Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[A skinny fat man]

It's rumored by putting together some map leaks that this game is going to have about 4-5 cities, for reference V only had one city and the rest of the island was basically wilderness and highways, so they are going for a homerun in that aspect.
Anyways I don't care about this and I didn't even play V.

https://www.rockstargames.com/VI The website talks some about the locations in the game. The ones they're showing are
Urban (Vice City)
Suburban (Keys)
Suburban - Rural (Grassrivers)
Urban - Industrial (Port Gellhorn)
Rural - Industrial (Ambrosia)
Wilderness (Mount Kalga)

Assuming there's at least some separation between some of these areas then I could see there being a good amount of stuff to do in places that aren't Vice City.

 

[mentally retarded user]

My predictions on VI is that it's not going to sell enough, not because of any boycott, but because Sony and Xbox are declining with their shit consoles and there wont be enough of a playerbase to cover the investments on the game.
Keep in mind that they are shilling the PS5 "Pro", which came out last year, to play this game.
They missed the covid bubble and if they shipped for the base PS5 they would have had better prospects.

Insomniac, who had the best selling game on PS4 and then PS5, still had to do layoffs.
Rockstar will survive by whaling the fuck out of people with microtransactions on the online multiplayer mode, which will last forever.
(Sony is surviving by whaling the fuck out of paypiggies, making them buy the PS5 again because it's slightly upgraded and "Pro" plus a $250 tax, curious.)

It's been over 10 years since V, so a new playerbase of zoomers will interact with the new game, and they are not going to get it.
They will be bored with storyshit and if the main quest is more ultralinear going to point A to point B while an npc tells you the storyshit, it's going to get tedious.

 

[The Last Stand]

Two things though:
-nu-R* bringing back Phil should be considered as VI being non-canon. The only two characters that canonically exist both in 3D and HD universes are Lazlow and Fernando Martinez, with Lazlow's in-game appearance in V being justified as it's Lazlow, he was one of the greats since III. Lazlow appeared in every major GTA game, with Fernando being a close second. Bringing back a minor character that only appeared in four 3D era games for some lazy fan service only shows how much nu-R* cares about the series, and even if it's "Phil-but-not-really-Phil" then it's still turbo gay. It's like they want to turn Phil into Far Cry's Hurk, but like two decades after the fact. Fuck, that.

Oh, I forgot about that. Best case scenario, he'll be Phil Dastardy or something. Now, I'm reminded of how people would want CJ and Franklin to cross paths despite them not even existing in the same universe. It may be a quick try at nostalgia bucks as well.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

Motherfucker i'm almost 40 i won't waste 18284059 hours on a unlimited map full of worthless content.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Motherfucker i'm almost 40 i won't waste 18284059 hours on a unlimited map full of worthless content.

Viejo culiao

 

[Would]

It's rumored by putting together some map leaks that this game is going to have about 4-5 cities, for reference V only had one city and the rest of the island was basically wilderness and highways, so they are going for a homerun in that aspect.
Anyways I don't care about this and I didn't even play V.

This happens every time. Rumordickriders and journoniggers declare insane shit that overpromises in order to drum up hype.
Journoniggers at gameinformer declared it would take an hour to go from one end of Liberty City to the other in IV. It doesn't take an hour even if you follow every stop sign/red light. It doesn't even take an hour if you sprint.
V had journoniggers raving about how Los Santos was the most impressive "life-like" city and how NPCs finally for real this time we promise been coded with AI that allowed them to live full lives that you could spectate and observe (something they've promised since San Andreas and is frankly a retarded idea as it would bloat up save files if the game has to track thousands of NPCs and track the items they move/interact with and develop over time. It's why Skyrim and Fallout 4 save files start at 1mb or so and end up at 50-60mb save files come endgame, worse so if you use mods).

4-5 cities, lmao.
Even San Andreas, great as it is, really only had one city. San Fierro and Las Venturas are incomplete; SF being small as all hell and Venturas empty for content besides the two casinos and martial arts club.
Or is two blocks (Paleto Bay) now considered a "city" by today's zoomers and soyllennials?

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

It's why Skyrim and Fallout 4 save files start at 1mb or so and end up at 50-60mb save files come endgame, worse so if you use mods).

Oh no, that's for another reason.
Gamebryo had a peculiar problem when saving actor info into the save. Rereads the shit like twice when loading a save and when saving again; that info is stored again.
That type of shit never happened with NetInmerse (Morrowind).
There's some mods fixing the problem at least.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Jason is confirmed to have been in the military

I'm going to bet Lucia won't have any fancy background but will somehow be just as capable as Jason in gameplay (and more capable in cutscenes)

 

[The Last Stand]

Journoniggers at gameinformer declared it would take an hour to go from one end of Liberty City to the other in IV. It doesn't take an hour even if you follow every stop sign/red light. It doesn't even take an hour if you sprint.

I'm guessing it's from the western-most point of Alderney to Francis International Airport? I'll have to try that road trip. Liberty City is not a big map all things considered.

I'm going to bet Lucia won't have any fancy background but will somehow be just as capable as Jason in gameplay (and more capable in cutscenes)

I saw her in a cage, I'm guessing cage fights like The Ballad of Gay Tony would return? Or even fight training a la San Andreas?

