Red Dead Redemption 2: 8 Things It Must Fix From GTA Online
6. Make Heists A Focus
Rockstar
It's absolutely bonkers to think that it took Rockstar over a year to introduce Heists to GTA Online, and yet that was very much the case. Four ended up being included in that initial update, and what was there was enjoyable - even if the idea of planning your own caper was never taken to a genuinely compelling conclusion.
The problem, however, was that there simply wasn't enough of them. The Doomsday DLC suffered from the aforementioned paywall problem, and at no point did Heists ever afford the player the level of freedom one would expect when planning their own caper.
The solution to this would be to open up Heists to the community. Let players plan their own getaways, from the prep-phase all the way to the conclusion, and introduce a resource where people can open up a page, look for the kind of Heist their after, and download it. Such an approach worked wonders for Halo back in the day, and if Rockstar gave players the tools to truly personalise their own Western heists, Red Dead Online would genuinely be incredible.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
