Take-two Interactive hints that long-anticipated GTA 6 could release in 2024.
GTA 6 is really set up for failure. There’s so many expectations from gamers after all these years with no new installment. Nevertheless, I hope to be wrong about this. GTA games are always a fun sandbox to me, and hopefully GTA 6 manages to get that part right once again.
I mean, personally I don’t care about the story or anything. If I can just mess around in a big fancy sandbox like all the other GTA games then it’d good for me. But GTA 6 has big expectations to contend with, so they’re gonna aim high. There’s the chance that they mess that up, either with scummy monetization or DRM, or by releasing a trainwreck of a game. Or they fck it up by releasing a soulless game like Saints Row did
As long as they can continue milking GTA Online there won’t be a GTA 6, and if there will be a GTA 6 it most likely will be online-first.
This comment is a little silly imo. There already is a GTA6. It’s been leaked in a playable form and we already know some of the storyline. The marketing machine has already started ramping up.
[GTA 6 has] been leaked in a playable form
You mean that crude alpha test code? I would’t say GTA 6 was leaked in a playable form, but hey 🙃
It compiled, and you could run around. That’s ‘playable’ in my opinion. Playable is the baseline, i.e. you can play it, but why would you want to. Bad Rats or Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing are also playable, and those are complete experiences.
Is anyone else finding themselves less excited for a GTA now that the Housers have both left Rockstar? I really worry the over the top satire of American culture by Scottish writers may be lost.
I keep saying that there’s not really anything left for this series to say or do… Unless they go to a whole new country or time period (RDR is this)
Well, aside from the old 2D London expansion they’ve never gone prior to the 80s, a 70s game could be fun.
Then again, it’s not like the US hasn’t had plenty to satarise since V came out in 2013, but as others have pointed out a lot of the groups wouldn’t take it in good humour any more. It would either be described as a woke commie simulator or fash adjacent
Also: The world has become super toxic regarding basically everything mocked in GTA. I highly doubt GTA 6 will be even a bit like previous versions. It will end up as toned-down unironically “woke” cashgrab. To me, GTA ended with GTA V.
GTA 6 will inevitably be labelled woke, but I don’t think that’ll be the issue. I just don’t think GTA’s humour works nowadays and needs to evolve. Even ignoring the childish poop and sex jokes, writing poignant satire in 2023 simply is a lot harder. I think ultimately Take-Two is just gonna play it safe, take no risks and the end product will be bland as a result. Just like the new Saints Row.
Yeah, the fact that so many element of society have no sense of humour about themselves or the capability for self-deprecation anymore won’t help.
I don’t imagine it will even be “woke”, I imagine it will be bland and safe to avoid putting off any of the audience as it will have to recoup a huge development cost.
