Rockstar Officially Unveils GTA 6 Trailer (ign.com) 78
Rockstar Games has officially revealed the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, which is coming in 2025. You can watch it on YouTube. IGN reports: The trailer gives us a look at the game's female protagonist, a first for the series. Her name is Lucia, and that she starts off in prison -- "bad luck, I guess," she quips. The trailer confirms, too, that it's set in Vice City with a large sign - not a huge surprise for those who've been following the series, but exciting nonetheless. In addition to lots and lots of quick shots of crime, we also get glimpses of TikToks and live-streams, hinting that social media will be a big part of this game.
It all takes place as Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road" plays in the background, appropriate for the many car-related crimes we see. And yes, true to the Florida setting, there are alligators in locations where they shouldn't be. It ends by showing us a little more of Lucia and a male character, seemingly both lovers and partners-in-crime. "The only way we're gonna get through this is by sticking together and being a team," Lucia says at one point. Fans have been talking about GTA 6 ever since GTA 5 was released in 2013, perhaps unsurprisingly as IGN deemed that one a "masterpiece" in our review.
It all takes place as Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road" plays in the background, appropriate for the many car-related crimes we see. And yes, true to the Florida setting, there are alligators in locations where they shouldn't be. It ends by showing us a little more of Lucia and a male character, seemingly both lovers and partners-in-crime. "The only way we're gonna get through this is by sticking together and being a team," Lucia says at one point. Fans have been talking about GTA 6 ever since GTA 5 was released in 2013, perhaps unsurprisingly as IGN deemed that one a "masterpiece" in our review.
More disappointment for you... (Score:4, Funny)
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They're hitting Duke Nukem Forever territory. That was a 14 year wait. (1997->2011)
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They're hitting Duke Nukem Forever territory. That was a 14 year wait. (1997->2011)
TBF, they haven't been working on it since GTA V was released in 2013...
I'm on the PC so I've probably got to wait another year after that.
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They have to be careful, or you'll start seeing mods for GTA V that give you the same experience (offline only, of course) without paying Rockstar.
Hell, I haven't checked but I'd bet there's already a Vice City map mod for GTA V.
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As an adult with a demanding life & family, I couldn't care less for online. And I suspect much of the /. community will be of a similar demographic. Long since flown our mother's basements only to now host basement dwellers of our own.
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Looks like Chicago (Score:1)
People are moving away from there, too.
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Yes, I too have to be wary of random alligators in Chicago.
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In the GTA universe, San Andreas is basically California, and Vice City is basically Florida. There is also Liberty City, which is a stand-in for New York.
All of them include aspects from other parts of the US.
And Rockstar is based in Scotland.
Please don't let it suck (Score:2)
Seems no one can create decent entertainment anymore, so I'm begging whatever gods might be listening; please let Rockstar escape the curse and turn out a great game.
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Re: Please don't let it suck (Score:2)
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GTA1 had 4 male, 4 female playable characters. You're not a fan of the series, othrewise you'd know that. You are just a whiny asrsehole who's still terrified of cooties despite being (guessing by your ID) in your 40s at least.
Go back to your twitter shithole, gater.
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Did Rockstar get bought by Disney?
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So you hated GTA1 when it came out?
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There's no inherent reason why a female protagonists should make something suck ( 13yo jokes and recent history notwithstanding ).
Of course, nothing can ever replace Trevor, but I'm hopeful this is a great game.
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I want to edit the double ‘about’ typo (Score:1)
Too Much to Hope For? (Score:2)
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More morons glorifying car culture is the last thing "Vice City" needs, but I'll be dammed if some of the shots in that trailer aren't perfectly spot on with reality and culture in "Vice City".
I'd prefer these people to get their fix from playing GTA than to do it for real in my neighbourhood.
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You can play Hogwart's if you want trains, and broomsticks as the main mode of transportation, or perhaps you can outside and yell at the kids on your lawn.
Some bad signs in the trailer (Score:1)
The "social media" aspect in the trailer with the phone view and the chat window makes it very much look like this game is an attempt to appeal to the young cool kids. So far zero games have done this without being an absolute cringeworthy piece of crap. Borderlands 3, Wolfenstein Youngblood, Saints Row (2022) because fuck they can't even title shit right, were all horrendously written, pandering to the youth obsessed with social media.
And that's before we talk about the god-fucking-aweful "Definitive Editi
Re:Some bad signs in the trailer (Score:4, Informative)
This is Grand Theft Auto, a series that is positively drenched in social commentary. It makes perfect sense in it's first new addition since the PS3 is going to feature social media, the most prominent cultural ecosystem. I imagine Rockstar will not only integrate it well into the story but likely satire and shit all over it at the same time.
