GTA 4 tech lead left Rockstar because he thought the series was getting "too dark, too depressing almost"

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“I really enjoyed them,” he said in an interview withSanInPlay(good spotRPS).

“One of them was like, my wife’s Canadian and she wanted to move back to Canada.

But also, I thought GTA 4 wasn’t as good and as fun as the games before.

And I thought that the next one was going to be like, even darker.

I’m happy to see that I was wrong.

GTA 5 is a lot more lighthearted than GTA 4.

So I got that wrong.”

Maybe next year’s mega-sequel can find the perfect middle ground.

We thought GTA 6 could learn a lot from Grand Theft Auto 4s Liberty City, however.