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

[The Last Stand]

Actual Florida Joker character "wants to talk to R* about GTA." If he wants to sue R* for his likeness, then DC should sue him for slandering their Joker villain with some dumb shit.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

I gotta say the presence of niggers does not bother me at all, my favourite past GTA was San Andreas which was most definitely the niggest. It's ALL the people and the culture reflected in it the trailer that makes me pessimistic. I just see those annoying clown fucks from the acid lab DLC for GTAO. Twerking, social media, retarded zoomer clothing and hairstyles, all stuff I can't stand in real life. I don't want to play a game of it. I got major Forspoken protagonist vibes from our smart quippy rogueish latinx heroine. I just do not want anything I've been shown. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the cultural zeitgeist that's wrong.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I gotta say the presence of niggers does not bother me at all, my favourite past GTA was San Andreas which was most definitely the niggest. It's ALL the people and the culture reflected in it the trailer that makes me pessimistic. I just see those annoying clown fucks from the acid lab DLC for GTAO. Twerking, social media, retarded zoomer clothing and hairstyles, all stuff I can't stand in real life. I don't want to play a game of it. I got major Forspoken protagonist vibes from our smart quippy rogueish latinx heroine. I just do not want anything I've been shown. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the cultural zeitgeist that's wrong.

I too like San Andreas and gangbanger Boyz in the Hood type stuff for the direction the most, but honestly, I will admit that I don't want actual authentic Black stuff like the twerking. Like some guys said earlier in the thread, the old gangbanger stuff was muted, kind of whitewashed. They say nigga and smoke dope and tag signs and stuff, but it's intentionally tame, intentionally cleaned up that they could be the Jets or whatever from some old TV show. They're gangsters, but they're (to borrow some faggy TV Tropes talk) Friendly Neighborhood Gangsters. It's cool because it's mindless tribal warfare in a modern setting, but the dudes seem like normal people at the end of the day. I think that's even the whole point, even to the real-life gangsters. It is unga bunga caveman shit with guns and cars, and as long as it isn't in my actual life then I enjoy that.

Big fat women twerking is just... gross. Gross in a way that I don't even want to watch the trailer. Trashy. Ratchet fights are just painful to watch. I don't want that crap.

And gangsta stuff is ALSO better as a period piece, I'm not a rap guy but even I know that the 90s rap, even the most offensive gangsta nigganigganiggabitchoeshootpigs rap, was FUN, upbeat, even had some artistry, compared to this modern crap. I can listen to Cop Killer and get a thrill from it because it's utterly vile, incendiary, but it's like hearing the war drums of the urban jungle.

Also, why are you all getting so horny over that Latina? That is exactly my thing and I find her character kind of ugly, intentionally ugly. Looks African-featured too, and not even in a good way.

I just want San Andreas-throwback games in other settings, and gangstas/cholos. I want to drive pimpmobiles and lowriders with hydraulics in modern graphics.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Reaaaally? Didn't know that, makes it extra funny how the sufragettes were not afforded the same protections.

And how do they apply this in game? Are the injuns just bullet proof or does the main character remember he really likes casinos and doesn't pull the trigger?

Doesn't pull the trigger. You can't even fucking INSULT the Indians. And that itself is insulting. So stupid.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

And you're not much of a regular either, faggot.

What a shock, I’m someone who doesn’t have anything to add just lurks, rather than sperg out.

Unbeard of, honestly.

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

trevor fucking sucked im glad vo is misserable. now if troy baker also suffers...

