In case you have been dwelling below a rock, GTA 6 lastly received that second trailer individuals have been begging for yesterday. Naturally, it is taken hardly any time for an ex-Rockstar developer turned YouTuber to dissect it, and make some attention-grabbing factors in regards to the distinction between this trailer and the primary one.
The dev in query is animator Mike York, who labored on each GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 throughout his nearly six years at Rockstar New England. We beforehand reported on his reaction to trailer one again in 2023, when he was blown away by how a lot he reckoned Rockstar was pushing {hardware} to its limits.
York’s been simply as blown away this time, however primarily for 2 causes – the sheer quantity of particulars packed in and the way in which Rockstar has “stepped up a notch” when it comes to lighting with this trailer. In reality, the dev reckons the latter might probably be one of many elements that is performed into GTA 6‘s delay to next May.
“If you need one thing that is high quality, that takes time,” York says in direction of the tip of his 30 minute trailer evaluation, “Whether or not or not it’s 13 years, 15 years, once you’re attempting to do one thing as actual as this and you’ve got type of unlocked new secrets and techniques as you go.
“Generally throughout manufacturing you determine one thing that adjustments every thing, and in right here it may very well be lighting. They’re like ‘Oh no’, they discovered remedy this new factor to make the lighting look significantly better, after which they simply crank that as much as 10, 11. They begin actually specializing in altering a number of stuff and redoing all of the lights as a result of they discovered this new type of technique possibly to do the lighting, the reflections and all of the totally different stuff for the ray tracing.
“That typically can get reworked and that may be a delay, proper? That is why a sport can get delayed, like I defined earlier in my video, is ensuring choices alongside the way in which that alter this path of the sport, and it appears just like the lighting is unquestionably one in every of them. They’ve achieved one thing to the lighting.”
It is truthful to say York’s bullish on all of this effort and element making the ultimate product dwell as much as no matter value it finally ends up delivery with. “No different sport has the element and the quantity of realism that this does and can have when it is launched, so all people complaining on the market wants to only zip it, as a result of no matter quantity this sport prices, $80 bucks or no matter, goes to be value it.
“All these different video games that come out for 70 bucks, 90 bucks, I imply look you have received Mario Kart for $90 – you suppose Mario Kart competes with a sport like this so far as how a lot stuff they have to place right into a sport?”
It is value testing everything of York’s video, as in going by way of the trailer, he factors out a bunch of attention-grabbing stuff you might need missed, together with some extremely refined animations and nuances that could not make it into GTA 5 on account of time contraints.
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