The GTA games specifically were the ones I got excited about releasing as a young lad, so while I was a little surprised I got a small surge of excitement at this news even in my mid thirties, it does make some sense.

I have a very vivid memory of first seeing the GTA 3 screenshots in a gaming mag at school. And an even stronger one of first unfolding the city map and booting the game up when it released.

I could never get into GTAV. It's the only one of the series, apart from GTA2 because I've never played it, which I haven't completed.

>>26203

GTA2 is still worth playing. The controls are a big improvement over the first game, the weapons are fun, the respect system is great and could have even benefitted later games, the radio stations are fun and full of late 90s humour, and the intro is a short film shot in New York (featuring that bloke from Eastenders for some reason).

Not sure if I am hyped for it honestly. I haven't been syped for GTA since the PS2 days really.

I've played IV and V, I never finished IV because it became very repetitive and the overall city environment was very bland, and I felt like there was a lot less of the humour the PS2 games had. I enjoyed V, but the actual single player portion of that game has over time become completely subsumed and rendered irrelevant by the online portion. Between RDRII and GTA Online, I think we can make a pretty good guess what kind of direction VI will be going in.

The thing that made GTA games great back in the day was when you'd have a mate or two over and you passed the controller around seeing who could get in the biggest, longest police chase, take turns trying to break in the military base and steal the tank/jet, that kind of thing. Nowadays they are more focussed on the narrative, if you don't get addicted to the online grind then they are the type of game you finish once and never play again.

>Are we too old to be getting excited about this sort of thing anymore?

If it was RDR3 I'd be desperately searching for the specs and trying to bribe Rockstar to release it on PC on the same day as console. But I don't know for GTA, the focus on the online hats for GTAV has ruined its reputation for a lot of people and the gap in instalments means we'll get a very different game for the new core demographic.

>>26203
I can confirm that you're not missing much, there isn't much of a story in V to finish and once you do it renders everything post-game pointless.

I remember getting excited about GTA 1 after discovering it on a demo disc that also had Fallout 1 or 2 on it. The fallout demo was just some criminals in a hovel and we'd reload the save over and over hoping for a critical hit with the minigun because the sounds and animation were so satisfying. Anyway I'm significantly more excited about planting some trees I ordered for a December delivery than I am this. It's not even close. I don't give a shit.

>>26201
Red Dead Redemption is their best game and I do not care for any other opinion.

>>26208
I thought we had a word filter on Austin Powers: Welcome to My Underground Lair! for Gameboy Color but you're actually just an uncultured swine.

I'm defintely interested and will play on release, but I've done that for every GTA since Vice City.

I just hope it will give me that same sense of wonder that San Andreas did.

Shall we have "my dad works at Rockstar" type rumours and bling guessing? That'd make this thread more fun.

I've never been the biggest fan of the games but the PS2 titles are a very nostalgic part of my youth so I'll naturally always check out the latest iteration to see how it's come along. What I have always found endearing about the series is that even in the post-Youtube, post-datamining internet age where it's possible to outright debunk rumours and urban myths, the GTA fanbase still stubbornly clings to them, and there's still mental shit like all the UFOs in GTA V, that took years of searching, to reward them for it.

I remember reading pages and pages of GTA conspiracy-type forum threads back in the day. I saw loads of those ghost cars in San Andreas myself so the Bigfoot stuff seemed pretty believable too. Me and my mates spent ages swimming around looking for rumoured sharks and giant squids in the sea too.

Apparently we know 6 is going to be set in Vice City. Without the 80s shtick though I don't think that will be as fun.

>>26211
Vice City without the radio stations is like pizza without the dough.

>>26211
Remember those jelly alien egg things you'd get from the cornershop? Full of that horrible smelling goo that probably gave us all cancer. Well if you put two of those together, a baby jelly alien will grow out of one of them. True fax, my mate told me at school.

I just want airboats and the ability to cold-cock crocs. Or gators. Whatever the fuck Florida has milling around in their swamps. Anything else is a bonus.

>>26211
Three of my acquaintances do/did QA at Rockstar. It sounds fucking dreadful, but I think the buzz of working in video games means they overlook the conditions. One was really proud of her name appearing in the credits of the Trilogy Definitive Edition, which was game full of bugs.

>>26217
In fairness spotting a bug and 2k and/or Rockstar giving developers time and resources to fix them are very different. The GTA billions only go so far, you see.

Here we go.

https://youtu.be/QdBZY2fkU-0?si=TQpr4Xmah6b0pwn9

>>26248
>Florida
Couldn't give a shit. See you again in 15 years, GTA.

>>26249

The location is that much of an issue for you?

