What’s Next For Grand Theft Auto 5?

The game that never dies.

You Are Reading :Whats Next For Grand Theft Auto 5

With the recent next-gen re-release of Grand Theft Auto 5, you might think Rockstar has squeezed every last drop of blood out of its 155 million-selling crime epic. But this game is like a zombie that keeps shambling towards you no matter how many times you shoot it in the head. I wouldn’t be surprised if Rockstar found new ways to keep the game alive in the years to come. Here are a few ways it might extend GTA 5’s already substantial lifespan even further.

A Nintendo Switch port

The only modern console you currently can’t play GTA 5 on is Switch. A relatively small number of GTA games have appeared on Nintendo consoles over the years, but with GTA: The Trilogy recently appearing on the platform, Rockstar is clearly willing to support it. Nintendo used to be scared of violent or otherwise ‘offensive’ games, but that’s increasingly a thing of the past. I’m amazed there hasn’t been a port yet. Perhaps it’s for technical reasons. As quietly powerful as this console is, GTA 5 is a complex, graphically intense game. The remasters suffered from frame rate issues, so Los Santos might be beyond it. A cloud version could work, but I don’t think that concept has much of a future.

GTA Online lives forever

It’s inevitable that GTA 6 will be skewed towards online play. Rockstar simply makes too much money from multiplayer. But just because a new game has launched doesn’t mean the millions of people who are dedicated to GTA 5 will suddenly jump ship. Like those long-running MMOs veteran players can’t seem to quit, I wouldn’t be surprised if Rockstar kept releasing new missions, vehicles, and other content for GTA Online—even when most people’s attention has shifted to the new game. People have invested thousands of hours (and, in some cases, thousands of real dollars) into their clothes, weapons, cars, and businesses in GTA Online, and they won’t want to abandon them.

GTA 5 goes VR

L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is proof that Rockstar can make great virtual reality games. This VR-tailored version of its noir detective adventure is incredibly absorbing and deeply interactive. GTA 5 already has a great first-person mode, which would translate well to VR. The audience for virtual reality games is still pretty limited, however, which might put Rockstar off. The VR version of L.A. Noire only featured a few cases from the regular game, so I suppose it could do something similar with GTA rather than convert the whole game. Honestly, I’d be happy just to aimlessly wander around a virtual Los Santos. I can do that already on PC thanks to mods, but I’d love to see an official VR mode.

A remake

Many years from now, I can totally imagine Rockstar dramatically remastering, or even completely remaking, GTA 5. Think of how the 20-year-old Grand Theft Auto 3 was recently given a new lease of life in The Trilogy, taking advantage of modern lighting, shadows, physics, and so on. The graphical upgrade in the newly launched next-gen versions of GTA 5 is, let’s be real, fairly incremental. But in 20 years, Rockstar might want to give Los Santos a similar upgrade with whatever graphical wizardry is available at the time. GTA 5 nostalgia will have reached its peak at this point too, and people will be eager to revisit it. I’m calling it now: we haven’t seen the last of this game. Far from it.

A game within a game

Playing games in other games is nothing new. You could play through the entirety of Maniac Mansion in its sequel, Day of the Tentacle. Classic text adventure Zork was playable in Call of Duty: Black Ops. More recently, Yakuza spin-off Lost Judgment features a bunch of classic Master System games. So it’s obvious: Rockstar should make GTA 5 playable in Grand Theft Auto 6. Admittedly, it’s unlikely they’d ever give a whole game away for free like this—and it would make the GTA 6 download stupidly big—but if anyone would do something like this, it would probably be Rockstar. At the very least, I’d love to be able to play classic top-down GTA in one of the 3D games.

Link Source : https://www.thegamer.com/whats-next-for-grand-theft-auto-5/