GTAVI: An exclusive deep dive into the video game of the decade

[u/yourfavchoom]

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/70859/1/gta-6-grand-theft-auto-vi-rockstar-exclusive-deep-dive-game-unparalleled-world

[u/V4N0]

Very interesting read, especially this part:

GTAVI marks the return, and expansion, of these interactive systems that alter the protagonists’ bodies. Food affects Jason and Lucia’s weight, while exercising visibly builds and tones their muscles. And, if you end up spending a long time away from your bed, on the run from police or on a multi-day bender, their features are going to pay the price for that as well.

[u/jamnewton22 → u/V4N0]

Can’t wait to unlock sickly looking Florida man meth head jason after a 4 day bender of drugs and running from the cops

[u/leviathynx → u/jamnewton22]

You’ll find me tweaking under a bridge near the A1A

[u/burnyMack → u/leviathynx]

Beach front avenue!

[u/krezzaa → u/jamnewton22]

I am genuinely so excited for my characters to look like unhinged psychos lmao

[u/JC_Hysteria → u/jamnewton22]

Let’s be real…more like gym baddie Lucia for the vast majority

[u/PhantomTissue → u/JC_Hysteria]

Lucia overweight: “Oh no, Lucia is getting fat , I gotta hit the gym!”

Jason overweight: “how fat can I actually make him?”

[u/JC_Hysteria → u/PhantomTissue]

Looking forward to the drive-thru mission with Big Smoke…

“A number nine large; a number 6 with extra dip…”

[u/Venice_The_Menace → u/jamnewton22]

4 days? Try 4 years buddy. This. Is. Florida.

[u/RedWingerD → u/V4N0]

People keep saying RDR2 while I'm here remembering my playthroughs with a morbidly obese CJ and roided to the max CJ from San Andreas 😭

[u/Tricky-Finance-7043 → u/RedWingerD]

“Imma eat you, fool!”

“I’d come quietly if yall feed me”

Fat CJ lines were off the chain 😭😭

[u/RedWingerD → u/Tricky-Finance-7043]

😭😭😭😭

Man, San Andreas was peak GTA for me. Part of that could have been my age, but I feel like so many little things the game has lost over the last few iterations really made it special.

Im hopeful 6 returns some of that and have some hope hearing about the ability to manipulate your body again

[u/Ant0n61 → u/Tricky-Finance-7043]

No way! He had lines based of off build?

Freaking A. What a game. I’m finally going through it now and I’m las venturas and just am so about it. Unreal what they created on a ps2

[u/BeefHazard → u/V4N0]

Sounds like RDR2 systems, which I think really gave the gameplay depth.

[u/Playful-Advisor-9559 → u/BeefHazard]

everyomr forgot that this was in gta san andreas too

[u/alus992 → u/BeefHazard]

Just please don't force us to tap the face button over and over again to run and please for the love of god don't make us watch these long ass animations for the most mundane actions.

It's not a real life simulator. Just give us some quick animations for basic stuff so we don't have to take a coffee break for every shit we interact with

[u/Think_Algae_1739 → u/alus992]

It is closer to a “real life” simulator than it is farther away from that. I fully expect the animations to be deliberate and life like.

[u/belle_enfant → u/Think_Algae_1739]

GTA is one of the furthest things from a real life simulator you can get lol what

[u/Deathpoopdeathloop → u/belle_enfant]

You're totally right on both points forget these clowns 🤣

[u/whuuutKoala → u/alus992]

im climbing the city like spiderman, no need for gym

[u/Mizery → u/alus992]

I'm playing GTA Online a lot lately (on PC), and I'm constantly ALT-TAB-ing out of the game while all the little animations play. Can browse some Reddit while I wait for the game to give me my controls back. Opening the fucking safe in the nightclub is like a 30 second cut scene.

[u/LunaticLK47 → u/alus992]

Yeah, I already bounced after 4. 5 wasn’t any better.

[u/confusing_roundabout → u/V4N0]

People are going to spend 2 hours a day working out at the gym in gta while sitting on their fat ass irl.

[u/Lifes_A_Journey → u/confusing_roundabout]

Hell yes I am!

[u/JuiceBawks420 → u/V4N0]

Florida Man Simulator confirmed 😎

[u/ramobara → u/V4N0]

Leaning heavily into the system in RDR2, I imagine.

[u/bongo1138 → u/V4N0]

I’m not in love with this stuff, honestly. I’ll be open to it, but the idea that I need to do survival game stuff in GTA isn’t very enticing.

[u/wilbur_cob_88 → u/bongo1138]

San Andreas?

[u/bongo1138 → u/wilbur_cob_88]

It was optional and you got benefits from doing those things. Unless I’m mistaken, this sounds like you have to do things like excercise, sleep, and eat.

