All GTA games should just be period pieces.
What the fuck gave you that idea? The first GTA was conetmporary, III was contemporary, IV was contemporary, V was contemporary. Hell, even Chinatown Wars was contemporary.
GTA 2 was the only exception where it was set in the future but no one ever bitches about how
that's not a real GTA because it's fictional, and not contemporary/period piece.
The only "period piece" games from the series were Vice City, San Andreas, Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories, with LCS being a prequel to III. Well I guess you can add GTA London to that too, but that was just a mission pack for the first GTA.
GTA was never a series that was just period pieces and I have no idea what made you think that way. The period piece games were a brief episode between 2002 and 2006.
Then again:
Never had much interest in trying GTA IV.
All of your opinions on GTA are worthless based on that fact alone. If you haven't ever played IV and formed a personal opinion of it through that, your opinions mean jack shit.
Yeah this thread already talked about this.
Also, whoever posted that is a retard as much as IGN is. R* has NEVER said anything about "GTA VI" or "GTA 6". This keeps being peddled by journalists and the GTA community which is known for spreading rumors or even outright fabrications and lies as cold hard truth.
R* specifically talks only about "the next GTA game", so it might as well be a mobile game or a game that's titled something else.
I really fucking hope that R* will announce something that's not called "GTA 6" or "GTA VI" so that every single retard that kept yapping about it will get flabbergasted by the fact that it's not called that. Much like Valve worked on a new Half-Life game that wasn't called Half-Life 3 and Valve never said it was gonna be that but people kept talking about Half-Life 3 anyway. And it was a VR only game.