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You can just say "I've never played GTA before"
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This is Grand Theft Auto, a series that is positively drenched in social commentary. It makes perfect sense in it's first new addition since the PS3 is going to feature social media, the most prominent cultural ecosystem. I imagine Rockstar will not only integrate it well into the story but likely satire and shit all over it at the same time.
You misunderstand what I was saying, and it is best exemplified in the examples I gave. It's one thing to give social commentary, and another to appeal to tiktokers and cool kids like an aging boomer who doesn't communicate with the younger generation.
That is what I'm concerned about. Not that social commentary exists, but that it will be written by the clueless who don't know how to get it across. It's fine to point at past games and say something has always been good, my core point (again especially relat
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Sure but I think in this case if it were any other dev than Rockstar I would be more concerned; they have a decades long track record of not really wanting to appeal to whatever hip new trend is out there because they kind of make the trends and they are successful enough that they don't have to give a shit about such things. This is a game series where famously the last entry has a quest where you torture a person and it's the most successful media property in all of history. They have zero reasons to wa
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The "social media" aspect in the trailer with the phone view and the chat window makes it very much look like this game is an attempt to appeal to the young cool kids.
Back in the 90s and early 2000s the radio was fucking hilarious. The whole thing. The truck stuck on the country music station (looping the Ballad of Chapped Lips Calhoun by Sideways Hank O'Malley and the Alabama Bottle Boys), the crazy talk radio, German(?) DJ an so on. I remember going to America turning on the car radio and was all "wow thi
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Indeed. The question is are they going to do it *well*. The radio is a classic example of social commentary by people who understood it. On the other hand we know how older millennials and boomers understand the tiktok generation, specifically not at all.
I seriously hope this is better than just throwing gratuitous swearing into games to appeal to younger generations, as has happened over and over again. It's so easy to fuck up social commentary.
They gave Link an iPad (Score:2)
In Breath of the Wild, Link gets a camera-equipped iPad with map display, and he has to touch on at NFC terminals with it. Somehow it didn't sink the Legend of Zelda franchise by referencing popular technology.
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In Breath of the Wild, Link gets a camera-equipped iPad with map display, and he has to touch on at NFC terminals with it. Somehow it didn't sink the Legend of Zelda franchise by referencing popular technology.
Somehow you think my post was about popular technology. Try again and think about why the examples I gave were bad. Hint: An iPad doesn't make me cringe. It's what some people think other people do with them that has that potential.
Car Jacking Trainer For The Next Generation (Score:2)
Practice makes perfect.
The trailer gives us a look at the game's female (Score:2)
eh?
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Pr... [fandom.com]
I mean OK it was GTA1, an it made almost no difference. From what I recall it didn't even change the 3 or 4 pixels you could see of the top of the protagonist (who must have been one of the right two based on the yellow shit I guess). i it change the pitch of the burp to be higher?
Let's crack out the crystal ball (Score:1)
So what will it feature.
First, a female protagonist. Because that's important today, this is what everyone has been waiting for way, way too long and it finally arrived, please don't take that away from us, can't live without one anymore. Who gives a toss if that alienates the old fanbase, we already got these suckers and we need to expand, maybe if we totally misrepresent female characters that's gonna win us the ladies. Listen, game-dev Nerds, please at least get a clue what women like before trying to wr
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First, a female protagonist. Because that's important today, this is what everyone has been waiting for way, way too long and it finally arrived,
Dial in your outrage, wind your neck back in and don't believe everything you read on slashdot headlines, mmmkay?
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Pr... [fandom.com]
What's that? feeemales in my GTA! Outrage! Pandering! They didn't do that in GTA0 released in 1990 minus one. Everyone knows women can't be criminals because you need a penis to operate a gun and how do you even grasp a b
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I frankly don't give a toss what gender a protagonist has, but it should be in line with the story. A female pimp acts different from a male one. Very different approach to the subject, very different behaviour, very different way of "lashing the horsies". Unfortunately, what you get in games like this is basically the same male pimp with a female texture.
That's not a proper representation of a female protagonist. That's pandering. If you want to give me a female protagonist, great. By all means, do it. But
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I frankly don't give a toss what gender a protagonist has
You really do otherwise you would not have written a few paragraphs on the subject.
but it should be in line with the story.
It's all about ethics in video game journalism, eh?
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I care about a good story. If you can provide a good story with a female protagonist, go for it. But please, for all that is holy, make it a female protagonist, not the crap we get now, i.e. a male protagonist with a fake skin.
