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

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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.

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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.

Keep in mind that every DJ appearance in GTA Online has been someone who is actually a DJ in real life (Solomun, Dixon, Tale Of Us, The Black Madonna, Rampa, &ME, Adam Port, Palms Trax, Moodymann...)
It is very likely that the DJ shown in this trailer is Peggy Gou (whom I've never heard of before)

 

[Psyduck]

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

For some reason weebs always assume everyone around them gets their references

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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I, too, would love to see a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure-GTA type game in the near future. It would really be fun.

 

[bango skank]

Keep in mind that every DJ appearance in GTA Online has been someone who is actually a DJ in real life (Solomun, Dixon, Tale Of Us, The Black Madonna, Rampa, &ME, Adam Port, Palms Trax, Moodymann...)
It is very likely that the DJ shown in this trailer is Peggy Gou (who I've never heard of before looking this up)
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This was definitely in my mind, and if it does end up being an actual dj(regardless if it’s a literal-who) then my concern is unwarranted. It was just the thing that stood out to me the most from the trailer when I watched.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Trevor hates gta due to anoyying fans and how he got pidgeon holed into le crazy psycho thanks to V
Franklin used to be butthurt his expansion got cut in favor of more online shit (until they bribed him to come back for the Dr.Dre shit)
Michael wants nothing to do with the series outside of a fat paycheck
Pretty impresive how the only main leads with anything positive to say about rockstar are the red dead guys

I saw Michael also reacted to the new trailer. I guess he and Franklin don't entirely hate it and at least recognize the fame.

Shame about Trevor, CJ, and Niko though.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

And even then, that's still not entirely true because according to Arthur's VA, Rockstar allegedly screwed over John's VA when it came to his residual checks.
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They still appreciate the love and recognition given to them judging from their socials. Hell I recall Rob specifically moved back to his hometown (?) because he could blend in. But its nice that he came around to loving the franchise despite some of the big issues.

 

[Seventh Star]

The guy acting for Trevor has been playing that role since The Walking Dead. Maybe stop taking nutty villain roles dipfuck. I could see him in other roles too. Reminds me of Jon Bernthal who always plays the pissed off edgy antihero.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

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.

A lot of the signs were puns and crude jokes. But in your other post, talking about nostalgia, part of the problem is that elements of GTA are too old to be "modern". Radio in particular was big back in the early 2000s (Opie & Anthony even voiced a few bit parts themselves), but now it's dead all around. The money's gone, the remaining "morning hosts" mostly rely on prepared bits and are on a short leash what they can and can't talk about, O&A is gone, Howard Stern is a shell of what it used to be, Rush Limbaugh died of cancer, no one talks about Glenn Beck anymore, Alex Jones is unpersoned, and zoomers don't listen to the radio anymore.

If it's okay to put the radio back in and pretend none of that ever happened, then there's no need for demoralizing Current Year bullshit.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

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?

Late, but by trapping *all the natives up in a ghetto reservation away from the rest of the map, and disabling the player's ability to pull out their weapons, or even antagonize them.

*There technically are natives in the overworld you can shoot, but only when you encounter a specific gang in the epilogue that sometimes has them. In fact, said gang is currently speculated to have originally been comprised entirely of them due to a number of things, but was changed/cut due to plot problems, and the rest of the things involving their backstory being cut, too.

There are also natives that sometimes appear on the cliffs looking over the edges of the map, but they're rare, and hard to hurt because they're out of bounds, and typically run away as soon as they're spotted.

 

[The Demon]

Late, but by trapping *all the natives up in a ghetto reservation away from the rest of the map, and disabling the player's ability to pull out their weapons, or even antagonize them.

*There technically are natives in the overworld you can shoot, but only when you encounter a specific gang in the epilogue that sometimes has them. In fact, said gang is currently speculated to have originally been comprised entirely of them due to a number of things, but was changed/cut due to plot problems, and the rest of the things involving their backstory being cut, too.

