Grand Theft Auto VI - Leaking all over the place

[footle]

3 hours ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

GTA: Amsterdam. You know it makes sense. You have yer drugs and Red Light District, you have the historical city centre with the shops making it

 look like a mishmash of every culture in the world mixed together, tourists from every part, canals for boat chases, you can have everyone in the game speak English and still be authentic etcetera

really lean into the bicycles from San Andreas, because that’s the only way you can get around outside of really slow canal boat chases.

[Steven]

Didn't realise Houser and Lazlow had gone as well as Benzies. Be very interesting to see how that translates into the feel of the next one (if they ever decide how to approach it)

[theredstar]

I was reading some of the comments on the link Broker posted.  

 

God, people depress me. Loads of anti semetic, racist, transphobic bullshit. None of it challenged, not of it modded. 

 

DSOgaming never struck me as a particular shit hole. Have I misjudged it, or is everywhere this bad? 

[Mr. Gerbik]

15 minutes ago, footle said:

really lean into the bicycles from San Andreas, because that’s the only way you can get around outside of really slow canal boat chases.

The narrow roads and bridges around the canals would make for really tense races and once you get out of the city centre the roads become a lot wider. Going by 5, a GTA Amsterdam would also include the suburbs and the more rural areas outside the city. You have a forest there (Amsterdamse Bos) and of course Schiphol Airport is nearby. The airport, Rijksmuseum, Central Station, Amsterdam Arena (the Ajax stadium) would all make for suitable locations for epic set pieces/shootouts. Shit, imagine a heist to steal a Van Gogh in the Van Gogh Museum! A hilarious shootout in the Sex Museum! I'm telling ya, Amsterdam would be*perfect*

[moosegrinder]

3 minutes ago, theredstar said:

I was reading some of the comments on the link Broker posted.  

 

God, people depress me. Loads of anti semetic, racist, transphobic bullshit. None of it challenged, not of it modded. 

 

DSOgaming never struck me as a particular shit hole. Have I misjudged it, or is everywhere this bad? 

It's the internet. It's generally a receptacle for the unfiltered liquid shit of every mouth-breathing fuckheads every thought.

[Mr. Gerbik]

A robbery set during King's Day, you and your posse all dressed in orange and looking very silly, as you escape with bags full of cash and disappear into the orange masses to evade the cops

[Mr. Gerbik]

One of the final missions could involve you trying to smuggle drugs out disguised as Sinterklaas presents. Halfway through something goes wrong and you end up stealing the horse of a Sinterklaas and escaping over the rooftops as helicopters start shooting at you.

 

Edit: oooh and at some point you come across a racist moron dressed as the racist version of Black Pete and you get to punch him in the mouth - achievement unlocked: "he did nazi that coming'

[Mr. Gerbik]

A mission involving cheese. Don't know what, but it has to be included. 

[iknowgungfu]

Why not somewhere a bit more challenging like SE Asia somewhere? Lots of hustle and bustle and less focus on rigid streets like we see in US cities. 

[Simmy]

What amazes me is that in this day and age that there is no leaks whatsoever of a game of this size.

 

And by leaks I don't mean screenshots, videos etc - I mean more like - drunk programmer in the pub talking about things he shouldn't be etc.

 

How do they manage to contain information like that? I understand there is NDAs and stuff like that but there's NDAs everywhere in the world and things still leak. Always find it kind of fascinating.

[Fry Crayola]

3 hours ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

GTA: Amsterdam. You know it makes sense.

 

Everyone everywhere has, at some point, thought it'd be really fun if GTA was set somewhere local to them.

[Mr. Gerbik]

If they hold out on GTA6 too long and/or they focus on the Online portion too much, surely that creates room for something like the Saints Row reboot to swoop in and attract fans of the single player campaign parts of the GTA experience? Both Saints Row and Sleeping Dogs showed you can have a sandbox game in that vein with good controls and combat. The melee combat in Sleeping Dogs was particularly excellent. Both games imho put all the R* GTAs to shame in that regard. Now more than ever would be a perfect time to release a Sleeping Dogs 2, but alas Squeenix are the absolute kings of wasting potential.

[Mr. Gerbik]

2 minutes ago, Fry Crayola said:

 

Everyone everywhere has, at some point, thought it'd be really fun if GTA was set somewhere local to them.

You have to admit though that Amsterdam is a particularly good fit for the series. It's *Amsterdam*. 

[Hamus]

12 minutes ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

You have to admit though that Amsterdam is a particularly good fit for the series. It's *Amsterdam*. 

 

It has rubbish roads and the literal name of the game is about stealing cars.

I don't see how it would be that good, taken as an exact replica.

