User blog comment:Ultimate94ninja/The reason why GTA 6 isn't getting released anytime soon/@comment-5883104-20181127185040

This is a very interesting topic. The way I see it, it seems that nowadays one can get sued for simply looking at someone in what is perceived as "the wrong way". Politics is both serious and laughable at the same time, and that is what the Grand Theft Auto series have been good at doing: taking the then-current socio-political situation and satirising it into something that is both serious and laughable. When I look at the current political system in the United States of America, I can both admire its strengths and laugh at its sometimes hilarious failings, much of which would make excellent fodder for satire.

Perhaps the current socio-political climate is somewhat tense globally, but since the GTA series does not need to realistically portray current events, I am sure that the developers should be able to find a balance between political correctness and satire—perhaps by making up some stuff along the way. A good example of such a made-up story might be the Australian-American War: completely fictional, but satirising both the Australian and American way of life.

In summary, I feel that there are many ways to create a new GTA game without offending too many (though the game is undoubtedly going to offend some, as it always has and always will: that is the nature of satire), but at the same time I am not particularly too fussed as to when the new game gets released, since Grand Theft Auto V is, in my opinion, still an excellent game, and can still satirise current events through updates for Grand Theft Auto Online—which, unless I am mistaken, is now set in the present day in its recent additions (newer missions, The Doomsday Heist, etc.).