It’s hot again in the camp of those who are waiting for Grand Theft Auto VI. This time it’s because of two screenshots and one reptile.
A user named GTAVI_Countdown posted a comparison: an iguana model from GTA VI and its version from Red Dead Redemption 2. And I made an unexpected conclusion — Rockstar could just reuse the old model, and no one would notice. But no: the developers redesigned the lizard from scratch, added details, textures, animations. A real nuisance.
“They could have cheated, and no one would have found fault anyway. But they made it even cooler,” summarizes the author of the comparison.
And that’s where the fun started. Some fans didn’t appreciate the idea. At all.
“Rockstar is obsessed with a lizard that most players won’t even see,— writes user HeyItsBunty. — And who will provide a normal technical launch?”
Heavy arguments were used — memories of bugs and the dampness of GTA V at the start. Players are seriously afraid that the studio’s resources are being spent on hyper-realistic reptiles and other flora and fauna, and there won’t be enough time to polish the code, optimize and stable 60 frames.
On the other hand, there are also those who defend Rockstar’s approach. They say that it is precisely because of this attention to “minor details” that the studio’s games still look and play better than their competitors years after release.
The dispute turned out to be revealing — it exposed an old conflict within the community: should Rockstar invest in microscopic realism or guarantee a smooth technical start first? So far, the studio has traditionally remained silent. And the lizard is quietly waiting in the wings in Leonid.
