SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
More or less, but not called that. Vice City is GTA's Miami counterpart. Wasn't totally clear what the island nation would be.
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Rockstar Games confirms Grand Theft Auto 6 is in active development
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saintjules
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REDRZA MWS
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It’s clear what they are up to. Release toward the end of the xsx/ps5 generation, when install bases are really high, then re release on PS6/Xbox next, and milk the shit out of for close to ten years total, Ala GTAV.
Deerock71
Member
Yeah, that's not happening. Apparently they've forgotten their audience.
EverydayBeast
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Who doesn’t want to play GTA6 now? Gamers want it and love everything GTA stands for it’s the polar opposite of JRPGs, first person shooters etc. it doesn’t everything in its power to be BAD.
SoggyBiscuit
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After reading that article? Loads of people I'd bet.Who doesn’t want to play GTA6 now? Gamers want it and love everything GTA stands for it’s the polar opposite of JRPGs, first person shooters etc. it doesn’t everything in its power to be BAD.
Sounds puritanical and sterile as hell. GTA is a satire of modern culture. Who wants a sanitised version of GTA?
Either everyone is a target or nobody is. It's going to be all the obvious "capiltalism bad" "karens" "patriarchy bad" jokes. There's a certain edginess to GTA that isn't racist, homophobic or transphobic but moreso holds a mirror to society and just intensifies aspects of American culture, I think we might lose some of that given this "cultural reset" which is occurring at Rockstar.
I hope I am proven wrong and I hope the game is great, but we'll have to wait and see.
GreatnessRD
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GTA 6 sounds like its gonna be complete cheeks not gon' lie, but I'm hoping for better.
HeisenbergFX4
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This is going to be a complete trainwreck isn't it?
Putonahappyface
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I hate to say it but yeah I think die-hard fans like myself are going to be disappointed. I predict this will be a soulless game, but nevertheless it'll pull in truck loads of money.
“Rockstar’s next game, Grand Theft Auto VI, will include a playable female protagonist… Developers are also being cautious not to “punch down” by making jokes about marginalized groups…. Rockstar has attempted to reinvent itself as a more progressive and compassionate workplace.”
so a Resetera friendly GTA, got it. Wonder what they’ll replace the prostitutes with…?
so a Resetera friendly GTA, got it. Wonder what they’ll replace the prostitutes with…?
Putonahappyface
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REDRZA MWS
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Never thought I’d see the day the woke mob would even destroy GTA. Sad.
saintjules
Gold Member
Are you saying that there won't be a new GAF Hype Train anytime soon?
Lady Jane
Banned
Yeah it's dead on arrival.
No one is claiming GTA VI will be DOA. It just won't have that "cool" edge anymore.
I just don't understand who this is for? Part of the appeal of GTA is it's unpc nature and it's renegade kind of status. They are the fans who made it what it is today so who exactly is the audience for a woke GTA?
That being said if done right a Bonnie and Clyde kind of story could work very well.
That being said if done right a Bonnie and Clyde kind of story could work very well.
Roman Empire
Member
It will sell like nothing else ever did but it'll be disappointing to the old crew. GTA is clearly aiming to not be the satire of American culture that used to be. It'll be inclusive and full of millennial internet culture jokes. It might not be bad per se, but I get the message that I'm not their core audience anymore. I enjoyed my stay from GTA1 to GTAV but I'm tempering my expectations.
Putonahappyface
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I am. It'll be dead on arrival for me if it loses its satire! From the looks of this thread
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/gran...-2024-2023-taking-place-in-vice-city.1639531/
it's D.O.A, well for hardcore fans anyway.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Does Rockstar not "get it"? Those jokes aren't "punching down" on marginalized groups. Not when everybody was getting them jokes. I think the new Rockstar doesn't get it at all.
NickFire
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I was really interested when I first heard about a Bonnie and Clyde type storyline. Sounded like a golden opportunity to spin an old (real life) story for a modern audience. Satire could be hard hitting and really on point when you consider the horrible things the real duo did while being romanticized by story tellers. The duo could be covered in victim's blood while reading tweets (etc) making them into hero's, and really get people thinking about the difference between facts and narratives through satire.
Then I read the actual article. I now have no hope for this game after reading: "Senior executives at the company, concerned about how the narrative"; "Developers are also being cautious not to “punch down” by making jokes about"; "Rockstar has attempted to reinvent itself as a more progressive and compassionate workplace"; "But the development of Grand Theft Auto VI has been slower than impatient fans and even longtime employees have expected"; and "The game has been in development in some form since 2014. Although there are loose schedules in place, people interviewed for this article said they didn’t know of any firm release date and that they expect the game to be at least two years away."
If the article is accurate, which I have no reason to dispute, then in my humble opinion we will be getting a game that took at least 10 years to develop by a company that eschews both itself and the type of content that let it to succeed previously. So yeah, it sounds like a train wreck.