{"id":88698,"date":"2026-09-02T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88698"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:39:16","slug":"dont-care-about-gta-6s-romance-system-dont-use-it-dev-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88698","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Care About GTA 6\u2019s Romance System? Don\u2019t Use It, Dev Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6s-big-reveal-all-the-things-we-learned\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6s-big-reveal-all-the-things-we-learned\/\">GTA 6<\/a>&#8216;s Jason and Lucia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6s-jason-and-lucia-arent-necessarily-a-couple\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6s-jason-and-lucia-arent-necessarily-a-couple\/\">can be romantically involved<\/a>, or they can just be partners in crime. If you&#8217;re not interested in the game&#8217;s romance system, don&#8217;t use it, Rockstar&#8217;s Rob Nelson said in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have to say it feels great&#8211;if you are into it as a concept. Don\u2019t bother with it if you aren\u2019t. Up to you,&#8221; Nelson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-6-jason-lucia-relationship-system-explained\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-6-jason-lucia-relationship-system-explained\">IGN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Players who do wish to grow and nurture a romantic relationship between Jason and Lucia can hold hands, visit a zoo together, or enjoy a romantic stroll on the beach, Nelson said. If players don\u2019t want to do those things, they don\u2019t have to, but Nelson said players might miss out on other things.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XpPpqZwUwl0  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don\u2019t want to say too much more about this because I don\u2019t want to spoil anything. It really adds a compelling element to things, and it\u2019s one of the reasons we wanted to approach this sort of story, because it&#8217;s completely different for us,&#8221; Nelson said. &#8220;Could we bring some sort of emotional resonance to GTA for people if they wanted to engage with it? Could we also provide mechanisms for people to just opt out of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GTA 6&#8216;s Jason and Lucia can be romantically involved, or they can just be partners in crime. If you&#8217;re not interested in the game&#8217;s romance system, don&#8217;t use it, Rockstar&#8217;s Rob Nelson said in a new interview. &#8220;I have to say it feels great&#8211;if you are into it as a concept. Don\u2019t bother with it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88698","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\/88698"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88701,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88698\/revisions\/88701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}