Dexerto says Jason and Lucia start out stuck doing small-time jobs, and that's the right call
Dexerto put up a piece saying GTA 6 apparently gates the big stuff early on. Jason and Lucia can't just jump straight into the heavy crimes from the opening hours. You start small and work your way up.
Honestly, good. I've been replaying the older ones and the second you've got a couple of grand and a decent car, the whole city opens up and nothing feels earned. Starting as a pair of broke crooks scraping together gas money is exactly the vibe the trailers were selling anyway.
Why this makes sense for these two
Lucia's fresh out and Jason's grinding out whatever work he can get. Neither of them is Tommy Vercetti walking off a boat with connections. The whole premise is two people with nothing trying to build something, so having the early game actually reflect that is the bare minimum. If the first heist you pull is a corner store, that's a way better tutorial than a cutscene telling me I'm a nobody while I'm already sitting on six figures.
It also gives the progression somewhere to go. Rockstar's whole thing has always been the slow build. You start with nothing, you end up owning the city. Sounds like they're leaning harder into the first half of that this time.
The usual grain of salt
Worth remembering this is a report, not something Rockstar put out. Nobody's seen the actual systems. Could be a soft gate, could be a hard one, could be something that gets patched out in a week because everyone complains. I'm not going to pretend I know how it's tuned.
What I do hope is that it doesn't feel like a leash. There's a difference between the game nudging you toward small jobs because you're broke and the game literally not letting you rob a bank. One's a natural consequence, the other's a corridor with a city painted on it.
Either way, the idea of starting at the bottom with these two is the most interesting thing I've heard about the structure so far. November's close enough that I can almost taste it.
Source: Dexerto · Curated content.
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