Games Inbox: Are Jason and Lucia from GTA 6 good characters?

The Tuesday letters page is not yet sold on the characters of Jason and Lucia in GTA 6, as one reader has an issue with Crazy Taxi and modern multiplayer games.

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Real characters
I saw Rockstar talking today about how they wanted people to care as much about Jason and Lucia from GTA 6 as they did about Arthur from Red Dead Redemption 2 and I immediately had trouble imagining that.

For a start, I don’t think I’ve liked any GTA character as much as Arthur and I don’t think you’re meant to. Arthur is a good person and none of the GTA people are. Not that they need to be, to make the games good, but you just don’t have that sort of attachment to them. They’re funny, not likeable.

Whether Jason and Lucia are funny or not I don’t know though. They were pretty dry during the Netflix footage, especially Jason, who seemed like a bit of a non-entity. Lucia seems to have a bit of spirit to her, but Jason was just mumbling this way through his lines. Not a fault of the voice actor, I don’t think, that just seems to be what Rockstar is going for.

We haven’t seen much story stuff yet, so we’ll have to see but I think there’s a danger of them not being one thing or the other. To be a good character in GTA you don’t need to be ‘good’ you just need to be memorable and so far Jason and Lucia haven’t done that for me.
Horsehead

Damned if you do
I know the game is over a year old, and everyone has probably already moaned about this, but I wish they had done standard Grands Prix alongside the Knockout Tour in Mario Kart World.

The free SNES tracks are great, but I can’t get over the rubbish Grands Prix. Nintendo should have done standard Grands Prix and then let Knockout Tour do the connecting roads. There are great tracks and it feels like they are almost hidden unless you do time trials or VS Race.

It’s a really great game but it’s just one of those cases where you wish they had made a different decision with this and it would have improved the whole thing.
Simon

GC: It would have been better to have the option for lapped races but ultimately they were trying to do something different.

TikTok says
For many years now, I have trusted your game reviews and have bought a few games based off them alone.

Despite not having a PlayStation 5 (and never getting one) I read your Wolverine review with interest, with one of the reasons being that from what I’ve heard (off TikTok) that the game plays itself by having a constant yellow trail that leads you to where you need to go next which was absent from your review.

Is there any reason you didn’t mention it, please?
EllDeePee

GC: If there’s a constant trail in the game, we never saw it; it must be one of the optional accessibility options that we never turned on. Unless you mean some objects having splashes of paint on them, to signpost routes, which works similarly to modern Resident Evil games.

Cheap Pass
Game Press Ultimate for Gorgeous. I would try CD Keys, now Loaded. Look for Xbox live, now Game Pass Core, and it will take you to the right subscriptions.

I’ve had Xbox Live for as little as £35 for the year, my latest one is Game Pass Ultimate for £45 though. Then you’ll want to purchase a month (or less if possible) of Game Pass Ultimate, you can buy a month for, what? £16 nowadays, or alternatively using Microsoft Rewards, for around 15,000 points. Or better still, they often try to entice you with a fortnight’s trial for only a quid!

So at best, after it gets its conversion down to around eight months, again my own experiences have varied… you’re getting seven or eight months for £36, that’s about five quid a month right there. Just don’t forget to cancel any Ultimate subscriptions after you’ve sorted it out, ‘cos as we know these companies aren’t your friends!
big boy bent

Bunch of fives
I am currently backing five video games on Kickstarter, yes five! They don’t all close at the same time though. Three of them are fully funded or nearly funded. Two of them I am hoping will be fully funded. One is Ungaland! which is a 3D prehistoric platformer, like the 3D platform games you used to get on the N64. The graphics are very good and the game is by a developer from Canada.

The second game is Salene, which is a Metroidvania inspired by Celeste by a developer from the UK called Oliver Shannon. Salene has four days left of the campaign, at the time of writing this email. As a fan of Celeste this game piqued my interest. Both games are for Steam only, unfortunately.
Andrew J.

Level playing field
After your preview of Crazy Taxi it had me interested, that was until you mentioned there is different perks. This is something I feel is ruining online gaming for me, especially in arcade titles. I really miss the old games, like earlier kart/racing and Halo, that had no perks and upgrades and felt like a more level experience. I just recently got Sonic Racing CrossWorlds and been really enjoying it until you get higher ranked and you got gamers using perk setups that make them almost unstoppable.

Also, I couldn’t put my finger on why myself and friends can’t be bothered to keep playing Mario Kart World and after watching some pro players I realised that it’s the parkour system that lets you cut big chunks off track. It’s more about how many tricks you can pull off than traditional racing. As a casual gamer I don’t have the time to learn all these mechanics, so it just puts me off and it seems to be the same with my friends.

I wonder if this is another reason why so many are going back to retro gaming; it was just simpler times that was more fun.
Rob

Job swap
‘Sony continues to anger fans’ eh? At this point they must be doing it on purpose. Maybe they’re trying to crash their share price for some reason or someone at Sony has secretly got a beef with upper management. Whatever’s going on it’s starting to seem like Microsoft is running Sony and vice versa.

I really can’t think how Sony could’ve handled the last few months worse, short of just putting out a video saying they hate all their customers. And really, it’s not hard to read between the lines and see that they do.
Banger

Wait and see
I see we’ve already reached the point where some games are so far off that they’ve got release dates as distant as 2029 and 2030 and the developer is still treating that as if it’s soon. Not that I care much for Diablo or Starcraft but why even mention them being in development until you’ve got something real to show.

Who wants to bet on Microsoft still owning Blizzard in three or four years? It was only the other week there were rumours they were going to sell the whole Starcraft franchise to a South Korean company.

Microsoft is definitely the king of this though, as The Elder Scrolls still doesn’t have a release year and is 2028 at the earliest, probably 2029. And what about Fallout 5? It’s not clear they’ve even started it properly yet, so it’s gong to be 2031 probably.

Basically, anything that was started this year isn’t going to be out until 2031 at the very earliest and could easily be 2032 or 2033, even without any delays. My mind can’t comprehend that long a wait, considering we used to get dozens of yearly sequels all the time, just two generations back.

The whole situation is crazy and yet, as usual, nobody is doing anything about it. Games need to be shorter and with less emphasis on graphics. Those Blood Of Dawnwalker devs said they made their game in three years, and they’re a brand new studio. The game looks all right, so why can’t everyone do the same?
Johnson

Inbox also-rans
Absolutely loving Onimusha: Way Of The Sword. Wasn’t really on my radar but after the demo and positive reviews I’m glad I took the leap. Combat is the best I’ve seen in years.
Black Pepper

Just catching up with the Nintendo Direct and that Metroid Ravenous trailer was a big surprise. I bet that wouldn’t have got greenlit if it wasn’t already underway when Metroid Prime 4 bombed. Looking good though, hopefully this will sell as well as Dread.
Austin

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