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I'm going to bet Lucia won't have any fancy background but will somehow be just as capable as Jason in gameplay (and more capable in cutscenes)

If that happens, that gonna be the death of the franchise.
Let me recount:

• Claude: Since young has always in shady deals.
• Tommy Vercetti: Mobster who killed 15 guys in Harwood.
• Carl Johnson: Gangster of a gang (heh).
• Toni Cipriani: Another mobster who killed an important capo before the game.
• Victor Vance: Spend military service in the prologue before discharge.
• Niko Bellic: War Veteran from Serbia at a young age.
• Johnny Kleibtz: 2nd in command of a motocycle club. Had a brother in the military.
• Luis Lopez: Spend time at military service after beating to death a guy who raped(?) his sister in Dominic Republic.
• Franklin Clinton: Gangbanger (like CJ).
• Michael Townley: Professional robber after having a physical problem in his youth playing american football.
• Trevor Philips: Spend time at military service and learned how to fly.

Many things interesting from them. Jason basically retake some background of the earlier protags.
If Lucia isn't that type of girl... Nah.

 

[Would]

Also IDK if anyone else said it, but I bet you the reason the latina ass got sent to the slammer is because the white guy betrayed her/sold her out.
She'll find out at the mid-point after suspicions from others arise, he'll try to make excuses but then eventually reveal he did it with glee and would do it again.
I bet anything on it.
No actual Bonnie & Clyde ending, no cool "The Devils Rejects" style ending.

If you're saying "Isn't that similar to Michael and Trevor in GTA V? Yes, it is, and I don't expect the Jeets at R* to have a single creative bone in their body.
One look at "Phil" without his rebel flag shirt and I know they'll retread old stories and callbacks to justify their mediocre story.

Also, way too many coloreds. I don't care how "accurate" it is compared to today's Miami, it's too much.
The 3D era didn't care about accuracy over atmosphere and mood and it worked wonders. V's Los Santos sucked because 2013 Los Angeles sucks.
Abandoning creative vision for contemporary settings reeks of laziness these days.

Tommy Vercetti: Mobster who killed 15 guys in Harwood.

11 men, that's how he got to be called 'The Harwood Butcher', Hahahahaaaa

 

[The Last Stand]

Luis Lopez: Spend time at military service after beating to death a guy who raped(?) his sister in Dominic Republic.

His father was in the service. He did time in prison for his childhood friends after being caught in a drug deal gone wrong. Tony Prince recruited him from a criminal reform program as a bouncer/bodygaurd/partner.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

His father was in the service. He did time in prison for his childhood friends after being caught in a drug deal gone wrong. Tony Prince recruited him from a criminal reform program as a bouncer/bodygaurd/partner.

Damn, you are right with that one.
I probably remembered the photo in his apartment.

 

[The Last Stand]

Damn, you are right with that one.
I probably remembered the photo in his apartment.

Luis' family loves to give him shit. His mom, his brother and his childhood families despite reforming his life as much as possible. I think he has a great relationship with his sister. With his sister, he beat up a teacher that tried to molest her at a young age.

 

[Deus Exica]

Originally Franklin dies in option C and let Lamar takes his place in the post-game, like R* did with John and Jack in RDR1 (or Arthur with John in RDR2).

Lamar should have just been the protagonist honestly. A hood nigga with a lukewarm IQ getting wrapped up in high tier crime shit and a feud between two old white dudes would have been way more interesting than Franklin Uncle Toming the whole time.

 

[StacticShock]

Many things interesting from them. Jason basically retake some background of the earlier protags.
If Lucia isn't that type of girl... Nah.

eh i think they might pull she was a gang-related girl to try and elaborate some reasons as why she is like michelle with glowie-like abilities even though gang girls are nothing but the cumrag.
probably a gang brother that taught her the ropes or something.

 

[Would]

They can at least make her batshit insane in a charming way like Catalina, but that fucks with the girlboss aura.
Catalina wasn't military/police trained, she was just that hard-headed, balls-of-steel, and lucky until her luck ran out.

Or IDK, have her be an adopted child of a redneck outlaw family where she had to get scruffy with the other trailer park trash in order to survive. It would explain her attraction towards Florida Man Jason as opposed to the 10,000 niggers and Cuban aliens.
But then she wouldn't have that "Ayayay I'm a latina" Sofia Vergara accent, would she...

This is fucked. Mary Sue it is.

 

[#lurker]

Motherfucker i'm almost 40 i won't waste 18284059 hours on a unlimited map full of worthless content.

You will do 100 tow truck missions, and you will like it.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

the more i think about it there is no way in hell they steal from interesting-weird scenarios like natural born killers-bonnie and clyde point break. this will be legit saints row reboot where they are going to steal shit to save abuelitas casa or something retarded like that

 

[Buster Scruggs]

the more i think about it there is no way in hell they steal from interesting-weird scenarios like natural born killers-bonnie and clyde point break. this will be legit saints row reboot where they are going to steal shit to save abuelitas casa or something retarded like that

That’s a big vibe I got off the trailer, the scene where hispanic chick cuddles up to the white dude on the couch wearing what looks like a community service vest specifically felt off especially when compared to the rest of the trailer. The only other thing I’m curious about is if they’re going to just cut prostitution or have some sort of consequence system where you can fuck up the MCs relationship via cheating and debauchery.