> Rockstar would be nerd-sniped on GTA6 by a world model
I'm having trouble parsing your meaning here.
GTA isn't really a "drive on the street simulator", is it? There is deliberate creative and artistic vision that makes the series so enjoyable to play even decades after release, despite the graphics quality becoming more dated every year by AAA standards.
Are you saying someone would "vibe model" a GTAish clone with modern graphics that would overtake the actual GTA6 in popularity? That seems extremely unlikely to me.
I don't _really_ mean it obviously but I think a key component of what makes something like GTA compelling is that fully modeled world you move around in. These things take what amounts to hundreds if not thousands of man years to create "traditionally", and the fact someone can now prompt to life a city or any other environment with simiailr (or better) fidelity is a massive change in how we think about creative content production.
GTA6 will not actually be nerd-sniped, but it's easy to see how a lot of what makes the game defensible is being rapidly commoditized.
GTA VI's story mode won't be surpassed by a world model, but the fucking around and blowing things up part conceivably could, and that's how people are spending their time in GTA. I don't see a world model providing the framing needed to contextualize the mayhem, thereby making it fun, anytime soon myself, but down the line? Maybe.
They will then learn the bitter lesson that convincing the GenAI to create something that brings your vision to life is impossible. It's a real talent to even be able to define for yourself what your vision is, and then to have artists achieve it visually in any medium is a process of back and forth between people with their own interpretations evolving the idea into something even better and cohesive.
GenAI will never get there because it can't, by design. It can riff on what was, and it can please the prompter, but it cannot challenge anyone creatively. No current LLM's can, either. I'll eat my hat if this is wrong in ten years, but it won't be.
It will generate refined slop ad nauseam, and that will train people's brains into spotting said slop faster using less energy. And then it'll be shunned.
bro, how you could get the very precise and predictable editing bro that you have in a regular game engine bro. also bro, empty pretty world with nothing to do bro is lame bro
Probably depends on how you engage with GTA. “Drive on the street simulator” along with arrays of weapons and explosions is the majority of my hours in GTA.
I despise the creative and artistic vision of GTA online, but I’m clearly in a minority there gauging by how much money they’ve made off it.
I assumed the opposite because I haven't heard about GTA's story in ages, but could be a sampling bias. It's hand-wavy, but last I recall most of the microtransactions didn't show up in single player (like if you bought a car, you couldn't use it in single player) so the people spending money on it are doing it for online, not the story.
I didn't think the story was earth-shattering; it was fine, but no Baldur's Gate.
Edit: In retrospect, the characters were fairly iconic. I still distinctly remember Trevor.
I'm having trouble parsing your meaning here.
GTA isn't really a "drive on the street simulator", is it? There is deliberate creative and artistic vision that makes the series so enjoyable to play even decades after release, despite the graphics quality becoming more dated every year by AAA standards.
Are you saying someone would "vibe model" a GTAish clone with modern graphics that would overtake the actual GTA6 in popularity? That seems extremely unlikely to me.