GTA 6, Rockstar Is “Thankful” It’s Not Releasing Under Trump
Paolo Sirio
Co-founder Dan Houser has claimed he’s “thankful” Rockstar Games is not releasing Grand Theft Auto 6, or GTA 6, under Trump’s presidency of the United States.
The reason why he told GQ this is that the franchise has a kind of satiric tone in regards of the current society, but what’s happening these years is “beyond satire.”
“It’s really unclear what we would even do with (GTA 6), let alone how upset people would get with whatever he did,” Houser explained.
“Both intense liberal progression and intense conservatism are both very militant, and very angry. It is scary but it’s also strange, and yet both of them seem occasionally to veer towards the absurd.
It’s hard to satirize for those reasons. Some of the stuff you see is straightforwardly beyond satire. It would be out of date within two minutes, everything is changing so fast.”
With the incoming Red Dead Redemption 2, anyway, Rockstar Games wanted to avoid the risk of repetition and found they have managed to do so.
“A lot of video games work on the same premise that you start as a weak person and end as a strong superhero. But what if you start as a tough guy? Someone who’s already very strong, someone that is emotionally confident of his place in the world.
Arthur’s journey is not about becoming a superhero, because he’s almost one at the start, but is going to be taken on a more intellectual roller coaster when his world view gets taken apart.”
The game’s coming tomorrow, October 26, for PS4 and Xbox One, complete of a companion app for smartphone and tablet so you can play it HUD-free.
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