[Satire] Rockstar Has to 'Be Careful' About What GTA 6 Picks to Satirize because 'Very Specific Political Issues or Memes Will Date Fast'
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The Grand Theft Auto series has always been seen as thrown into its satire to real society, especially to the reality so specific to the United States. GTA 6 will show Rockstar Games just like itself, but Rob Nelson, one of the managers of Rockstar North, says they had to take some care. Read more
Rockstar has to 'be careful' about what GTA 6 picks to satirize because 'very specific political issues or memes will date fast'
The veil between satire and reality has seemed so thin for such a long time now that I find myself double checking every other news post I see just to make sure it's not something from The Onion—sadly it never is. But I guess it could be worse, I could be the one who has to write the satire, I could be the one who has to write scripts for GTA 6. It's certainly a tall order, especially right now, but if someone's able to do it I'm confident in Ro…
Rockstar is cautious about what to satirize in GTA 6: "Specific political issues or memes will date fast"
If you've never been to the US, it might surprise you that the country isn't entirely made up of people in stars-and-stripes bikinis riding Harleys and twerking atop moving vehicles, alligators being fished from swimming pools, and grandmas dual-wielding sledgehammers. There's a lot of that stuff for sure, especially in Miami, Florida, which the GTA 6 setting Vice City is based on, but life in the country as a whole is a lot more nuanced and, fr…
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