Fravilys said the first pitch for the story was a “Detective story, worthy of a thriller, centered around three protagonists.” There was a lot of steam for this pitch, and it was “in development until the end of 2016.” Ultimately, Take-Two vetoed the project and cited it as “Too dark and did not meet their expectations.“

Story two switched to two protagonists—a policewoman and a “Drug smuggler’s underling, as crazy as Trevor from GTA V.”

This version was in development for 18 months! Unfortunately, this too was eventually canned by Take-Two, it’s claimed. A third prototype was born in a similar vein to the second story pitch, only: “The grieving policewoman was replaced by an African-American man, a former soldier, released from prison and falling into the criminal underworld.”


https://insider-gaming.com/gta-6-story-was-canceled-and-rebooted-three-times/

>cited it as “Too dark and did not meet their expectations.“
too dark? for a GTA game?

>>712828646
GTA has always been lighthearted fun about protecting trans folx and their allies and crushing the evil white cis patriarchy. A dark gritty story of going around stomping in nazi chud heads would cause this place to have a melty

>>712828646
probably meant it was too gritty and realistic

>>712828536 (OP)
>“The grieving policewoman was replaced by an African-American man, a former soldier, released from prison and falling into the criminal underworld.”
This is just Vice City stories

>>712828872

>>712828961
isn't mafia 3 also like that? never played it.

>>712829070
No prison but yes, returns from Vietnam just in time for a local mob boss to take out his father and shoot the MC in the head to start his revenge story for the game.

>>712828646
Some dev literally left after IV because of how dark it is
Rockstar devs are actually quite gay

>>712829070
That's probably why they shitcanned it

>>712828536 (OP)
I remember vividly hearing and reading about that one of GTA 6 scripts were meant to happen both in old and modern vice city, something that could be similar to how Driver Parallel lines did it

>>712828536 (OP)
>eventually canned by Take-Two
Shit management confirmed

>>712829425
Tell me you aren't badmouthing Obbe Vermeij for thinking GTA should be fun

>>712828646
It's still supposed to be a parody (a parody of america) and not one of these oh-so-serious realistic dramas popular in shitty TV these days.

All of this shit was considered too dark but RDR 2 was apparently copacetic. Good grief, glad Houser is gone. It's clear that misery porn-addicted piece of shit was responsible for every thing I disliked pertaining to the stories of the more recent Rockstar games.

>GTAV2 has two playable characters
>latina and white boy
>they do crime together
>black cop is on their ass
>forced romance between latina and black cop
>final mission is choosing to either shoot black cop and stay with whitey (bad ending)
>or snitching on whitey and getting it on with black cop

>>712828646
GTAIV was the last time we would ever get a serious dark story
Now it's just wacky hijinxs

>>712828536 (OP)
>Projects change during development
>Staff come and go
Next you're gonna tell me they use computers for programming.

>>712830164
>Now it's just wacky hijinxs
Always

>>712830164
Also the first time.

>>712830310
Yes yes we know you grew up with GTAV

>>712829696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcy7d2mNODw

>>712830307
executive Rockstar staff don't "come and go" until recently.

>>712828646
especially considering detective implies you're not a straight up bad guy. you can raise the grittiness factor a bit when it's external.

I would so much rather play as a pi than some dumbfuck thug.

>>712828646
The game is aiming to cater the online nigs. You know the same players who don't give a shit about the story.

>>712830164
Sorry, were you talking about the game series where you shoot Hare Krishna gangsters with an ElectroGun in sci-fi future New York, or some other series?
You definitely sound like someone that played GTA3 when they were 7 and didn't get the Goodfellas references your dad kept making.

>>712831257
My God we get it you grew up with GTAV and think it's all wacky funny random shit

Damn all of those sound fucking shit