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

[Adolphin]

My only concern is that the graphics look too cartoonish. After all, it is meant to be a parody of Florida which itself is a parody of the US.

 

[The Last Stand]

My only concern is that the graphics look too cartoonish. After all, it is meant to be a parody of Florida which itself is a parody of the US.

So far, it looks damn near photorealistic to me. Now, take a look at V's character models up close. Nearly looks like action figures.

 

[TheDataHorder]

> muh niggers, cringe. rockstar gone woke.
the fuck you cunts on about? from what i understand 90% of america is black cunts shooting shit.
I'd say the rockstar scottland devs got that quite right.

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA VI will be the greatest, renowned piece of entertainment since Joan Crawford graced the silver screen. Mark my words.

looks kinda cool if trashy, will probably be an underwhelming sandbox/campaign a la Cyberpunk

also earth to pea brains: GTA ALWAYS HAD SASSY POC GIRLBOSSES

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"Sorry babe, but I'm an ambitious girl and you... you're just small time"

Dude, I COMPLETELY forgot that Catalina and Claude were practically Bonnie and Clyde until Catalina betrayed Claude (and CJ). So, this Lucia/Jason affair is almost like Catalina/Claude but more sappy and a product of today's time? Good enough for me.

 

[Woodchipper]

I think I'll be satisfied if you are able to get up to some real Florida Man shenanigans.

 

[KID NAMED SCHWARMAPUNK]

 

[Semen_Recycler]

REEEEEEEE I can’t believe they put hecking blackarinos in my vidya game!!! Downvote!

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Xbox Series S|X. They're two SKUs of the same console (family.) By law, any games released on Xbox Series X would need to have an Series S port. I know they'll have to scale down some graphics for the Series S to run it properly.

By law? There's no law, it's just microsoft trying to crash the industry because Nintendo and Sony won't let them play the way Microsoft wants.

The Series S is a massive turd on the console market and a middle-finger to console gamers.

Remember it was MS that made the stink about BC on consoles; something which has had a bigger negative effect on the gaming industry as a whole, more than DLC, MTX and broken-upon-release games.

 

[The handsome tard]

So far, it looks damn near photorealistic to me. Now, take a look at V's character models up close. Nearly looks like action figures.

Its funny because we probably said the same thing when GTAV trailer came out, saying 4 looked like action figures. Graphic evolution is quite something.

 

[Rotollo 2]

Ensuring they kill all hype and press for Max Payne, again, again.

wait, they're making max Payne remakes?
WTF why didnt I hear about it

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Nah, what you guys don't realize is that GTA has been a perpetual decline towards wokeshit and diversity since San Andreas.

I mean, think about it. It started with the game about niggers, then you had a game about slavs, spics, and faggots, then you had a handheld game about chinks, then you had a game about niggers again and a Canadian, and now we got this.

It's just been a progressive downward spiral of racial diversity and cultural enrichment.

To be fair GTA 3 WAS Italians...

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Ian Miles Chong would lick Elon Musks asshole clean after he took a messy dump if he thought it would get him more attention.
I hate that some of these people are in executive decisions where they can actually decide the outcome of technology or politics going forward to some extent, but their feeble brains have trouble processing killing a data value in a video game.

E: LMFAO

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1731894271761154331

This fucking rodent of a man. He really would eat the literal shit of a rich person if he thought it would get him money.

 

[RotPockets]

Demoralization intensifies.

 

[Weltraumfürst]

To be honest, the trailer just looks boring. Vice City not in the 80s is a weird choice of scenery, and that Lucia chick comes off as boring. I don't have a problem with a female protagonist, but it's GTA, so I expect someone memorable. Of course it's just a teaser, but that still should have been enough to get an idea of the MCs character.

Beyond that, they didn't show anything that piqued my interest. I hope that it's either gonna be good, or so egregiously woke that it absolutely crashes. ESG tanking the biggest video game in the world would be a beautiful thing to behold.

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

Its funny because we probably said the same thing when GTAV trailer came out, saying 4 looked like action figures. Graphic evolution is quite something.

