Monday, September 19th 2022
Rockstar Games Statement on Grand Theft Footage
Rockstar Games responded to the recent leaks of its next "Grand Theft Auto" game in development, which was splattered all over YouTube over the weekend. The studio sent takedown-notices to several popular news sites re-posting the found-footage, and YouTube dutifully took videos from the major channels down, but the Internet never forgets. The footage has been re-posted by thousands of smaller, non-commercial users on YouTube and other social media. The game itself doesn't "look" too next-gen, because Rockstar is still designing its mechanics, and will probably work on the eye-candy much later. In its statement, Rockstar said that a network intrusion caused the footage to leak to the web, but assured gamers that the leak won't affect Rockstar's online services, and have no impact in the medium-long term on games that are in development.
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Rockstar Games (Twitter)
40 Comments on Rockstar Games Statement on Grand Theft Footage
This is a completely different Rockstar than in the 2000s. They are trying to top their last game by focusing on scale and attention to detail, when it is not necessary.
The change from San Adreas to IV was so interesting. It had a completely different feeling, but it worked. And it did not take a decade to make.
Well, if rumors are true & the hacker stole the source codes for GTA5 and/or GTA6 it will have "
no(HUGE!) impact in the medium-long term on games".Unstoppable hacks will basically kill GTA5/6 online modes & put gamers PC's at risk. :wtf:
r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/ We might have our first legitimate screenshots from GTA 6I've watched the "Edit 9: gameplay at the club as seen in the first screenshot at the club" from the reddit post and have to say it looks pretty impressive. :eek:
The lighting effects are much better, textures too, and there is way more little details. And it's just from a years old alpha build, not even close to the real finished thing.
Consoles are the primary platforms for their games and their games were always polished. With San Andreas they achieved the impossible on PS2. With GTA IV they had a brand new engine, so the scale was smaller, but the tech was incredible (animations, physics).
Once GTA VI comes out (consoles only at first), it will be amazing, no doubt about that. But personally I would prefer a new installment every 5 years. It would still be higher quality than any other open world game.
I also fear we will never get another new IP from Rockstar. Agent was cancelled, even Bully 2 was either canned or put on hold, and I think we already know RDR is supposed to be a trilogy, so that will probably come out around 2030. ;)
I gave up fighting the constant engine quirks Rockstar always has... last Red Dead put the last nail in the coffin. I wouldn't bother if the game would cost like 10-20€, but again as recently it has become a normal thing you pay 60-80€ to become an alpha tester. F* that.
Doesn't look that much different from V imo just a slight evolution in lighting and model complexity from what I looked at.
At this point, I'm more interested in an RDR3 that expands on Arthur and the gang's younger years, a prequel.
Find it very funny that a bunch of (highly skilled) kids can bring so much pain to a multi billion company.
Seems also very profitable from a risk/reward standpoint. But sitting on $14m as a 16 year old, it just can go wrong.
And with that said, all the kids on twitter complaining about the graphics are extra funny. No crap it doesn't look like a new game--it's a pre-alpha and all of the footage is of the devs testing various animations and gameplay mechanics. You think they're gonna turn on ray tracing to test a walking animation? :roll: