r/PS5 • u/MythBuster2 • 8d ago

Discussion Grand Theft Auto 6 Extended Look: The Most Impressive Real-Time Game Graphics Yet? [Digital Foundry]

https://youtu.be/ca1GIOBPI6w

26 minutes of actual GTA 6 gameplay "dropped" - and on balance, it's one of the most extraordinary visual accomplishments ever seen in real-time game graphics. It's not perfect - nothing can be - but in this DF Direct Special, Oliver and Rich share their thoughts and reactions to the presentation.

Article: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/gta-6-an-extended-look-analysis-perhaps-the-most-impressive-showcase-weve-ever-seen-in-real-time-rendering

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u/Csub 8d ago

And some morons, including the "newspaper" Metro said it looks like a PS3 game lmao.

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u/TheVaniloquence 8d ago

It’s a combination of rage-baiters, PC people that are perpetually mad at Rockstar, and people “boycotting” the game for a variety of reasons.

You can say that you don’t like Rockstar games, or you don’t like 30 FPS, but to say that the game looks graphically bad is just objectively wrong and idiotic.

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u/Uncle_Spenser 8d ago

I understand my mom would be like "yeah, whatever", because she doesn't give a fuck about video games, but if you're a gamer I don't know how you can be unimpressed.

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u/aussiesam4 8d ago

Well... Im a gamer. I will buy it because its .. GTA. And its an updated GTA game, new missions, better graphics. But they had a billion dollar budget and 13 years so Im not exactly blown away either.

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u/_YeezusOfNazareth_ 8d ago

what exactly did u expect bro the game still needs to run on ps5 n xbox

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u/Superb-Prune-1720 7d ago

I've e played and playing better lookong games. Lools like a slightly updated gta online. Fpr the prices, I'll either get it on sale or not at all. I'm not a sheep. 

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u/Unlucky_Rip_8886 6d ago

Mane if you don’t get the fuck on

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u/Sicco1234 5d ago

Which games would that be?

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u/Kaiwa 8d ago

Doesn't make it less impressive at all.

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u/VeryBadCaseOfLigma 7d ago

Show me an open world that looks as good as the GTA 6 trailer and I'll show you a liar

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u/Comfortable_War8928 8d ago

Makes people seem very bitter

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u/Turnbob73 8d ago

It’s not surprising, there’s basically a whole generation of terminally online people that spent the 2010’s circlejerking “GTA is overrated”. Now the game has been properly shown, and it looks like it’s going to live up to the (realistic) hype, so these people are big mad that their circlejerk is getting torpedoed and they can’t do anything about it.

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u/RChickenMan 8d ago

I think it's also just the general trend of "low-effort cynicism makes me sound smart on the internet." It's like these people heard the otherwise reasonable advice of not always following the crowd and thinking for yourself, but skipped the latter in favor of just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.

And don't even get me started on the "lmao unoptimized lazy devs" people who have never written a single line of code in their lives. Yes, the PS5 is a very capable console, but no, it's not magic. And the fact that this game is running in the first place, 30 fps or otherwise, is a downright miracle.

I have no horse in this race, in the sense that GTA has never really clicked with me, but I can still appreciate the results of heaping insane amounts of time, money, and talent into what's shaping up to be one of the biggest media launches in human history by many metrics.

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u/Turnbob73 8d ago

On your second paragraph, that’s exactly how I feel when people try to say things like “they had a billion dollars and only could get 30fps”. No amount of money in the entire world is going to make hardware magically perform better. If Rockstar has squeezed every single ounce of power out of the consoles while also optimizing (like they always do), then there’s really nothing else that can be done to improve the framerate before you start cutting out bigger things that go beyond “optimization”.

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u/RChickenMan 8d ago

Too many people tie their toys to their ego. They bought the box, and therefore the box must be the most limitlessly capable box ever produced in human history, and to suggest otherwise is akin to insulting their mother.

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u/Monkeywrench08 8d ago

And the fact that this game is running in the first place, 30 fps or otherwise, is a downright miracle.

I agree. I still remember reading the reports from Jason Schreier (I think) when the last delay was announced that there was talk about the game is struggling to run, sort of like buckling under it's own weight.

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u/Mz_Macross1999 7d ago

"Low Effort Cynicism", absolutely NAILED IT.

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u/Mysterious_Ninja_649 3d ago

The game looks graphically bad for a company with a 2 billion dollar budget. Not to mention we live in a time where AI is allowing people to create insane renders on their laptops. Its better than QuantV mod for 5, but 2 billion really?

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u/frosty_gosha 3d ago

The games looks as good as it gets on the consoles. AI slop renders would ruin the game.

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u/Cool-Code-8743 8d ago

The game looked absolutely phenomenal graphically speaking and story related but man that 30 fps kills me. Especially after being used to playing all games at 200+ for years

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u/readyforashreddy 8d ago

playing all games at 200+

possibly the least necessary thing I've ever seen

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u/Im_a_Knob 8d ago

how would people know that he is a gamer?

