Lucas88 wrote: ↑November 16th, 2022, 9:05 am
WanderingProtagonist wrote: ↑November 15th, 2022, 9:19 pm
The fact that you would play as a trans at all is still the same, I wouldn't even play it if the damn character was an attractive trans. Hell I may have been desperate enough to date these people when I failed at getting actual women to notice me, but f**k if I'm going to support shit aimed at their kind.
Oh no, I don't mean as a protagonist (in a GTA game the protagonist should always be a baddass dude since GTA is a game about organized crime and gang warfare and made for men). Any woke content should be kept well away from our games and screw any game company that tries to force-feed us that shit. If a GTA game is going to include gay or trans characters, they should reflect humorous and over-the-top stereotypes like the characters in the earlier games in the 2000s and certainly not what the woke mafia deems politically correct or acceptable.
People have been talking about the inclusion of a female protagonist in a GTA game for some time now, but I think that, if Rockstar choose to do down that route, they could only pull it off if the protagonist were an absolute psycho woman and also conventionally sexy. A character like Catalina comes to mind. The straight, non-woke male fanbase might accept a female protagonist like that. But a lame, non-sexy woke female protagonist would only alienate a lot of male fans.
As for the newer GTA games, I don't even play them. I tried playing GTA 4 and, despite its greater realism, the gameplay was slow and boring and felt more like a Serbian soap opera. Then, when GTA 5 came out, I played it a little with my brother and it was pretty much the same: boring mundane content which felt more like a Californian soap opera than an actual GTA game, muh graphics and muh gigantic map notwithstanding. So I still only play the older game from the 3D Universe era (GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas, VCS, LCS) which all have way better and more action-packed gameplay and funnier humor. I'm a retro gamer and never even play modern games. The only thing that interests me about GTA6 is its map; I wanna see what the HD Universe version of Vice City looks like.
That's just the problem though, most games are better off without females in them. GTA would never work with a woman unless she's a police officer then sure why not. But only if she doesn't come off as some dickhead type cop like that detective fag Tak was in Judgement. I hated that guy, he was a bonofide hypocrite too, he would commit crimes but be anti-crime at the same damn time. He would resort to torture methods to get answers from criminals yet he would talk shit about how it's wrong to break and enter, etc. I can't believe how lame they make Yakuza men in those games, they were so terrified of this guy that even the Mole who was suppose to be a better fighter still lost up against him. Aside from that, I think male gamers as a whole are pandering themselves just as much as the studios. Next they'll be begging Sega to add a female protagonist in Yakuza games which would be total SHIT.
Yakuza is more of a mans game than any GTA game ever was, therefore throwing a female lead into those games would be an insult to the Yakuza itself. But I can definitely see Japan doing this sort of thing to please western males that demand pandering. Women characters work for games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and so on. But there are games where they have no place in at all. I do agree with you about GTA4 and 5 though, GTA5 made a whole lot of money. But GTA6 going vice city again seems quite meh to me. I really didn't like the 80s nearly as much as the 1990s and early 2000s.
Although they had great movies from the 80s, a lot of great movies like Ghost Busters 1-2, My Bodyguard, The Principal, The Last Dragon, Bloodsport, Deathwish 2-3, and several other great films. The 80s gave ups great tv series like Knight Rider and Macgyver. So I cannot argue that the 80s didn't have some great culture behind it, including a whole lot of great songs from that era as well. I think GTA having more of a 90s grunge feel would have been better only if the protagonist wasn't a trans or a woman or whatever the hell they are going with this time around. I just can't see myself playing as a violent female criminal, the fact that she'll be using a lot of profanity, be represented as extremely unlady like, etc it would be tough for me to get into such a product. I'm fully aware of female crime lords that do exist in the real world so it's not like female criminals are a myth or anything.
Still this isn't going to work at all for me so I'll just pass up on GTA6, maybe if they go back to their roots with GTA7 if there is a GTA7, then maybe I'll show interest in the product again. I really hated the characters in GTA4 and even more so in GTA5, Trevor was a stupid drugged out asshole that got reckless half the time dwelling on Michael betraying him the majority of the game, Michael was a dumbass that let his family walk all over him and had no actual authority in his own house so his wife was a cheating ass bitch that should have been kicked out the house the first time he caught her fooling around but instead he acts like the typical jealous moronic weak husband and goes after the guy instead by tearing down his damn house but he doesn't even bother to punish his shitty ass wife. Instead he "fixes" his marriage with her because he's a pathetic loser that deserve the option B.
And his daughter was a whore that needed her ass kicked when he caught her trying to do porn, his son a weed smoking wannabe thug loser that needed an ass kicking as well, and Franklyn was a black beta male bitch boy that had to tell his girlfriend "Baby Imma change!"
With GTA4 you were just a boring foreigner in "New York" that sought revenge but you are given a choice to decide if revenge is what you really want or spare the guy and walk away with your hands blood-free aside from the blood you already spilled throughout the entire game, but they give you that one chance at redemption to walk away from it all. I can't remember what the guy was like in Vice City, I hated the protagonist of Andreas since he reminded me of all those lame ass hood niggas trying to be a thug but know they wouldn't survive for very long anyway. It was basically a fake ass Boyz in the Hood game. That one guy was a straight up Easy Z wannabe. I forget his name its the one that betrays you.
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