Rockstar Games has announced that GTA 6 will do something the franchise has never done before: encourage empathy. Head of development Rob Nelson told press the game is designed around emotional connection — quiet intimate moments so players feel concern when Lucia, the game’s first female protagonist, is in danger. For a franchise built on consequence-free carnage and satirical nihilism, this is a dramatic shift in tone. GTA 6 appears to be trading the anarchic energy of its predecessors for millennial therapy speak and emotionally fragile storytelling — and that’s worth talking about before we all spend $70 on it.
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