Glad to see someone else hated Trevor as much as I did.
"YEAH I MIGHT BE AN ABSOLUTE NUTCASE, BUT AT LEAST I'M HECCIN LOOOOOOOOOYYYYYAAAAAALLLLLLLL". Yeah because when I think of loyalty I think of some faggot who more or less kept his friends captive by forcing a divorce between one of them and killing all of his other friends for the other. Ending A was the best GTA V ending just because you got to see that prick burn in agony.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

GTA as a series is dead. Its main draw was being a sandbox to do whatever, not many games at its time of Vice City or San Andreas could do that. Now you can throw a rock and hit a bunch of games that fill that niche but better. Rockstar should’ve done Bully 2 or a period piece set around 1920s Chicago during prohibition, that would’ve given people a good reason to be drawn in. Now it feels like any reason I’d want to play GTA (sandbox mass shooter vidya to mindlessly waste time) I can easily find elsewhere.

My sentiment exactly.

Part of the problem is besides sandbox/open world games getting VERY long in the tooth, the world has just changed too much to make the satire they want to make. They're already in the problem between GTA 4 and 5 where they can't decide to make a serious gangster story and a wacky parody of the real world. It wouldn't be "GTA" after that...but is that a bad thing?

 

[Seventh Star]

Oh no a current game in current year that shows all the current year trends for annoying poz fatigue makes people annoyed! How can people even dislike my favorite gay vidya franchise, they must be mentally ill rapefugees or something.

But its okay le ebin totally based videogame will surely let me kill all the niggers, calm your tits muh rahfug-ees. It totally won't be like RDR2 where the game will often railroad you to take dumb moral decisions like hurting those damn evil nigger slavers.

All the people complaining about culture wars bullshit is hilarious. Yeah of course it's totally other people's fault for noticing this boring trite wokeslop. If only there were less people with brains to tell you how gay your silly little crime game is.

Glad to see someone else hated Trevor as much as I did.
"YEAH I MIGHT BE AN ABSOLUTE NUTCASE, BUT AT LEAST I'M HECCIN LOOOOOOOOOYYYYYAAAAAALLLLLLLL". Yeah because when I think of loyalty I think of some faggot who more or less kept his friends captive by forcing a divorce between one of them and killing all of his other friends for the other. Ending A was the best GTA V ending just because you got to see that prick burn in agony.

There's no archetype more obnoxious than the moralizing nutcase faggot. On the same level of that retarded Joker comic where he says NO MUH HECCIN IRS I WOULDNT PUT UP WITH THEM or I DONT DO DEALS WITH NAZIS IM BETTER THAN THAT. After he gasses people to death of course.

My sentiment exactly.

Part of the problem is besides sandbox/open world games getting VERY long in the tooth, the world has just changed too much to make the satire they want to make. They're already in the problem between GTA 4 and 5 where they can't decide to make a serious gangster story and a wacky parody of the real world. It wouldn't be "GTA" after that...but is that a bad thing?

They should go back to the serious GTA IV storytelling honestly. Also satire and parody both require you to actually make fun of what you're copying, not just imitate it. Truth be told humor of woke shit is almost always not actually funny.

 

[Gravemind]

You are mentally ill rapefugees though.

 

[William Murderface]

My sentiment exactly.

Part of the problem is besides sandbox/open world games getting VERY long in the tooth, the world has just changed too much to make the satire they want to make. They're already in the problem between GTA 4 and 5 where they can't decide to make a serious gangster story and a wacky parody of the real world. It wouldn't be "GTA" after that...but is that a bad thing?

They've always been in on the boarder between "we want to be a serious crime game" and "wacky look at the world" mostly in the setting in ways that don't actually matter to the game. Stuff like radio stations, billboards and signs, pedestrian interactions, Easter eggs. etc. Very occasionally they would point something out in a mission, like when Ryder and CJ go robbing Col Furburger's apartment and CJ asks where Ryder got the truck, but mostly the commentary and wacky stuff is on the side. It paints a tongue-in-cheek picture of the world they're in and a look at ours.

But now we're at the point where Rockstar just can't do those things because someone will get offended. No one can joke any longer because no one can take a joke. That's the problem and the biggest reason GTA is dying and it was one of those things none of the GTA clones ever got right. Instead of having sheboons twearking, the Rockstar of old would have had something as equally outrageous for them to do. But now, I'd be honestly surprised if the twerking lasts until the game is actually released.

