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

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

i have no opinion on gta 6 because we know nothing about it , its literally just "hey we are working on another GTA game!" , i expect garbage and we wont see anything about it until late this year at the earliest. I am curious about why they announced though , what are they covering up?

 

[Snekposter]

You know, its a sad day for gaming when the consensus of this thread on GTA VI can be summed up as "We expect nothing and we'll still be disappointed".

 

[Vault Boy]

"Up to 60fps" make me wary after the poor performance issues of the Defective Trilogy. These are games from at least two generations ago, how could they possibly struggle to maintain 60fps on such powerful hardware (especially for DE, how is 4K or 60fps even a choice for such old games)? Granted, you can argue that Grove Street's incompetence led to those issues and that "Expanded & Enhanced" is done in house by Rockstar, but Rockstar themselves didn't raise any objection over the butchered state of their games.

As for GTA VI, I remain highly skeptical after the way they abandoned the campaigns for both GTA V and Red Dead Redemption II, downright coasted on GTA Online even after RDR2 released (three years and only now has it entered active development?), and were cool with how the Defective Trilogy turned out. Indeed, I can't help but fear the possibility of GTA VI's campaign having fewer resources compared to GTA Online 2, the idea of it having a shorter campaign and even fewer side activities compared to GTA V is quite depressing.

 

[3-2-1836]

So who wants to take bets on which city it'll be next? Excluding Vice City

Remember it'll require the following:
Natural open ocean access
Nearby Casino
Interesting countryside
Somewhere to park your Yacht/Submarine

Personally I think Seattle is a good candidate, since you have Mount Olympus, a Casino in Tacoma and the natural boundaries of the Chehalis River to the south, Puget sounds to the north and the Cascades to the east and they could even include Vancouver BC or Portland if they're feeling adventurous.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

GTAVI is going to somehow be an even worse GTAV, even if they follow through on the Vice City location and the island game play from Scarface.

You play as Catalina in everything but name who is smuggling drugs for Ricardo Diaz in everything but name, and the entire story is her bitching about her father and all the horrible sexist men she has to do shit for until she kills them all like a boss queen or whatever.

She'll do just as crazy shit as Trevor, but suddenly the people who found Trevor problematic will hail her as the next coming of video game protagonists and Rockstar as stunning and brave for doing it.

Now I did call a lot of shit that ended up being in The Contract, but I could still be wrong on this.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

So who wants to take bets on which city it'll be next? Excluding Vice City

Remember it'll require the following:
Natural open ocean access
Nearby Casino
Interesting countryside
Somewhere to park your Yacht/Submarine

i still want a mexico-texas border city location in the game.

 

[3-2-1836]

i still want a mexico-texas border city location in the game.

Well you got SpaceX at the tip next to Matamoros but we already killed Elon Musk in the GTA universe

Another problem is with South Texas it's a coastal plain so it's very flat, with no natural features to naturally box it in unlike Los Angeles, which is completely boxed in by mountains opposite the Pacific.

Also most of the cities are small and irrelevant, unless they decide to rope in San Antonio, even then there's nothing really major there except the Alamo and Lackland airforce base.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

GTA VI should pull a Watch Dogs and have it based on Chicago. If they do that, make a Kanye West like character as the lead.

 

[Korpon]

I personally would like a return of Las Venturas, only problem is it's the desert, not much to put in besides Area 69/Area 51 outside of the city.

 

[CWCissey]

So who wants to take bets on which city it'll be next? Excluding Vice City

Remember it'll require the following:
Natural open ocean access
Nearby Casino
Interesting countryside
Somewhere to park your Yacht/Submarine

Personally I think Seattle is a good candidate, since you have Mount Olympus, a Casino in Tacoma and the natural boundaries of the Chehalis River to the south, Puget sounds to the north and the Cascades to the east and they could even include Vancouver BC or Portland if they're feeling adventurous.

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Manchester.

-Grungy look with hints of gentrification
-Huge ghetto
-Varied atmosphere in each city/town.
-Fairly large quay with an extensive canal network.
-Known for crime
-Lovely scenery in the Peak District
-You know the soundtrack will be fuckin' ace.

