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Rockstar Plans To Announce Much Anticipated 'Grand Theft Auto VI' (bloomberg.com) 57

Posted by msmash from the up-next dept.
Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software, plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to Bloomberg. From a report: The company plans to then publish a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI next month to celebrate Rockstar's 25th anniversary, said the people, who asked to not be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly. A spokesperson for Rockstar didn't immediately respond to a request for comment sent after business hours.

No video game has driven more fervor from fans and investors than Grand Theft Auto VI, which is expected to be one of the most significant entertainment releases of the decade. Its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold more than 185 million copies and is the second-best selling video game of all time, behind Minecraft, which had the advantage of also being playable on phones.
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  • Really!? (Score:5, Funny)

    by kwerle ( 39371 ) <kurt@CircleW.org> on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:27AM (#63989279) Homepage Journal

    Are they planning on announcing, or are they just thinking about it? Because if they're really planning on announcing it then that's super huge news. But if they're just thinking about it then we should probably hold off until they're really planning on announcing that there is going to be a GTA VI some time in the future.

    Wow. That'd be news indeed. But only if they're really planning on announcing.

    • I've seen reporting that we are getting a release date announcement next week and maybe a trailer, I also see reporting the trailer is next month. A release date we all know they'll delay isn't very exciting without a trailer IMO.
    • They're planning on announcing the date of the announcement of planning, pending plans to announce the planning of the announcement.

      • After they schedule a meeting to discuss the meeting cadence to determine the schedule of meetings to make a recommendation to the committee that will later decide if there will be a plan to announce their decision to investigate if they will decide to schedule a series of meeting to decide if there will be an announcement about their decision to plan to announce their potential for making an announcement about planning to release a statement about GTA 6.

        Yes, I have worked for the government and this isn't

    • I think theyâ(TM)re thinking about planning to think about announcing it.

    • Between this and the live-action Legend of Zelda estimated time-to-release, I think it's pretty damn obvious what is being sold here.

      And it's not a video game or movie anytime soon, if at all.

    • Until it ships we'll have to lump it in with cold fusion, room temperature superconductivity, and P=NP. Exceptional claims require exceptional proof. Milking a massively profitable gaming franchise by releasing another game in the series? I mean why would they even do that? And how?

    • They are thinking about planning to think about planning to announce it.

  • Updated Wanted System (Score:5, Funny)

    by Shakrai ( 717556 ) on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:55AM (#63989297) Journal

    In honor of the Uvalde Police Department, when you reach four wanted stars, the police will now flee from you. ;)

    • It wouldn't be a bad mechanic for the game if at the 4 star level you've made enough noise resulting in enough emergency news broadcasts to have all the regular peds flee and the cops get more careful - taking cover more often, retreating a bit when too many of their own have been shot, waiting for SWAT to arrive and chuck grenades, etc. And hell, while I'm at it, cops should have a wounded status in addition to dead. Hurt 'em badly enough and they should drop and then another cop should try to drag them

    • In honor of the Uvalde Police Department, when you reach four wanted stars, the police will now flee from you. ;)

      Only if you're shooting up kids in a school, if you damage some storefronts they'll send in the helicopters with A2G missiles immediately

    • cops will discontinue chasing in some cases based on speeds and traffic levels

  • Wake me when it's done.

  • I never fully "got" GTA. The satire of being an outlaw going around an urban pile of concrete doing super evil stuff wears off too quickly to last multiple games with hundreds and hundreds of hours of the gameplay loop. At least for me. I don't get it. ...
    Then again, odly enough, I do like the ultra violent FarCry series. But there I do also get to explore impressive landscapes and have pet grizzlies and crocodiles maul my enemies on command. That sure is fun IMHO. But GTA? Nope, couldn't be bothered. That'

    • It's fun to drive around and shoot people, the story is usually (other than 4 I guess) is usually pretty interesting. I've enjoyed all of the GTA games though I usually play through the story missions once, screw around for a bit and I'm done with them. So I don't really get how people are still regularly playing V to this day.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by pjt33 ( 739471 )

        There's a whole ecosystem of player-designed race maps. I assume it uses a mod rather than base game behaviour, but the ability to do multiplayer car races with your friends is probably driving continued play more than the one-player story mode.

    • GTA is fun,. I actually enjoyed GTA5 a lot , because I found it pretty easy to follow the story (Although the original red dead redemption was straight up *compelling* in that regard) and the fact it gave you 3 different characters to jump between meant that if you just want to do just rampage, theres trev the meth-head, whereas the other two have actual stories and dont really have characters that support just being a violent loon, so you can kind of jump between a more role playing style (which I prefer)

    • GTA has a compelling format. For all its faults the world mostly feels immersive, only when you are flying above the landscape at speed are the limitations of the game engine really obvious, and missions take place in locations that make sense given the game world giving the game a flow that makes you feel like you're in it. It's not like a FPS where it is on rails the whole way and the only influence your actions has on the path available to you is specifically how you kill a given enemy, usually just down

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Shakrai ( 717556 )

      I haven't seriously (discounting a few casual "try this out" at friend's houses) played it since GTA2 but the answer to your question is easy. It's mind numbing don't think too hard fun. Had a shitty day at work? Mow down some pedestrians. Run over the Elvis impersonators. Embark on a kill frenzy. Punch a cop in the face just because. Find the rare armed civilian that fights back when you carjack him. See how long you can last against the National Guard.

