The Friday letters page has a surprisingly mixed reaction to the GTA 6 extended look, as one reader laments the death of physical media.
You can’t please everyoneGood lord that extended preview of GTA 6 was dull as dishwater. I’m not sure how that was supposed to get anyone hyped for the game, though at this point they probably don’t need to try to sell the game.
It was so oddly paced, with weird cuts, a hodge podge of cut scenes, missions and slice of life activities. None of the needle drops landed for me, it didn’t seem stylish or funny or even fun.
The graphics were nice, with good lighting, but it all seemed like PlayStation 3 gameplay, nothing that enticed me or felt groundbreaking.
Someone should show Rockstar Nintendo’s 2017 trailer for Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, as an example on how to sell a same in a good sixth of the time.Euclidian Boxes
Best. Graphics. Ever.I’m just astonished about the graphics in GTA 6, really. I just don’t see how they could be any better, given how long it would take and how much it would cost to do even more detail. Not to mention how much the machine would cost to run it.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if GTA 6 ends up having the best graphics for all time. Who else is going to spend $3 billion making a video game? I do think it was a bit odd there was no narration, because without it the skips to different scenes seemed a bit random but what was actually shown was incredible. The last bit where they’re acting like bodyguards could’ve been its own movie!
It also makes me realise just how pointless all the leaks have been. Was he purposefully trying to make the game look as bad as possible? I know people said that already, but when you see those clips next to the real video it barely even seems like the same game.Hammeriron
Out in the coldI mean… it was alright. The GTA 6 thing on Netflix… the graphics were good, nobody could deny that, but the whole thing just looked like it played exactly like GTA 5. Maybe the shooting is better, we can’t tell, but GC were right to point out the conversations in cars being lame. There must be a hundreds of ways to make that more interesting but they just did it exactly the same as before and I always hated those bits in GTA 5.
I guess there’s not really anything completely new you can do with a game that’s meant to be the same as real life, but I was hoping for something to make me surprised. I just don’t think there was anything. I mean, a Die Hard knock off in 2026? Is that really the best they could come up with in 13 years?
I’m not saying I won’t even get it, at some point, but I was hoping to be blown away. But while I can’t criticise anything about the graphics the rest of it left me pretty cold.Gantz
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Sensible pricingThis is probably just anecdotal, but I’ve noticed that quite a few upcoming releases seem to be launching at quite reasonable price points. Star Wars Zero Company, Control Resonant, and Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy all have RRPs under £50 and have had decent pre-order discounts on physical editions (I got Zero Company for £39.99 from Amazon).
I don’t know if these publishers have consciously ignored the first party premium prices that the console manufacturers are charging because they know their games won’t sell at £59.99 or £69.99, but it’s good to see these slightly more experimental titles stay at just about an impulse buy price point.
