Topic: GTA 6 Thread

@Th3solution I thought you were going to say you just pre-ordered the game. I'll be sure to subliminally add some of the lyrics into different posts for you. I had the world record on that song for two-days, then I wanted to free my Spotify up for something else, I wasn't listening to it for all of those hours, but definitely had my fill. When you say commercial do you mean television? I haven't seen live television in years I forgot they do promotions for games, but you mean America too so it really makes sense. Also is NBA like NBK, the game TsarKastick called black and white because I asked why after only two-years they were removing the online? do you mean you watch/play basketball?

@GirlVersusGame Yes, television advertisements, “commercials”. I don’t watch live TV except for sports, mainly because I hate commercials interrupting all the time. And it’s not like watching YouTube or a streaming service when it has ads which are just a few seconds — these TV commercial breaks can sometimes go for several minutes and can occur every 5-10 minutes in a show and really disrupt the flow. During a basketball or American football game, the ads sometimes will occur back-to-back if a team calls a timeout. A three hour game can maybe include half of that time in commercials. Really annoying. Commercial advertisements for video games are rare, but the big game like the sports games, CoD, and GTA will pop up occasionally. Sometime a big Sony first party game will have TV ads. I don’t recall seeing any Wolverine commercials but I did see some for God War and Ghost of Yotei, among others.

NBA is the American professional Basketball league, “National Basketball Association”. I say American because the teams are located in America (Toronto has a team… but Canada is in the American continent so that counts I guess) but honestly it’s just as much an international league as far as players. Many of the best and most popular players are not from America (Jokic, Doncic, Giannis, etc), which has really made the league internationally recognized. The annualized sports games NBA2K are based on the NBA league.

I actually do play a little basketball myself, but I’m not very good. I just play with some friends occasionally for fun. But I like to watch it. Like most professional athletics, it’s incredibly entertaining and amazing to see the extremes of human athleticism.

On subject, I think I saw that GTA6 has a basketball mini-game in it. Maybe the other recent GTA games had they too, I don’t know. I wouldn’t be surprised if the GTA basketball minigame is actually better than the NBA2K, which yes, is shutting down the online for the 2025 version already. That includes making the main single player career mode unplayable now because I guess it requires linking to the servers too. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. It’s like if GTA6’s single player campaign were to become unplayable in 2028. Which of course would never happen but for some reason NBA2K is allowed to do it.

But no, I haven’t preordered GTA6. My interest is building though. The marketing has been really good and if I didn’t have such a big backlog I’d probably be considering it.

36% have voted they're not buying GTA6...
me:

I'll definitely buy it at some point, but I'm probably going to wait until I either get a PS5 Pro or a next gen console. Seems silly to hurry to play it right now on an inferior console, when we're not getting a sequel for the next 13 years.

@Herculean I personally think it looks amazing on base PS5, but yeah we already know there's going to be a PS6 version with all the bells and whistles, I commend your patience, truly. yeah it's going to be a very long time for their next game, but a comment in the Control resonant article reminded they are kinda involved with the Max Payne remake.

@Th3solution I'll get back to you on that one, and leave the others to their stripper poles and memes.

So just been looking through social media* and apprently the end credits are over 80 minutes long with a total of 4,700 staff members worked on the game.

*apply pinch of salt

@Oram77 One to skip then lol. I sometimes watch the credits when I've finished a game, but 80 mins is too much for me.

@JohnnyShould If there are cut scenes during the credits then I'll watch them I guess, but if it's just a wall of text (most likely) then I'll be 100% skipping them...

@Oram77 Yes, I should I suppose.

@Th3solution It's funny you talk about adveresting/commercials, well it looks like R* aren't messing around:

I actually shudder to think how much this cost, but I can't lie this looks incredible

I see Shopto . Net are advertising gta6 for £61.85 which seems like a good deal in itself, however it says it comes with an A3 poster. It doesn’t say whether this poster is “the map” (which you would have thought be stated if it was) or whether it is some random picture, perhaps a picture of your cousin bowling. Time to flip a coin?

EDIT Further to this, someone on the deals website has mentioned that all physical (not physical) copies come with a poster. So yes, it is your cousin bowling.

@CaptD I imagine It's the same A3 one Smyths have, I already pre-bought one on Ebay. Same deal as my Wolverine controllers, someone buys it on good faith etc, but like I said it's probably that one.

The poster (probably) the map is strongly copyrighted to Rockstar's storefront. I'll let you know when it arrives. I haven't checked when the boxed copies are being sent out and I'm not sure what address I sent mine to. I'm guessing Paris, it would be funny if I ended up with two posters. The map I'm buying through Rockstar.

Edit: Liam just mentioned it now too, so I will have two after all. One for each side I suppose.

@GirlVersusGame If you are after the map, I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that it is free when something else on the Rockstar store is bought.

@JohnnyShoulder It is and thank you, I looked recently to see if it was there and instead ended up buying a bunch of random things like a candle shaped like a bundle of dynamite, badges, stickers, and then did the same thing with Selfridges. Grand Theft Auto doesn't come around often so I went for it. My biggest concern really was if they had an upgrade path to the ultimate edition from the boxed edition, they've confirmed it's possible. I was trying to decide who to give the code too, I thought I'd have to buy it twice.

@GirlVersusGame Happy Days. I set my console to rest (mode) overnight to start the download of the game. Only another 2 hours left till it is complete, so it will be done when I get home from work. Then the countdown begins.

@JohnnyShoulder I should probably tell the postal guys to be on high alert, I'm not saying I get mountains of post but there is a political element to it so I don't check my post and certainly don't open it myself. I'm assuming it will be mailed out by Amazon some day this week, if it already wasn't. I'm pretty sure they said the twelveth, I hope that guy I knew in Iowa doesn't have dial-up anymore, it took him over a week to download Diablo 4, I felt really bad for him because my IP isn't civilian and is super fast. Then they released a patch and it took him a day to get that. It's crazy but dial-up still exists in some places, mainly America/Canada, I've only seen videos about dial-up, the fact a phone call could knock someone offline is wild. And I suppose for so long it was so normal. Good on Rockstar for offering a generous preload, it is quite a big file. Though I have downloaded files/directories and more that were probably 500gbs+ but for a game it's a lot.

@JohnnyShoulder
Ha ha you have over a week to go mate.
And then the day one patch, seriously though it is great to see all the enthusiasm.

Has the complete OST been put out yet? That’s what I’m interested in.

Mine is arriving Thursday apparently. While I won’t be playing it until December, I’m pretty hyped I can not lie.

@Th3solution the marketing is seemingly solely aimed at converting you, Sol 💀 by Nov 18th you'll be shaking and wondering whether to click 'Buy'

If I didn't know you had the Witcher 3 lined up soon I'd be bugging you to join us, too... Join us.

And unfortunately, my wishes for the Miami Heat to be failing badly all the way until the Vice City game didn't come to pass. There was plenty of drama, but they still got some results. But that's still going to be a crazy event. (There's an event bigger event in the NBA tonight, however 👀) In fact Miami is going to be pretty crazy in the build up to the game's release. I don't think a game has ever taken over a city before? It's like Sony marketing on, well... On cocaine.

It must be fun to those who have contributed to the game to see all this stuff and have it sink in just how big an event it is. Monumental stuff. I hope they auction off all those cars they had kitted out for charity, too. Those cars deserve to be preserved, and that would be a good way to ensure that.