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[Lunatic_Gamer]

Speaking to comedian, actor, and radio personality Dan Soder on his podcast, Lazlow Jones the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption veteran recalls a press trip to Miami to promote GTA 4 that was made all the easier not because Jones has visited the city before, but because he helped create GTA: Vice City.

"Me and this guy who worked at Rockstar are driving, and I go, 'This is starting to feel really familiar,'" he says. "I go, 'If we go around this corner, there's a strip club.' Went around the corner: strip club. I was like, 'Yo! I know how to get around town.'"

Now, you might think the achievement isn't that impressive – I imagine Miami has heaps of strip joints – but it's not the first time it's happened. As we previously reported, one professional footballer said playing GTA 5 made his move to Los Angeles easier because he already knew his way around. Uncanny.

GTA 6 has a lot to live up to, a former Rockstar dev says Vice City was so accurate he could use it as a map to get around real-life Miami

Need directions? Former Rockstar Games writer Lazlow Jones might be your guy

www.gamesradar.com

 

[KuraiShidosha]

Do we know if he is involved with 6? If not, a major element of the humor aspect of these games (which contributed massively to my enjoyment of this series) will be painfully absent and this won't be a real GTA to me.

 

[HRK69]

Do we know if he is involved with 6? If not, a major element of the humor aspect of these games (which contributed massively to my enjoyment of this series) will be painfully absent and this won't be a real GTA to me.

 

[Diddy X]

I stopped reading at 'comedian'.

 

[StereoVsn]

Vice City was by far my favorite GTA game, followed by 4 with the DLCs.

The other games just didn’t do it for me. But Vice City’s storyline, 80’s Miami, music and visuals meshed just right.

I expect GTA VI to be of course decades ahead of Vice City in visuals and yet not come even close “in the feels”.

Plus I have a feeling Rockstar DEId the shit out of the game since it’s what large western publishers do now days.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

Vice City was by far my favorite GTA game, followed by 4 with the DLCs.

The other games just didn’t do it for me. But Vice City’s storyline, 80’s Miami, music and visuals meshed just right.

I expect GTA VI to be of course decades ahead of Vice City in visuals and yet not come even close “in the feels”.

Plus I have a feeling Rockstar DEId the shit out of the game since it’s what large western publishers do now days.

Nostalgia will do that

 

[Neilg]

I lived in Miami for 10 years and there's absolutely no fucking way anyone was able to use that game to know their way around Miami beyond 'beach East. Big houses middle. Airport west'

 

[adamsapple]

"Me and this guy who worked at Rockstar are driving, and I go, 'This is starting to feel really familiar,'" he says. "I go, 'If we go around this corner, there's a strip club.' Went around the corner: strip club. I was like, 'Yo! I know how to get around town.'"

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[bitbydeath]

Plus I have a feeling Rockstar DEId the shit out of the game since it’s what large western publishers do now days.

Call it a hunch, but I don’t think they’ll be having any sorts of those issues.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Do we know if he is involved with 6? If not, a major element of the humor aspect of these games (which contributed massively to my enjoyment of this series) will be painfully absent and this won't be a real GTA to me.

Nah, neither are the Housers. All the original people who made these games great seem to have abandoned ship since GTA 5.

Edit: Never mind, one Houser is still there.

 

[RaptorGTA]

Man. Loved Lazlow show with Big Wayne.

Lazlow not being involved with GTA6 is weird. Still assume the game will be awesome.

 

[Moses85]

Man. Loved Lazlow show with Big Wayne.

Lazlow not being involved with GTA6 is weird. Still assume the game will be awesome.

Sure? I heared he was involved into the Story and quited after the Story was finished..

 

[StueyDuck]

Speaking to comedian, actor, and radio personality Dan Soder on his podcast, Lazlow Jones the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption veteran recalls a press trip to Miami to promote GTA 4 that was made all the easier not because Jones has visited the city before, but because he helped create GTA: Vice City.





Now, you might think the achievement isn't that impressive – I imagine Miami has heaps of strip joints – but it's not the first time it's happened. As we previously reported, one professional footballer said playing GTA 5 made his move to Los Angeles easier because he already knew his way around. Uncanny.

GTA 6 has a lot to live up to, a former Rockstar dev says Vice City was so accurate he could use it as a map to get around real-life Miami

Need directions? Former Rockstar Games writer Lazlow Jones might be your guy

www.gamesradar.com

Him, benzies and Dan houser not being there does make me worry.

