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Any Austin books a full day in GTA VI

A YouTube launch-day livestream announcement joins police-response research and another visit to an unremarkable corner of Hyrule.

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1:52The cemetery's gravestones, groundskeepers and mourning dog illustrate how much detail sits outside the missions.
5:56Chumash offers a detailed coastal community largely passed over by the story campaign.
8:32Hiking trails and scenic overlooks give players places to explore without gameplay rewards.
15:42You Tool's hardware-store surroundings make mundane infrastructure part of the world's appeal.
17:15A sunset highway drive connects the overlooked locations with Austin's reflections on the game's emotional depth.
21:13Austin considers how GTA VI's arrival will change the feeling of returning to Los Santos.

Any Austin has put a concrete plan behind that farewell to Los Santos: a 24-hour Grand Theft Auto VI livestream, in partnership with YouTube, on launch day. The announcement is the fastest-moving of his uploads right now, giving a five-upload week something more than a backward glance.

There is plenty to look back at, though. "Why GTA5 Hides Its Best Details" has reached roughly 2.7 million views, making it the week's most-watched new upload. As we reported here, the road trip ends with a swim toward Vice City. Before that comes the wonderfully ordinary business of looking at convenience-store interiors, quiet residential streets and You Tool, the enormous hardware store whose parking lot deserves Austin's attention precisely because it isn't a mission objective. The video includes a sponsored meal-delivery segment.

Viewers are already imagining his next research assignments: Vice City's unemployment rate, traffic signs and rivers. Others are discussing the farewell mood, or proposing that his first GTA VI video pick up with Jason swimming into town.

The smaller uploads keep the observational work going. "How fast do cops show up in GTA5?" credits Gale with research, part of Austin's decision to pay people to investigate random questions in games. "I checked on Ocarina of Time's most unremarkable place" returns to the corner of Hyrule Field by Castle Town. That Zelda visit currently has the next-strongest daily momentum after the livestream announcement.

The audience is growing: the channel added about 10,000 subscribers over the week, while daily views are comfortably above their usual level. It also drew the largest weekly viewing total among the nearby-sized commentary channels here, with Digital Foundry and BeatEmUps having quieter-than-usual viewing days.

And the road-trip credits contain another small departure: Austin's own song "On My Side," recorded as The Excellent Man From Minneapolis, is scheduled for November 19.

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Can‘t wait for the unemployment rate, traffic signs, weird places and rivers of vice city
@DaFuchs187See it on YouTube
Austin is the only YouTuber who can walk into a fictional bathroom in GTA and give a 5 minute critique on the tiling
@MemeocalypseTolaSee it on YouTube
now you have to introduce your first ever gta6 video with jason swimming into vice city for a smooth transition
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GTA VI is gonna feed this man for decades.
@FLACOBERRYSee it on YouTube
"Im Any Austin, thanks for watching"

Nah thanks for making this, genuinely.
@xArzinoSee it on YouTube
This almost feels like a sunset video for GTA5.
@ScorpioPluto11See it on YouTube
Bleeping "Walgreens" is so powerful
@kylesumner7478See it on YouTube
"Most recognizable mountains in all of gaming" sounds like a really cool idea for a video
@serdavos23See it on YouTube
Here's a detail I have only just noticed thanks to this video.

At 18:55, as Austin says "a house by the sea" and shows the lighthouse keeper's house, the little bug zapper on the front porch flashes. I had never, ever noticed that before. Literally made me sit up properly and rewind a a few times.
@theRealFriedelSee it on YouTube