Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video](www.youtube.com)
30 pointsby piotrgrabowski4 hours ago6 comments
  • danpalmer3 hours ago
    It looks like Rockstar have nailed a solid 2026 update to previous releases, everything looks great. But is that enough? It should be, but given the billions spent on development I think there's an expectation of more.

    It also looks like they've kept the art and writing fresh for 2026. GTAV feels dated at this point, no criticism of course, and I was concerned that they would fail to modernise into a world that is quite different now than 13 years ago, but it seems they've likely succeeded at that.

    I'm looking forward to playing, eventually, when it comes out on desktop. But is this the game of a generation that justifies buying a console? I'm not sure.

    • mcphage2 hours ago
      > It should be, but given the billions spent on development

      I wonder how much GTA 7 will cost to make, and how long…

    • Dig1t2 hours ago
      >I was concerned that they would fail to modernise into a world that is quite different now than 13 years ago

      What do you mean by this? In what way has the world changed that you thought they might fail to capture?

      • danpalmeran hour ago
        I think it's mostly about the characters. GTAV was, in my opinion, much lighter-hearted than this is looking. Trevor was a hoot, Michael's marital problems were made light of, even Franklin as probably the most serious character still had plenty of quite direct comedy written around him.

        I'm not sure that would go down well in 2026. The redneck thing feels tired, the public narrative of wealth inequality would likely make Michael feel out of touch, and much of the audience would have identified with Franklin but he doesn't really have the struggles that today's Millennials and Gen-Z have.

        These two characters seem more realistic in that sense. Less direct comedy (although I still see that there's the iconic GTA parody in places), a couple who are probably going to be much more relatable even if they're criminals, and a standing in society that is more relatable.

        It's not that the comedy wouldn't land, the parody/satire is important and it looks like it's still there, it's more that I think V depended on some stereotypes that are long gone, or that society recognises differently now.

        • al_borlandan hour ago
          I don’t play games to find people I relate to. I play games to become a character for a period of time in the game. Rich, poor, redneck… it doesn’t really matter. They can all be interesting and engaging characters to take on if the game is written well and fun to play.

          I think this a mistake a lot of modern game companies are making. They think people want to be represented, when what most people want is an escape. I want to do things in a game that I would never be able to do in real life. That’s half the fun.

          I also think the venn diagram of people offended by stereotypes and those who play GTA barely overlap. They may be completely separate circles. The people who will complain about the game were never going to buy it, so Rockstar shouldn’t care about what they have to say. Make the game for the customers, not the activists and critics.

        • decimalenough39 minutes ago
          > there's the iconic GTA parody in places

          My favorite was the fancy nightclub called "Effluvia", a fancy word for "stinks like sewage".

      • satvikpendem34 minutes ago
        The gaming world, which is what I presume they meant, is much different today. The days of clunky gunplay and insta-failing a mission for going 10 feet out of the correct path are long gone and would be tiresome for most gamers.
  • Fricken3 hours ago
    It looks great. I'm conventionally a critic of the pursuit of realism in games, particularly with faces, because of the uncanny valley, but the faces look great. They're not uncanny.

    GTA VI is the biggest single entertainment property of all time and we've waited a dog's age for it to drop. It appears the level of polish and attention to detail throughout is unprecedented.

    After GTA V the franchise was feeling played out for me. I thought I had decided I wasn't going to buy a console just so I can experience GTA VI, but my mind it seems is changing. It looks banger. It looks like it really does have the power to elevate the whole industry.

  • pier252 hours ago
    Amazing they run this with a base ps5 from 2020.
  • swozey2 hours ago
    Sold my 4090 last year, cant wait to play this in 10 years. Did they say what they're playing it on in the video? Is that ps5?
    • satvikpendem33 minutes ago
      Why did you sell the 4090?
    • ebbi2 hours ago
      Yep PS5. But apparently for PS5 Pro as well, it will be capped at 30fps (!).
      • al_borlandan hour ago
        This is disappointing. I bought a PS5 Pro mostly for this game. I didn’t want to make the trade off between graphics and frame rate, which seemed to be what the base PS5 often makes people do (from what I read).

        I guess we can hope for a future update once they figure out how to optimize more.

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  • 2OEH8eoCRo03 hours ago
    It looks very good but two "bad guys suddenly crash the party" missions in one video?
    • danpalmeran hour ago
      The second one is pretty much directly a Die Hard parody – new building, party, execs off doing drugs, dead guy in the lift. I'm looking forward to that one, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more in there.
    • no-name-here2 hours ago
      There's the one at the end - I'm guessing the other is the police raid on the drug lab at the beginning? Personally I wouldn't have put them in the same bucket.