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

[BLOBERT]

Mercenaries, Just Cause 2, Crackdown, and Radical's stuff are all better sandbox games than GTA too.

BRO YOU HAVE MANY SMART

TOTALLY AGREE

 

[ferratilis]

What an asshole. If that were true, why didn't they release any single player expansions for GTA5?

https://mp1st.com/news/take-two-ceo...player-games-were-dead-unlike-our-competitors

Take Two CEO: We Never Believed Single-Player Games Were Dead Unlike Our Competitors

There was a time when a couple of our competitors were taking the position that single player was dead. We never took that position. We know that there’s a role for a single player. I believe there will be a role going forward. Then there are certain games that are meant to be only multiplayer experiences.

Rockstar is known for storytelling, and yes, Rockstar is also known for these fantastic open world experiences. They clearly do both really well. And the contract shows, as you just said that, consumers are really excited about Rockstar storytelling ability, and at the same time, we had a great quarter with Grand Theft Auto Online. So there’s a lot of excitement there. So the answer is sort of all of the above.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Fun game: Can anyone, without pulling up Wikipedia, shortly describe GTA V’s story? Or describe it at all?

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Fun game: Can anyone, without pulling up Wikipedia, shortly describe GTA V’s story? Or describe it at all?

Michael gets pulled out of retirement by psycho friend (who thought he was dead) and they're joined by low level hustler (Franklin) who wants to move up in the world. They pull bigger and bigger jobs and clash with criminals and law enforement until the game ends. They gaze into the sunset together and the credits roll.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Or you kill each other at the end.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

What an asshole. If that were true, why didn't they release any single player expansions for GTA5?

the alternatives are:
1) spend 100m to make enough content to last a couple days
2) spend 5 quids and let players make their own fun to no end

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

What an asshole. If that were true, why didn't they release any single player expansions for GTA5?

https://mp1st.com/news/take-two-ceo...player-games-were-dead-unlike-our-competitors

Take Two CEO: We Never Believed Single-Player Games Were Dead Unlike Our Competitors

There was a time when a couple of our competitors were taking the position that single player was dead. We never took that position. We know that there’s a role for a single player. I believe there will be a role going forward. Then there are certain games that are meant to be only multiplayer experiences.

Rockstar is known for storytelling, and yes, Rockstar is also known for these fantastic open world experiences. They clearly do both really well. And the contract shows, as you just said that, consumers are really excited about Rockstar storytelling ability, and at the same time, we had a great quarter with Grand Theft Auto Online. So there’s a lot of excitement there. So the answer is sort of all of the above.

He said he believes there's a role for single player, not that the role is bigger than the multiplayer of GTA Online.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Fun game: Can anyone, without pulling up Wikipedia, shortly describe GTA V’s story? Or describe it at all?

Michael gets pulled out of retirement by psycho friend (who thought he was dead) and they're joined by low level hustler (Franklin) who wants to move up in the world. They pull bigger and bigger jobs and clash with criminals and law enforement until the game ends. They gaze into the sunset together and the credits roll.

Johnny plans for his wedding with Lisa (who betrays him), accompanied by his best friend (Mark) and (Denny). We learn of the struggles of their friends and family, like breast cancer, and clash with criminals like Chris-R, until things reach a critical mass. They mourn Johnny’s tragic end and the credits roll.

 

[Hag]

Fun game: Can anyone, without pulling up Wikipedia, shortly describe GTA V’s story? Or describe it at all?

Boring Mr. Midlife Crisis somehow gets to spice up again his life by doing a robbery that against all odds goes well. Doing so attracts the attention of his old pal Mr Looney-Tune psychopath who - while being as one-dimensional as all other characters - sometimes display vague hints of anger and despair and so is by far the most and only relatable character in the whole story. Because of plot they decide to rob stuff and shit. They get the support of Mr Token Minority Small Fry who for some reason sees going from weed dealing to mass slaughter as a great life improvement. Then they do all kind of spectacular heists and stunts, each one more incredible than the other but each time without any fucking consequence because fuck you that's the plot. Then for some reason they decide to blow it all and rob a bank and we're supposed to be enthusiastic or whatever, then I stopped playing but I guess at the end Mr Midlife Crisis gets to grow some balls and be a respectable family man, Mr Looney gets lost and Mr "Sure my friends will respect me now that I'm researched in the whole country on three hundred accounts of senseless murder" gets respect and his girl and money and it's all well except for some stupid and unforeseen twist like after every other fucking mission.

 

[SlamDunk]

This is only wishful thinking, since I know Rockstar will not do it, but what if GTA VI turns out to be a massive immersive simulation and an emergent gameplay generator. There'd be no story, no single-player campaign, no missions and no hand-holding? Much in the way of Minecraft.

Also, no introduction other than an in-game one right at the beginning on how to control the character. You just get dumped into the world, to figure things out for yourself, which does what and its consequences. It would be easy to learn but hard to master, with the possibility of things getting incredibly complicated. That could be an infinite nightmare for qualtiy assurance, though.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Fun game: Can anyone, without pulling up Wikipedia, shortly describe GTA V’s story? Or describe it at all?

Michael gets pulled out of retirement by psycho friend (who thought he was dead) and they're joined by low level hustler (Franklin) who wants to move up in the world. They pull bigger and bigger jobs and clash with criminals and law enforement until the game ends. They gaze into the sunset together and the credits roll.

Johnny plans for his wedding with Lisa (who betrays him), accompanied by his best friend (Mark) and (Denny). We learn of the struggles of their friends and family, like breast cancer, and clash with criminals like Chris-R, until things reach a critical mass. They mourn Johnny’s tragic end and the credits roll.

