Grand Theft Auto 6

I can’t remember if it was there at launch, but the online mode was very, very bare bones at the start, and the grind to get enough cash for your own properties or vehicles was immense. I dropped off it for a while, and only established a proper foothold later by buying the starter pack that included biker and office properties.

These days, the online is much more respectful of your time as a new starter, and there are more ways to earn serious cash without spending real world money. Hopefully that “generosity” (VERY heavily in quotes) will carry over to GTA 6 online, but they’re going to have a difficult time bringing current online mode players over if it’s as barren as GTA V online was at launch.

I won't be impressed if there isn't an offline single player mode. I'm just not interested in racking up frags for my clan.

If it doesn't have a dedicated single player mode it won't be on my radar, it's as simple as that.

Ideally the single player and multiplayer aspects can be segregated, GTAV became pretty tiresome with constant updates for GTA online, that had absolutely zero bearing in single player. To the point where I just uninstalled it in the end.

I have very little interest in playing with other people. I play a couple of MMOs and even in those I only actually like playing with people I know. Most of my games I enjoy being in my own silo and don't really care much about being part of a fandom.

Would be happy if it came in 2 discs/downloads.
1 for the single player and the other for online.

I only played it briefly online but it has the same issue I have with most other online games: the gameplay itself and the missions were fun for an hour or so but it wasn’t fun enough or different enough throughout for me to keep playing. I’m sure with friends it would be great but I don’t do that these days.

I’ve only any interest in single player in any game.

I never finished the game in gt5 but played a quite a lot of the online game, most of which I played solo.

I quite liked the risk/reward of it all with the business side of things and expanding the vehicle collection.

It still throws up some fun randomness, like my chum and I hurtling down a hill in a bin lorry to drop of cargo and running over another player just minding their own business crossing the road. Stuff like that is just hard not to enjoy.

There's a lot to get frustrated about though. The loading into buildings was buggy as fuck. They really need to sort that shit out. The hacking is also quite ridiculous at times.

GTA V released 10 years ago today.

Wonder what people would have said back then if you'd told them there would be over a 10 year wait for the next one?

5 years since Red Dead 2?

Fuck that time went fast.

They could have at least given us Table Tennis 2 by now

They’re still ironing out the story and missions for the open world sequel.

Apparently, you are given a hand crafted table tennis paddle by your dying grandfather, but it’s showing it’s age. So in order to upgrade it, you’ve got to do some chores at ‘Family Wong’s local dry cleaners, where you find out the owner of the company was an ex table tennis champion, banned for drug use in the early 90’s.

You also need to raise funds for getting into various tournaments by killing the crime boss of a local syndicate, completing a bank heist and helping an intoxicated hippie track down 50 rabbits in the desert.

Gta5 and RDR2 are 2 of the 4 games I’ve finished in the last 10 years.

What are the other 2?

Shame it doesn't run as nice though. Syruppy 30fps shudder

I think this is one of the reasons I’m not massively impressed with this current gen, technically. The much shorter loading times are amazing, but visually, nothing yet has felt like even a small step forward, graphically, from that game.

But I do remember when it came out, I thought it barely looked better than the first RDR. That was a case of rose tinted glasses, for sure.