 The Friday letters page really thinks Alan Wake 2 should change its release date, as one reader names Ghost Recon Wildlands as a top 5 game. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk Nowhere to go Why is it I feel that GTA 6 is going to be a disappointment after all this wait and uncertainty? Not because Rockstar are likely to do anything wrong but just because the hype is so much, and I don't feel there's been a big enough jump in terms of technology to mean it'll look or play that differently to what we have now. GTA 5 is basically an Xbox 360 game, but it looks and plays fine on the PlayStation 5 and while Red Dead Redemption 2 looks a lot better, it's not incomparably better. And I don't think the leap from that, a PlayStation 4 game, to GTA 6 is going to be very big. I don't know that it will try to do much new in terms of gameplay either. Rockstar innovate a lot in terms of open world design, but they've never seemed that interested in how it plays. Plus, they can't even play the online card now, as that's been done already as well. To put it another way, I'm not sure what the new game could do in order to impress on the sort of scale people want it to. It's a tough act to live up to and I fear it's doomed to disappoint. Gumphite Nostalgia Duty I agree Call Of Duty is not in a good place at the moment but I don't think it's a simple as declining interest. The last five or six games have been mostly uninteresting but the massive interest in the recently updated retro games shows that there's still a huge amount of love for the series. In particular, there's a lot of nostalgia for people that grew up with and were playing it rabidly 10 or 15 years ago. That's why they're so disenchanted with the current games and why they went crazy for the older ones. If Activision are sensible, and they usually are when it comes to money, they'll start pandering to that older crowd now (they'd just be s){kind=link}
The Friday letters page really thinks Alan Wake 2 should change its release date, as one reader names Ghost Recon Wildlands as a top 5 game.
To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk
Nowhere to goWhy is it I feel that GTA 6 is going to be a disappointment after all this wait and uncertainty? Not because Rockstar are likely to do anything wrong but just because the hype is so much, and I don’t feel there’s been a big enough jump in terms of technology to mean it’ll look or play that differently to what we have now.
GTA 5 is basically an Xbox 360 game, but it looks and plays fine on the PlayStation 5 and while Red Dead Redemption 2 looks a lot better, it’s not incomparably better. And I don’t think the leap from that, a PlayStation 4 game, to GTA 6 is going to be very big.
I don’t know that it will try to do much new in terms of gameplay either. Rockstar innovate a lot in terms of open world design, but they’ve never seemed that interested in how it plays. Plus, they can’t even play the online card now, as that’s been done already as well.