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA IV worked better in current day than GTA VI would in today's "current day" time period. The gist in IV was the economic crisis through the civilian underworld, while the criminal underworld were homages of The Sopranos and the ILLUSION of the American Dream.

With smartphones, social media, Florida Man and the rapid cesspool of the Internet, it's guaranteed to age faster and be awkward to revisit over time.

 

[Seventh Star]

You are mentally ill rapefugees though.

And you're a redditor so you're a faggot squared.

GTA IV worked better in current day than GTA VI would in today's "current day" time period. The gist in IV was the economic crisis through the civilian underworld, while the criminal underworld were homages of The Sopranos and the ILLUSION of the American Dream.

With smartphones, social media, Florida Man and the rapid cesspool of the Internet, it's guaranteed to age faster and be awkward to revisit over time.

The thing is that even with how awful things were back then, some still remember that era fondly. I can't see anyone remember these days fondly.

 

[Gravemind]

I don't even have a reddit account, you are THIS mad.

 

[William Murderface]

The thing is that even with how awful things were back then, some still remember that era fondly. I can't see anyone remember these days fondly.

That distance is still part of the GTA equation that is sorely missed. III is set and came out in 2001. VC is set in 1986 but released in 2003, so 17 later. SA is set in 1991 but released in 2004. VCS was set in 1984 but released in 2007. LCS was set in 1999 and came out in 2005. So other than III all of the 3D era games had at least some time between the setting and release to let the nostalgia set in. The HD games don't have that distance. Worse, they know the modern years are vapid. There's even a few times in V on the radio where someone will mention how soulless and empty and unmemorable the 2010s are and we know it just get worse.

 

[The Last Stand]

The HD games don't have that distance. Worse, they know the modern years are vapid.

I still have SOME nostalgia with IV. All those jabs about the Patriot Act and government priority on terrorism was a nice change of pace given the paranoid period after 9/11.

 

[William Murderface]

I still have SOME nostalgia with IV. All those jabs about the Patriot Act and government priority on terrorism was a nice change of pace given the paranoid period after 9/11.

I'm not saying there is no nostalgia to be had in IV, the side games, and V, but the 3D games were immersive in no small part because they were like stepping out of a time machine into the best parts of those eras' pop culture. The look of Vice City was like watching an episode of Miami Vice. The radio stations were like listening to the radio of the day. The pedestrians wore the clothes you saw. It was great revisiting idealized versions of those days again.

Fast forward to the HD years and, much like the real world at the time, so much of it is just forgettable. Half the radio stations are just audio wallpaper of techno or rap or pop that doesn't matter. The other half are throwback stations like a pop station with pop hits from the 80s to the teens, or Los Santos Rock Radio hosted by Kenny Loggins that is nothing but 70s and 80s lite rock. And like you mentioned in IV there was at least the general paranoia of the years after 9/11, but by the time V is released in 2013, there's just not much to remember inside or outside of the game world.

 

[Seventh Star]

I still have SOME nostalgia with IV. All those jabs about the Patriot Act and government priority on terrorism was a nice change of pace given the paranoid period after 9/11.

That's because IV was still set in an appealing era. I will say that there's a tiny bit of fondness for V for me at least but it's not really representative of the 2010s that much either.

 

[Sheogorath]

 

[The Last Stand]

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I'm glad I don't know what you're implying.

 

[bango skank]

Something that I haven’t seen anyone else mention, that I think is more of a tell of the tone of the game we’re getting than all the nogs are, is the obvious self-insert blonde-white-lady-with-horn-rims being a dj.



Yeah, the copious niggardry in the trailer was inherently repulsive but it’s an accurate reflection of the setting. Nerdy kewl beans white woman dj is much more of a red flag for me than everything else in a trailer comprised of <1 second clips that probably won’t even be in the game.