GTA 6 Has 4 Types of Criminal. Which One Are You? — Transcript

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1. 0:00In GTA 5, you could mow down a crowd on
2. 0:02Vinewood Boulevard, blow up a gas
3. 0:04station, lose the cops, and five minutes
4. 0:07later, the game had completely forgotten
5. 0:09about it. No memory, no consequences,
6. 0:12just a wanted level that ran out. GTA 6
7. 0:16is keeping score. It's called the
8. 0:18criminal profile, and it quietly watches
9. 0:20[music] every crime you commit, how you
10. 0:23rob, who you hurt, and whether you go
11. 0:25further than the job actually needed.
12. 0:27Push it too far, and according to
13. 0:30previewers, you can break it for good.
14. 0:32So let's break down exactly how it
15. 0:34works, what counts against you, and how
16. 0:36to make sure your first night in Leonida
17. 0:38doesn't turn Jason into a psycho by
18. 0:41accident. What the criminal profile
19. 0:43actually is. If you played Red Dead 2,
20. 0:46you'll remember the honor system. Help
21. 0:49strangers, and Arthur became a good man.
22. 0:52Rob and kill, and he became a bad one.
23. 0:55Good versus evil on a sliding bar.
24. 0:58[music] GTA 6 doesn't do that. And that
25. 1:01makes sense because you can't really
26. 1:03play a good person in a game about two
27. 1:05people robbing their way across Florida.
28. 1:08Instead, Rob Nelson, Rockstar North's
29. 1:10co-studio head, described the criminal
30. 1:13profile as something that tracks what
31. 1:15kind of criminal you're becoming over
32. 1:17time.
33. 1:18The question isn't whether you're
34. 1:19committing crimes. You are. The question
35. 1:22is how. Do you get in, take what you
36. 1:25came for and leave, or do you keep
37. 1:27escalating far beyond what the job
38. 1:30needed? That's the whole system in one
39. 1:32line. GTA 6 isn't judging whether you're
40. 1:36a criminal. It's judging what kind. And
41. 1:39don't confuse it with the wanted level.
42. 1:41They're two separate things. Your wanted
43. 1:43level is about right now, what the
44. 1:45police know about you, like your face,
45. 1:47your clothes, and your car, and how hard
46. 1:50they're chasing you. Lose the cops,
47. 1:52change your outfit, and that heat fades.
48. 1:55The criminal profile is about the long
49. 1:57run. It doesn't care whether you got
50. 2:00It cares about what you did. The four
51. 2:03types of criminal.
52. 2:05According to people who saw the game at
53. 2:06Rockstar North, the profile sorts you
54. 2:09into four types
55. 2:10professional, aggressive, violent, and
56. 2:14psycho.
57. 2:15Think of them less as morality levels
58. 2:17and more as personalities.
59. 2:20A professional is the person who walks
60. 2:21into a store, controls the room, and
61. 2:24walks out with the money and nobody
62. 2:26hurt.
63. 2:27Psycho is the person who turns every
64. 2:29robbery into a massacre. And here's an
65. 2:32important detail. Jason and Lucia each
66. 2:35have their own profile. What you do as
67. 2:37Jason doesn't automatically count
68. 2:39against Lucia and the other way around.
69. 2:42My read? That's going to create some
70. 2:44interesting playthroughs. You could keep
71. 2:46Lucia as the calm professional and let
72. 2:49Jason be the one who loses it. And
73. 2:51honestly, that fits.
74. 2:53One of the most liked comments I've seen
75. 2:55on this topic was someone planning two
76. 2:57playthroughs one professional [music]
77. 2:59and one where they channel their inner
78. 3:01Trevor.
79. 3:02What counts and what doesn't?
80. 3:05So what actually moves the needle?
81. 3:08This is the part most people are worried
82. 3:10about. So let's be clear.
83. 3:12Fighting back doesn't count against you.
84. 3:15Previewers say killing in self-defense
85. 3:17or during a mission where the story
86. 3:19expects it isn't [music] what the system
87. 3:21is watching.
88. 3:22Look at the Mega Mundo shootout in the
89. 3:24extended look. Jason takes down a lot of
90. 3:27armed men and TGG pointed out there's no
91. 3:30sign of his profile dropping. That's the
92. 3:33job.
93. 3:34What it watches is unnecessary
94. 3:36escalation
95. 3:37killing the clerk who already handed you
96. 3:39the money, shooting into a crowd on your
97. 3:41way out, turning a quiet job into a
98. 3:44bloodbath when you didn't have to.
99. 3:47And for the first time in GTA, Rockstar
100. 3:49has given you real tools to avoid that.
101. 3:52In focus, enemies light up with red
102. 3:55areas which are lethal and yellow areas
103. 3:57which are non-lethal. Hit markers turn
104. 4:00yellow when you incapacitate someone
105. 4:02instead of killing them.
106. 4:04You can shoot the gun out of someone's
107. 4:05hand or use suppression fire to make
108. 4:07them back down.
