Decline Grand Theft Auto VI - PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S (Fall 2025)

[Heroic Liberator]

Why?

I prefer the design philosophy of earlier GTA titles (from 3 onwards) where the protagonist's social background gave each game in the series a distinct flavor. GTA V diluted that by having three protagonists and to me they appear as being three distinct possible iterations for the game that might've been originally considered by Rockstar which ended up being mixed together to create what we've actually got with GTA V.

Should've just picked one of them and perhaps kept the other two as NPCs tied to some quests imho. And I would've preferred the sole protagonist to be Michael personally since a game centered on Franklin would've been too much of a SA rehash and a Trevor-centered game would've been too wacky (unless they focused on him being mentally ill rather than just playing his psychotic behavior for laughs, but I doubt that they would've had the balls to do that justice beyond a scene or two as was the case with that torture scene which generated a mediatic shitstorm anyway). That and I also dig his similarities in personality and mindset to Tony Soprano.

 

[Gerrard]

How pozzed will it be?

 

[Gromlintroid]

Enjoyed RD2 so hopefully this will be good.

 

[karoliner]

Would you kiss your gf if she was zombie?!?

Yes, i'm faithful to her.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Rdr2 was fun because you could ignore the story and larp as a cowboy.
If you ignore the story in GTA games you're just a meth addicted car thief.

 

[Machocruz]

R peaked during PS2/Xbox. GTA 3 trilogy, The Warriors, Bully, Manhunt, Max Payne, etc. Even if you accept that GTAV and RDR2 are good, the variety is only going to suffer more and more because of the amount of time these huge games take now.

 

[Modron]

It's fucking retarded missed opportunity by all publishers of the World that in 10+ years long GTA singleplayer drought NOONE released a single GTA copycat.

Totally agree. I would have loved to see Sleeping Dogs 2.

Don't worry they are still making another Saints Row.

Spoiler

 

[fizzelopeguss]

i don't get the hate

It sold 100+ million copies. It's impossible to avoid contraire faggery.

 

[SlamDunk]

How pozzed will it be?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

 

[orcinator]

i don't get the hate,

Every mission was

drive for 10 mins
then some combination of
scripted chase section
cover based shooting section
bad mini game section

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

kotor2


every mission was

listen to 10 mins of uninteresting banter
then some combination of
fight endless amount of trash mobs
more boring dialogue
bad mini game section


see how easy it is?

 

[orcinator]

kotor2


every mission was

listen to 10 mins of uninteresting bander
then some combination of
fight endless amount of trash mobs
more boring dualogue
bad mini game section


see how easy it is?

Yeah that game sucked too.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

while i agree, most of the codex doesn't, it was just an example.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm glad we are all recognizing the truth of kotor > kotor2

 

[Kem0sabe]

The greatest mystery for me is why people still like Rockstar games, they are just like you getting to the front of a house, from the outside, it looks like a really good house, but as soon as you pass through the door, you notice it was just some cardboard prop on a scaffolding of styrofoam just made to look impressive from outside but with zero substance in the inside.

Red dead 2 was fantastic, one of the best single player stories and main character I have played in years.

 

[Modron]

I'm glad we are all recognizing the truth of kotor > kotor2

I don't think I'll ever replay KotOR 1, the first third of game is backtracking after backtracking. Wouldn't even be tolerable running the game at 5x speed.

 

[orcinator]

The greatest mystery for me is why people still like Rockstar games, they are just like you getting to the front of a house, from the outside, it looks like a really good house, but as soon as you pass through the door, you notice it was just some cardboard prop on a scaffolding of styrofoam just made to look impressive from outside but with zero substance in the inside.

Red dead 2 was fantastic, one of the best single player stories and main character I have played in years.

Go outside.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

I'm glad we are all recognizing the truth of kotor > kotor2

i've always has the feeling 2 was trying too hard to be 2deep4u instead of just being enjoyable, but i might be wrong on that, who knows. the real deal killer is the planets, they're the most uninteresting, dullest, most boring places i've ever virtually visited.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm glad we are all recognizing the truth of kotor > kotor2

i've always has the feeling 2 was trying too hard to be 2deep4u instead of just being enjoyable, but i might be wrong on that, who knows. the real deal killer is the planets, they're the most uninteresting, dullest, most boring places i've ever virtually visited.

half the planets you visit in kotor 2 just look like "generic green planet with trees"
nar shaddaa was cool tho and easily the highlight of the game for me
idk I think if you're going to make a game where you visit different planets, you should never go with ones that look like an earth forest. Even limiting yourself to the star wars movies is a bad idea because they're constrained by real life filming locations.

I liked kotor locations a lot more overall which is the main thing I look for in a space game.

 

[DeepOcean]

Problem is that if Kotor 2 was like GTA V, invisible walls of death would be the end boss instead of Kreia. Also, if you did a wrong turn on Malachor 5, you were dead and had to restart the mission all over again.

 

[deuxhero]

Why?

I prefer the design philosophy of earlier GTA titles (from 3 onwards) where the protagonist's social background gave each game in the series a distinct flavor. GTA V diluted that by having three protagonists and to me they appear as being three distinct possible iterations for the game that might've been originally considered by Rockstar which ended up being mixed together to create what we've actually got with GTA V.

Should've just picked one of them and perhaps kept the other two as NPCs tied to some quests imho. And I would've preferred the sole protagonist to be Michael personally since a game centered on Franklin would've been too much of a SA rehash and a Trevor-centered game would've been too wacky (unless they focused on him being mentally ill rather than just playing his psychotic behavior for laughs, but I doubt that they would've had the balls to do that justice beyond a scene or two as was the case with that torture scene which generated a mediatic shitstorm anyway). That and I also dig his similarities in personality and mindset to Tony Soprano.

Multiple protags could work if they were strongly tied to each other. A Bonnie and Clyde couple for instance.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Hope the humour in GTA6 will PUNCH UP instead of DOWN.

I hope I will get to PUNCH IN ALL DIRECTIONS whoever came up with that witty metaphor.

As for the game itself, Rockstar isn't saying any more right now, or committing to when it will say more.

Leave it to journos to refer to single persons as "they/them" but to huge organisations as "it". All the English MA diploma is worth is one ass wipe.

 

[SlamDunk]

Red dead 2 was fantastic, one of the best single player stories and main character I have played in years.

Yes, it is fantastic on many levels, but the main story is shit. Also, the main story and side missions suck for the most part with the same ultra-simple gameplay formula repeated over and over again, just in different ways.

 

[Konjad]

I liked GTA V.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Yes, it is fantastic on many levels, but the main story is shit. Also, the main story and side missions suck for the most part with the same ultra-simple formula repeated over and over again.

I suspect them coming out and saying that it's becoming harder to do a satire type of story like GTA5, might be influenced by how well received the darker more realistic story of RDR2 was.

Personally I would love to see a "heat" type of story in a GTA game, with two characters, one a cop and one a criminal.