screenrant.com/grand-theft-auto-6-smaller-scale/

 

https://www.latestly.com/socially/entertainment/gta-6-will-significantly-move-beyond-what-rockstar-has-achieved-in-the-past-latest-tweet-by-gamespot-4086096.html

 

 

 

[SoldierBoy]

17 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

I'm confused with R*'s direction with VI on one hand back in 2020 they said it was going to be "moderately sized" and expanded via updates to minimize crunch...but then in Feb 2022 they said they wanted it to move "significantly beyond "anything they did before

https://screenrant.com/grand-theft-auto-6-smaller-scale/

 

https://www.latestly.com/socially/entertainment/gta-6-will-significantly-move-beyond-what-rockstar-has-achieved-in-the-past-latest-tweet-by-gamespot-4086096.html

 

 

 

Maybe they’re aiming for a moderately sized map for release that’s going to be significantly bigger eventually with map expansions ending up bigger than anything they’ve done before. Or who knows

[babydracula]

20 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

I'm confused with R*'s direction with VI on one hand back in 2020 they said it was going to be "moderately sized" and expanded via updates to minimize crunch...but then in Feb 2022 they said they wanted it to move "significantly beyond "anything they did before

https://screenrant.com/grand-theft-auto-6-smaller-scale/

 

https://www.latestly.com/socially/entertainment/gta-6-will-significantly-move-beyond-what-rockstar-has-achieved-in-the-past-latest-tweet-by-gamespot-4086096.html

 

 

 

Based on what we know, the huge improvement that Rockstar is referring to is having a huge amount of interiors and new game mechanics (stuff like CCTVs, breaking into storage containers, hostages, etc) and the “moderate size” means the base game won’t be Rockstars full vision for the game and the game will receive large expansions over time. The project is named Americas after all, seems likely that the plan is to start with Florida and add different parts of North and South America over time, eventually leading to a full American continent map

[Kris194]

31 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

I'm confused with R*'s direction with VI on one hand back in 2020 they said it was going to be "moderately sized" and expanded via updates to minimize crunch...but then in Feb 2022 they said they wanted it to move "significantly beyond "anything they did before

https://screenrant.com/grand-theft-auto-6-smaller-scale/

 

https://www.latestly.com/socially/entertainment/gta-6-will-significantly-move-beyond-what-rockstar-has-achieved-in-the-past-latest-tweet-by-gamespot-4086096.html

 

 

 

 

I don't know in which world game after years of full scale production is considered to be in "early development" but it sounds like some kind of devs hell.

[Malolaat]

Who is responsible for GTABase? What are these obvious fakes posting?

 

[Sword_of_Dusk]

2 hours ago, lngtrw said:

Wonder what  the equivalent of the Lasso will be in VI? 

 

Web-shooters?

Jason as Vice City's Spider-Man confirmed!

7 minutes ago, Malolaat said:

Who is responsible for GTABase? What are these obvious fakes posting?

 

You gotta love how they just state a year rather than a month or something. If anything happens, they'll be like "called it!", despite literally anyone being able to guess 2023.

[Zapper]

35 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

I'm confused with R*'s direction with VI on one hand back in 2020 they said it was going to be "moderately sized" and expanded via updates to minimize crunch...but then in Feb 2022 they said they wanted it to move "significantly beyond "anything they did before

 

Well, first of all, R* didn't say jack sh*t about VI officially in 2020. That moderate part is not anything official. Please try to differentiate news reports from official info

 

In my opinion, the moderate part comes from R* scaling down their original vision, which was probably gargantuan, to something reasonable for the base game. Something like the "3 cities, 4 protagonists" rumour from Axios makes sense. That map would've been ~3-4 times larger than V, which is just insane. Even RDR2's new areas combined were just 1.5-1.6 times larger than RDR1's map. Looking at the leaks, the map is almost assuredly larger than V's, which will make it R*'s largest map till date.

[Saiyam]

14 minutes ago, Kris194 said:

moderately sized"

You didn’t read that how it will be still a massive game by R* standards? And they only need to surpass rdr2 when it comes to the game scale lol.. 

rdr2 on the other hand still beats the sh*t out of every other game in the market to this day. 
VI just needs to surpass RDR2 

[Personano]

1 minute ago, Saiyam said:

VI just needs to surpass RDR2 

Is that physically possible though

[Jason]

3 minutes ago, Zapper said:

 

Well, first of all, R* didn't say jack sh*t about VI officially in 2020. That moderate part is not anything official. Please try to differentiate news reports from official info

 

In my opinion, the moderate part comes from R* scaling down their original vision, which was probably gargantuan, to something reasonable for the base game. Something like the "3 cities, 4 protagonists" rumour from Axios makes sense. That map would've been ~3-4 times larger than V, which is just insane. Even RDR2's new areas combined were just 1.5-1.6 times larger than RDR1's map. Looking at the leaks, the map is almost assuredly larger than V's, which will make it R*'s largest map till date.