      I rarely played the missions, I think just on

    • Dude! GTA V was a COMEDY! There are some geniunely funny scenes in that game! I think the problem is you took it too seriously. It's more of a "Gee, I wonder what happens if I do this disgustingly stupid thing" type of sandbox.

  • Minecraft had one more advantage (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Flavianoep ( 1404029 ) on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:12AM (#63989451)

    "Grand Theft Auto V, has sold more than 185 million copies and is the second-best selling video game of all time, behind Minecraft, which had the advantage of also being playable on phones."

    Minecraft has also the advantage of being appropriate for children, which have more time to play videogames.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      I tried GTA V, having played 1 through San Andreas. I found the controls a bit awkward and overly complex, and the gameplay not all that compelling. Maybe I've just lost interest in such games, maybe they changed.

      • Agree. I hated the driving mechanic in whichever gta I played. Video game driving is never even close to the mechanics and physics of real car driving. Way too glitchy and easy to smash into other cars or swerve out of the road etc.

        At least in watchdogs I could hop in any vehicle, set a location and it would take me there driving way better than I possibly could and freed me to hack things along the way.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Pascoea ( 968200 )
          I can't tell if you're being serious, or this is a fantastic troll. Paraphrasing your comment as "I don't like the driving mechanics where I have to drive myself" would seem to indicate the latter. However, having never played any of the "modern" GTAs, I can't tell you what the driving is like. So there's that too.

        • GTA4 I think had pretty shitty driving, they tried to make it "realistic" but it just felt terrible and not fun.

          All the other games are certainly cartoony but basically fine. It's not supposed to be a racing simulator.

          • GTA4 is best GTA.

            (Except VC and probably the original).

            • Sorry the "bad takes" thread is that way [slashdot.org]

              • ;-)

                I just says it how I see it, of course the end of gta 4 sucked (in that is was virtually impossible on pc using mouse and keyboard).

                That was because it was the first one that was designed for console first. Also why people though there were perfomance issues at the time on PC. There were not as long as you had the right hardware. Needed 3 cores and a good gfx card, not 2 cores and the best gfx card (on which yes it was poor). I also has 8GB ram since I moved to vista sp2 (had to xp 64 was a test and dx w

      • It depends on the platform. Since GTA IV it's primarily a console game. Most PC ports (GTA V included) suffer from very poorly designed controls unless you play with a gamepad.

    • Minecraft has also the advantage of being appropriate for children, which have more time to play videogames.

      Lol you think children weren't playing GTA V? And won't play GTA VI?

      • My DAUGHTER was playing GTA V as a child! (And I used to watch her play it, the game is actually pretty entertaining.)

      • No, I don't think so. That's why I said that GTA-V is *not appropriate* for underage kids, not that it is not allowed to them. Letting kids play it is at discretion of parents in a lot of countries, and some of them won't allow their children to play a game in which you can steal a car, have sex with a prostitute, and then beat her dead to keep the money.

        • So then your entire post was non-sequitur if you didn't even think the premise was correct. To be clear, whether you think it is or isn't age appropriate isn't relevant. Minecraft has no advantage here, children do play GTA.

    • Children have a lot more free time? Tell that to the Chinese children who built your computer!

  • No thanks (Score:3)

    by DarkRookie2 ( 5551422 ) on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:24AM (#63989723)
    It will require signing up and install cancer on my computer. Hard pass.
  • Red Dead II had a trash online component that everyone hated. It fell flat on its face because they tried to capture lightning in a bottle twice when people are over that pay to win trash. Plus, whoever made that stupid rocket bike thing in multi can burn in hell. This is like expecting Bethesda to make a good game just because ES 3, 4, and 5 were kinda good and ignoring Fallout 76 and ESO and a ton of other titles that were underwhelming, glitchy, defective trash. Bit of a pipe dream. Look at the last 10 t

  • Stop already (Score:3)

    by GoJays ( 1793832 ) on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @12:12PM (#63990073)
    I'm tired of these announcements of games that won't be released for years. Shut up and go develop the game. Only let the public know about it when it is ready to release. The only thing these early announcements do is dump pressure on to developers. Forcing the development team to meet deadlines that are already too short for what has been promised. Early announcements also allow more time for Sales and PR to push a whole bunch of BS hype which pushes the expectations for the game into the stratosphere (Eg. Cyberpunk) with little to no hope of meeting. So the game ends up being rushed out the door in a broken state. It's just a shitty way to market a game for everybody.
  • Planning is not announcing. Give us something already! Not a leak!

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
    He released this video just 3 days ago, it sums up how I feel about this rumour of a pre-announcement-about-an-announcement thing.

  • A _chick_ that goes to hookers, then kills them to get her money back? Not that's HOT!
  • Too late to the desktop, given that most of us are already running 'Grand Theft Auto VIM'

  • Came for the Duke Nukem Forever comments. Was disappointed.

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