But I also feel they probs already did most the heavy lifting before they left. I imagine most of gta6 was already written before they left (not benzies since he bounced before rdr2)

So unless they've done the complete nuke option (which i don't see dei hires doing, they aren't good at their jobs as we all know) I think gta6 will hold out and still be great. I do forsee it being a buggy launch though, just the nature of what hiring these types of people bring to your product.

 

[RickMasters]

No it wasn’t. Stop the cap! I’m in Miami all the time.

Edit: that said…. GTA 6 a seems to capture the vibe of modern Miami in the way vice city did 80s Miami….. but don’t ever kid yourself and think it’s anything like a 1:1…. You will fuck around end up in the wrong part of dade county.



And if you don’t have wet willys in your version of south beach…. A bag of rappers and half naked girls outside… No G5 strip club…. With D- boys throwing black bags full of 1 dollar bills on some strippers….. it’s not Miami.

 

[RickMasters]

Call it a hunch, but I don’t think they’ll be having any sorts of those issues.

These are modern liberal women

 

[N0S]

I never cared about him or most music in GTA games. Only VC and SA nailed it.

 

[Soodanim]

I never cared about him or most music in GTA games. Only VC and SA nailed it.

When you who.gif someone that isn't a nobody it says more about you. Lazlow has had heavy involvement with and is on the radio of every game from GTA3 onward, and if you ever liked the series it's hard to not know his name. You never listened to Chatterbox in 3? V-Rock in VC?

 

[gaming_again]

I stopped reading at 'comedian'.

He wrote the radio shows.

He's an absolute hypergigachad and I have zero expectations for GTA6 with him being uninvolved.

 

[Dr Cowley]

I stopped reading at 'comedian'.

This bit is in reference to Dan Soder not lazlow

 

[whyman]

Not having Lazlow for the next game is a big worry. He pretty much created the vibe that was the music and radio stations. I fear, some soul might be missing.

 

[Soodanim]

Call it a hunch, but I don’t think they’ll be having any sorts of those issues.

I think it's more a reference to this, which I don't think you're going to see in 6 any time soon:

 

[Pasta la Vista]

True Crime Streets of LA was actually a more accurate LA than GTA V or San Andreas as far as the map navigation goes (I grew up in LA and I worked on this game as a QA tester back in the day). However the visual representation and land marks were done much better in GTA V and San Andreas. They are also much better games obviously.

 

[Windom Earle]

GTA6 will be shit but we are still in the coping phase how this will not be the case.

 

[Randall365]

I always play GTA before going to the US and hiring a car - it is a perfect recreation of driving in the US.

 

[RaptorGTA]

Sure? I heared he was involved into the Story and quited after the Story was finished..

Oh I could be wrong. I thought he was done after RD2 wrapped up.

 

[lmimmfn]

Lazlow was brilliant in Vice City, not so funny in sequels but still a brand character.

 

[kiphalfton]

Guy was probably high when he said that.

 

[Muffdraul]

Damn, I was hoping this was about Lazlow working on GTA6 as an outside contractor or consultant or something.

 

[leo-j]

I live in miami, absolutely not the case, maybe like miami beach with ollins and washington but it is not accurate to the city at all.

 

[Bitstream]

Guy was probably high when he said that.

Lost in Miami and coincidentally passing by the strip club? 100% high.

 

[RPSleon]

Vice City was by far my favorite GTA game, followed by 4 with the DLCs.

The other games just didn’t do it for me. But Vice City’s storyline, 80’s Miami, music and visuals meshed just right.

I expect GTA VI to be of course decades ahead of Vice City in visuals and yet not come even close “in the feels”.

Plus I have a feeling Rockstar DEId the shit out of the game since it’s what large western publishers do now days.

If rockstar wants gta 6 to be another game that they can monetise for 12 years, then im convinced that they are very aware of the current downturn dei games are taking. They surely have to have people there dedicated to watching and predicting such trends for the longevity of their games.

I dont think theyll force characters that dont make sense for the sake of inclusivity. My guess is if those characters are in the game theyll make sense to the story and setting. R* is pretty unapologetic about how they want to make games, and its always worked.

