I remained the feeling of having been inside GTA 6 to the trip to Dubai: supercars everywhere, people who drive as if they were immune to the laws of physics, skyscrapers so high that you ask yourself if you need the passport to go up to the top floor. When I saw Burj Khalifa I thought: “Wow, this stuff here seems designed by Rockstar Games”. And now it comes to mind: but at what point is GTA 6 really?
At this point GTA 6 is no longer a video game: it is an urban legend, an digital mirage, an eternal promise such as the green revolution or good intentions on New Year’s Eve: every six months a trailer, an escape of news, the announcement that there will be an announcement, and then silence. Rockstar is silent, the world waits, and the hype grows, feeds itself, becomes meme, religion, obsession.
In the meantime, the estimated development cost has exceeded two billion dollars. Two billion. Practically like building a second Burj Khalifa, but virtual. With the only difference that the skyscraper exists. It can be touched. Turn around a mission impossible and throw you running on the windows if you are Tom Cruise.
GTA 6 instead no. In the time when they built half Dubai, it is still there, wrapped in mystery, promised for 2025, but without a precise date and the launch window clings, and this point it almost seems that it will not really come out this year. It could slip again. Or become a cosmic joke. Maybe Rockstar is only turning a mockuctor, like this is spinal tap, but with programmers.
In doubt, I continue to play Call of Duty, that at least that comes out every year like the Zara collections, so much in the end the CODs are all the same and are habitual: you change the name of the weapon, the filter on the maps and go, you shoot another time. Except for my friend Zyo who has the obsession with the Mirini, he never finds one who satisfies him, and after every game I have to wait for him to change it, lasts his choice of Mirini than the games.
In any case, what to expect from GTA 6? There is rumors of a gigantic map, the most advanced artificial intelligence of your boss, a hair physics that will make Pixar pale, and NPC able to remember if you have looked at them badly three missions ago. All at 200 fps, if you have a PC from CERN and the eyes of a dragonfly.
But the real question is: will two billion dollars really apply? Will he have at least one swimming pool on the roof? Will it be accessible with the panoramic lift? Will I be able to rent a three -room apartment in Vice City for the summer holidays? Above all, tell us when it comes out, because we are getting tired. It is true that Cesare Pavese said: “Waiting for something is always better than waiting for anything”, but I feel the tiredness of waiting.
For now, we only know that GTA 6 is beating records even before going out: the most awaited, more expensive game, and perhaps even the most postponed in history.
A work of art or an urban planning project? A social simulation or a cathedral in the digital desert? Meanwhile, while we wait for another trailer, another announcement, another rumor, I make another Killstreak on Call of Duty. Always the same. But at least that comes out every year on time.