Gaming Grand Theft Auto VI

It's definitely strange that they never released a single player expansion for GTA5. Online was an unbelievable money-maker for them but an expansion would have sold well I'm sure.
There was vastly more profits for them in expanding on the online, that's probably where the resources went.
 
There was vastly more profits for them in expanding on the online, that's probably where the resources went.

Yeah, and that's my worry with GTA6 in general that it will be mainly an online game with a shortish single player campaign if that's where they see the money now.
 

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Cannot wait for this!

It’s incredible that the current game was developed for the PS3, and still holds up today. I can’t wait to see what they achieve now that they are focusing on the PS5 (and realistically the PS6 also!).
 
Just doesn’t excite me anymore. Maybe I will be when the trailer drops.

I was a big fan of GTA till 4. MGS and GTA were the two franchises that used to get my giddy with anticipation.

With 5, my love for it just died. My only hope from 6 is that they reinvent combat / the loop in the way that Naughty Dog managed to with TLOU Part 2 which took their generic gameplay of Uncharted and TLOU and turned it into one of the best moment to moment action stealth gameplay loops I’ve played. With Rockstar, their writing and world building in RDR2 was brilliant but the gameplay was so stale and uninteresting.
 
Mad to think there’s as much time between vice city and V as there is between V and VI
 
I tried playing 5 again recently and just didn’t enjoy it at all. Third person with dot reticle just feels so dated and non-immersive. I’m playing Far Cry 6 at the moment and first person is just so much more fun. GTA universe with Far Cry style first person immersion would be my ideal.
 
I tried playing 5 again recently and just didn’t enjoy it at all. Third person with dot reticle just feels so dated and non-immersive. I’m playing Far Cry 6 at the moment and first person is just so much more fun. GTA universe with Far Cry style first person immersion would be my ideal.
Did you not like the first person mode in GTAV? I think it works very well considering it was an add on, rather than something that was initially integrated into the design of the game.
 
I tried playing 5 again recently and just didn’t enjoy it at all. Third person with dot reticle just feels so dated and non-immersive. I’m playing Far Cry 6 at the moment and first person is just so much more fun. GTA universe with Far Cry style first person immersion would be my ideal.

Doesn't it have first person these days? I'm sure they added a mode.

Not that I'd expect it to be much better of course, certainly not an FPS level.
 
V still holds up today. The game mechanics are amazing. The map is giant even by 2023 standards and to get everything to work well- shooting, driving, flying, parachuting, helicopters etc etc is nothing short of a miracle. Surely it’s the largest grossing game of all time?

can’t wait for VI. I’ll buy it on release because £60 doesn’t seem bad for 10 yrs of gameplay!
 
I miss the days of people scanning magazines onto the internet so people on forums could analyse every part of an article including all the screenshots in the folds.

Then you’d have someone zoom in on a tiny dot and be like “dogs confirmed in San Andreas?”
 
Did you not like the first person mode in GTAV? I think it works very well considering it was an add on, rather than something that was initially integrated into the design of the game.
Doesn't it have first person these days? I'm sure they added a mode.

Not that I'd expect it to be much better of course, certainly not an FPS level.
To be fair I’ve completely missed this. It gives me hope they might support it out of the box for 6 though. I don’t really have the appetite to give it another go though as I’ve done the story to death.


V still holds up today. The game mechanics are amazing. The map is giant even by 2023 standards and to get everything to work well- shooting, driving, flying, parachuting, helicopters etc etc is nothing short of a miracle. Surely it’s the largest grossing game of all time?

can’t wait for VI. I’ll buy it on release because £60 doesn’t seem bad for 10 yrs of gameplay!
You mean £90 for PS5, then £40 for PC 3 years later, then £30 for PS6 to get the fully expanded game, then £20 to get it as part of the full GTA remastered collection on PS7.
 
To be fair I’ve completely missed this. It gives me hope they might support it out of the box for 6 though. I don’t really have the appetite to give it another go though as I’ve done the story to death.



You mean £90 for PS5, then £40 for PC 3 years later, then £30 for PS6 to get the fully expanded game, then £20 to get it as part of the full GTA remastered collection on PS7.
Even at those prices I would still get more value from it than maybe any other game. I don't begrudge any of the money I have spent on GTAV over the past 10 years.
 
GTA V released when I was in 2nd year of Uni. Since then I did an exchange year abroad, finished uni, started my first job, did a masters, on my third job post uni, got married, hit 30. By the time this is out and GTA 7 is released I will probably have had two divorces, three kids and be dead.
 
Since GTA V was released Manchester United have failed to score a single goal. In that time, Craggy Island FC with a budget of 20 pence have score 385 goals.
 
GTA V absolutely does not hold up imo. It’s a fun game because it’s GTA and has a decent story but overall it’s clunky as hell.
 
Gameplay was fine for its time but if it's still going to feel like running through custard with sticky cover mechanics in 2024, they can keep it.
 
I tried playing 5 again recently and just didn’t enjoy it at all. Third person with dot reticle just feels so dated and non-immersive. I’m playing Far Cry 6 at the moment and first person is just so much more fun. GTA universe with Far Cry style first person immersion would be my ideal.

Is third person outdated now? Man I’m getting old :lol:
 
Is third person outdated now? Man I’m getting old :lol:
Third person with dot reticle for a game you spend half your time shooting feels very dated. I’m no spring chicken myself
 
Is third person outdated now? Man I’m getting old :lol:

Yeah, that's just bonkers. Joins outdated games like Elden Ring, Spider-Man 2, The Last of Us Part I & II, Zelda, the remakes of Resident Evil and Dead Space, Jedi Survivor, Alan Wake 2, Control...
 
Third person with dot reticle for a game you spend half your time shooting feels very dated. I’m no spring chicken myself
Come on you can't review a game where you failed to press V even once (well maybe twice technically :lol: )
 
Come on you can't review a game where you failed to press V even once (well maybe twice technically :lol: )
My PS5 controller doesn’t have a V button. I’ve completed the game twice, once on release and again about 6 years ago on PC, then modded the shit out of it and had a lot of fun doing it so I think I’m in a pretty good place to review it.

What my comment was about was when I loaded it up when the PS5 version dropped and started it all again and it just felt so painfully slow and clunky and dated.