They dont let anyone pressure them, they wont even talk about their game until they want to. They arent gonna let twitter decide what should be in the game.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Nah, neither are the Housers. All the original people who made these games great seem to have abandoned ship since RDR2

Fixed

 

[MMaRsu]

Nah, neither are the Housers. All the original people who made these games great seem to have abandoned ship since GTA 5.

One Houser is still working there.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

One Houser is still working there.

You're right. Not sure why I thought Sam had left in the last few years. I know Dan has a new studio: Absurd Ventures.

 

[Roberts]

I stopped reading at 'comedian'.

Edit: I must have hit my head or something and posted in a wrong thread. Nevermind and apologies.

 

[fart town usa]

People downplaying Lazlow are crazy. The man's contributions to GTA cannot be understated.

 

[MMaRsu]

People downplaying Lazlow are crazy. The man's contributions to GTA cannot be understated.

Are ppl down playing him? That would be stupid as he wrote most of the radio stuff for all the early games (3,vc,sa,iv)

And other major contributions to the stories etc

 

[Lupin25]

Vice City and San Andreas in a 2 year span was a major spoil back in the day.

Lazlow & Dan Houser both left in 2020, so clearly they had involvement with gta 6 since pre-production (directly after Red Dead 2)

This is it though, sadly.

 

[Aesius]

I had just been to LA for the first time about two weeks before GTAV came out. Stayed with friends who lived off of Sunset Blvd behind the Laugh Factory. It was wild being able to drive around in-game and know where I was going just from being in the city for a week.

 

[Lumpyoatmeal]

Speaking to comedian, actor, and radio personality Dan Soder on his podcast, Lazlow Jones the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption veteran recalls a press trip to Miami to promote GTA 4 that was made all the easier not because Jones has visited the city before, but because he helped create GTA: Vice City.





Now, you might think the achievement isn't that impressive – I imagine Miami has heaps of strip joints – but it's not the first time it's happened. As we previously reported, one professional footballer said playing GTA 5 made his move to Los Angeles easier because he already knew his way around. Uncanny.

GTA 6 has a lot to live up to, a former Rockstar dev says Vice City was so accurate he could use it as a map to get around real-life Miami

Need directions? Former Rockstar Games writer Lazlow Jones might be your guy

www.gamesradar.com

How about you shut your big mouth Lazarus..

 

[BennyBlanco]

Lazlow rules

 

[Chuck Berry]

Love Dan Soder

He does a really good Macho Man impersonation

 

[Chuck Berry]

Lazlow rules

Been saying for years O&A did more entertaining game talk than the actual gaming podcasts.

Also, Ant is the character Chef and sings the Pisswasser song on the radio

 

[Dr Cowley]

Been saying for years O&A did more entertaining game talk than the actual gaming podcasts.

Also, Ant is the character Chef and sings the Pisswasser song on the radio

alot less involvement from the O and A guys on 5 I think. Loads of people from that crew are in IV, east side Dave makes an appearance on the radio in 4
I'd be surprised if ant does the song for 6, his voice is sounding fucked now poor nana

 

[GymWolf]

Not sure if i got it roght, but I don't give a fuck about the city being super accurate and being used as a map tbh, take all the liberties you want to create a fun map instead.

 

[Catphish]

They need to step up their parody/satire game. V was ham-fisted and crude, particularly the radio spots. Good satire is subtle and intelligent, and lets what it's making fun of do all the work.

If DEI bullshit is present, or if they're afraid of offending people with those sensibilities, it's fucked.

It needs to come after everything, and everyone, in equal measure.

 

[Hookshot]

Did Vice City have the signs saying not to stop for broken down cars as it's a trick for car jacking, by the airport like the real life Miami does?

 

[Chuck Berry]

alot less involvement from the O and A guys on 5 I think. Loads of people from that crew are in IV, east side Dave makes an appearance on the radio in 4
I'd be surprised if ant does the song for 6, his voice is sounding fucked now poor nana

He recently had a triple bypass so give him a break. You fucks are ruthless lol

 

[LordofAllThatIsEvil]

I had a similar experience in Florenece because of Assassins Creed. It was very disorienting.

 

[fart town usa]

Been saying for years O&A did more entertaining game talk than the actual gaming podcasts.

Also, Ant is the character Chef and sings the Pisswasser song on the radio

Man, I forgot that O&A were in some of those games. I've subscribed to Compound Media for a while now. I know Ant has his controversies in the past but holy shit the dude can riff like no other. He's just so effing funny.