There are also natives that sometimes appear on the cliffs looking over the edges of the map, but they're rare, and hard to hurt because they're out of bounds, and typically run away as soon as they're spotted.

you can shoot up an entire town to free a single prisoner, melt horses but putting them in the way of train tracks, beat up a sick man for money, rob and kill almost anyone that you want, but shooting natives? nah, that's too far

 

[Bunny Tracks]

you can shoot up an entire town to free a single prisoner, melt horses but putting them in the way of train tracks, beat up a sick man for money, rob and kill almost anyone that you want, but shooting natives? nah, that's too far

Yeah, and it's unclear as to why. No other minority in the game gets the same amount of protection. Not even kids as you can still antagonize them.

It's been speculated that the backlash Rockstar got for their portrayal of them in RDR1 might be the reason, but even then, that really doesn't make any sense considering everything I just mentioned, and because they basically just portray them the same way in RDR2, but somehow even worse.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

A lot of the signs were puns and crude jokes. But in your other post, talking about nostalgia, part of the problem is that elements of GTA are too old to be "modern". Radio in particular was big back in the early 2000s (Opie & Anthony even voiced a few bit parts themselves), but now it's dead all around. The money's gone, the remaining "morning hosts" mostly rely on prepared bits and are on a short leash what they can and can't talk about, O&A is gone, Howard Stern is a shell of what it used to be, Rush Limbaugh died of cancer, no one talks about Glenn Beck anymore, Alex Jones is unpersoned, and zoomers don't listen to the radio anymore.

If it's okay to put the radio back in and pretend none of that ever happened, then there's no need for demoralizing Current Year bullshit.

But you're forgetting something: podcasts. Podcasts are exactly what radio shows used to be and maybe more. I don't know if they'll get Joe Rogan or anything but you can very easily substitute that into the game since it's a similar enough format within the very same niche.

 

[PurpleEater]

The wokes are happy there's darkies, the rest of us are happy we get to run over the darkies with a garbage truck.

There's really something for everyone here.

 

[blablabla]

my fucking ps3 is overheating playing IV, whats the best way to play it on pc?

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

you can shoot up an entire town to free a single prisoner, melt horses but putting them in the way of train tracks, beat up a sick man for money, rob and kill almost anyone that you want, but shooting natives? nah, that's too far

Not to mention that prisoner is an obvious traitor and an asshole that Arthur (and basically everybody else in the gang except for Dutch) despises.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Yeah, and it's unclear as to why. No other minority in the game gets the same amount of protection. Not even kids as you can still antagonize them.

Doesn't the tribe literally factor into Dutchs final heist by setting up the distraction and getting slaughtered?

Not defending it, since I'm sick of Rockstars "story takes precedence over gameplay" shit they've pushed since GTA IV, but I can see the reason as to why. It's the same reason you can't shoot everyone in your own gang at your own camp.

It's dumb, but there's a reason. It's basically the same shit Bethesda pulls now where you can't shoot "story" characters. (even though I think if you shoot shopkeeps in RDR and RDR2, they just "survive" with bandages where you shot them, right?)

 

[Caesare]

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.

As soon as I got control of Trevor on GTA5, I put him in a suit and and got him the haircut where he had longer hair in the back. After I did that, he looked more like a Russian mob guy than a trashy nutcase who's whole personality was he shoots people cuz he's the "crazy" guy.

That way, I could pretend he was a Russian mob guy whenever I had to use him since he at least looked the part.

 

[The FedEx Pope]

Why does the main protagonist have to be a mystery meat mutt abomination? Out of all other possible protags they had to choose the worst one. Instead of trying to appeal to their semitic overlords by choosing an ugly amerimutt protag, they should instead choose a protag that's actually attractive.

I mean dayum just look at this. I don't want to play this game when I see this 95% of the time
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Apparently this goblin Latinx is related to one of the main characters in GTA 4, some now 40ish year old murderous Dominican thug club bouncer named Luis Lopez and she is his niece who he's trying to stop her from doing crime because #wokevalues

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Apparently this goblin Latinx is related to one of the main characters in GTA 4, some now 40ish year old murderous Dominican thug club bouncer named Luis Lopez and she is his niece who he's trying to stop her from doing crime because #wokevalues

Source?

 

[The FedEx Pope]

Source?

My made-up wife works at Rockstar Games, that's my source

Their appearance does match up, thinkaboutit!