109. 4:09There are even signs the game rewards
110. 4:11smart [music] choices. In Mike Shosha's
111. 4:13preview, shooting out the tires of a
112. 4:15police car instead of shooting the
113. 4:17officers gave positive feedback on the
114. 4:19profile. So the game isn't asking you to
115. 4:22be nice, it's asking you to be precise.
116. 4:26The shatter.
117. 4:27And then there's the part that makes
118. 4:29this system genuinely scary.
119. 4:31Reviewers say that if you go far enough
120. 4:34with enough extreme pointless violence,
121. 4:37your criminal profile can crack and then
122. 4:40shatter.
123. 4:41And once it's shattered, it's reportedly
124. 4:43locked that way for the rest of your
125. 4:45playthrough. That's a huge difference
126. 4:47from Red Dead II. In RDR II, if you're
127. 4:50honor tanked, you could spend a few
128. 4:52hours helping strangers and slowly drag
129. 4:54it back up. In GTA VI, there's
130. 4:57apparently no redemption arc. Break it
131. 5:00and it stays broken. My read? That's
132. 5:03exactly why Rockstar built it this way.
133. 5:05If you could always undo it, the profile
134. 5:08would just be a number to manage. Making
135. 5:10it permanent makes it a character. The
136. 5:12Jason you end up with is the Jason you
137. 5:15made. The catch? Nobody outside Rockstar
138. 5:18knows exactly where the line is.
139. 5:20Rockstar hasn't revealed how much it
140. 5:22takes to go from aggressive to violent
141. 5:24or what finally breaks it. So on your
142. 5:27first night, the safest assumption is
143. 5:29that the game is watching more closely
144. 5:31than you think.
145. 5:33Does it change the story? So the big
146. 5:36question, does any of this actually
147. 5:38matter? Reviewers say the criminal
148. 5:40profile can affect how the story plays
149. 5:43out.
150. 5:44Rockstar has also told press that
151. 5:46circumstances pushed Jason toward drug
152. 5:48trafficking and bank robbery, but
153. 5:51players will influence some of his
154. 5:53choices. But be careful with the hype
155. 5:55here. When Rob Nelson was asked about
156. 5:58multiple endings, he wouldn't confirm
157. 6:00them. So it affects the story could mean
158. 6:03anything from different dialogue and
159. 6:05reactions to something much bigger. We
160. 6:08don't know yet. What we do know is that
161. 6:11Rockstar doesn't build systems like this
162. 6:13for nothing.
163. 6:14Red Dead 2's Honor changed Arthur's
164. 6:16ending.
165. 6:17My read? The Criminal Profile is GTA 6's
166. 6:20version of that idea, built for a crime
167. 6:23story instead of a western.
168. 6:25How to play it.
169. 6:26So, how should you actually approach it?
170. 6:29First, and Rob Nelson has been clear on
171. 6:32this, you're not forced to play as a
172. 6:34professional. The game lets you engage
173. 6:37with these systems [music] as lightly or
174. 6:39as heavily as you want. If you want
175. 6:41chaos, chaos is allowed. But if you care
176. 6:44about your first play through, here's my
177. 6:46advice. Don't panic about story
178. 6:49missions.
179. 6:50If the mission sends armed men at you,
180. 6:52the game expects you to fight back.
181. 6:54Use the non-lethal tools. [music] Aim
182. 6:57for the yellow zones. Disarm. Shoot
183. 6:59tires, not drivers. It's not just a
184. 7:02style choice now. It's how you keep a
185. 7:04clean record. Rob stores like a
186. 7:06professional. Mask on, weapon hidden
187. 7:09until you need it, and let your partner
188. 7:11control the room while you grab the
189. 7:13cash. Then decide whether the safe is
190. 7:15worth the extra time. Getting out clean
191. 7:18is the whole point. And save the rampage
192. 7:21for later. Either for a second play
193. 7:23through, or since each character has
194. 7:25their own profile, for the character
195. 7:27you've already decided to let go off the
196. 7:29rails.
197. 7:31Still unknown. The honest gaps. Exactly
198. 7:34how many points, kills, or crimes it
199. 7:37takes to move between types. Whether
200. 7:39saving and reloading can undo a bad
201. 7:42moment. What each type actually changes,
202. 7:45such as how NPCs treat you, your
203. 7:47relationship, or the jobs you're
204. 7:49offered. And whether a shattered profile
205. 7:52changes the ending. We'll find out on
206. 7:54November 19th. GTA 5 let you do anything
207. 7:58and forgot about it immediately. GTA 6
208. 8:01lets you do anything, but it remembers.
209. 8:04Two for the comments. One. Are you going
210. 8:07professional or full psycho? And two, if
211. 8:10one of them is going off the rails, is
212. 8:12it Jason or Lucia?
213. 8:14I read all of them. If you want to know
214. 8:16exactly how to win fights without
215. 8:18killing anyone, my full GTA 6 combat
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