Earlier this year, LegacyKillaHD shared some credible rumors about Grand Theft Auto 6 that seem to match up what we’ve seen happen in real life. Today, he shares a follow up of sorts, with some new details about the game, but also about how things are going on behind the scenes at Rockstar Games.
For those who don’t remember, last May he said that many developers were happy about the exit of Rockstar founder and longtime Grand Theft Auto director Dan Houser. They weren’t sure if everything was going to get better at the time, but this change in leadership was still a relief.
Since that time, LegacyKillaHD now says that everything is definitely better for Rockstar’s staff. He shared this on Twitter:
“One dev said this was the best project they’ve worked on at Rockstar, in terms of not being overworked to death. Lot of vets were ready to go after RDR2 & some were happy Dan left. Also one had unkind words for Lazlo.”
We won’t quote the rest of his thread, but we’ll summarize what he did have to say about the game as it stands now.
LegacyKillaHD first spoiled that the lead character would be Lucia, alongside the male co-lead Michael. The game apparently takes inspiration from the Fast and The Furious movies among other things.
So there are themes of family, criminals figuring things out, corrupt police force, and Russians creating chaos. He says a lot of the story has already leaked out, but fans can expect ‘the usual insanity’ in the missions.
There was a basketball minigame produced by Rockstar Toronto that ultimately did not make the cut. A lot of planned content ended up not getting used, such as voiced protagonists for the online mode. The online itself has taken five years of development on its own.
And now, for the big ones. LegacyKillaHD claims that Rockstar is carrying over the performance and fidelity options they created for Grand Theft Auto V. However, the team struggled to get it to work at 60 FPS. That probably means that we should not expect the game to run at 60 FPS on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S.
Could they get the game running at 60 FPS on the Xbox Series X and the much vaunted PlayStation 5 Pro? As many other insiders and people who played previous games will tell you, Rockstar hardly ever targets 60 FPS at all. If that changes with this game, it will definitely be the first time. Those fans who do want this should be hoping that Rockstar was listening, and that they already found a way to make it happen.
And that’s because LegacyKillaHD says that it is still possible that the game could take until 2026. He doesn’t say he’s sure it’s going to be delayed, or someone told him it would happen, but it’s possible.
And if Rockstar’s developers really are being treated better without the Housers in charge, that is believable. And that also sounds like something we should willingly accept. After nearly a decade of behind the scenes stories of video game companies being terrible workplaces, we should support it if we’re seeing signs that a company as big as Rockstar Games has made these changes.
LegacyKillaHD doesn’t get his information from datamining, and supposedly has real sources working in or with connections to Rockstar Games. He hasn’t always gotten information right, but he has enough of a track record that gamers generally consider it worth hearing him out.
These details do sound promising. The Fast and The Furious is one of the most popular completely new movie franchises of the past two decades, and the appeal of the story from that perspective is easy to see. Even if the trailer highlighted the franchise’s signature satire, we can see how Rockstar could pull off a sincere, heartfelt, upsettingly sad story in the middle of it too.
Grand Theft Auto is a series that has captured some of the most exploitative excesses and unmitigated pathos of crime fiction, the kind you also get in novels as much as movies and shows. If these rumors are true, Rockstar may be opening a new chapter to this crazy dream world of violence and unrequited dreams they have created.
