To the people who are worried about GTA 6 because Dan Houser, Leslie Benzies, Lazlow Jones, and others are gone...

It's gonna be fine. It is a valid concern to have about the game's quality since the OG developers from Rockstar are gone, but I'm not really worried about it like some people are, and I'm definitely not gonna be fear-mongering about how GTA 6 is gonna be horrible or "woke" without the OGs like some do.

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Yes, Dan Houser, who was the lead writer for multiple games has left and didn't contribute to GTA 6, but to point it out again, Sam Houser is still at Rockstar, who's been the executive producer for years, and I believe also contributes to the GTA radio station's general creative vibe besides Lazlow Jones. Plus, Rupert Humphries still remains there as the Vice President of Narrative with GTA 4 being the first game he wrote for Rockstar. It's also believed, not confirmed, that Michael Unsworth contributed to the writing for GTA 6 before he left, with him also first writing GTA 4 (You all can correct me if I'm wrong about any of this btw). And I'm sure Rockstar still has a top-tier writing team for the narrative of GTA 6.

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Then there's Leslie Benzies. Well... after his disaster that was MindsEye, it's safe to say that we shouldn't be too worried that he's not the producer for GTA 6, right? Especially when the producer for Red Dead Redemption 2 was Rob Nelson, who is still with Rockstar as the head of development.

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Although I will say that it's gonna hurt to not have Lazlow Jones as a radio host for the game, along with his humor, but Rockstar still has a +20 year old blueprint of what the satire and radio should be like for a GTA game that they can still freely follow. And I know there's that big conversation now about whether or not the humor and satire for the game is gonna remain intact. But I'm sure they're not gonna water it down to a point where it's unrecognizable, and the core fundamentals are still the same. You play as a criminal with the freedom to kill people around the designated city you're set in.

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Anyway, just wanted to get this out for the people who still worried about the game's quality, it's gonna be okay. Dan Houser even said in an interview that it wasn't solely just him, it was him along with many other talented people who worked together to create great things.

Posted Jun 13, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC

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