Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[ForgedBlades]

Long shot, but does he still have that assignment? I really wish I could see that.

PL: I remember I did one presentation on Non Stop Pop FM from GTA V about Californian culture. It went well.

kek, it was 22 years ago or whatever so probably not. I remember he took pictures of his TV, blew them up on paper and glued them to a poster board to walk everyone through step-by-step on how to beat it.

 

[Broadside]

Guarantee they'll make it so you can't shoot unarmed blacks or something and singlehandedly ruin their game.
Also as a degenerate lover of black women, I appreciate the beach environ and it's denizens

I'll die on this hill

 

[The Last Stand]

kek, it was 22 years ago or whatever so probably not. I remember he took pictures of his TV, blew them up on paper and glued them to a poster board to walk everyone through step-by-step on how to beat it.

That takes me back. I doubt many people had a computer or Internet access back then. I was fortunate to have a computer room in the household when I had GTA3/VC 20 or so years ago. How did I even beat GTA III back then? Most of my time was looking up cheats just to fool around.

 

[Broadside]

I really missed all that hype that was around GTAV, everyone I knew was playing it. It was 2012, such simpler times...

 

[The handsome tard]

I legit wouldnt put it above them from pulling the ultimate ESG move and have an older Tommy Vercetti (or someone that is obviously meant to be the HD universe equivalent of him) be one of the "bad guys" that will get killed by our "dual" witht them taking over all he had afterwards, probably with the girl saying something like "The future is now white old man" before blowing his brains out with a shotgun.
Then our couple inevitably falls out (seriously, its so obvious this will happen sooner or later) and turns on each other, leading into no choice at all who comes out on top (cuz it IS modern Rockstar in the modern gaming industry) as you control the girl of course.

By the end, she got everything she wanted but feel sad because she had to kill her BF or something, like this is the next ultimate bittersweet ending or something.

I really wouldnt put it above them killing Tommy just to piss off the classic fans (doesnt help Tommy's VA and Rockstar werent in the best of terms, right up to his death)

Meanwhile on NeoGAF
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https://www.neogaf.com/threads/gta-vi-official-trailer.1664272/page-33#post-268683834

This is something you would usually hear from a GTA NPC pedestrian...before you blew their brains off with a shotty.

 

[The Last Stand]

I really wouldnt put it above them killing Tommy just to piss off the classic fans (doesnt help Tommy's VA and Rockstar werent in the best of terms, right up to his death)

Doubtful. The 3D era lore and the HD era lore are two separate universes. Ray Liotta and R* ended on amicable terms. They even gave a farewell to him after his death. I feel it's more of him not understanding video games as a respectable medium. It went better than Burt Reynolds and VC.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Yeah, I don't think Ray Liotta really had an issue with Rockstar. He admitted he had no idea it would be big and wished he had gottten more money for it, but besides that whenever I saw someone ask him about it in an interview he was just like "I dunno, I'm not a gamer. I did it for a paycheck but people love it so that's good."

They never brought up anything from GTA III in GTA IV I'm pretty sure, GTA V mentioned "Grove Street" as a vague gang war thing that happened a long time ago, I'm sticking with at best there will be a vague mention of a Liberty City monster causing havok and taking over Vice City for a time in the 80's but never mentioning Tommy by name or anything.

 

[blablabla]

trevor killing the dude from lost and the dammned was fucking gross. i really hate that fucking character

 

[Seventh Star]

Man get your optimistic asses outta here, it'll be woke garbage like everything else.

 

[Paranoia Machine]

Again, why would there be when Vice City exists lol? What a weird response. That said, I can think of a few examples. Scarface: The World is Yours was surprisingly good considering the reputation of games based on movies. Although it has a totally different gameplay style, the Hotline Miami franchise also uses the setting of Miami in the 1980s. Even within the GTA franchise there was Vice City Stories, meaning Rockstar has already re-explored the setting once before.

Because GTA: Vice City and Scarface: The World Is Yours are 22 and 18 years old respectively and play and looks as such. Two decades ago is hardly modern.
I'm just saying nobody that played Vice City is remembering it for just the location so much as it was the period it was set in and what it was inspired by.
The current state of Vice City in GTA6 looks boring to me. Simple as. Maybe/hopefully it will be better in practice.

More than anything though, I'm hoping there's more area or something to justify the inevitable expansions for their online. GTA5 felt kind of shitty when they gave you massive vehicles but no practical way to use them. ie. why give me a slow nuclear sub when the only area I can take it is around the massive singular landmass? Or in terms of the Avenger, it would be nice to have more area to fly that giant son-of-a-bitch, especially along bay bridges like some kind of sick scene from a heist movie.
At the moment sticking to a single landmass has been boring.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Then our couple inevitably falls out (seriously, its so obvious this will happen sooner or later) and turns on each other, leading into no choice at all who comes out on top (cuz it IS modern Rockstar in the modern gaming industry)

People betraying you is the only story Rockstar can tell, been that way since GTA I

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA V mentioned "Grove Street" as a vague gang war thing that happened a long time ago, I'm sticking with at best there will be a vague mention of a Liberty City monster causing havok and taking over Vice City for a time in the 80's but never mentioning Tommy by name or anything.

I'm sure something like that happened in the HD universe, just differently. Or they could be stories in that timeline. Brands, cities and vehicles "cross over" universes. Just not one to one, Lazlow being an exception.

 

[Would]

Fuck, that probably makes it way easier. How was that mission on console?

Intuitive enough thanks to the analog sticks.

