GTA VI

[Schlitzbrille]

tbf i don't mind how it's basically expanded GTA 5, as long as the driving feels less toy car-like

[K]

 

[Lint]

 

[tristy]

Source code for 5, 6 and Online have leaked apparently, after the hacker tried to blackmail Rockstar.

[Bobfoc]

Between this and the ill-fated GTA remasters, Rockstar hasn't had a good past twelve months.

[OctoberRaven]

on the plus side, maybe we'll get some badass GTA mods out of this

[Schlitzbrille]

9 minutes ago, OctoberRaven said:

on the plus side, maybe we'll get some badass GTA mods out of this

Giga-Florida Man?

[The Buscher]

Tack another 3 years onto the wait time for GTA6, then.

[Benji]

Alpha build GTA lookin' like a release day Ubisoft game.

[Josh]

Someone help me: how is the leaked footage bad for Rockstar?

[Benji]

It's not just footage that's leaked, it's part of the actual build that's leaked.

[fourstarfizzle]

22 hours ago, Jacob deBusch said:

Tack another 3 years onto the wait time for GTA6, then.

Apparently Rockstar have been quoted that it won't add on any additional time to the release date due to this.

[Lint]

14 hours ago, Josh said:

Someone help me: how is the leaked footage bad for Rockstar?

The footage really isn't.  Its just unfinished.

Source codes on the other hand...

2 hours ago, fourstarfizzle said:

Apparently Rockstar have been quoted that it won't add on any additional time to the release date due to this.

Since we don't know when the release date is, thats not saying much

[TheGrandAvatar]

16 hours ago, Benji said:

Alpha build GTA lookin' like a release day Ubisoft game.

The footage made me think of their Watch Dogs games straight away with how they look. 

[gunnar hendershow]

Excited for someone to take the source code and make an "anti-woke" GTA, sell 82 copies, need a GoFundMe for legal costs, and act like they won.

[RPS]

On 19/09/2022 at 09:40, Josh said:

Someone help me: how is the leaked footage bad for Rockstar?

No developer wants their game being seen in a state like it was. It is akin to an unedited movie with no SFX being leaked a year or so before release. I imagine everyone working on the game feels shitty about it. 

Also in this age, it can be very negative for a game to look bad on Twitter or Reddit. Impacts the buzz of a game. 

[Lint]

On 21/09/2022 at 08:20, RPS said:

No developer wants their game being seen in a state like it was. It is akin to an unedited movie with no SFX being leaked a year or so before release. I imagine everyone working on the game feels shitty about it.

So you mean a lot of the BTS footage we see of movies?  With people in mo-cap suits in front of green screens?

That is basically what this is.  Seeing BTS footage of a AAA game in development

[RPS]

4 hours ago, Lint said:

So you mean a lot of the BTS footage we see of movies?  With people in mo-cap suits in front of green screens?

That is basically what this is.  Seeing BTS footage of a AAA game in development

Well yes with the caveat that it was released against the creators wishes and taken illegally. 

[gunnar hendershow]

Gaming is a lot different than movies unfortunately. There's a sizable segment of movie fans who love to see how it's made, and the rest are always unconcerned with seeing an "unfinished product". Gaming doesn't have that luxury, there are streamers with millions of followers who constantly misinform people *how* games are made. 

[Skummy]

1 hour ago, damhausen said:

Gaming is a lot different than movies unfortunately. There's a sizable segment of movie fans who love to see how it's made, and the rest are always unconcerned with seeing an "unfinished product". Gaming doesn't have that luxury, there are streamers with millions of followers who constantly misinform people *how* games are made. 

It's also rare that we see "making of" or unfinished movie clips released without a lot of framing devices - you'll generally see the mocap suits and green screens after you've already seen the finished product, as a "this is how it was done", or as part of a "making of" package that talks you through the process. Unfinished clips aren't just released into the wild like that. It would be potentially disastrous if a major movie had scenes leaked with half-finished special effects to an audience that didn't fully understand that they were half-finished.

There is definitely a point there around people not really knowing how games are made, and people misrepresenting that. Films are relatively easy to picture yourself in the position of an actor or director, even if you don't get all the details right, you have a sense of how it works, whereas to most of us video games may as well be magic. Seeing a game that's unfinished and looking a bit janky, most of us don't know whether fixing that's as simple as "dial up the slider marked 'realistic graphics' a few more notches" or a full year of forcing programmers to work twelve hour shifts.