which city for GTA 5?

Milton Keynes

coventry

xpost.

coventry maybe but wd a milton keynes GTA really be any cop? GTA needs a sufficiently large mix of ethnicities and immigrant factions to work successfully dunnit? which probably discounts a heap of cities on my list, tho it would be nice to see them stray from that formula (I might be getting GTA wrong here btw, I'm not the biggest fanboy, feel free to correct me)

delhi wd be ace but I don't think the tech could handle the density of ppl req'd to be faithful

sinking feeling it'll be london

there aren't any iconic american cities left. chicago?

maybe it will be a historical title

they've done san francisco haven't they (I suck at GTA); ignore tht one

vancouver

new york

sydney

maybe here would be best http://desktopgaming.com/desktops/thumbnails/166.jpg

WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT
niko bellic
bowser

scotland would be cool, but I don't think marketing would let them do that.

wd be a PR disaster on the scale of the resi5 trailer: a GTA w/only very pale white people in it

lagos would be insane

mumbai too close to the bone?

rio would be cool

Venice

pyongyang o_O

baltimore :D

yess^

baltimore+dc ????

(obama could be in it)

moscowwww

mumbai would be awesome

you should PLAY obama in it

lol the character could be called barry opana or somesuch

El Dorado
Atlantis
R'lyeh

Neo-Tokyo
Coruscant
Zion (lol)

lol the character could be called barry opana or somesuch

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it could revolve around the first 100 days... all the people he has to take out and stuff

yah there could be a governing aspect where u have to negotiate w/the gop and stuff and a crime spree aspect where u kill everyone - but the thing is no one can know yr the president so u wear a comedy mustache when committing crimes - of course the two worlds meet...

Back to Vice City, but this time I want rural Florida, the keys, and Cuba or something similar.

I don't particularly want it but maybe a Vegas one will be made.

i think it'll stay in the US, but somewhere more pulpy and vivid than lib city - so yeah, vice city maybe...

how about NOLA

NOLA would be amazing.

itd be cool to do a completely accurate recreation of a geographically small city

athens, ga

you play a member of an elephant 6 band

Machu Picchu

pattern dictates it should be a glorious revamp of vice city-

ps1 gta : liberty, vice city, san andreas
ps2 gta : liberty, vice city, san andreas
psp gta : liberty stories, vice stories
ps3 gta : liberty city, ??

^^^haha cozwn, i'd play that game!

(also do have the sinking feeling they will just go back to Vice City, but I'd much rather see another city. Even in another country besides the US, but it seems you need that vast multicultural criminal tension for it to work, so where else?)

gaza
darfur
kabul

beirut

wd play GTA: bogota

^^wd be lagos-level sick I think

I'd love to play an Al Capone starred GTA

it should prob just be the entire world - is everyone ready 4 dat

sounds like a great plot for a movie maybe from the directors of crank?

Hey, guys! Love this conversation.

I voted for Tokyo. With the lights and tall skyscrapers and dense population, you could have some very engaging gameplay. If the artists at Rockstar really branch out like they did in GTA: San Andreas, you could include Mt. Fuji, rural Shinto areas of gameplay, and even the military base at Okinawa. Plus, Japan in itself geographically most resembles a GTA "state". Just imagine plots involving North Korean kidnappers and side missions in pachinko parlours!

Yanks would have to get used to driving on the wrong side of the road, but who knows? Maybe even Godzilla or the Enola Gay could make an appearance in the end!

I wonder what they would call it though. GTA: Miyogi?

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/video/stills/n/niko_romin.flv.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bItfCbx.jpeg

Who’s in

It's a long way to Paleto Bay.

Started a new game (because I’ve got fuck all else to do while my family is away). M83 came on while I was driving around downtown and I was like oh yeah, this song was huge like 15 years ago

is it the song that just FEELS like a car commercial?

I wouldn’t know
It’s called “midnight city”

looking good

graphics look wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOri65S1S0

Phil Wang's Bruce Lee jumpsuit that season was an A+ commitment to the bit.

Second trailer dropped, by the way. More human than human.

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

hahahaha Josh are you posting in Zing?

Excited if Phil Wang's jumpsuit is in GTA 6 tho

xpost No I'm on my proper computer, what happened?

I'm not sure - Zing often includes fragments of discarded replies I've ended up not sending in Zing in subsequent replies, if I've not been careful to delete them before publishing.

Josh is on topic, I posted James Acaster's GTA recreation from Taskmaster

this trailer didn't excite me as much as the first, the novelty of the reveal is ofc gone now so less of the whiz-bang 'look at this insane thing we made' showing-off. (plus the tom petty song worked way better than this one).

instead its a reminder that this will have story mode, lame satire, etc. arthur was a wonderfully done character but rdr2's story, while a bit more 'elevated' than their usual fare still was cliche as hell

i don't know what i'm expecting from these games, i guess. they certainly deliver on most of what they aim for, i think? still, they're always not quite as good as you wanted them to be, which i believe someone in here said re: rockstar and has stuck w/ me.

honestly i'm not sure what they are aiming for anymore. i guess i still can't believe how horrible a 'game' GTA V was. rdr2 was a horrible 'game' but a great 'experience' IMO. (GTA V was a horrible experience AND a horrible game). when i say 'game' i'm talking like, tetris as the ur-video game. i realize they aren't necessarily aiming for that. but to me rdr2 (almost) justified their design philosophy and GTA V failed completely

i'm sure this has been said a million times but the aspect of interactivity is handled so strangely in modern rockstar games. the intended immersion actually highlights how artificial everything is and is in fact not immersive at all and is instead distracting and frustrating

that's why the teasers move me a bit more, can imagine what could be but inevitably isn't

Josh is on topic, I posted James Acaster's GTA recreation from Taskmaster

Ah! My bad, I hadn't seen that.

Currently replaying GTA: Vice City on my daughter's Switch and really enjoying it. Have little inclination to play the new game - let alone invest in the tech to play it, or find the time to scratch beyond the surface. I enjoyed GTAV as a video game - perhaps the last one I really sank time in, arriving just as my partner became pregnant and in the last gasp of my having spare time - but it was misogynist as fuck and really, really gross in places. The "satire" was often weak and dumb, beyond sophomoric. And replaying VC, a fair chunk of that is similarly simplistic and blunt. I guess these games hit different when you're almost 50, and have much more compelling things to spend your dwindling time on.

waiting patiently for the radio stations reveal

I've not played any of these but do have a copy of GTA5.

thinking on it now and the 2nd and 3rd rdr2 trailers that gave a glimpse into the story got me fuckin stoked, unlike this

rdr2 was basically a fantasy setting and that's a better concept for a video game IMO. how far off is crafting potions and armor from making 'dynamite arrows' or whatever. its not. not that 'crafting' is what i like, really, i think i'm just saying it heightens the artificiality of the experience in a way that suits the concept of a 'game' and in a way that fits with the world better. guessing the fiddly bullshit in this game, instead of crafting, will be like, keeping your engagement on 'dicktok' or something

maybe i just like cowboys

I think because it is about cowboys in a different era, there is an element of escapism to it, which is akin to fantasy. These games though are very much leaning to the trashiest contemporary aspects of our nation, so not escapism more ... hyperrealism?

and have much more compelling things to spend your dwindling time on

on reflection this reads more dismissive than I intended, tbh - I've definitely sunk hours into video games in recent years. but as global tetrahedron suggests, spending my one life on this planet "keeping your engagement on 'dicktok'" would feel like replicating in the virtual realm mistakes I'm trying not to make in the real world.

Really wanted to love RDR1, but found horses TOO SLOW. Really loved the mission where you pick flowers for a stranger's wife, though (the denouement was a bit of a shock though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtC5alJLLE
"If you can't afford it, that's OK, just go outside, the graphics are almost as good."

This is kinda nuts:

As part of its latest financial report, publisher Take-Two confirmed that GTA 5 has sold-in 215 million units, up from 210 in the last quarterly report. That'll include some physical stock being held by retailers that hasn't yet been sold through to consumers, but that's a pretty negligible caveat, especially considering that Take-Two reported another 5 million copies of GTA 5 sold every single quarter this year.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is also selling by the wagonload, with 4 million copies sold in the past three months. Citing venerable industry analyst group Circana, Take-Two says RDR2 is the "best-selling title of the past 7 years in the US based on dollar sales."

So GTAV has sold 215 million copies, and RDR2 has if not sold more then made more money than whatever GTAV has made (and counting).

Think about the clip between gta 3 / VC / San Andreas or even 4 and the expansions and compare it against the current bullshit

Well why would you rush to replace a product which is still selling 5m copies a quarter? That’s ~40 people a minute who are still only just getting around to playing GTAV for the first time in 2025.

