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[balls of snow]

Its the first gta in the trump era. If you think MAGA is not ripe for endless hilarity especially considering the state the game is set in then you have not been paying attention. I predict the ripping on the left to be mild in comparison.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Culture takes main characters very seriously, to me having two characters disqualifies GTA6 from being safe so yes GTA6 could be woke.

 

[Woggleman]

If I never have to hear the words woke or privilege I will be happy.

 

[lmimmfn]

Rockstar hasn't been "edgy" in any way for a looong time. Now it's domesticated, so to speak, and fully adopted by the corporate culture.

When that happens, something is just sort of living off the old reputation of being radical or rough edged, but has nothing left in it.

It's exactly what happens to old bands. Rage Against The Machine? They're the mildest supporters of the standard progressive line ever, no major company would even be slightly bothered by their most "radical" statements. And so on, they all end up that way.

Rockstar of the past isn't around anymore, I don't get why anyone still gives them so much credit.

I agree completely, Rocester games havnt been funny or edgy since Vice City/San Andreas

 

[Jinxed]

I believe this 100%. I knew Arthur's last breath was also the end of Rockstar as we knew it

 

[Jinxed]

I remember buying day one games in the past because they were being "boycotted" at Era: stuff like Sifu (cultural appropriation), Cyberpunk, Stellar Blade, Wukong… the most recent anti-woke panic at GAF is making me have a similar reaction.

I wish you good luck with your future hormone therapy treatment.

 

[Stooky]

I need to make a clickbait YouTube channel called 'All Your favorite games are WOKE" and just watch the Adsence dump truck roll in.

 

[Madflavor]

Good luck with this one. GTA VI sales are going to be earth shatttering, no matter how many people cry woke.

 

[SHA]

Are fat characters woke? You always enjoy their conversations.

 

[Coherenthy]

I'm still on the wait and see camp here. Still need to see more of the game before judging if it's woke or not. So I'm still pretty hyped about GTA6.

 

[EDMIX]

I need to make a clickbait YouTube channel called 'All Your favorite games are WOKE" and just watch the Adsence dump truck roll in.

Don't forget the shocked face thumbnail to drive in the sheep

 

[poppabk]

I think it'll be fine.

Until you find out what she is packing up front.

 

[Gamerfan81]

It will probably be woke like Spider-Man 2 but will sell tens of millions of copies, but its reputation will be damaged.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

It doesn't matter if GTA6 was the wokest game of all time. It's going to sell many millions of copies just off the name alone. People are still actually buying GTA5 and isn't it the best selling game of all time? Besides, it can't be fully woke judging by how attractive and feminine looking the main protagonist is. Not to mention all the bikinis everywhere and attractive NPC's.

 

[zokie]

this DEI and DIB infection is not going to disappear for a very long time

i have to see how infected the final build is and decide with my wallet

 

[HoodWinked]

So they changed one flag and snipped one line of dialogue.

Brutal man…

problem is when it happens, it signals to everyone else to get in line. so ideas don't die during production but now die at at the individual stage.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

The trailer looked fun as hell, still looks like it's spoofing the idiotic things going on in pop culture.

 

[nemiroff]

Grifters keep grifting.

 

[awwr999999]

Is today's Rockstar the same Rockstar back when GTA V released? Writters and game designers, are those all still there?

If you believe the info floating around the web - One guy from PS2 era Rockstar is still working at Rockstar.

... havnt been funny or edgy since Vice City/San Andreas

It's impossible to be objectively critical about any of Rockstar's PS2 games because of the massive aesthetic boost that the PS2 gives.
Playing GTA VC/SA in the dumbed down, unpatched GTA Definitive Edition games without all of the great music - it's possible to see the underlying flaws.
What you'll see is that both VC and SA are less good than GTA3 in a slew of different ways.
That said, GTA4 and GTA5 have a bunch of content and humor that feels out of place, like low grade filler to pad the game out.
It seems like GTA4 is hopeless but GTA5 could be every bit as edgy as any PS2 GTA just by cutting excess content that's not worthy of GTA and adding missing *elements back.

*Gore, Pay 'N' Spray, Transfender, etc.

Good luck with this one. GTA VI sales are going to be earth shatttering, no matter how many people cry woke.

This is a massive side effect of physical media - Steam customers can just return it if it sucks.
When Sony goes all-digital and overhauls the PSN return policy (same 2hr window as Steam, no questions asked.) each game's return ratio will become a key metric that can be used to weed out bad games.
The whole equation's skewed by the existence of current-gen physical media and the absence of meaningful data that can be gleamed from a return policy. Users who buy a physical game and hate it can only keep it or sell it to Gamestop, neither of which provide Sony with any useful data. All Sony sees is another sale which looks good until you factor in that it's caused a negative UX and the secondary sale of the game won't make Sony a dime.
Digital-only will make purchases risk free and allow every user to vote with their wallet.

 

[GymWolf]

It's not just Sadie (which is a borderline protagonist) being a literal fucking cartoon, completely out of place in an otherwise somber game, and immune to any kind of consequence from her dumbass actions always putting the gang at risk just because "She's badass", that when put in constrast to female characters in that truly mature and colossal masterpiece of the first RDR (strong female characters, like Bonny or Luisa which are light years ahead as characters, other being actually believable and organic) is the embodiment of pure cringe..

It's also the amount of social commentary, all the random "he's the best of us all, we're luckly to have him" Lenny asslicking, and things of this nature scattered across camp dialogues and NPC you would never in a million years find in a product that's a result from creative vision ONLY, like the first one was.

You can feel the interference in RDR2 from miles away. And I've spent literal thousands of hours in it, I love the game, but I would have to turn completely blind in order to not perceive the colossal difference.

It still felt light years less woke than most modern games, the game let you murder in 1000 ways a chick that fight for women rights ffs
I just hope you have the same feelings about tlou2, hfw and other games we both likes that are much more woke than rdr2.

 

[GymWolf]

Can you point me to a frame of the trailer where there is a skinny woman with big boobs? I haven´t seen any.

Not huge bazongas but still

Hardly exagerated tho.
I think the dude is talking about the super thicc chicks shaking their bums in various scene.

 

[HL3.exe]

I thought I was on GAF? Not the purple place who keep droning on and on with the same vapid topics for clicks. The unhinged woke wining is so pathetic at this point, christ.