A reader warns that fans should prepare themselves for the likelihood that GTA 6 will not be radically different from GTA 5.
It’s not easy being a GTA fan at the moment. We’ve had that first, amazing trailer but absolutely nothing since and no indication of when there’ll be more. In reality, we didn’t really learn much about the game from the trailer at all. It was more to get people excited and to go ‘wow’ at the graphics, which worked perfectly.
There was no gameplay footage at all and instead everything was carefully choreographed to show as much as possible, without really showing anything at all.
Oddly, some of the most revealing information has come this week from someone that hasn’t played it and has had no involvement in making it. However, the ex-Rockstar developer was a former technical director, and his advice was to not expect GTA 6 to be anything radically different.
I feel, in a way, that’s obvious, given all of the games are basically the same, but I’m sure after all this time many fans are expecting a radical evolution. But I don’t think that’s going to happen.
GTA 5 was really impressive because the graphics were much better than the previous one and they fixed the controls so that shooting and driving was a lot more fun. But you can only really do that once. It only seemed such an improvement because GTA 4 was so bad in that department (even though many would say that in terms of story it was better).
You’ll have noticed that of the two upgrades that GTA 5 got the current gen one, for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, was a much smaller jump forward. That’s no surprise because in general the leap from last gen to this gen is much more minor, with most cross-gen games looking almost identical.
Now, I’m sure GTA 6 will be the best-looking game ever – even if the trailer is an exaggeration I’ve no doubt the graphics will be incredible – but what of the gameplay? Was there anything in the trailer to suggest it would be in any way different to the games that have come before? No, nothing at all.
If anything, the amazing graphics are going to be the thing that leads to the most complaints, because people are going to expect the game to play as well as it looks and I don’t think there’s any chance of that. Not that it will play badly but that it won’t play differently to anything we’ve seen before.
You can see in Red Dead Redemption 2 that Rockstar are far more interested in graphics and storytelling then they are in rocking the boat in terms of gameplay. Maybe if they’d stated that a major change was their goal with the game, but they’ve said nothing – which I think shows more about their priorities than people realise.
I am absolutely not saying that GTA 6 will be bad. It’s one of my most anticipated games ever, I’m just saying that there’s going to be a very nasty backlash if people go into it expecting some radical overhaul or major change in how it works.
Absolutely nothing, including the ex-Rockstar guy, suggests that and we’d all be a lot better off if we assume it’s going to be basically the same game but with better graphics. And then, if it’s something more, we’ll be pleasantly surprised instead of upset.
By reader Compy
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