While everyone awaits Grand Theft Auto 6, supposedly out in 2026, no one has been more devoted to the game than the GTA 6 Countdown account, which has almost 180K followers and posts daily about updates for the game. Of which there are almost always zero, outside of rumors, a singular trailer and the occasional mention on an investor call.
Now, that account has gone viral for its “breakdown” of the GTA 6 trailer, displaying thunderously terribly knowledge of game development, pointing out “flaws” with the trailer in a thread that has now gotten 36.5 million views.
The tweets are littered with community notes about how game development actually works, and the collection of complaints should win some sort of award for the all-time greatest nitpicks. The list includes:
- Lucia’s hair isn’t blowing fast enough in the scene where she’s sitting outside of a convertible’s roof.
- There are “visible polygons” in a scene with her in the car.
- Barrels in an accident scene have a “duplicated appearance of damage”
- A necklace is missing a shadow and some hair is pixelated.
- Clothes clip through a character model.
- A storefront appears to be 2D.
- Distant NPCs appear to be standing on water
- A foot clips through sand.
- Duplicated NPC models in different scenes.
- A distant streetlight is unrendered but it still produces light on the ground.
- A girl’s hair passes through a balcony.
- Water in the far background of a shot doesn’t have reflections
- There are repeating window patterns on a skyscraper.
Sorry I have to stop my brain is hurting too much, but there are a half dozen more of these at least.
Supposedly the account was pointing this out to show that Rockstar is using in-game footage rather than pre-rendered CG, and things will likely get even better in the future. The fact that was in-game footage was always clear, and this wasn’t really a debate, but rather the account has been accused of interaction farming to get Twitter to pay them. Given how poorly Twitter pays, I honestly think they were just bored after years of posting essentially the same ten facts and rumors over and over again.
I know I’m playing into this but this was one of the most viral threads in gaming this weekend and it really is emblematic of some parts of gaming culture that nitpick things to death without knowing absolutely anything about how game development, engines, any technical piece at all of building a game works. Please stop.
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