Didn't the GTA controversy mostly start with GTA III? The game that ends with Claude successfully achieving his goals and then shooting his girlfriend in the head? By that metric, is that "endorsing" crime?

- GTA III's controversy was a product of, IMO, breaking into of the mainstream at a time when America had just got attacked on 9/11 and the media was hungry to moralfag about violence. III wasn't anywhere near close to being the first of it's kind to harness the reaction it did.
- The notion of Claude shooting Maria at the end is speculation. He could've shot into the air to silence her or the shotgun fire might be something only intended for the player to hear akin to Joe Pesci in the last shot of Goodfellas seconds before the credits.
- IDK, but if making a game with violence in it an endorsement of violence, then we need to hang a lot of people in Hollywood for pedophilia, Journos for treason, and basically the entire gaming industry for corruption of society. GTA III was the Houser's mashup of all the violent American crime dramas they'd watched as teens. It doesn't have anything in terms of social commentary to say nor did it want to say anything to begin with.

Would you be agreeing with Hilary and Jack at the time?

No, because GTA III wasn't really a parody of contemporary America more so than a parody of film. Liberty City in GTA III is akin to NYC in Death Wish than it is any real city at the time of release. The animations and gameplay are also way too cartoonish to be considered threatening. And again, III doesn't have social commentary about any topic; what is it endorsing besides Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Death Wish, Dirty Harry, and The Warriors as films to see?

Not to mention Tommy and CJ still built themselves up through organized crime, so wouldn't that be "endorsing" something immoral?

Sure, but the game never praises them for it. They are clear anti-heroes most of the time and villains when not.
The problem isn't even the protagonists, Jason and Lucia are fine enough so far.

Sounds to me like you're just making excuses for hating a particular flavor and culture of organized crime and don't want it depicted in any video game.

If that was the case I'd never have touched San Andreas because "eww icky gangbanging".
I'd have never touched Vice City Stories because I'd have assumed Victor was another black criminal like the people defending VI erroneously claimed rather than a mixed race hispanic/white.
Or V because "I'm not touching Franklin".
Spare me your frail accusations. The problem is not the crime, it's not the characters; It's Rockstar games being a very different company since the last entry and not for the better. If your theory is I don't wanna play as colored protagonists because...reasons, kill yourself and learn to read.

 

[Executive Petrel]

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Trailer so hyped, it has more LIKES than VIEWS. HOW?

Globohomo buying fake likes in ching chong land faster than allowed.

I heard from my friend who's uncle works at grand theft auto that they will have a realistic menstrual cycle and tampon mini game mechanics for the Latina protagonist you play as

10 years ago a would have laughed at you and called you a faggot full of shit, now im just shivering in fear and holdin ze rope tight.

 

[timewave0]

I just hate how everything has to integrate social media now... Having clips displayed as if they were posted on instagram or whatever the fuck, I really despise it. I don't know why people are getting upset about all the blaxx in the trailer as if it's some new development for the series. Sure the ratio of blacks to cubanos is a bit off for Miami, but it doesn't really make a difference to me.

 

[Miller]

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GTA gas fallen. Billions of Shark Cards must be snapped in half.

So far, this thread consists of:

>"NIGGERS"
>that twerking lady
>"modern gaming"

Jesus Christ, people, come up with new material.

Tell that to the western gaming industry.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Then our couple inevitably falls out (seriously, its so obvious this will happen sooner or later) and turns on each other, leading into no choice at all who comes out on top (cuz it IS modern Rockstar in the modern gaming industry) as you control the girl of course.

It'll be funny if you do get some kind of choice on who to support, only for them to go, "Haha, we tricked you, whoever you picked is the one that dies," or whatever, like how GTA4 kills off whoever you listen to at the end. The Bonnie and Clyde bit makes it sound like you'd both go out together, maybe in a blaze of glory or whatever, but then how would you have free play after? Would you just cut that and have it be game over, with the credits telling you to go play online? I figure it'll probably be some rehash of the GTA5 stuff where you can choose one or the other, or just take The Third Way and have them both survive, which makes you wonder why you'd even bother with the other options.

 

[Paranoia Machine]

If I can dual wield hammers like the old lady in the trailer, I will power through anything.
A list of create-a-character things I will need to be able to play this game without giving it a negative review

- The ability to dual wield pistols or sawed off shotguns
- The ability to dual wield hammers
- illustrious selection of mullets ranging from glam to hwite-trash.
- Illustrious selection of handlebar mustaches ranging from dastardly twirl to Hulkamania
- The ability to give myself a farmer's tan and sunburn
- The ability to be anorexic and pot-bellied
- Kanye West Brand Sunglasses
- White tanktop with confederate flag printed on it with colors changed from blue and red to pink and teal tranny colors
- Cowboy Boots
- Fingerless leather Gloves
- Leopard Print Panties (Preferrably thong)
- Voice pack that is entirely unintelligible shrieks

It's a longshot but if I can get all these things, I will 10/10 this game

 

[Would]

Nothing like GTA III was ever experienced in that media at that time. That freedom of causing mayhem came at a cost of consequence and progression. Nothing stops you from utilizing that sandbox in a simulated city to JUST be reckless, yet the formula encourages you TO progress into the story to get the most out of that sandbox.

Tell me you never played games like Quarantine without saying so. GTA III, as much as I love it, was not a pioneer in much unless you only played mainstream titles.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I'm sure something like that happened in the HD universe, just differently.

Oh, exactly. That's why I'm saying it will be vague at best. Enough that people who give a shit can be like "OMG they said it!" without breaking the precious different universes.