Would you, and while we're at it the rest of the morally outraged crowd, please finally understand that "we" don't care about your agendas? We really don't. For all I care, push whatever agenda you want in your story, but give me most of all a story for crying out loud. Hell, a lot of
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I care about a good story.
Genuinely LOL'sat that.
You opened with this:
First, a female protagonist. Because that's important today, this is what everyone has been waiting for way, way too long and it finally arrived, please don't take that away from us, can't live without one anymore.
That's just a whiny rant about getting cooties on your game from a "fan" who doesn't actually know the series.
Would you, and while we're at it the rest of the morally outraged crowd, please finally understand that "we" don't c
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It must be awesome to always know better than a person what they mean. Your smug is really one of a kind.
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Thing is I do know exactly what you mean, because you wrote the words.
Prove me wrong: when did you ever complain about the "agenda" of having a male protagonist? Ya didn't. You only consider women to be "agendas". Even though you know, this is NOT NEW to GTA.
Your smug is really one of a kind.
Sadly your gamergater outrage is not.
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You didn't even bother to read past my first point. You read "I don't want yet another poorly characterized female protagonist", which instantly translated to "I don't want a female protagonist" in your head, then the foaming at the mouth started and the rest can be read in the posting history here.
It's like discussing shit with a religious nutcase. They only hear what they want to hear, strawman you and then fight the strawman because that's all they know. Have you ever entertained the idea that "I don't l
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I read your post hoc justification yeah. I'm not buying it because it stinks of bullshit.
1. You've never latched onto a male protagonist and started making the same points.
2. You've ignored repeatedly that GTA starred life with female protagonists.
I hear your rationalisation loud and clear, but I don't believe it for a second. You are lying to yourself, and I can see that a mile off. Don't pretend me calling bullshit is the same as me not hearing you. I hear your protestations and see them for what they are
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The reason I didn't latch onto the male character is because they actually know how to write credible male characters. But when it comes to female characters, all we get is a carbon copy of the male character, just with boobs that need their own zip code. That's not storytelling, that's bullshit.
But don't worry, they won't have to improve that one bit or actually put some effort into it, because as soon as someone comes and points their bullshit out, someone like you will come along and defend it.
Be honest.
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Wait are you claiming you could see boobs so big they get their own zip code in the top down 6 pixel sprite in the original game even though it was the same sprite for all characters? Or did you watch the trailer that's playing inside your head rather than the one in the internet?
Or are you talking about a different, non rockstar, unspecified they which often writes shoddy or non-existent plots for men but by gum I'll be darned if they do that for a woman on my watch without a lot of complaining! I mean no
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I'm not talking about the original game, c'mon, we're talking contemporary games here. In the original GTA, I don't even know if there were different characters or what gender they might have had, it was a 2d pixel game.
I'm talking about the gaming industry as a whole. Hell, I talk about the whole entertainment industry at this point. They crank out harebrained, stupid plots, cram in a few non-white, non-male, non-hetero characters and bank on some people like you defending their hack storywriting because o
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And there was me thinking you were taking about GTA. Of course we're taking about contemporary games because then you'd get to concede that the game you're losing your shit about already did what had so "concerned" you.
And don't lie about not knowing about the characters. I told you repeatedly and provided a reference. You know. You are now feigning ignorance because the knowledge makes you're whinging look awfully foolish.
As for contemporary entertainment: you're clearly so suspicious of anything with feee
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Yes, for fuck's sake, I do demand better. I demand to be more than a token to be tossed about in an attempt to score brownie points with the alternative and progressive crowd. Is that really asking too much?
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I have no idea what you're claiming to be. Are you speaking on behalf of everyone who isn't a straight, cis white man? Because what you actually opened with is this:
First, a female protagonist. Because that's important today, this is what everyone has been waiting for way, way too long and it finally arrived, please don't take that away from us, can't live without one anymore. Who gives a toss if that alienates the old fanbase,
That's wildly at odds with what you're saying now. That ain't about "demanding be
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Funny, I played the first GTA probably more than any of the thirds. And certainly more than the fourth, I couldn't stomach the slice-of-life bullshit.
I should not have put the focus on the "female protagonist", it's more a symptom than the actual problem. The problem is more that games, or media in general, start to sacrifice storylines and engaging plots for pandering. This group has to be represented, that group has to be represented, we need one member each of the five man band, start digging through the
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Funny, I played the first GTA probably more than any of the thirds. And certainly more than the fourth, I couldn't stomach the slice-of-life bullshit.
You played GTA1 which had a choice of 4 male and 4 female protagonists, hated GTA4 which had a single male protagonist, but what you latched onto as the primary (or at least first in your list) of problems with the as yet unreleased GTA6 was having a playable female protagonist.
