Steven Ogg reckons Trevor should've shown up in GTA 6 to pass the torch, ideally on the toilet

Steven Ogg did an interview with Principle Magazine and got talking about whether Trevor should've popped up in GTA 6. His pitch is exactly as daft as you'd hope: Trevor at the start of the game, sitting on the toilet, or wandering around until something falls on his head and drops him. Just some weird bit of business to acknowledge the torch is being handed over to Jason and Lucia.

He's got a point about the full circle thing. Trevor's intro in GTA 5 is him bashing Johnny Klebitz, so having him be the guy who gets clowned on as the new cast takes over would land. Cheap laugh maybe, but it'd land.

He also said he's curious how the GTA 5 crew would look in GTA 6 given how far the tech has come in a decade. Then he shrugged it off with a "not my duck, not my bottle" type line, which is very him.

on the whole "Ogg hates GTA" thing

He pushed back on that in the same interview. Says he's always been proud of Trevor and what Rockstar made, he just doesn't play GTA 5. The bit he did take issue with was people calling him Trevor in real life instead of Steven, and he's clearly still a little baffled by it years later. His comparison was something like meeting someone, knowing their actual name, and calling them a completely different one anyway. Fair enough really.

He also made the point that Comic Cons aren't Documentary Cons, so he can't actually be these characters, and Trevor's a cartoon at the end of the day.

my take

I don't want a Trevor cameo. Not because I don't love the character, but because GTA 6 already has a mountain of expectation on it and an early-game wink at the old cast would pull focus from Jason and Lucia right when Rockstar needs you locked into them. Let the new lot have their own intro. If there's an easter egg somewhere in Leonida, a poster or a radio ad, that's the right amount of nod for me.

Ogg's toilet idea is funny though. I'll give him that.

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