GTA 6 Can Now Be Added to Your PS5 Wishlist

@heavyartillery56 If that were the concept for a Rockstar game it would go like this. Honest businessman tries to run a legitimate business in a city or neighborhood full of criminals. Honest business man gets extorted by criminals and has to pay protection or else his business gets burned down. Honest businessman says enough is enough then breaks and goes Michael Douglas (Falling Down) or Kevin Bacon (Death Sentence) mode on the criminal thus becoming a criminal himself.

It would be classic hero becomes the villain, and that’s before players decide to drive over pedestrians and fire off rocket launchers at the beach. Heck even Michael Douglas had a bazooka and he wasn’t a criminal, but he sure turned into one. Followed by ‘I’m the bad guy?’ so did Kevin Bacon ‘Look at you. You look like one of us’ good guys gone bad sells too. I fail to see how anyone could stay good in the GTA universe, I’ve seen too many people go that way in real life and GTA might not be real but their understanding of human psychology is.

There’s a book called Jacked that was written about the history, world and psychology behind the GTA games. Their thought process ran a lot like Kurt Sutter’s (Son’s of Anarchy writer) that anyone can under the right or wrong circumstances be turned or coaxed to do the wrong thing or look the other way and both wanted to show that crime doesn’t always pay. But in order to do that they have to immerse the observer/gamer into that objective position where they can make those choices for themselves. If you force someone on a linear path you lose that paradigm shift, that’s originally what the GTA open world was for, to allow players to make that choice. And players want choice, it’s a big part of why people gravitate to the franchise.