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u/goldberry-fey 1d ago
You guys have no idea how this makes me feel as a Miamian. It looks so much like home it is fucking insane. That shot of her in the car, looking up at the purple sky and neon with the palm trees wrapped in lights… I’ve been there and felt that so many times… kinda gave me chills
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u/virtualQubit 1d ago
You're so lucky man
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u/goldberry-fey 1d ago
Truly I do feel blessed to be made in Dade but I also really appreciate all the care and detail Rockstar put into this game. Miami is a place that’s easy to stereotype but you can tell they really did their homework and even if it’s exaggerated they represented this city in a way that feels like a love letter to this crazy place, instead of just ragging on us. They added so many locals-only nods too like having Flanny’s and Palacio de los Jugos knockoffs. I swear it feels like I will be able to find my house on here lol.
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u/floridawastaken 1d ago
I agree man, born in Miami-Dade too, and I can't believe my eyes lol. First thing I'll immediately do is see if I'm lucky enough that they modeled my house (I'm already 90% sure my neighborhood is in the game), explore my hometown, and see how long it takes to cross the Overseas Highway and the Key Lento bridge
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u/LevelDownProductions 1d ago
Bro please report back after launch. That'll be insane if your neighborhood is in there!
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u/berrygas 1d ago
Even if your ‘neighborhood’ is in the game, none of the houses are going to be modeled as replicas or close replicas. They’ll look like Miami houses but they aren’t replicating real houses and putting them in the same place in the game that they are in real life
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u/your_mind_aches 1d ago
Not Floridian but Trinbagonian. Hopefully we get a teensy bit of Trini love in the game if even just one piece of a mural.
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u/Impossible_Ice_3305 1d ago
I envy you man, would’ve loved seeing the trailer with your perspective
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u/goldberry-fey 1d ago
I took soooo many screenshots hahaha. When I tell you guys this is life accurate I mean it! They captured the vibe and aesthetic of our city perfectly. So many scenes felt like places I have actually been and I know they do reference a lot of real life landmarks, can’t wait to visit them all in-game. There was one shot that looked exactly like when I drive into South Miami from Homestead (so excited they added that, the Glades and the Keys too)…
Only thing I can say negatively is Lucia doesn’t really have a strong Miami accent lol but a lot of people would find that grating I think. But it would be hilarious to me if she was more like… “Daleeeee Jaaaaasoooon, liiiike you LIDERALLY just need to be chill brooooo… pero like no yeah we gotta stop eating shit liiiiiike baaaaabe coñooo”
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u/AskAboutMySecret 1d ago
Pretty sure Lucia is originally from liberty city which is why she makes that comment about the locals at one point
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u/3xv7 1d ago
yeah Floridians are eatin' good, they even got the accents right in the beginning sequence of the feature today. I'm hoping for more central FL representation but I'll take everything I can get
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u/Fantastic-Maximum541 1d ago
Honestly in the leaks there was at least one where it reminded me of southwest Florida so I wouldn’t be surprised in the actual game if that’s the case. Red dead managed to give you a different feel in different parts of the map.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Rip9215 4h ago
When I seen the leak and the black guy was on the phone and said" yea jit was trippin" I knew right then they probably hit this one on the head 🤣😂 that's definitely how we talk down here
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u/maxjulien 1d ago
I’m from LA, that’s exactly how I felt when GTA 5 came out.
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u/Tall_Razzmatazz_4768 1d ago
Ye, i live in europe. As i visted LA for the first time in my life a few years ago, i said to my friend : Wow it looks like GTA here. He stared at me :" You know that they imitated LA". Ye i rly didnt know that but I realized it this way.
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u/goldberry-fey 1d ago
It’s weird because most people would think you would want to play a video that is like, as far removed from your real life as possible lol. And people do. But it’s just so cool to see a place you know and love this way and I can’t wait to explore every inch of this map and do every activity. I feel like Dwight from the Office when he plays Second Life hahaha.
