Being brutally honest here: the last GTA I played was San Andreas back in 2008. Personally I can say that R* has come a very long way concerning their IP titles, but the problem here is the technology they use for developing their products. GTA IV and V were both developed with the same technology, that has been manufactured in fucking 2006! Yet still to this very day, GTAO is currently the main spotlight for the franchise to keep it afloat. I still remember ten years ago how hyped up I was for GTA V, after R* released thorough information about every little detail. I was looking forward to having a revamped economy and a long roster of weapons, but alas when I checked out the gameplay when it came out, everything was watered down a lot. I then asked myself: had this been a launch title for the PS4, I would have gotten my console in 2013 already and the final product would have been a whole lot better.
This time around, the next installment already looks leaps and bounds ahead of what IV and V looked like in the first trailers. The density, the fauna, the dynamic events and random encounters all look very well-planned. The map looks gigantic, supposedly having multiple cities besides Vice City. The thing I'm mostly looking forward to is the amount of realism this game will have (hopefully). Also, I certainly hope there won't be any emphasis on microtransactions.
But yeah, if you ask me, I was expecting the release window to be in 2025, according to many rumors and Reddit leaks. This means I will be 30, or around 30 years old when it hits the shelves and I'll need to replace my PS4 with a new PS5 too. Until then we can only wait what the features and the synopsis for the game will be.