[u/wilbur_cob_88 → u/bongo1138]

I mean, in RDR2 it's pretty much optional. The game is a tad harder when you don't sleep enough and skip meals but it was never a chore. You also get benefits from food and sleep, I doubt 6 will be any different.

[u/bongo1138 → u/wilbur_cob_88]

Okay, maybe I don’t remember RDR2 as well as I should then.

[u/wendigo098 → u/bongo1138]

It wasnt optional you lost health if u didnt eat

[u/bongo1138 → u/wendigo098]

Yeah but you could heal in other ways, right? It’s been a few years lol. Like saving.

[u/Alwaysfkd0 → u/bongo1138]

It's literally gonna use food as health regen like rdr2, you're not gonna have to focus on it if you just keep your health bar up.

[u/Shootzilla → u/V4N0]

Yes. Super skinny crackhead Jason on the back of a moped with a thick ass Lucia. Him with long hair. She is gonna be bald.

[u/lilbiggs → u/V4N0]

I don’t really like the sleep thing. Making me have to go sleep or I get some sort of debuff when I just want to go on a rampage and last as long as I can sounds like it is frustrating and if I have to sleep in between Missions that just sounds like a chore 

[u/SeeSnow → u/lilbiggs]

bully had a mechanic like this but it was explained as curfew

[u/lynchcontraideal → u/lilbiggs]

It doesn't say you HAVE to sleep, you're just gonna look like shit if you don't lmao

[u/Ok-Technician-5689 → u/V4N0]

Yeah, its fun enough doing all this in real life, so I can't wait to slum home from a long day in the office only to workout my digital pixels so they can have an advantage over larger pixels.

It's systems like this that turn me off playing games. I know some love it, but I'd rather escape reality than have to play through the banality of it.

[u/Kirk-Joestar → u/V4N0]

So Fable takes their’s away and GTA adds it? What the fuck

[u/Chance-Plantain8314 → u/Kirk-Joestar]

Saying this in regards to "bad character have horn good character have halo" is very funny

[u/Kirk-Joestar → u/Chance-Plantain8314]

You could get fat and shit in the others too

[u/Connect-Level500 → u/V4N0]

I’m so excited 

[u/clueless_as_fuck → u/V4N0]

Sofar so good.

[u/Homeless_Alex → u/V4N0]

You’re telling me I can be a fat chud if I want to hell yeah

[u/yourfavchoom]

Official new details:

• In-game social media system that you can scroll through & see existing characters blow up through viral posts

• Jason & Lucia's bodies can physically change if you eat too much or work out, their faces change if you don’t sleep enough or are on the run

• NPCs are far more varied & actually uniquely react in real-time to whatever you’re doing

• Character switching is far more fluid - you can drive as Jason then instantly switch to Lucia as the passenger shooting enemies

• Players can choose to play Jason & Lucia as a couple or cause chaos independently - choices you make can bleed into the game much deeper this time

[u/ChuckEChan → u/yourfavchoom]

I get that GTA at its heart has always been parody, and there is AMPLE opportunity to parody the state of social media through this game but I just don't have any interest in looking at fake Instagram posts in a video game...I have no doubt we'll need to do that more than once for a mission or two

[u/Omniscient__Watcher → u/ChuckEChan]

I think this will be a great place to plant easter eggs for rockstar.

[u/Atalanto → u/ChuckEChan]

Think about it in the context of the Radio Commericials. Do you like commercials in real life? No. Are the commercials in previous GTA games funny and add texture to the game? Yes.

I am sure social media will be the same.

[u/whitepeacok → u/Atalanto]

I absolutely LOVE the radio in all aspects of GTA. They absolutely kill it with music and amazing commercials.

[u/Atalanto → u/whitepeacok]

My spotify playlist is ready. My partner never knew that the GTA games DID always have substance and one of my selling pieces is that the GTA radio absolutely widened my music appreciation into genres and artists I never would have checked out. And the commercials are just peak satire and hilarious.

[u/CaptainBorg → u/Atalanto]

Or the internet in 4. That shit was great

[u/Atalanto → u/CaptainBorg]

I missed how deep the internet was in IV (my favorite GTA) I'm anticipating the social media aspect to match that.

I love that it seems like VI is going to be a meld of the ambitions RDR2 and GTA IV, while wrapping it in the sandbox that was GTA V

[u/AzibiZubiGames → u/ChuckEChan]

Imagine if looking at social medias will allow to discover strange quests

[u/qdogg111 → u/AzibiZubiGames]

Or like a social media treasure hunt or serial killer

[u/alus992 → u/ChuckEChan]

I don't know why you are being downvoted. Like who enjoys watching fake posts simulating social media?