[Mr. Gerbik]

Tbh, as much as I love London, Paris, and Barcelona in real life. If it's not going to be Amsterdam, Tokyo would be my personal second choice.

 

[Fry Crayola]

49 minutes ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

You have to admit though that Amsterdam is a particularly good fit for the series. It's *Amsterdam*. 

 

Not really, given all of the fun things about Amsterdam are best experienced in person, whereas all of the fun things to do with America are best kept at an ocean's length.

[bear]

The worst part of Vice City is that the city is pancake flat. Never again. 

 

 

 

 

[Floshenbarnical]

2 minutes ago, bear said:

The worst part of Vice City is that the city is pancake flat. Never again. 

 

 

 

 

by the time gta6 comes out it’ll be underwater and the game will exclusively feature boat chases

[Sane]

GTA Hong Kong please.

[K]

It'll be America if they ever end up making it, and probably one of half a dozen cities in America. I can't see them making a game set in Japan, if only because the games to date have been so laser-focused on American culture, both in terms of crime and in terms of pop-culture. Sam Houser is still driving the series, and as an adopted American citizen, this seems to be his area of interest, so I doubt he'll be going off and making a game about a completely different culture which neither he nor the game's target market will have much experience or knowledge of. If nothing else, the radio stations in Japan will be completely alien.

 

It's high time for the series to move away from the toilet humour, sledgehammer "satire" of IV & V, but I would be very surprised if the next game wasn't set in analogues of Miami or San Francisco. 

[footle]

Tokyo is a metropolis and generically bland outside of a few tiny areas all of which are a long way apart. And those areas are best explored on foot.

 

vancouver - you’ve got the ocean, the rivers, the mountains over the way, a mixture of building heights in and around a downtown core, a gridded downtown, various stadia.

 

then the dystopia of Chinese money, crippling social policies meaning locals can’t afford to rent even if they’re not down around Gastown looking for a fix etc

[Rex Grossman]

Not sure why anyone is entertaining the idea of the next GTA not being set in the US (the game's biggest market).

[Mr. Gerbik]

1 minute ago, Rex Grossman said:

Not sure why anyone is entertaining the idea of the next GTA not being set in the US (the game's biggest market).

Because at this point it's the most boring and overused setting in videogames. It's not strange that many hope the next GTA will be set in an interesting location rather than USAgain. And we've all seen and heard enough about the USA these last few years IRL, it's not a fun escapist setting anymore.

[Eighthours]

1 hour ago, bear said:

The worst part of Vice City is that the city is pancake flat. Never again. 

 

This is why I've never understood people who say it's the best one. The map means it isn't.

[Plissken]

It will be in the US, not because it should, or likely because they want to, but because too many entitled fuckwads on the Internet will complain about it if it isn't.

[Parappa]

2 hours ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

A mission involving cheese. Don't know what, but it has to be included. 

[Rex Grossman]

29 minutes ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

Because at this point it's the most boring and overused setting in videogames. It's not strange that many hope the next GTA will be set in an interesting location rather than USAgain. And we've all seen and heard enough about the USA these last few years IRL, it's not a fun escapist setting anymore.

 

I don't think setting it in the US again will stop many people from buying it. 

However if they don't have it taking place in the US there will be loads of Americans who will take against it.

 

I'm not saying it's strange to want it set somewhere else – it just seems a bit crazy to think there's any chance of them ignoring the US.

[Floshenbarnical]

1 hour ago, Sane said:

GTA Hong Kong please.

+1

 

but it’ll be Vice City again because frankly R* are lazy and derivative these days

[joffocakes]

29 minutes ago, Eighthours said:

This is why I've never understood people who say it's the best one. The map means it isn't.

 

Yeah, the flat map (and blurriness, since I went from PC GTA III to PS2 Vice City) was a big disappointment for me. Not enough Golden Girls references either.

 

I'm in no hurry for GTA6, I'm waiting for the PS5 version of GTA5 to properly play through that first.

[SteveH]

2 hours ago, Simmy said:

What amazes me is that in this day and age that there is no leaks whatsoever of a game of this size.

 

And by leaks I don't mean screenshots, videos etc - I mean more like - drunk programmer in the pub talking about things he shouldn't be etc.

 

How do they manage to contain information like that? I understand there is NDAs and stuff like that but there's NDAs everywhere in the world and things still leak. Always find it kind of fascinating.

 I have one friend who used to get regular updates from a good mate of his who worked there. He would share it with me, but it was on the understanding that we were lucky to hear stuff and that we could possibly get this guy in the shit so we just kept quiet. Not that that counts for everyone, but we knew to just keep schtum.