Grand Theft Auto VI

Haven’t paid for a pre order yet since no point without physical. Keeping an eye out for the gameplay reveal.

My hope is running a PS5 Pro with an LG C1 TV it can at least do the 40fps / 120hz magic. The implementation that comes to mind first is Ratchet and Clank but more games utilising it than I thought.



Anyone try it with Black Flag Resynced?

I don't blame them for taking netflix money but even if i had a netflix sub I'd rather just wait and watch it on YouTube, lol

I mean, I am not expecting anything beyond a good aesthetic. We all know what GTA gameplay is like. If the trailer illuminates whatever gimmicks they are introducing this time around that will be good though.

This game is an outlier in terms of the AAA studios. Yes it is and will print money. But at the same time even woke gay AAA studios can't afford a $1B+ Dev and marketing cost on a decade timeline like this monstrosity has.

Guaranteed it wont have totally unhinged characters like Trevor, Lamar, Big Smoke, and so on. The tendrils of DEI wokeness will be present in their characters and storylines. This will net them negative feedback but the game itself will still sell. Probably sending all the wrong messages.

Caeden said:

The bigger problem is that there are less….traditional gamers going into game development. There’s better and higher paying work elsewhere for white programmer nerds. I think the future are smaller studios making AAA like Expedition 33. Then those studios will grow and be bought out and so on. But smaller studios will have to be “safer” in the political slants in games.

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This is a bigger problem and I'd argue has a lot more to do with the maturity of the software industry, if you will. In the 1990s and 2000s a small studio could engineer a lean game engine, such as the Infinity Engine used in Baldur's Gate 1, 2, Icewind Dale, and whatever and build their games. Infinity remains a remarkably lean and mean game engine that puts some of the 2020s engines for the same genre to shame. BG1 does 5 times as many calculations under the hood than the 2023 Rogue Trader game and does it in real time.

It takes some serious engineering chops to create something like that. The feast or famine game development industry is well, stressful. Those kind of skills can get you a high paying job with almost no stress at big corporate. So its a no brainer that the very best devs with anything less than total passion for video games just go and do something else. The result is that the less skilled but very passionate types rely on engines as services and messier technologies like Unreal 5 to make games. While they have success due to their passion, the lack of skill becomes increasingly obvious.