 

Yea if you take all that information pre and post leak together it all seems to contradict a bit, as if there was some confusion.

 

The best guess right now is probably;

 

Americas was the original pitch, an impossibly large game. That pitch was reeled in and the game was narrowed down to Vice City and the surrounding ideas as the game entered production, which was the "reboot" or the switch to a "moderate" sized release.

[Kris194]

What people really also need to understand is, that preparing tools and so on for something as gargantuan as next-gen Grand Theft Auto can take a lot of time. Engine team alone probably had a truckload of work to do.

[Saiyam]

16 minutes ago, Personano said:

Is that physically possible though

From what we’ve seen.. I’d say yes but I’m not sure they’ll be able to write a better narrative for VI compared to rdr2 

Edited January 22 by Saiyam

[Jason]

11 minutes ago, Saiyam said:

From what we’ve seen.. I’d say yes but I’m not sure they’ll be able to write a better narrative for VI compared to rdr2 

 

RDR2's tone and general seriousness is what allowed it's story to really shine IMO. It's why I wouldn't be against GTA getting rid of a lot of the more immature jokes, the low hanging fruit type of satire etc and going a more serious route.

 

GTA's traditional tone can produce good stories of course but it's clear that R* were in their element story wise creating RDR2.

[Kris194]

17 minutes ago, Saiyam said:

From what we’ve seen.. I’d say yes but I’m not sure they’ll be able to write a better narrative for VI compared to rdr2 

Narrative is not everything, the world is a main star. Without those beautifully crafted worlds there is no GTA, RDR, Bully or whatever new IP Rockstar may come up with in the future.

Edited January 22 by Kris194

[Spider-Vice]

1 hour ago, Malolaat said:

Who is responsible for GTABase? What are these obvious fakes posting?

 

They're just speculating as well, though worded in a way to get extra interaction. Mmx is a fanart maker in parts of Twitter.

[Edward RDRIII]

2 hours ago, Malolaat said:

Who is responsible for GTABase? What are these obvious fakes posting?

 

He's just speculating using a fanmade video, which looks pretty good I might add, I don't see nothing wrong with it. This logo animation looks sick!

 

2 hours ago, Jason said:

 

RDR2's tone and general seriousness is what allowed it's story to really shine IMO. It's why I wouldn't be against GTA getting rid of a lot of the more immature jokes, the low hanging fruit type of satire etc and going a more serious route.

 

GTA's traditional tone can produce good stories of course but it's clear that R* were in their element story wise creating RDR2.

GTA 4's maturity was already comparable to RDR1 and RDR2's, they only decided to go back to the "funny" route with GTA 5 for some reason and that's one of the reasons that a lot of players didn't like its story as much as the previous game, so I hope they learned their lesson with RDR2, their greatest game imo.

Edited January 22 by Edward RDRIII

[Kris194]

What do you all think, how much time in reality Rockstar would need in 2020s to release a game after announcing it? I'm not asking how long it will really take but rather how long it must take because it's impossible to do everything in shorter time span.

[Edward RDRIII]

2 minutes ago, Kris194 said:

What do you all think, how much time in reality Rockstar would need in 2020s to release a game after announcing it? I'm not asking how long it will really take but rather how long it must take because it's impossible to do everything in shorter time span.

If they had announced it in 2020 we would literally have to wait 5 years until its possible release in 2025, not a very good idea as you can imagine.

[lelomew]

7 hours ago, Rajder said:

It's so far, so far away
It's so far, so far away

 

Step in front of a runaway train... Just to feel alive again... 

 

Damn RDR1 soundtrack hits hard after 13 years... 

[Edward RDRIII]

2 minutes ago, lelomew said:

Step in front of a runaway train... Just to feel alive again... 

 

Damn RDR1 soundtrack hits hard after 13 years... 

Man, GTA San Andreas soundtrack hits hard after almost 18 years, listen to this jam.

 

[Kris194]

5 minutes ago, Edward RDRIII said:

If they had announced it in 2020 we would literally have to wait 5 years until its possible release in 2025, not a very good idea as you can imagine.

2025, good lord, GTA V may be the first Rockstar's game with bunch of songs removed before successor will be released. We can only hope, that it won't be hit as hard as GTA IV or even harder

 

https://www.destructoid.com/heres-a-list-of-songs-removed-in-gta-ivs-latest-update/