Well, it happened. Finally. After years of delays, silence, leaks, and controversies, Grand Theft Auto 6 has finally been shown off to the world in a 26-minute display of Rockstar Games’ latest.
As a fan and an outsider looking in, it’s been a long time coming to see what GTA 6 is all about and watch it in action. I can only imagine what that feels like to be a developer who’s been working hard on the game for the past several years, and then finally seeing yesterday’s massive Netflix premiere unleashed on the public.
If you have issues with GTA owner Take-Two, that’s fine. It’s a corporation, and their end goal is to make a profit no matter what. Gamers and (more notably) its workers often take the brunt of many of the decisions that are made by that corporation along the way, such as the game only being available digitally and not on disc.
Rockstar Games is a multinational studio with a lot of money behind it, sure, but that studio is filled with people, human beings like you and I, whose job it is to make a video game. And those people have been waiting along with all of us to show the game to the world, so yesterday must have been very cathartic for a lot of people. And social media reflects that.
Along with people rightfully thirsting over Lucia (she’s smoking hot), my timeline last night and today has quickly filled with Rockstar developers from across the world and its many studios showing relief and excitement for their baby finally being put into the world. It’s been warming my heart to see it.
Here are just a few of the happy reactions I’ve seen posted by everyone from producers and graphic programmers to motion capture devs and QA testers:
I am beyond proud and excited for everyone to see the #GTAVI extended look.For this game, I've help build and lead an amazing team that develops our unique in-engine editor for artists to create this truly in-depth world and the designers to create impressive missions/content… https://t.co/MnLqmdNNE6
Working @ Rockstar has been truly an amazing experience. Our graphics tech team is top notch and the rest of the team is top notch too !! Looking forward to the release of this behemoth masterpiece ! #gtavı
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