{"id":88487,"date":"2026-08-28T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88487"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:44:27","slug":"gta-6s-long-wait-has-people-realizing-their-own-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88487","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6\u2019s Long Wait Has People Realizing Their Own Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might expect people to talk about the visuals, lighting, action sequences, or gunplay after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6s-big-reveal-all-the-things-we-learned\/\">Grand Theft Auto VI&#8217;s brand-new extended-look trailer<\/a> showed off over 25 minutes of new footage. But the top comments on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k\">Rockstar&#8217;s YouTube<\/a> upload of the video deal more with the human condition than expected. In fact, there&#8217;s quite a bit of talk about death and remembrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top comment (at the time of publication) states: &#8220;a moment of silence for people that didn&#8217;t make it here.&#8221; Meanwhile, another person writes: &#8220;Objective: Stay alive till release day.&#8221; It&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-biggest-gaming-stories-that-happened-since-gta-5-came-out-13-years-ago\/\">a long wait for GTA 6<\/a>, especially since GTA 5 originally launched almost 13 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only has a lot happened to the gaming industry as a whole since GTA 5 came out, but also to people&#8217;s personal lives. For instance, another person typed: &#8220;Bro, I went through middle school, high school, and college &#8230; now I need to request time off work for this.&#8221; Tragedy has apparently struck others, but not dampered their spirits, as seen in this comment: &#8220;I was in a traffic accident in February and lost a leg, but I&#8217;ve still got my two damn hands and my eyes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might expect people to talk about the visuals, lighting, action sequences, or gunplay after Grand Theft Auto VI&#8217;s brand-new extended-look trailer showed off over 25 minutes of new footage. But the top comments on Rockstar&#8217;s YouTube upload of the video deal more with the human condition than expected. In fact, there&#8217;s quite a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":88489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88490,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88487\/revisions\/88490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}