That's interesting to me. Is it because you were hoping for somewhere else or do you just hate Florida that much?

>>26250
>do you just hate Florida that much?
Who doesn't? Even Florida hates Florida.

>>26250
For me environments in games, especially GTA games, are a huge part of the appeal and 2020s Florida appeals to me very little. Combine that with the fact it's going to be a money grubbing "live service" monster and my interest is basically nil.

Also I tried playing RDR2 a year ago and the mechanics turned me off faster than a 6.5mm rifle round to the temple. What's with the JFK assassination reference you ask? I'll have to get back to you on that.*

*Actually I think the Caracano rifle was in the first RDR so maybe that's why.

>>26253
Bet, gramps, ya cheugy ah bitch. Lucky we ain't on Reddit or y'all a$$ get ratio'd, frfr. Anyway, GTA 6 obvs gon slap, no cap. GTAO already the GOAT and RDR2 was some old timey sh!t but still bussin'. In this house, we stan Rockstar.

>>26253
>Also I tried playing RDR2 a year ago and the mechanics turned me off faster than a 6.5mm rifle round to the temple.

Did you at least play beyond the mountains?

>>26254
Yeah, funny stuff.

>>26255
I did, but the 6.5mm was never as capable a round as it's contemporaries so technically I didn't lie to you earlier. After the opening missions I did some hunting, had to press three different buttons to say "hello" to someone when I returned to camp, before lugging pelts and meat all over the place like some kind of twat. I decided it was crap pretty quickly. It also still had the "dead eye" mechanic from RDR1, which I never liked, even if I enjoyed the first game plenty. I've heard people call certain shooter games "head clickers", but with dead eye you don't even need to click half of people you kill, it's incredibly unsatisfying, even if I think I understand why it's in the game at all (easier to aim on a console, makes you feel like Butch and/or Sundance).

Maybe it's got a powerful, moving and revealing narrative that heightens the story beats in RDR1. However, for me RDR2 felt like it was shaping up to be a rat warren of side missions, Rockstar writing and boring gunfights against enemies that are too spongy because I'm supposed to be using a magic bullet trick that reminds me of the film Wanted, and nothing should remind me of Wanted, Wanted sucks.

Well, at least the graphics look Pretty Good.

Other than that... Mehhh. I'm expecting the tediousness of RDR2 but in a modern setting, an overwrought storyline that isn't as exemplary as it thinks it is, and what would probably otherwise be a pretty enjoyable open world drive and shoot game if it wasn't for all the online nonsense that killed my interest in the game as soon as I heard about it.

I never liked the tone of the modern GTAs all that much anyway. Clearly they want to do a more mature kind of social commentary these days that dives to the core of what America really is and all that. But I miss things like the pedestrian shouting "my mother's my sister!" and the nudist bloke with the funny lisp on the radio. It's not that they no longer have any of that, it's there if you look for it, it's just that so much of it is trying so hard to be serious too, and it feels a bit like trying to have their cake and eat it.

Oooh you're a bunch of moaning Michaels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRLujxTm3c

Delayed to May 26 2026, second trailer came out yesterday.

I'm not loving the idea of the protagonists being a couple, only because I imagine it'll have a tragic end which is something I don't enjoy in games.

I bought GTA V on PC last night, the last time I played it properly was completing it on PS3 at release. You think by the time of the release on a third generation they'd have sorted the shit controls out. I feel like third person action adventure/shooter controls have been somewhat standardised and refined in many modern titles, but GTA V you still have to mash X to sprint.

>>26256

I had a very good time with RDR2, but your criticisms are pretty much bang on. I played on console and I played it during lockdown, so it was basically the perfect game to waste 6 to 8 hours of my day, and I allowed myself to get immersed in a way that I wouldn't have if I was playing an hour or two on an evening here and there like I would have in normal times.

When it comes out on PC in a couple of years I'll pirate it I reckon. It just looks like GTAV with more effects honestly. Not saying it will be a bad game, I'm sure it will be very good. Rockstar never really make a bad game, even though you could criticise lots of aspects of them.

For me what kills it is their insistence on that fucking launcher app thing. I can tolerate it for EA and Epic, where they at least have more than three games I am likely to actually play. But I'm not doing it for a company who release two games a decade and think they are important enough to warrant a whole launcher on my PC. No mate.

And let's not get started on how if you are going to hold my personal details ransom so that I can play your crime simulator once in a blue moon, you could at least have the decency not to let them get hacked and stolen by some Russian teenager. I had to wait three days for their customer support to restore my account so I could piss around on GTA V RTX for all of ten minutes before going "meh, can't see a difference anyway".

Plenty to be a moaning Micheal about.