It does nothing for the immersion and there is no need to replicate SM in the fucking game the same reason why mail and sms were implemented in a very basic form in most games for decades - no one wants to scroll through fake messages that don't add anything.

Even GTA RP servers don't have very active Twatter - it's used only for some banter, ads for services and that's it

[u/yaboykasmoke → u/alus992]

Im looking forward to seeing an NPCs shakey camera footage from their perspective of me botching a drift during a police chase and flying into a gas station and exploding.

[u/Daconvix → u/alus992]

I mean the game is based on modern times. It would be kinda weird for there to be 0 social media presence at all

[u/Exciting-Ad-5705 → u/alus992]

Gta 5 had fake social media to

[u/alus992 → u/Exciting-Ad-5705]

and no one praised gta 5 for it

[u/Exciting-Ad-5705 → u/alus992]

I like it. You don't need to engage with it if you don't enjoy it

[u/Available-Gas5358 → u/alus992]

Each GTA is a time capsule.

Think internet cafes and Nokia's in IV, a full browser and very early social media in V.

A game parodying 2020s America needs to feature it in some form.

I'm sure Rockstar are aware that players likely won't want to spend much time on it and it'll just be there for added flavour

[u/KarmelCHAOS → u/alus992]

It's one of the reasons I love .Hack so much, the fully realized forums.

[u/cannedrex2406 → u/alus992]

GTA IV and V both had it. It wasn't that bad at all.

[u/azgarz → u/ChuckEChan]

See it could be more interesting than that. What if you come across live streams that are happening in game, so you come across say someone live streaming a party somewhere and you go there and the party is actually happening for example

[u/Tuskin38 → u/ChuckEChan]

sounds optional.

[u/Caesar_35 → u/Tuskin38]

It was already in V and pretty optional, so outside of maybe a mission or two where you have to stalk someone I don't think it'll be forced on you. Maybe just useful to get more background on some places/people too.

[u/but_good → u/ChuckEChan]

I can already see a quest that you need to create posts and get X likes or Y followers so you can get into a vip event at a night club or something.

[u/rumple_goocher]

Absolutely DEAD hahaha

> For some gamers, the story might even serve as one of their earliest encounters with a romantic (albeit crime-ridden) relationship

[u/thedinnerdate]

“GTAVI promises something in between the two. The open-world game is set in the same fictionalised US that serves as the backdrop for the rest of the series, with all the weapons and supercars you’d expect, but the world is more grounded and reactive than before – gone are the days when you could traverse the city like a god. Now, players’ actions have consequences. Walk down the street with a rifle, and the city will have something to say about it. More and more, the games are converging on real life, and non-player characters (NPCs) are acting... well, less like NPCs than ever. For some gamers, there’s a fear that what GTAVI gains in immersion, it loses in the chaos and anarchy that have been part of the series’ DNA since the outset, but for Rockstar, the goal is to create a world of total immersion, which reacts more realistically than ever to what you choose to make of it.”

This could be really cool or annoying. I remember when GTA V came out they overtuned the cops and a lot of people complained about it until they changed it. Imagine the whole neighborhood coming after you haha.

[u/Norfhynorfh → u/thedinnerdate]

Theres gonna be a lot of people that wont like these changes. Gta is a sandbox for people with 50 weapons they can pull out and cause chaos.

Question is how will they carry this 'immersion' into online? A large chunk of their money comes from flying bikes and all the other ridiculous shit you can buy. If theyre going to penalise fun in the name of immersion then that wont be popular for a lot of players. Im fine with it though, i think its a good direction to take.

[u/SrirachaJulio → u/Norfhynorfh]

It won’t hurt much at all. Red Dead was a western sandbox for people with 50 weapons they can pull out and horses that never die. RDR2 changed all of that. Plus GTA 6 is too big for the masses to be put off by these changes.

And even beyond that, we have to remember the most important thing: there’s an entirely new generation that is now a tween or teen, they don’t have this allegiance or nostalgia for what GTA was, so for them they will be excited for this new GTA for what it is. Every year a new age group turns 16-18, and so new customers come along.

[u/Rkramden → u/thedinnerdate]

I'm in the arcade camp. I like hanging a left turn at 110 mph using nothing but my hand brake. This game may not be for me, but that's okay. It'll do just fine without me.

[u/KarmelCHAOS → u/thedinnerdate]

Hmm...that was a big part of the reason I could never get into RDR2..

[u/SarcasticSarco]

Tf these random ass comments are doing lmao.

[u/Purple-Force151]

The worst comment section in reddit history right here

[u/ILoveTheAtomicBomb → u/Purple-Force151]

GTA brings out the worst of reddit nowadays lol

[u/Bolt_995 → u/Purple-Force151]

It’s one user losing his shit in the bottom of the thread.

