Bully 2 to save Rockstar Games? GTA 6 may be in development hell

The last months of Rockstar games can’t be counted among the happiest. The relationship between the studio and players has deteriorated dramatically, and the dire technical state of the recently released Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has only published the letter “i”. Fans of the American team may feel neglected by the developers, but no wonder – the company is making decisions that are increasingly difficult to understand.

GTA Online is still on everyone’s lips

Known to all players, Grand Theft Auto V still brings coconuts. For this reason, he is of course pleased with Rockstar Games, as well as with Take-Two themselves, who answer him. The commercial success of GTA Online’s online mode has led to the fact that it continues to receive new content (we just received a comprehensive update that introduces a theme dedicated to one of the three main characters in the single-player story) and more. Or even less, he made the team located in New York in no hurry to create GTA 6 and, accordingly, advertise the game – no one was going to kill the golden hen.

Finally, it’s been more than seven years since the premiere of Grand Theft Auto 5. In the meantime, we’ve had the emotional story of Red Dead Redemption 2 that stands out, among other things, but Rockstar Games is a huge company (after all, it has many Branches around the world deal with their own projects or additional content (those already released) work on the next episode of the gangster series should have started at least a few years ago. So why do we still know nothing about the item mentioned in the text title?

It all started with Dan Houser?

According to compatible insiders (the past has already shown that if most whistleblowers agree, there is always an iota of truth in their words), GTA 6 has been in a real development hell for a long time. It all started in early 2020 with the unexpected departure of Dan Houser, the father of the brand with which Rockstar Games is most associated.

The most likely scenario that appears in the minds of people familiar with most of the rumors surrounding the Rockstar title is one in which Dan Houser’s take-Two vision of GTA 6 did not appeal to Take-Two, causing a major conflict in Rockstar North. We all know how it ended – one of the founders of Rockstar Games decided to leave the team.

There are many indications that Dan Houser did not intend to watch his series, which he put all his heart into, lose its unique humor and special atmosphere. GTA has always been associated with brutality, coercion and, where possible, black humor, which was amusing in one moment and even embarrassing in the other.

In addition, according to the words of Jamie King (one of the four founders of the studio), GTA 6 will be adapted to current standards, which ultimately means that the series will not stand out from other positions by introducing “sharp threads”. It doesn’t look good, but one thing to remember that GTA 6 will be “polite” – with the trailer for the next-gen version of GTA 5, in one of the buildings where the action is taking place, it was decided to remove the stickers from naked women.

Bully 2 to the rescue

According to the words of the respected Chris Kebbell from Rockstar Mag, after the departure of Dan Houser, it was decided to re-release the new part of the gangster series. The scriptwriters were interested in creating an entirely new main plot (this is yet another report that proves that GTA 6, which was originally intended to provide a strong story, was later refined, as some of the threads may be – by today’s standards – very strong), and as modified Modifications are the same as the main game mechanics.

It is claimed that Take-Two planned to reveal production in 2020, but due to the fact that it has been in development hell for some time, it was decided to give the creators more time. At this point, it is worth recalling the interview – from the beginning of 2020 – with a representative of Take-Two, where Strauss Zelnick vehemently declared that Rockstar Games should release games faster. It is very possible that something was already there at the time.

In the meantime, Bully 2 comes to the rescue, which the network has been honking for several years. Production was supposed to be revealed this year, but as in the case of Warner Bros.’s Hogwarts Legacy. At the last minute, it was decided to postpone its announcement indefinitely.

On the one hand, you can be glad that Bully 2 is being created – and maybe – it will be revealed sooner than GTA 6, but on the other hand … it will be another reason for that next year, maybe even two years, we won’t hear anything about The next gangster series. Thanks to a production premiere focused on school adventures, Rockstar Games and Take-Two may think their fans are fed up with something, and now they can wait a few more months for GTA 6.

One thing is for sure – GTA 6, like Mass Effect: Andromeda in the past, is in a lot of trouble.. With the title BioWare, we’ve already discovered the hard way, which means no coherent vision and terrible project management. I would be wrong, but all the signs in the sky are that GTA 6 will not be as good as millions of players dream of.