They’re not saying RDR2 has made more money than GTAV, they’re just saying it’s made more money over the last seven years - ie if you discount the first five years of GTA’s sales.

Well why would you rush to replace a product which is still selling 5m copies a quarter? That’s ~40 people a minute who are still only just getting around to playing GTAV for the first time in 2025.

making a sequel with the same engine assets etc does seem like the way to go tho with how complex it is to make the big games these days itd still prob take many years maybe pushing back the next gen idk

Rockstar been sitting on they ass for 15 years. Fuck em

i would sit on my ass too

making a sequel with the same engine assets etc does seem like the way to go tho

Obviously they’ve got experience of that because it’s what they did with 3/VC/SA, but I’m guessing they found it wasn’t as lucrative as what they did with the V engine/assets - build a live service game on top of them and have that rake in cash for you between this and your next game.

unfortunately thats the dead end the industry has run into yeah. there can only be like a dozen mega-hit live service games at any given time but running one of them is so much more lucrative than making normal video games that execs are now just gambling away entire companies left and right to try to become one of them

the PS2 faster release cadence still exists in lower budget and indie stuff but the big companies are never going to go back to it

execs are now just gambling away entire companies left and right to try to become one of them

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sony situation is wild just lighting money on fire for games that either never come out or no one plays when they do

The pattern (not unique to Sony) is pretty funny. It's always something like: 1) game studio does well enough to get Sony's attention, 2) Sony buys game studio for hundreds of millions if not billions, 3) Sony directs or redirects studio team toward a new secret project, 4) years go by with no updates, 5) secret project gets cancelled, costing Sony and the studio many more millions, 6) Sony downsizes or disbands the studio. Bungie, Bend, Bluepoint, even Guerrilla, Santa Monica or Naughty Dog, they all seem at the least a little stifled by Sony. I guess the tradeoff is that in the case of a few of these, their games are so closely linked to Sony's identity and financial success that Sony can't help but throw money at them.

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

TLDW Rockstar seem to be engaged in some union busting.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-theft-auto-army-reenlistment-bonus/

Some U.S. military members who are itching to play a video game they've anticipated for over a decade can trade a commitment for several more years of their life in uniform for a few days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI.

As an incentive to reenlist, a U.S. Army unit in Georgia is offering active duty soldiers a four-day pass to play the popular game when it's released this fall, U.S. officials told CBS News.

Over the years, the Army has used various enlistment bonuses — college tuition, choice duty station assignments or access to special training programs where soldiers learn to jump from airplanes or rappel from helicopters to encourage soldiers to enlist or reenlist.

The recruitment incentive isn't service-wide; it was proposed exclusively for one battalion. However, it is possible the program could be expanded.

Twenty soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army's 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, have already chosen this incentive as part of their reenlistment, an Army spokesperson told CBS News on Wednesday.

They are going to be so disappointed.

do they get those several years of their life back if the playstation servers crash that weekend and they can't download the game

There have been so many leaks of the new game, it's kind of bonkers, not least due to the audacity. The leaker has apparently even been selling ad space on their leaks, lol.

The leaked footage of "Jason" robbing the convenience stores looks more like GTA V.2.

Of course there will be some better features, but overall, I get the feeling that it's going to be very similar because "why ruin a good thing?"

At one point, he drives past a spiral walkway leading to a pedestrian bridge, and I thought, I bet there's some sort of scavenger item up there.

No regrets right now about being too poor for a PS5.

seems like theyve got a working copy, more like gtvg (grand theft video game)

this shit looks absolutely nuts

it's a rockstar game, it'll have the most detailed and simulated open world of all time and your character will take a full second to respond to your inputs

The leaker has apparently even been selling ad space on their leaks, lol.

The one I saw was shilling for some cryptocurrency,

Bellamy Brothers are making sacks off of this series.

Cliff Richard too. These songs are like 50 years old!

aaaand that crypto currency is currently being cashed out as of today. Supposedly the leaker made out with $250k as part of all this.

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-leaker-has-cashed-out-and-reportedly-earned-around-270000-fans-believe

saw a thing that said some people at rockstar have been working on gta6 for over a decade, thats crazy to work on something for your full time job for ten years and its still not out, not too many things you could say that about major infrastructure projects maybe, a skyscraper, maybe a car