I never said it was a good story. But I remember it. I have no idea what your point is.

 

[Child of Malkav]

There was a leak on 4chan that the game will have 2 protags, one male one female, at around half of the game you kill the antagonist, then you notice strange behavior regarding one of the characters and you realize it's the bad guy and you go after him/her. And if you fail to kill your target, you die and then play the rest of the game as that character. Also apparently the game is in a playable state with huge frame drops, some features from SA are making a return like learning multiple fighting styles, plus open ended missions. The game takes place in Florida.
Honestly it felt like it was just some wishlist but it went on for a while to the point where the leaker almost posted proof that he or she worked at Rockstar. IDK anymore.

 

[AwesomeButton]

IF YOU LIKE GTA SHIT PLAY SLEEPING DOGS IF YOU HVNT ALREADY

100% It's my favourite GTA type game. It's one of those games I wish I could forget and play for the first time again

It's only too bad that so much of its side content is unfinished (clothes system, girlfriends stories, side missions).

 

[BruceVC]

This is excellent news about GTA6, I have been waiting years for this. I think I enjoyed RDR2 more than GTA but they all entertaining

I wonder how big the city is and hopefully we can still participate in the sex industry like going to strip clubs

 

[BruceVC]

IF YOU LIKE GTA SHIT PLAY SLEEPING DOGS IF YOU HVNT ALREADY

100% It's my favourite GTA type game. It's one of those games I wish I could forget and play for the first time again

It's only too bad that so much of its side content is unfinished (clothes system, girlfriends stories, side missions).

Sleeping Dogs was excellent, especially learning martial arts and the different random fight clubs you could enter

But yes the city was empty of activities and lacked the numerous side quests that are common in GTA games

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

This is only wishful thinking, since I know Rockstar will not do it, but what if GTA VI turns out to be a massive immersive simulation and an emergent gameplay generator. There'd be no story, no single-player campaign, no missions and no hand-holding? Much in the way of Minecraft.

Also, no introduction other than an in-game one right at the beginning on how to control the character. You just get dumped into the world, to figure things out for yourself, which does what and its consequences. It would be easy to learn but hard to master, with the possibility of things getting incredibly complicated. That could be an infinite nightmare for qualtiy assurance, though.

It'd be interesting.

I don't think it's totally out of the question it goes someplace like this. I mean, it probably wouldn't be that extreme, but I can see them doing something like running your own drug business... It does feel like part of the point of Trevor Philips having that drug operation was for you to be able to run it with him beyond the airplane missions. They also did add running a drug business into Online a few years into it, so that could be something they do in single player now.

The heist system could easily be changed into a freeform system. They could take what they've got in GTAV, change it where you can hit any number of locations like banks, armored cars, armored car companies, casinos, and jewelry stores any time you wise as opposed to heist being very set missions that function as big set pieces you can go at in three different ways. The whole setup with getting different people you can take on heist with you almost seems like it was made for something more freeform, because as is in GTAV you have no reason to not pick the best people for a job, but in a more freeform system you could have stuff like options in the hospital or in jail from some previous failed job you tried doing and now you're stuck with like someone whose just shit, or someone whose total crazy to do some big job within whatever window.

It'd definitely be nice if GTA went back to how GTA2 did things, where you've got these different gangs and groups that just exist in the city, and you gain and fall out of favor with them depending on the stuff you do. That was definitely one of the nice things games like Mercenaries and Crackdown did over modern GTA games. That aspect always seemed like a really stupid thing to drop like GTA did.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

But yes the city was empty of activities and lacked the numerous side quests that are common in GTA games

still better than gta4.

 

[SlamDunk]

How pozzed will it be?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

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Spoiler

 

[lycanwarrior]

What an asshole. If that were true, why didn't they release any single player expansions for GTA5?

https://mp1st.com/news/take-two-ceo...player-games-were-dead-unlike-our-competitors

Take Two CEO: We Never Believed Single-Player Games Were Dead Unlike Our Competitors

There was a time when a couple of our competitors were taking the position that single player was dead. We never took that position. We know that there’s a role for a single player. I believe there will be a role going forward. Then there are certain games that are meant to be only multiplayer experiences.

Rockstar is known for storytelling, and yes, Rockstar is also known for these fantastic open world experiences. They clearly do both really well. And the contract shows, as you just said that, consumers are really excited about Rockstar storytelling ability, and at the same time, we had a great quarter with Grand Theft Auto Online. So there’s a lot of excitement there. So the answer is sort of all of the above.

Not to mention Red Dead 2. Even the online portion of that game has been left to rot.

 

[Modron]

Non Miami Florida is actually a pretty a good setting for a GTA game. If they are ever lacking inspiration all they have to do is plug Floridaman into google to find real life stories far stranger than fiction.

 

[SlamDunk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA6/comments/ex2mgz/i_watched_someone_post_this_on_twitter_be_it_real/

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ge-after-employee-backlash?srnd=technology-vp

Can't bother copying the text but anyway, Vice City, female latino and some dude as protags.

 

[HeroMarine]

 

[markec]

My bet she will ugly and black with no tits or ass.

 

[BruceVC]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ge-after-employee-backlash?srnd=technology-vp

Can't bother copying the text but anyway, Vice City, female latino and a some dude as protags.

I seriously hope wokeness doesnt destroy another gaming franchise, if there are not hookers and lots of ways to kill civilians its not GTA