Grand Theft Auto VI

[Brad]

Last I checked, there are many songs in the world. Temptation is the only good song Heaven 17 ever made, to be able to get £7.5k for it immediately, plus streaming fees when millions of gamers hear it and start playing it on Spotify for some work you did in the 80s seems like a good deal. Guy must be minted.

[Brad]

Realised I've never played GTA5. I somehow skipped over it.

[hudson]

They did have a song that wasn't Temptation in Vice City Stories...

[wakka]

Realised I've never played GTA5. I somehow skipped over it.

We found him boys. The one guy who hasn't played it lol.

[CMcK]

We found him boys. The one guy who hasn't played it lol.

Haven’t played a GTA since the original on PC. And that was only fun for about five minutes.

[wakka]

Fair enough. They're fun games though. I replayed GTA III a few years ago and while it's clunky in some ways, even stripped of the novelty of the freedom it gave back in 2000, it's just a really well designed game overall.

GTA 5 was great when it came out. I played tons of it.

[Neon Ignition]

GTA5 was amazing

Not wait 12 years to make a sequel amazing.

But amazing

[wakka]

I remember the day it first came out on PS3, bouncing across the dunes in a buggy while Pure Shores by All Saints played on the radio and the sun set. It was such a cool unscripted moment. The way the game is designed means it's loaded with them. It's easy to forget now because we've been so saturated with it over the past 11/12 years but it really was such a cracking game, especially at the time it was released.

I never bought the PS4 version but got the PS5 one when it was discounted to ~£8 on release. I struggled to get back into it though, to be honest. I played it so comprehensively to death back in 2013 that it's kinda dead to me. Same prob with Mario Kart 8. Played the **** outta that on WiiU and never got into the Switch version nearly as much as a result.

Damn it's annoying how infrequently they release sequels to these games. 2013 was a good year though.

[fishbowlhead]

GTA5 is currently £11 delivered for the premium edition at amazon (ps5 version) for anyone that hasn't got it, which honestly is probably about 4 people in deepest Peru by now.

[hudson]

I loved the original. I finished it on PS3 way back 39 years ago. Is the PS5 version worth it? Does it look like a generational leap?

[Neon Ignition]

Bit more info has come to light, turns out it was $22,500 that Rockstar proposed for the rights to the song. The cited $7,500 was a 1/3 split as the song was written by three people so the fee would go to all of them. Rockstar was countered with a proposal of $75,000 and they turned it down which brought discussions to an end.

[Yakumo]

See, I told you all 7500 was a poor offer😜. 22,500 is more like it.

[nonny]

I loved the original. I finished it on PS3 way back 39 years ago. Is the PS5 version worth it? Does it look like a generational leap?

Not really. It's the best version you're going to get on console but it doesn't do anything all that impressive to warrant the upgrade unless it's absolutely cheap as chips.

I ended up going the other way. I've bought the PC version, installed it on Steam Deck and modded/tweaked it to run at a decent frame rate / graphical trade off.

Did the same with RDR2 as the console versions are still locked at 30fps even on the newer consoles (thanks R*) yet I can get in running on Steam Deck at 60fps...

[QualityChimp]

I loved the original. I finished it on PS3 way back 39 years ago.

I love the GTA games.
We played the 5 minute PlayStation demo disc over and over and over, trying to out-do each other's kill counts or wanted rating.
Finally played the full game and it was a joy and so much more than just a murder simulator, despite what the press said.

GTA III was mindblowing in that it felt the world was your oyster, in the same way MGS2 felt like you were starring in an action film.

San Andreas had some interesting ideas, but it was a thrill exploring the map and wandering into Area 69 (or whatever).

Vice City was so much fun, racing on a bike through the neon-lit streets listening to Michael Jackson, then trying to get the Dodo plane to fly into the movie studio.

GTAIV was a real next-gen upgrade and had some much going on, it was easy to get lost, like Nico in the world of crime.

GTAV is the best yet, though. Both online and offline, there's so much to do.
I need to get back into this and finish the story, but it's too easy to get distracted!

Can't wait for 6. Might be the game to finally make me upgrade to a PS5, 5 years after launch.

[wakka]

I loved the original. I finished it on PS3 way back 39 years ago. Is the PS5 version worth it? Does it look like a generational leap?

No, it looks the same. It's basically just the performance enhancements you would expect. Better resolution and framerate and stuff. You won't actively notice it looking better.

It's worth buying if you just want to play GTA 5 again in a convenient way on the current systems but that's about it.

GTAIV was a real next-gen upgrade and had some much going on, it was easy to get lost, like Nico in the world of crime.

Yeah, even though it's the weakest one and not a game I would probably enjoy going back to, the graphics at the time were amazing. I spent a lot of time just flying around the city in a helicopter marvelling at it.