Grand Theft Auto 6
The biggest threat toGrand Theft Auto 6existed long before its first trailer send packing . At this item , it ’s scarce a surprisal thatGTA 6is the most anticipated game of the year . A newGTAgame would be hotly sought after in any twelvemonth , but especially now , with the almost 12 years ' distance from the previous plot andRockstar ’s moderate merchandising strategyhave secure thatGTA 6dominates every play conversation . The gaming industry and consumer likewise hold their breath : willGTA 6really cost $ 100 ? What will its on-line mode look like ? Andwill it get ahead GOTY ?
But for all the enthusiasm around it , candidly , I’m vex aboutGTA 6 . And it ’s not the potential price point or even the silence around its vent date that have got me down . ( Though those weigh on my mind , too . ) I can await as long as I involve to forGTA 6 , whether I ’m just biding my time until it comes out , or I have to wait even longer for a sale . I just hope it live on up to Rockstar ’s touchstone of storytelling when it eventually get here , and I have my reasons to doubt that it will .
Co-Founder Dan Houser Left Rockstar In 2020
GTA Will Never Be The Same
My concern is thatDan Houser ’s departure from Rockstar Studios may have irreparably impact the growing ofGTA 6 . Houser was one of the original founder of Rockstar , along with his comrade Sam , and was wide considered one of the master creative voices of the studio . He left Rockstar in February 2020 , shortly thereafterfounding his own studiocalled Absurd Ventures . It put out a podcast serial , A Better Paradise , in 2024 , and has currently got a smattering of multimedia projects in the whole kit , include a comic series , a animated cartoon , and a duo of game set in its new - minted Absurdaverse .
There ’s one feature GTA 6 is almost sure to let in , and it offers monolithic storytelling potential for its long - run satire of American biography .
This is not to point the proverbial finger’s breadth at Dan Houser or anyone else for his leave Rockstar , which , for all purpose and purposes , he appears to have done of his own volition and on the best of terms . Buthis expiration has undeniably had an encroachment onGTA 6 ’s growing cycle , allegedly set out witha total growing resetin the month after his departure . " A detain game is eventually good , " and all that , but still , it ’s toilsome for me to seeGTAasGTAwhen it ’s coming from a post - Dan Houser Rockstar .
GTA’s Writing Was Defined By Dan Houser
Rockstar’s Loudest Creative Voice
It ’s clear that , during the integrality of his tenure at the ship’s company , Dan Houser ’s was the dominating voice and drive originative forceat Rockstar . He ’s been involved inGTAsince it was a top - down serial , and , along with his brother , is credit with pay the serial its name ( which was originallyRace’n’chase ) . He later took over as the solitary writer ofGTA : London 1969 , which , while much simpler than modern - dayGTA , still contains a core of his characteristic style .
Over time , Houser played a major role in originate the voice ofGTAinto its current form : a nipping , ever - relevant satire of innovative American life , acculturation , and capitalism . It ’s a series that ’s never shied away from cock-a-hoop theme , while also having the serious sense not to take itself too seriously . It ’s captured the nitty-gritty of millions of histrion worldwide . It ’s thanks to Houser ’s work , perhaps more than any Game of the Year award , that players have number to expect diligence - standard lineament in storytelling fromGTA . And it ’s thanks to Houser ’s piece of work , more than any selling scheme , thatGTA 6is so hotly anticipated .
Houser is also the first writer credited on bothRed Dead Redemptiongames , a series with a decidedly different whole step , but no less to say about American society and its discontents .
Rockstar plot are bonk for their storytelling , and it ’s evident thatHouser had a major part in creating that reputation . It ’ll be tough for the series to twit without him - hence the hearsay of a total maturation reset after his departure in 2020 . Houser apparently participated in the former stages ofGTA 6 ’s development - he depart the company a couple of old age after work on the project is consider to have set out , keep an eye on the release ofRed Dead Redemption 2 in 2018 .
McDonald ’s did a phenomenal line with its Minecraft collaboration , and after seeing it , you ca n’t help but guess that GTA 6 needs the same treatment .
Butit ’s out of the question to discern exactly how much he might have contributed toGTA 6before his departure . It ’s potential he created the center conception or independent characters , but even then , his contributions could range from a terminated plot of land outline to a single - sentence premise . It ’s also potential that the remaining squad at Rockstar have since choose to take the secret plan in a unexampled direction . Ultimately , I have to grant that we know too little about Houser ’s involvement inGTA 6- and , for that matter , aboutGTA 6itself - to say how his departure impacted its development .
GTA 6 Could Still Be Great Without Dan Houser
Look At The Bright Side
Still , there ’s a good chanceGTA 6could be every number as good as previous entrieseven without Dan Houser ’s involvement . Like all heavy - budget art forms , video game development is a collaborative process . We do n’t know who ’s writingGTA 6 in Houser ’s absence seizure , but it ’s probable that Rupert Humphries is on the squad . He does n’t have as long of a chronicle withGTAas Dan Houser , but he ’s an experienced writer who ’s contributed to several of the series ' entries , as well as bothRDRgames . I trustGTAin his able hands , but it ’ll undeniably be unlike without Houser regard .
And honestly , I was n’t that unbalanced aboutGTA 5 ’s story . It ’s dead solid , but it ’s not the stiff in the serial publication . GTA 5lacks a strong , central antagonist , and rushes through the rag - to - wealth of it all to get to the big heists . It was overly ambitious in assay to make a triumvirate of protagonists work , and wind up up short-circuit them all on much - needed character exploitation .
Grand Theft Auto 5 is fall to Xbox Game Pass this month , but is the game worth playing again 12 days after its original release date ?
And that ’s not even to say I guess Dan Houser ’s lost his touch : Red Dead Redemption 2has one of the cracking video secret plan narratives of all time , and I apprehensively await whatever new narration Houser ’s getting quick to recite with Absurd Ventures . However , I do thinkGTAcould utilise a new counsel , whether that ’s with Houser ’s remark or not . It already looks to be a lot more grounded thanGTA 5 ; after all , we recognize Lucia either start or ends up in prison house . Plus , the two protagonists being a kind of Bonnie and Clyde analogue sounds like the gross kernel for a simple narrative ground in real , relatable , excited stake .
I still vex aboutGTA 6 . With every calendar month that goes by without an official announcement by Rockstar , rooter pile up more and more of their expectations and hopes on a biz we hardly know the first matter about . Rockstar has a outstanding track phonograph record when it comes to play and exceeding hopes , but as the time involve for game development and complexness expected of triple - A releases balloon out of control , it ’s difficult for anyone to keep up . Without Dan Houser involve , I knowGrand Theft Auto 6will be different - I just hope it ’ll still be near .