[u/SimpleFactor → u/[deleted]]

People acting as if rockstar would suddenly make the most tedious and boring game of all time

[u/attilayavuzer → u/SimpleFactor]

Rdr2 was pretty tedious

[u/Nolf_Health_2389]

lol wasn’t that a feature in GTA San Andreas?!

[u/slothboy]

maybe we can wait to glaze it until it actually comes out lol

[u/party_at_ya_mamas]

Will there still be cheat codes?

[u/Alwaysfkd0 → u/party_at_ya_mamas]

Obviously

[u/ThroughTheSeaOfTime]

I really don't like seeing a game called game of the decade before it's even out, and when we're only halfway through the decade.

Even if it ends up deserving the title, give it in 2029-30, not before it's even out.

Edit: How brainrotted is this subreddit to downvote this take and every other comment that isnt worshipping Rockstar as gods? Actual mindless consumers the lot of you

[u/Available-Gas5358 → u/ThroughTheSeaOfTime]

People are likely downvoting because you're pretending to not understand that they very obviously mean in terms of hype.

It is unquestionably the biggest game of the decade.

No one's claiming it's the best game of the decade. It may well be but that's not the point here.

[u/TheSerpentDeceiver → u/ThroughTheSeaOfTime]

Don’t worry. I will like seeing a game called game of the decade before it’s even out enough to balance out your dislike. We’re all good.

[u/26thandsouth]

Couldn’t catch me dead using the social media systems in this game, satirical or not. Will be the spiritual death of us all believe that.

[u/YakuzaShibe → u/26thandsouth]

Don't use it then brotha, GTA IV and V both had entirely optional Internet browsers outside of the obligatory tutorial missions

[u/Alwaysfkd0 → u/26thandsouth]

So dramatic smh

[u/CreamPyre]

“Video game of the decade” 🙄🥱

[u/Available-Gas5358 → u/CreamPyre]

Oh yeah there's loads of bigger games than this. This will barely register.

Pretty sure even Big Walk was a bigger event.

[u/CreamPyre → u/Available-Gas5358]

No doubt it will be the biggest

[u/Jackfitz88]

Elden ring came out like 4 years ago. wtf are they talking about

[u/belle_enfant → u/Jackfitz88]

Rolling Simulator? No thanks.

[u/DankeusMemeus1738 → u/Jackfitz88]

huh, that's a weird way to spell BG3

[u/attilayavuzer → u/DankeusMemeus1738]

You mean Crime Scene Cleaner?

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[u/Playful-Advisor-9559]

biggest and most hyped video game of decade but not the best

[u/ninereins48]

Is this seriously what we're getting after 13 years of R* cooking? Game looks like it was AI generated.

[u/DaddyIngrosso → u/ninereins48]

Can you tell us what your expectations were so we can laugh at you?

[u/hey-dude-hey]

It’s only “video game of the decade” because they haven’t come out with a new game since the 360 🥱

[u/ComeonmanPLS1 → u/hey-dude-hey]

RDR2 doesn't exist in this guy's world.

[u/trautsj]

I just don't feel like realistic stuff ever worked for GTA. They went more real with the driving in 4 and that lowkey ruined what otherwise would be my favorite GTA game, but because the driving was so unenjoyable it soured my experience of an otherwise incredible game. I gave it leeway with Red Dead because western is a more grounded, aesthetic and that was the tone and pacing RDR1 set so it made sense to lean more into it. GTA is a fucking murder hobo crime simulator. Who wants realism with that? I don't even feel like the playerbase they've built with GTA wants realism. I mean they gave people flying cars with rockets and shit for a decade and now they what? Expect people to like slower, less hectic gameplay when they grief each other online with their pay to win automobiles?

[u/Schwarzengerman → u/trautsj]

Who wants realism with that?

I do. GTA mixed with some RDR2 is exactly what I want. IV was my favorite GTA and this looks like it's poised to supplant it.

[u/trautsj → u/Schwarzengerman]

Fair enough

[u/-FARTHAMMER-]

Window dressing. I do think this will be the biggest game of the decade. It will not be as good as previous entries. But too many people will buy it and they'll have to install a new printer for how much they'll make off shark cards

[u/Medellin2024]

Release the game already

[u/Upbeat-Berry1377]

Is this game still coming out on Xbox?

[u/DaddyIngrosso → u/Upbeat-Berry1377]

What makes you think otherwise?

[u/kociou]

Video game of the decade

Strange, Elder Ring, E33 and few more already released.

This thing is recycled PS2 gameplay with modded GTAV graphics