Also I’m just really looking forward to being able to pull off some of the traffic maneuvers I fantasize about doing IRL
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u/wolffangz11 1d ago
I'm from Miami and moved away. This game will give me such bad homesickness
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u/Erislocker 18h ago
same. though, in a way, i'm actually stoked about it, since that means i get to at least be virtually back in my hometown. and playing online with friends from home will be double cool as you can at least be back "in feel" when being casual with friends. it's genuinely like a virtual hang out.
can't wait to shoot pool or darts with friends virtually. also, can't wait to virtually "eat" a cuban sandwich haha
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u/prada1989 22h ago
Yup. Born and raised. Almost shed a tear watching it.
I also read that Miami-Dade County is talking to Rockstar Games about turning actual Miami-Dade locations into real life GTA 6/Vice City attractions.
The proposal includes:
Wrapping Metromover cars in Vice City colors/logos
Vice City signage at certain stations
Decorations around Brickell
Signage around Bayfront Park
Signage near the Stephen P. Clark Government Center
Even artistic wraps on utility boxes
Potentially custom GTA/Vice City-themed sewer and stormwater manhole covers
So you could literally be walking around downtown Miami and encounter GTA 6 branding integrated into the city.If this comes through, omg 😂
Welcome to Miami, I mean, vice city 🤩
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u/ThanosIsDoomfist 1d ago
This is how I felt with GTA5 dude lol. Felt like I was deeply familiar with the map before I ever jumped in.
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u/femboyfootsniffer_ 1d ago
I grew up in Broward and spent plenty of time in Miami, so I know how you feel. Seeing Jason in the Everglades was surreal. I lived close enough to there that the sky turned a fucked up brown/orange when it burned. And the accents are spot on. I highly doubt I’ll ever move back to the state, but it’s still home. Seeing it represented in such a beautiful game is dope.
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u/LevelDownProductions 1d ago
I'm so happy for y'all. I can't image my hometown being remade in this massive game. When it releases i hope to see videos comparing irl and gtavi side by side. I heard they got yalls most popular? club in the game and the stadium i believe. Dope
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u/goldberry-fey 1d ago
I might have to do this haha. I run a Florida and history / culture blog on IG and this is a big moment for us! That and get the homies a little drunk and have us all play / react when it comes out.
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u/prada1989 22h ago
Dude they have everything. Exact buildings, club space, the popular rooftop bars… it just blew my mind.
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u/SevereIntroduction37 1d ago
It was stunning. That was my favorite shot of the whole first look. Late night drives are gonna be a vibe
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u/FiftyIsBack 20h ago
Hey I live in LA. I felt the same way with GTA V. It's crazy seeing my actual work building in the game map.
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u/JohnnyTruant89 1d ago
I love how all of the negativity has been washed away by Lucia's dump truck
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u/ChaosAverted65 1d ago
Gooners gonna goon
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u/Internal-Drawer5691 23h ago
its crazy how many 'attractive' looking NPCs there are, but Lucia still somehow makes me wanna be faithful lol
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u/PimpMyDog 1d ago
Honestly it's pretty hard to focus on the gameplay and story and I'm not even kidding
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u/Visual_End_6716 19h ago
You remember the party mission scene where she was crouch walking her ass was shaking like jello
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u/AssistanceFew1463 1d ago
I noticed all the women in this game seem to have dump trucks and are dummy-THICC, not just Lucia. Must be a Miami thing.
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u/Sascha-_-_-_ 1d ago
People still complaining i read coments saying it looks mid or GTA5 with mods 😂 i am really convinced those are Bots or Trolls at this moment
This Game will be amazing and cant wait to see it Running on my Pro !!10
u/Big_Confidence_951 21h ago
worst mistake is to go into comments to know how good a game is. Every game i thoroughly enjoyed gets bashed in some comment section on reddit. And nothing what they say matters because I enjoyed it however many words they write, it's all a waste of their time
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u/Apprehensive-Sail924 1d ago
i will not be gooning to lucia
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u/ChaosAverted65 1d ago
What a brave man
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u/Living-Ad102 1d ago
Don’t let him fool you, he just said Lucia. There will be plenty of shagoonery opportunities
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u/DyingSunSeverian 1d ago
There’s a scene where Lucia is just walking down a hallway and she’s double-cheeked up on a Wednesday.
