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I've spent a few thousand hours of my life living in GTA Online. Well, actually, that's how long Steam tells me I've spent tearing up the streets of Los Santos and Blaine County. This lurching figure does not include my time living myriad Truman Show parallel existences within the bounds of FiveM's roleplaying scene.
In any event, at this stage I'm pretty au fait with both the official Grand Theft Auto 5 multiplayer offshoot playground and its unofficial player-made one. I enjoy both spaces for very different reasons, and as GTA 6 comes into increasingly sharper focus, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what I want from its next online variation—whatever shape it may take.
Given the enduring and seemingly interminable success of GTA Online, it's hard to imagine Rockstar ditching its golden goose entirely when it moves house to Vice City later this year on console. One would presume GTA Online in its current state will continue, business as usual for a period of time, with GTA 6's slant on a multiplayer offering running alongside it, at least in the beginning.
Rockstar's acquisition of Cfx.re in 2023—the team behind FiveM—suggests the next crime sim entry will push deeper into the RP space in an official capacity, and it's exactly this distinction that I want in the coming months and years in the Florida-aping state of Leonida.
Believe it or not, it was while watching some punk named YEPYEP2006 smash up my truck Rusty, beaten down and teary-eyed, that led me to this dawning realisation.
GTA Online is a machine. With a half-century of complimentary updates spanning more than a decade, it boasts an exhaustive array of customisable weapons and vehicles, standing as one of the most alluring shop window experiences in the history of videogames—its most appetising material goods literally zip past you, on the street or in the skies, and whether you grind or vouch for real-money Shark Cards, everything you see can be yours.
Moreover, 2019's Diamond Casino update let us live out our best Ocean's Eleven-inspired fantasies. In 2020, the Cayo Perico update gave us a desert island to explore at a time when freely roaming beyond our doorsteps in the height of strict quarantine measures was impossible. And in 2021, The Contract brought Dr Dre out of retirement to not only star in a string of dedicated missions, but also drop new...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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I've spent a few thousand hours of my life living in GTA Online. Well, actually, that's how long Steam tells me I've spent tearing up the streets of Los Santos and Blaine County. This lurching figure does not include my time living myriad Truman Show parallel existences within the bounds of FiveM's roleplaying scene.
In any event, at this stage I'm pretty au fait with both the official Grand Theft Auto 5 multiplayer offshoot playground and its unofficial player-made one. I enjoy both spaces for very different reasons, and as GTA 6 comes into increasingly sharper focus, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what I want from its next online variation—whatever shape it may take.
Given the enduring and seemingly interminable success of GTA Online, it's hard to imagine Rockstar ditching its golden goose entirely when it moves house to Vice City later this year on console. One would presume GTA Online in its current state will continue, business as usual for a period of time, with GTA 6's slant on a multiplayer offering running alongside it, at least in the beginning.
Rockstar's acquisition of Cfx.re in 2023—the team behind FiveM—suggests the next crime sim entry will push deeper into the RP space in an official capacity, and it's exactly this distinction that I want in the coming months and years in the Florida-aping state of Leonida.
Believe it or not, it was while watching some punk named YEPYEP2006 smash up my truck Rusty, beaten down and teary-eyed, that led me to this dawning realisation.
GTA Online is a machine. With a half-century of complimentary updates spanning more than a decade, it boasts an exhaustive array of customisable weapons and vehicles, standing as one of the most alluring shop window experiences in the history of videogames—its most appetising material goods literally zip past you, on the street or in the skies, and whether you grind or vouch for real-money Shark Cards, everything you see can be yours.
Moreover, 2019's Diamond Casino update let us live out our best Ocean's Eleven-inspired fantasies. In 2020, the Cayo Perico update gave us a desert island to explore at a time when freely roaming beyond our doorsteps in the height of strict quarantine measures was impossible. And in 2021, The Contract brought Dr Dre out of retirement to not only star in a string of dedicated missions, but also drop new...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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