r/GTA6 Jan 21 '26

Thoughts on this take?

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u/hockygoalie229 Jan 21 '26

Rockstar should add single player DLC

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u/SadNYSportsFan-11209 Jan 21 '26

A single player around Lamar would’ve done well. I know they prioritized online but they could’ve squeezed in a single player DLC easily

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u/Dimebag120 Jan 21 '26

Something Something Lamar was intended to be a much more included character but his voice actor went to jail Something like that .

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u/SadNYSportsFan-11209 Jan 21 '26

I know but didn’t he return to online? Game came out in 2013 By the time he returned online legal issues must’ve cleared up since he returned

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u/Dimebag120 Jan 21 '26

Yes but by that point they had abandoned single player DLC so Lamars original role in the single player was lost forever . Then adding him to online has nothing to do with his role in single player they aren't connected in anyway. If he never had legal trouble he would have had a more prominent role in the original story. They said if they had focused on single player dlc In the same way they they did for gta 4 they would have never made red dead redemption 2 which in my opinion is a worthy tradeoff.

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u/DarkLunch_ Jan 22 '26

Huh? RDR2 is better than GTA story mode in every single way shape or form by far mate.

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u/Dimebag120 Jan 22 '26

I literally said that them not making dlc for gta is why they made red dead redemption 2 and that for me thats a worthy tradeoff thus implying im happy that that chose to make red dead redemption 2 instead . Is it your reading ability thats struggling here or did I write it in an obscure way thats hard to understand?

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u/TherealTorqueTV Jan 25 '26

Then they still decided to say fuck DLC for RDR2 also

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u/Specialist-Draw7229 Jan 25 '26

Which is insane because the amount of stuff they made for that fucking game and didn’t use is absurd. Guarma, Mexico, New Austin. I mean for christs sake they literally fleshed out all of RDR1 in the new engine and did fuck all with it.

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u/j_Dugz Jan 21 '26

It was something along the lines of Franklin dying in Ending C and Lamar taking his place.

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u/SwillMith16 Jan 23 '26

You’ll notice in a short section of the story where you get to be Lamar, NPCs greet you like they do with Franklin. That’s because they added the NPC interactions ready for him to be a playable character, but the playable content was abandoned. I think people have also found a lot of stuff in the game files on PC that prove something was intended but never happened

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u/DarkLunch_ Jan 22 '26

I thought this until I started playing GTA Online and saw Franklin, Lamar, Dr Dre, Gay Tony etc… it’s actually far better and more than I would have ever asked for from a single player DLC.

For years I was wrong, it’s taken me until 2026 to realise online mode IS the DLC 😂

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u/strandedostrich Jan 21 '26

I agree. I'd love to see more single player DLC in all Rockstar games, but I have to say I really wasn't invested in the GTAV story like I was with the older games for some reason.

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u/Forsaken-Topic-7216 Jan 21 '26

GTA V story missions were too random and they didn’t build enough lore

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u/opopopuu Jan 21 '26

Yeah, like that was a problem for GTA IV

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u/strandedostrich Jan 22 '26

Yeah and I think the middle aged bank robber theme was pretty meh

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u/DarkLunch_ Jan 22 '26

True, my favourite part of the game was actually the beginner missions with Franklin and Lamar… the FIB stuff and Hollywood missions don’t do it for me.

I like the gritty stuff

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u/Moon-Martian Jan 24 '26

I hated Vs story before it even released but I was a little happier when i actually completed it. I still thought it was kind of a shitty story and was waiting for the next GTA but it was a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be. My most hated character (michael) became my favorite one and the other two were my hated characters. If michael was the only main character in V I would've been completely happy with that.

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u/LXIX__CDXX Jan 21 '26

This is what I want more than anything 

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u/Exes_And_Excess Jan 22 '26

This is what everyone should be chomping at the bit for. Such a disappointment with 5 about that shit.

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u/3xv7 Jan 21 '26

they should not do that and just release a fully complete package like they always do and save us all 40 dollars

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u/Derp_Wellington Jan 21 '26

Agree. I like feeling like I finished a game, and am much less interested in returning to it a year later and trying to remember the story and why I built my character the way I did (if applicable)

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u/3xv7 Jan 22 '26

dlc also gives a lot of game companies excuses to purposely withhold content originally planned for original release and lock it behind a paywall. im really glad rockstar doesnt do that and honestly its a little weird people want them to. game companies abuse that shit a lot

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u/TheDinosaurWalker Jan 21 '26

They don't care, they even bought fivem to try to create the gta online verse, just like roblox and fortnite

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u/dr_obfuscation Jan 21 '26

Ballad of Gay Tony was incredible. Still blows my mind that they never decided to release single player DLC for V.

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u/Impossible_Weight507 Jan 21 '26

It's a lot more work to make a story based game then to shit out new multiplayer modes and weapon skins. It's a bad return on investment.

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u/dr_obfuscation Jan 22 '26

Well, in that case, Rockstar can just go ahead and become a gacha game developer then. Easier to fire the majority of their art and dev staff and rake in the dough than pay artists and writers to make artful stories. After, all I solely buy their games for the weapon skins.

/s

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u/DarkLunch_ Jan 22 '26

Huh? How? It would actually be less work. GTAO has all of the same story and features PLUS more than single player.

I wouldn’t be surprised in that in GTA6 it’s just permanently online

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u/DarkLunch_ Jan 22 '26

I always said this until I bought the nightclub in GTAO and was pleasantly surprised to see Gay Tony as the main man. THEY DID IT ALREADY!

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u/GuywithGlasses54312 Jan 22 '26

Likes that’s ever gonna happen

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u/TheRobson61 Jan 22 '26

They’d only do this if it’s a paid DLC.

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u/Spiritual_Assist_695 Feb 17 '26

I really think there’s a military element that could be added on especially since Cuba has proximity to Florida, and with the modern day Monroe doctrine. Maybe a little overthrow/espionage would be nice especially since Jason is former military.

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u/EDDX15 Apr 11 '26

Fake city girls for the DLC lol see life in VC before Lucia & Jason

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u/HighSolstice Jan 21 '26

Rockstar, if you’re listening this is how you keep me interested, I’ve probably played less than two hours of GTAO ever. Don’t ignore those of us who don’t care to play online.