GTA 5 Voice Actor Isn’t Anticipating GTA 6, More Excited About Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Instead (And You Know What, He’s Right)

By Elijah Gonzalez | September 22, 2025 | 12:40pm

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GTA 5 Voice Actor Isn’t Anticipating GTA 6, More Excited About Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Instead (And You Know What, He’s Right)

Grand Theft Auto 6 is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated games of next year, so much so that despite not having come out yet, Rockstar preemptively labeled their upcoming title as “the largest game launch in history.” It’s such a seismic release that when it was delayed to 2026, analysts reported that it likely lost the game industry an estimated $2.7 billion.

However, there’s at least one person out there who doesn’t care about the future of this open-world crime series: Steven Ogg, the voice actor behind GTA V’s co-protagonist Trevor.

In a brief interview with YouTuber HarrisonShippp, Ogg was asked how excited he is about GTA 6, to which he replied, “I feel nothing inside.”

“I’m not a gamer,” Ogg explained. “I’ve never played video games.” Then he mentioned that after someone recently told him that he should play GTA V, because it’s such a great game, he responded, “Well, one day you should read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.” The recipient of this comment apparently wasn’t familiar with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s seminal work of literary fiction, because “He went completely blank,” according to Ogg. He further explained that while he’s not into gaming, “books are my thing.”

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And despite the YouTube comments for the interview accusing Ogg of being “pretentious” for not caring about this upcoming game release, you know what, Ogg is right; everyone should read the acclaimed Russian novel, Crime and Punishment.

Crime and Punishment was published from 1866 to 1867 in the monthly magazine The Russian Messenger, and would go on to become an incalculably influential work, for reasons including but not limited to its critiques of the potential absurdities of utilitarianism. It’s a novel that has aged particularly well due to how it anticipates and dismantles objectivist thought through its miserable protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, a man who sees himself as a figure of Napoleonic importance, when in reality, he’s just some nobody who did an awful thing for an inexcusably flimsy reason. Moreover, an interesting connection between GTA 6 and Crime and Punishment (a ridiculous sentence to be sure) is that Dostoevsky’s novel repudiates the exact kind of hollow nihilism that the GTA series has frequently been criticized of emulating.

While we’re going to be subject to an infinite amount of discourse around GTA VI before and after its upcoming May 26, 2026 release date, do yourself a favor and leave some time for one of Dostoevsky’s best works.