Grand Theft Auto 6

I've also done GTA Online far more than the single player. Haven't played mush since Cayo Perico, mainly because I think they hit a plateau of new content and didn't have anywhere to go except adding more cars and cosmetics, which I was less interested in. I was always about the planes and helicopters, but my hangar's now so full I have to delete one if I want to add a newer one - which sucks.

I'm interested in seeing how they manage the transition to GTA VI without splitting the online playerbase. It must be a hard problem to solve, with so many players so heavily invested (financially and otherwise) in the current version of online.

I guess like Activision did for Warzone and Warzone 2. Tell their customers to bend over and invest in the new one. It seems to work.

I haven't played it in ages, but the old online sessions we used to have were some of the best online gaming I have ever had. When the nextgen versions came out (as they were then, mad to think that's happened twice) it was everyone picking PS that made me get a PS4.

We all played slightly differently (I had a penchant for sticky bombs, occasionally to the detriment of my fellow crew members, but I was decent in a chopper) but it just worked.

One of my favourite missions was the one where you have to take the big plane down. We knew it so well we all had our positions and roles, and could pull it off so effortlessly (though still, occasionally, with disastrous results).

Then there was the time we tried to see if we could derail a train, spending ages pilling up a load of cars on the tracks and nearby explosives. I accidentally set off some sticky bombs a little early (shock) and we had to survive a lot of heat before the train came round. It didn't derail.

I had less gaming time when heists came out but what I did play, with us all on together, was at times epic.

I do have faith in Rockstar - even if the animation is a bit clunky at times, I still love their games - so am looking forward to more GTA. Hopefully we can get the gang back together when it does.

The most expensive part of any business.

I've never really had much interest in GTA Online. Played it with a friend when it first launched, but back then it was a bit bare bones and the basic gameplay loop wasn't very fun.

I suspect GTA 6 might feature more connectivity, but that puts me off slightly, will need to see what the actual campaign looks like.

I hope the campaign and online elements are separate installs, ended up uninstalling GTAV because of the seemingly constant updates for Online content that I can't access (unless I can be bothered to faff around with mods).

If it’s persistent online, missions would probably be instanced so this wouldn’t happen.

Yeah, you’d think so. It’s odd. Some of my fondest memories of GTA are just cruising around aimlessly to ‘running down a dream’ or something and as cool as a populated city would be, I can’t imagine how annoying it would be to get t-boned every five minutes by some dickhead while just trying to get from A to B.

With me being the dickhead in everyone else’s game because I still can’t get used to driving on the right in a video game even with 20+ years of experience

Humans disgusts me. I play games to escape from them.

Even seeing ghosts or something like that will completely ruin any enjoyment i might derive from the game.

It also breaks immersion. Driving around seeing cool scenery with amazing music playing in the background while suddenly a player does a rocket jump with his bike? Screw that.

Yeah, it definitely has to be a manual opt in for any of that bullshit. I can't see that happening, though. I bet the world will be full of constant reminders of its online nature.

AI NPCs over scripted ones could be an interesting idea. Although bad for writers obviously. You’d have to set reasonably tight boundaries for them too presumably or things could get out of hand pretty quickly.

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I've no idea where this always online idea about GTA6 has even turned up from, there's certainly been no indication of it from the leaks and Rockstar don't need to push it as a concept because they'll make money hand over fist from online being its own mode any way and keeping the two separate makes perfect sense. Having multiple Jasons and Lucias in the world at the same time wouldn't really work either, even if you changed the look of the characters to something random to other players.

The Watch Dogs games had an aspect of always online with all three of the games but that was a maximum of 4 players at one time on the entire map and it was more like invasions in other titles than GTAO, you could always switch it off too. It was quite fun to do some of the tasks like hacking a player while they're completely oblivious to you being in the world, slightly buggered up when they realised they couldn't start a single player mission and it was a massive indication they weren't alone.

I turned the multiplayer stuff off in Watchdogs. Want nothing to do with it.

Even found the non-synchronous overlap of players in Death Stranding annoying, just leaving junk everywhere.

I'll see where GTA goes. I can't say I'm all that excited though. I was very hyped for San Andreas and GTAV, but not sure what they can do. Whilst the level of detail is impressive and they certainly lead the way, the games just aren't as unique anymore.

I'm trying to keep an open mind but I'm coming from a very dispassionate place to begin with.