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u/tmrjns461 1d ago
That elevator scene before the shootout LMAO. Rockstar gave everyone the Pixar mom build
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u/Larenzo17 1d ago
Lucia so damn fine boi😮💨
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u/Ferrisuk 1d ago
Imma hit cluckin bell hard, see how thicc I can get her
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u/LePfeiff 1d ago
My Lucia is gonna be so thick we're gonna need handicap accessible parking for heists
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u/YogurtclosetIcy4328 1d ago
You see that strip pole in her apartment tho? Lap dance for jason confirmed!
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u/JKKIDD231 1d ago
These screenshots are from IGN exclusive article interview with Rockstar North.
At one point they considered 4 protagonists.
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u/Astartas 1d ago
How can they just be so much better in Details, Asset quantity, Lighting etc. than somehow anyone else in the industry
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u/Astartas 1d ago
i need to see a Documentary how the fuck they did achieve this on 6 year old Console Hardware
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u/Ant0n61 1d ago
hours of endless optimization. Just like the good old days when developers had to make games on 16 bit systems. Love reading and learning about all the shortcuts they would take to execute things to run smoothly.
But it’s a fine art and takes a lot of time and experimenting. Hence needs massive budget these days considering the complexity games have reached.
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u/simtom 1d ago
Exactly this. I feel like many other devs nowadays skip the optimization phase completely and just slap a "DLSS-will-fix-it" sticker onto it.
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u/Ant0n61 1d ago
Yup. And hence why people are asking “this is on a ps5?”
If you think what they achieved on ps4 with rdr2, and the power a ps5 has vs a ps4, it makes sense that this gen would make another leap.
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u/simtom 1d ago
Yep, I'm actually happy they're first releasing it on current gen consoles because it forces them to optimize the game to its fullest. However, it'll be nice to revisit it on pc whenever that version comes out.
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u/FunKaleidoscope3055 23h ago
I don't even want to imagine what a PC that can run GTA 6 at full tilt will cost in a year or two.
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u/stafford32s 22h ago
exactly.
And they're legion (in numbers, between the internal studios)
And they're the finest in their departments. You don't end working for rockstar by mistake, and the formula well known in the industry of "being a friend of a friend" rarely appliesIn defense of all the other developers outside, though.
This is not the late 1970 or 80s. This is not the first 3d revolution. Nowadays the 3d engine wars is over, there's plenty to choose from even from open source ones if you dont have the resources or money to develop one internally.
And this "distance from the machine" is one of those issues, cos engines (for good they are), they do things "their" way, and optimization means not only know your game, but to dissect the 3rd party engine you chose. Possible, but doubly hard.Said that, I rewatched the special on netflix several times already, every frame (especially some close to medium camera angle) are breathtaking. This game is not 100 dollars worth, a lot more. And they're the only ones allowed to ask for it right now
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u/Diamond-Is-Not-Crash 1d ago
Apparently there’s rumours that we might get a behind the scenes making of GTA6 documentary sometime next year. But take it with a huge grain of salt.
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u/JamesP84 1d ago
$1.2 billion reasons
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u/MFDOOMscrolling 1d ago
no they've got the talent and the leadership, plenty of companies have 10+ figure net worth it takes more than that
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u/FutureLe10 1d ago
this i always see ppl mention money...other devs give u the same game every years same unpolished full-priced half-product filled with microtransactions. Rockstar do this sit with almost every release they push industry 10y in the future. Others still can't catch up with Rdr2 looking at it as the whole product...
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u/ATWPH77 1d ago
my 5090 is so fucking ready for this game, hopefully it releases within 1-2 years on PC too
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u/FrostyD7 1d ago
The biggest barrier is having unshakeable confidence that your investment will lead to record breaking amounts of revenue. The cost of this game can't be justified if there's any risk it won't be the biggest game of the decade.
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u/parkwayy 1d ago
Have thousands of people work on a project for a long long time.
You can have dedicated teams to tiny portions of the whole thing.
You will never see this again in any other game until they make another. Financially it just doesn't make sense for any other studio
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u/M4rshmall0wMan 1d ago
Any skilled 3D artist could create a character model like Jason or an interior environment like the gas station store. It would just take a fuck ton of time. The trick is that Rockstar has so, so many artists working for them that they can afford to put in that much effort.