 

[3-2-1836]

I personally would like a return of Las Venturas, only problem is it's the desert, not much to put in besides Area 69/Area 51 outside of the city.

You got the Hoover dam and grand canyon to the east, infact in Vegas they have regularly scheduled helicopter flights over the Grand Canyon.

 

[Korpon]

You got the Hoover dam and grand canyon to the east, infact in Vegas they have regularly scheduled helicopter flights over the Grand Canyon.

True, that would be cool to screw around with those two, like attempting to jump the Grand Canyon with a suped up car or some shit, or try to drive on the side of the Hoover Dam.

 

[MirrorNoir]

So have the plans for a physical release for the GTA Trilogy for Switch pretty much dead?

 

[Vault Boy]

So who wants to take bets on which city it'll be next? Excluding Vice City

Remember it'll require the following:
Natural open ocean access
Nearby Casino
Interesting countryside
Somewhere to park your Yacht/Submarine

Personally I think Seattle is a good candidate, since you have Mount Olympus, a Casino in Tacoma and the natural boundaries of the Chehalis River to the south, Puget sounds to the north and the Cascades to the east and they could even include Vancouver BC or Portland if they're feeling adventurous.

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Vice City is the safe bet, but I'd like to see Las Venturas as Vegas has been underrepresented in recent years.

San Fierro would be nice, but Watch Dogs 2 already made a decent recreation of San Francisco (unless GTA adds shit on sidewalks).

 

[The Last Stand]

I would like to see Vice City again. But how would you do that since Vice City was set in another time period?

 

[3-2-1836]

I would like to see Vice City again. But how would you do that since Vice City was set in another time period?

If they're adventurous, maybe they might try Charleston SC, it's extremely interesting in geographical layout, and you can use Lake Marion, the Santee River and Savannah River to box the map in so you can have Hilton Head Island be it's equivalent to Paleto Bay, and you get to see really cool colonial era architecture.

Alternatively you could have New Port Virginia with all the military and government shit there and use Albemarle sound to the south as the southern boundary so you can go to OBX and the Great Dismal Swamp to get murdered by bears, and then if you're missing Vice City you can go to Virginia Beach.

All in all both locations are the native habitats of these motherfuckers so imagine stealing one of these.

 

[OJ Simpson]

I honestly don't think R* are all that interested in any new locations. NYC, Miami, and Los Angeles are tried-and-true, and overall just safe picks for the kind of game GTA is. And there's enough years in between releases to freshen up the locations. If the next one is Vice City, it won't be Vice City how we remember it anyways. We'll be past the 20 year mark and 3 console generations later since we played in Vice City when VI drops.

I could see a dark horse pick in London or Seattle. Outside of that I wouldn't hedge any bets on anything too exotic and out of the ordinary as far as video game locations go. On a personal level, I think it's the right time to return to Vice City.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

I wouldn't mind seeing R* take on Carcer City, for once. It's part of the GTA lore, albeit a minor one, but it's also had a huge spotlight via Manhunt. Carcer strikes me as being a gritty pastiche of every major Rust Belt city. Hell, it could be based on Chicago with bits of St. Louis, Cleveland and Detroit thrown in for maximum inner-city shittiness. The outskirts can be a mix of UP Michigan woods, Midwestern cornfields and an Appalachian portion that could be a condensed stand-in for Eastern Kentucky/West Virginia.

 

[John Merston]

I would like to see Vice City again. But how would you do that since Vice City was set in another time period?

San Andreas was set in another time period too, yet Rockstar had no trouble adapting Los Santos to the present day for GTA V.

 

[Vault Boy]

San Andreas was set in another time period too, yet Rockstar had no trouble adapting Los Santos to the present day for GTA V.

True, and it's not like they can't make an 80s radio station to simulate that feeling (unless they're very cheap...).

I'll admit, as much as I've been feeling down about Rockstar lately, this sort of speculation is still kinda fun.