I'm not downplaying significant improvements in hardware, but it's worth bearing in mind that we haven't seen any gameplay footage yet.

Don't let your wallets get Cyberpunked again! (and I don't really trust Rockstar to timeously fix a game they fucked up nowadays)

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

To be honest, the trailer just looks boring. Vice City not in the 80s is a weird choice of scenery, and that Lucia chick comes off as boring. I don't have a problem with a female protagonist, but it's GTA, so I expect someone memorable. Of course it's just a teaser, but that still should have been enough to get an idea of the MCs character.

Beyond that, they didn't show anything that piqued my interest. I hope that it's either gonna be good, or so egregiously woke that it absolutely crashes. ESG tanking the biggest video game in the world would be a beautiful thing to behold.

The teaser was a bunch of memes made into a video game, and a few plot throw away lines that tell you nothing about the game besides this Hispanic lady being part of the cast.

There is no gameplay. And literally no plot. Everything is speculation - which is exactly what Rockstar wants

 

[Boglim Enthusiast]

Adin Ross claiming to be in the game, it's already over before it even began...

If this is true, this is pretty much confirmed zoomer slop. They're putting in trash e-celebs that anyone with a fully developed brain will find infuriating.

 

[Sithis]

Everyone so focus on black people but nobody asks the real important question. Will the swamp area in the game have ghost orchards and three types of mangrove trees? If not, the games a hard pass for me.

I don't know if the studio that makes GTA has ever had power autists of RDR extent working there long term but if they did we'd have that and more. GTA IV I think felt more alive than V, it felt like the world was actually moving and you were just a piece in it, which was especially impressive given the hardware limitations of the time. You could be driving along the bridge and spot cops searching cars, or have actual police encounters happening, etc. The NPC cops had better AI and instead of just gunning at randoms they used cover and avoided shooting if possible. Street vendors, pedestrians, etc all seemed to just be going about their days in a way that V tried to mimic and it just came off as fake and as though they're all performing for you.
Imagine a world like that set in Vice City with the attention to detail that the RDR spergs had and the story writing of the classic games, it would be the actual best game of the decade and not just "well at least it's not another remake"

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

The teaser was a bunch of memes made into a video game, and a few plot throw away lines that tell you nothing about the game besides this Hispanic lady being part of the cast.

There is no gameplay. And literally no plot. Everything is speculation - which is exactly what Rockstar wants

Outside the memes, that's basically what every HD GTA trailer has been. The First Trailer touches on the world mainly, showing off the Main city, the people, vehicles, etc, and You get some hints at plot but never more than that. We didn't even see Franklin and Trevor until Trailer 2 for GTA 5, and didn't get gameplay until 2 months before launch

 

[A Flying Nun]

Alright fine, I'll chime in more about muh blacks.

I think the issue here isn't the blacks themselves, but how many of the game's NPCs are ghetto trash and hoodrats despite the main characters not being black. With San Andreas, the theme/setting with a predominantly black cast worked because it was specifically set in a black neighborhood around the time of the L.A. riots, and the overall theme was meant to mimic early 90's gangsta rap culture aesthetic (e.g. NWA, Boyz in the da Hood). That made sense considering that was the theme they were specifically going for for. Just like with vice City being a mashup of Miami Vice and Scarface, hence it had a lot of Latino characters and involved themes of organized crime amidst the neon colors and synth pop.

With the GTA 6, it feels like they just took a generic modern crime plot, set it in Florida, and flooded the cast of NPCs with a bunch of grotesque twerking sheboons. Again, it's not the blacks, it's how it's presented and shoehorned. Also because it's not a specific time period, the aesthetic doesn't work. VC and SA had a unique feel since they were set in prior decades and were deliberately meant to mimic a certain relevant culture from their respective time periods (especially with the music). Hell, watch the fucking commercial for SA: yeah, it's a bunch of ghetto black thugs with guns shooting each other...but with the theme music being "Welcome to the Jungle" and the intended aesthetic and geographic setting it's trying to convey, it absolutely hits hard.