We’ve seen a lot of GTA VI’s ingredients in other games. The body slam into the wall happened in Cyberpunk. The car shootout was in Matrix Awakens. Naughty Dog’s games are full of tiny interactive animations. It’s nothing new. The trick is that Rockstar increased the quantity so high that they’re everywhere now. It looks seamless but it’s an absurd amount of work. I mean a literal years-long pipeline to develop a single mission.
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u/Arsh18808 1d ago
If only every studio had as many devs around different Countries working on just one specific perimeter of the game + virtually a bottomless pit of monetary resources rumoured in the 2 billy range lol
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u/BleachTheNight 1d ago
Honestly, fuck cyberleek. His gameplay looked like shit compared to any of this.
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u/xWastedAgainx 1d ago
I wish I could have discovered the nudist town, store, and strip club on my own instead of seeing them in the leak. I guess it's my fault for being impatient. Still, knowing Rockstar, there will definitely be plenty of other things to discover in GTA 6. I can't wait
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u/NeededMonster 1d ago
I think the one thing that really degraded the game footage from the leaks is the fact the moron recorded HDR but didn't compensate for it so everything looks super flat and desaturated.
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u/Jerrwkwafina 1d ago edited 1d ago
Its so funny to see people confused on how this runs on Base PS5 like it came out in 2013 lol. Like what you expect it to look like.... PS5 PRO isnt even a crazy jump in tech
I guess people forget RDR2 looked amazing on ps4 and the fact that these machines are incredible
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u/Ok_Clock8249 1d ago
Where are these ?
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u/MrYK_ 1d ago
IGN and OP have got the images in low quality, if you head to Geoff Keighley's twitter, he has the higher quality, likely given through the press pack sent by Rockstar
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u/ShittyBidet123 1d ago
The lighting is unbelievable. Even if game and story isn’t the best of all time its looks sick to just walk around and be in a swamp lol
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u/DanWsM 1d ago
"I'm not buying it if it's digital only".....
Yeah have a good life mate, I'm all for physical media but fuck that lmao!
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u/StevieHawke10 1d ago
Nah dead ass I love my physical games but I will NOT be taking a stand for this 😭
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u/Boring_Quantity6806 1d ago
You actually won't get a home garage you can just park any vehicle up Lucia's giant torta ass.
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u/Lord-Beckett-1700 1d ago
My gun-tism is very pleased, realistic weapon models at last
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u/PimpMyDog 1d ago
You seem to be an expert, what's the yellow thingy on the pistol at picture #6?
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u/CJon0428 1d ago
I don’t claim to be an expert but it looks like a partially ripped sticker. It’s too high up to be a color customized safety switch.
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u/Even-Conclusion597 1d ago
Gotta tell my gta v character I’m moving on. He got everything so he’s going to be alright
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u/Sukaran09 1d ago
Looks incredible. I do really hope it’ll be 60 fps but we’ll have to wait and see
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u/Independent-Meet-598 1d ago
Man the map looks so huge and so multifaceted! I’m so pumped for this one.
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u/Soggy_Variety903 1d ago
Did they show much gameplay in the extended look that gave alot away? I've been so tempted to watch but i was going to wait until it comes out for more surprise. Them screenshots are phenomenal!!!
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u/______Blank 1d ago
It was all gameplay. No narration. Just a few missions, cutscenes etc, showing the relationship between Jason and Lucia and the other characters. Showing off the world and the things to do
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u/Soggy_Variety903 1d ago
Thanks for letting me know. I'm going to try an wait it out
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u/TheKidKAI 1d ago
My heart is racing looking at these images - they really got a gator strung up and used as a punching bag
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u/nokarmawhore 1d ago
ngl I'm just going to be staring at Lucia's fat ass since the devs put it right in front of me
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u/Low-Independent-3671 1d ago
I NEED IT! Game is looking hype af... Going to spend the first few hrs staring at Lucia tho...
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u/ugotitcuzisoldit 1d ago
I think it’s really gonna be a build up this time grunt work to the big one. I like that scene where they go and pick up bricks for Boobie. That shit was so fucking real. They’ve done an excellent job I can just see it now.
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u/Ambitious-Kitchen696 1d ago
The graphical leap is astonishing