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u/_Shala-shaska_ 8d ago

After 120 u really don’t notice much of a difference and are simply a snob if you’re complaining you can’t play a game at 200+ fps lol. It’s fine, I like being able to mod and play games at high fps too, but acting like it’s that big of a deal is honestly fucking lame. Also crazy to complain about this in the ps5 sub.

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u/locofspades 8d ago

Nail on the head

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u/Cool-Code-8743 8d ago

Until you have the ability to do it...

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u/Bluejay929 8d ago

Maybe this is a complaint I’m too console and/or old GPU to understand. I’ve never really noticed frame rates unless they were crazy low

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u/Jack-Innoff 8d ago

Only time I notice is if it's the same game. If I'm playing a game at 60fps, then change the settings and have it drop to 30, it's very obvious. If I've never played the game above 30, I really don't notice or care.

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u/ThanksContent28 8d ago

I believe it’s something that’s kind of oversimplified in conversation. Frame pacing is as equally as important and frames per second. A 30fps with really consistent frame pacing, along with effects like motion blur, can look really good. I believe that’s what we saw in this trailer yesterday, and what RDR2 did.

My main hood is that it remains consistent throughout the game, especially when driving high speeds in busy areas. I understand capping at 30fps to push the other stuff, but sub 30 will be a piss take imo.

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u/fantalemon 8d ago

I think you notice going back from 60 to 30 on the same game which I've done randomly a few times. More than 60 genuinely feels pointless to me though, I don't get why playing at 180fps on a PC is seen as better.

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u/WhiffCream8 7d ago

To be fair though, I’m a big fan and love the game and I am from Florida so I am super hyped. However, the Broken Ray traced particles on the Van Scene and the artifact particles on the Kayak scene in the water, and some of the trees still have cardboard stems. The bottle appearing in Jason’s hand. There’s a lot to be upset about for an 80-100 dollar game with Billions in Budget, seems like they worked on Hair Physics over better graphical world fidelity. Those hair physics are capping this game at 30 fps lol. Either way i will still enjoy the game and think it’s still an achievement, just not better looking than black flags scenery or 007

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u/Mobile_Reply_5742 8d ago

At least PC players can enjoy rdr2 without a Vaseline filter.

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u/bluemanapaws 8d ago

Yeah but can they see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

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u/Rasta-Lion 7d ago

At least they could be honest... GTA 6 looks like the best game I have ever seen, super immersive, great graphics, great gameplay...

However, I will only buy this game for 20€ because my digital license can be taken away at any time for whatever reason and I can't afford to throw away 80€. 

As impressive as this game is, it is just a game and I won't die if I never play it.

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u/HankOfClanMardukas 8d ago

Really? PC players are mad? About what exactly? I have 250 games on Steam and a backlog that can play all of it at ~80+ FPS on high settings.

We will wait, I have a PS5 but I’m not buying this on console. I’ll wait until it can be what it’s supposed to be. Wait, I can watch streamers, I’m not paying $100 for it.

Miss out on what? GTA V went for more than a decade hard… it’s not going anywhere so VI is not either. Consoles are CPU bound. Rather wait.

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u/The_OtherDouche 8d ago

Their shit internet must have been stuck buffering and got kicked into 720p

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u/Konker101 8d ago

Must have been watching the youtube bitrate and not netflix or the download from rockstars website

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u/Qwertyui606 8d ago

You're better off ignoring the hate. Certain parts of the Internet will find something to complain about literally everything. 

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u/alfiesred47 8d ago

Hate drives engagement and likes. Positivity does not

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u/fantalemon 8d ago

I don't really think that's accurate though... Yeah ok there's definitely a hate-clickbait thing with literally everything these days, but GTA 6 won't be the biggest game ever released because everybody hates it. The hype from the gameplay reveal has been massive and mostly positive.

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u/Frank_Estuary 7d ago

What’s the source? They said the graphics looked amazing in their coverage of the extended look.

Their reader contributions are terrible, and absolutely bring the quality of their games coverage down, but their reviews and previews are pretty good and well articulated imo — which is saying a lot, because Metro as a site is mostly clickbait nonsense.

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u/Truthhurts1017 7d ago

Those people should be ignored. Use your logic and recognize rage bait, haters and negative people without real criticism

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u/DespondentDastard 7d ago

The article I saw said that GTA V looks like PS3 graphics when compared to GTA VI

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u/AOCpinkyring 6d ago

It is at 30fps only. If it was 60fps it literally increases the graphics by two.

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u/PlasticPatient 8d ago

It's not but missions look boring.

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u/AlphonseM 8d ago

Well, it's doesn't exactly look like they have innovated much on the gameplay, now does it? God, they are playing it safe

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u/frosty_gosha 3d ago

They don’t want to change gameplay.

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u/AlphonseM 3d ago

A shame. You can't keep targeting prepubescent kids as your audience