TL;DR - GTA: SA worked with a black cast because the overall style and theme was about inner city gang warfare in a specific time period and specific location, so I understand it. This time it just feels like shoehorned diversity in the worst way. I loved VC and SA, but this just looks lame.

I don't even get why it's that hard to understand.

There is nothing inherently wrong with black characters and a black cast. Of course there isn't. You won't find people refusing to watch the Green Mile or refusing to play GTAV because a main character is black.

However, in recent years there has absolutely been a crowd of media creators who forcefeed woke shit everywhere. They have zero regard for their demographic, care more about political grandstanding than telling a story, and unfortunately they hold minority groups in such high regard that they seem to think assigning any minority group character a character flaw is tantamount to claiming every single member of that minority group behaves that way, which leads to a bunch of boring, Mary Sue characters.

There's this hilarious irony where the exact crowd trying to forcefeed minority groups to people is inadvertently training people to recoil from media that has an overabundance of minority groups, precisely because when they're afraid to give them any flaws, it just makes for really boring writing. Ironically, the exact groups they love showcasing as flawed (white men) end up being the most fascinating characters precisely because they gave them actual depth. People aren't recoiling from this trailer just "because racist" or anything simplistic like that, they're doing so because we may be getting another dumbass story where the woman girlbosses her way through the game and shoots rainbows from her vagina before ascending to the heavens as the second coming, with zero stakes, zero conflict and zero depth.

Nobody freaked out about Franklin in GTAV because that game released before this cultural phenomenon developed. We had no reason to expect anything bad; Franklin was just black and that's that, not to mention fairly normal for the franchise. Same exact thing goes for any of the earlier GTA titles.

But this...?

This doesn't look like a predominantly black neighborhood or anything like that, this just looks like they made it a point to make the majority of the population black. Black women in particular seem more common than any other demographic in the trailer, and there's an absolute minority of white people. (or at least appearing so. Lots of tan people that's hard to tell if they're supposed to just be that tan or hispanic)

For me, the red flag is three factors in combination with each other:

1) Black people everywhere. This is an absolutely absurd percent of black people when compared to US demographics. If we're being loyal to US demographics, then either we're in a specific neighborhood or area where they make up 90% of the population, or every 10th person is black at it's most frequent. This is neither.

2) Female protagonist that, thusfar, seems very generic and boring. We don't really see much personality from her at all, which is often what this exact clique of garbage woke writers result in: either Mary Sues without flaws, or dull cardboard cutout characters that barely showcase any personality whatsoever.

3) The "Tiktok" feel. They leaned hard into social media for this trailer, which is yet another indicator for "bad writers desperately trying to stay relevant." The game is primarily about criminal life and dynamics within the USA, yet the only hints of this at all involve two of the scenes with the female lead. If the game is nothing but a constant barrage of moments that go "hey, remember that viral social media thing that happened?! WE DO TOO! LOOK! WE'RE REFERENCING THE THING! WE'RE COOL TOO!" then yes the game will be garbage.

Those three in combination are a massive red flag screaming that the woke writing crowd might've taken over the studio. They're still just red flags, so anyone freaking out saying "it's too early to judge," fine that's fair, but I also fully understand why people are incredibly skeptical.

 

[Commander X]

For all the talk about how "gamers" are complaining about how the game is "woke", I've seen more angry talk from HRT guys and people with Twitter names like "MarxistWaluigi" and others elsewhere bitching about how earlier games in the series (that most of them have probably never played) were full of "juvenile" and "offensive" humor and that this new game will probably be full of transphobic jokes (it won't.) "They had a scooter in one game called the Faggio, such a homophobic slur!" It was a take on "Piaggio", you morons.

Oh no, not a "juvenile tone"!

A lot of these people flip flop between calling every Rockstar game reactionary and enabling white male violence when it's convenient for them, then they turn into Jack Thompson in his heyday, and then when it's handy they'll claim the games are actually critiques of this freakin' capitalist hellscape called Amerikkka!!! and the morons who played them to have fun lack the "media literacy" to understand this.

Hey, you know, I learned quite a while ago these people say and support whatever they are told "owns the chuds" at the given moment.