Ned Luke says anyone who thinks GTA 6 looks like GTA 5 is out of their mind

Caught the clip of Ned Luke on that Party Chat stream and he did not hold back. The guy who played Michael in GTA 5 was asked about the whole "GTA 6 just looks like GTA 5" take that's been floating around since the extended look dropped.

His response? "This looks nothing like Grand Theft Auto 5." Then he went further and said people who think that are out of their minds. He also joked that Michael's character model never looked that good, which is fair. GTA 5's models were great for 2013 but the extended look is on another level.

He even shouted out the jiggle physics, which I'm sure will be a whole discussion on its own.

I get why some people say it looks familiar. It's still a GTA game, open world, running from cops, all that. But the tech jump is pretty obvious. Digital Foundry called it the most visually advanced game they've seen. The map is supposedly 3x bigger than RDR2's. And the animation count is wild, over 600,000 compared to 55,000 in GTA 5 and 300,000 in RDR2.

So yeah, same formula, but calling it GTA 5 with a new coat of paint feels lazy. Ned Luke has zero reason to hype this up either, he's not in it.

Do you think the extended look actually looks like GTA 5, or is this just people being contrarian?

Source: GameSpot · Curated content.

the animation count is the part that matters for RP. half of good RP is body language, sitting on curbs, leaning on cars, limping after a shootout. we duct taped that with emote wheels for a decade on gtav servers. if even a chunk of those 600k animations carry into online, the big servers are gonna feast.

also funny that ned luke has nothing to gain from hyping it and still went that hard. kinda tells you everything

Ned's right and the cars alone prove it. GTA 5 chrome looked like cling film over the body panels. If the paint and reflections in 6 are anywhere near what the extended look showed, car meets are gonna be UNREAL.

Also rp_grinder nailed the leaning thing. Half a car meet is just posted up on your hood doing nothing.

ok so the funniest part is Michael himself roasting his own character model lol. he's got nothing to gain either, dude just played it and was stunned like the rest of us

Ned's right, but for me the giveaway isn't faces, it's geography. Los Santos was gorgeous but the state around it was basically desert and one big hill (sorry, Chiliad). Leonida reads like it has actual range: the Keys trailing south off the coast, the Grassrivers, Mount Kalaga. Dense wetland alone is terrain GTA 5's engine could never have faked. Same formula, totally different planet.