I got nuthin'.
This pandering replaced writing. Or rather, it took it over.
There is
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Yes, the protagonist of GTA 4 was male and thank god he was, or else I'd now have to justify why I hate taking my stupid cousin out for lunch every other mission because "it's clearly because you have to play a woman". Not because the mere concept is bullcrap.
Please understand that my main complaint is not the gender but the pointless pandering. At least this time it will be possible, after all we're not playing a WW2 shooter and having a female character crammed into the mess.
The character choice is less o
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Fair points.
I'm not exactly convinced GTA is really leaning in on the realism angle. Reality is rather dull a lot of the time. I how they'd take a lot of artistic license.
Anyway I await the release with interest. If we remember this thread in the two years it'll take until release, then we can conclude it.
As for WW2, depends on the side. The Soviets had women in limited numbers in all branches including infantry, tank drivers, combat pilots, anti aircraft gunners and so on. The UK did not have any regular f
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Russia's Army, yes. French resistance, hell yes. Both would have made great scenarios to depict women in fighting roles in WW2, but BF5 insisted to cram them into EVERY army. It could have been a special bow to these brave soldiers who actually fought and finally a tribute to them, but instead it was wasted on a cheap pandering attempt by a gaming company. The chance to tell those complaining about it to break out a history book and learn a thing or two before running their mouth was wasted to appear "inclu
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BF and "accuracy" in the same sentence.
Let's see what's OK:
* Rocket jumping a boat vat distances and machinegunning from inside the boat while it flies
* Tanks have big guns: why not launch one into the air with explosives so it can fight planes?
* Eject from jet, headshot with a pistol from the chair, steer the chair back into the plane and continue flying.
* Jumping attack from a moving plane with a defibrilator
* Rising bollards which can launch a tank end over end
* Flamethrower wielding men on horseback
* Wo
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Oh lord, it's the end of the world because there's a female protagonist and despite knowing nothing of this just announced game you're so certain her character will turn out poorly. Please give us all a break from your unsubstantiated and overly dramatic whining or at least keep it to yourself until the game comes out so at least then you'll have an actual informed opinion. "We" would really appreciate it.
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When you're talking violent crime as a lifestyle... generally you're talking men because of the size, strength and aggression differences.
Also, it seems like women would be less prone to banging hookers at the beach then bludgeoning them to death to get their money back. That's just a guess though.
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Do you advocate removing all the other unrealistic aspects of the game, like being able to escape the police with a respray and carjacking tanks?
Seems realism gets applied selectively even though there are actually violent criminals who are female.
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Actually... Yes, I do, I'm 'one of those'. I'd love to see the game be as realistic as possible without becoming entirely unplayable.
Mostly I would like a lot of changes to the star & evasion systems. Get rid of the infinite cops, just have going too far ruin the game to discourage going on epic killing sprees. It should be easier to evade cops with a change of vehicle and clothes, until you're so well known nothing works.
I think it would lead to a lot more fun in the long run, because you'd have to
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I mean sure, but it sounds like you want a completely different game.
And you know realistically women are just as capable (less likely but not unknown) of holding up a liquor store with a gun. You know God made Man, John Colt made them equal etc.
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Go Woke Go Broke.
It's so adorable you people have your own slogan. I know for me a slogan really helps mitigate the constant whining about the world changing like some kind of geriatric twit who has to tell anyone and everyone they dont approve of that fact that the world isnt exactly as it was when they were a child. I know conservative media really appreciates the ratings boost good Americans like yourself give them for their manufactured culture war so keep up the good work! Long live corporate profits at the expensive o
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Hahaha, your post is ridiculous. Boycotting a piece of media because of a woman being cast in a brand new roll you've never even seen is hardly neutral and trying to elevate your nonsense by tying it to broader political issues it has nothing to do with is just pathetic. From there you just make up fictions about me and then proceed to ridicule them. In other words, the rest of your post is just a giant strawman.
Absolutely ridiculous.
P.S. I dont care what country you come from. Use your brain and substitute
you wouldn't steal a car would you? (Score:2)
First GTA that I will not play (Score:2)
The various GTA games were very fun to play. The crude juvenile humour, the uncensored behaviors, the open world environment. Soooooooooo fun.
But now, they have a launcher. I can no longer play GTA V legally as they said that they needed to prove that all accounts were valid so sign back in with the original email address. I told them to fuck off. Nothing had changed on my end in over a decade and they pulled that shit? My access to GTA V is limited by YOUR fucking policies?
I pirated GTA V a couple months a