Took 4 pages for the honest answer.Hope she's hot.
I also don't think GTA is a good fit for a female character lead.Does your masculinity feel threatened by having to play as a virtual woman? I think it can be a good way to tell a story from a different point of view.
That would be pretty cool.What if, now give it a chance, what if you control two characters and switch between them but they are on a cross country crime spree bonnie and clyde style
That could be pretty cool as you continue in the game escaping authorities on the run you hear on the radio about this "power couple of crime"
Would be different
It could be, you could split off and loot a town on your own and cheat on your partner and maybe even make an ad hoc criminal alliance with another person in the new town and start an affair with themThat would be pretty cool.
I mean, it would inevitably be a black man and a white girl to make sure white men know their place but the concept is great. And would solve a lot of the issues around making a Female Protagonist in GTA.
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Women can be just as stupid, depraved, and vicious as men. If VI is going the direction of V, then those are the only qualities that matter for the protagonist(s).I also don't think GTA is a good fit for a female character lead.
Would be funny if she dies after the first mission.
Ah, a GTA Bonnie and Clyde game made in a world where game devs didn’t hate their own audience and you were still allowed to put hot redheads in video games.Would be interesting if they did a Bonnie and Clyde type deal.
They said female not asian.Well, the driving is going to suck then
But we all know they aren't going to make her stupid or depraved. You can't portray women like that in this day and age, that would get you in trouble much easier than not having a female lead at all. You can only portray women as Mary Sues.Women can be just as stupid, depraved, and vicious as men.
But you could *do that* if she was half of a playable crime couple and it would still be awesome!You can only portray women as Mary Sues.
I dont think theres any problem in including female characters hereThe absurdity is calling this kind of thing "progress" or somehow bold.
No. When you swap a sexy female protagonist into a violent game that's driven by male desires of violence, it doesn't empower anyone... it just gives the dudes playing it a new option to watch an attractive rear end in the third person camera. No one identifies with their character anyway, it's more like an on-screen action figure or toy.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with giving the dominantly male player base something better to look at--might be a good idea in general for the game--but it never has anything to do with diversity, and it's tiring when another round of Kotaku-level articles comes up to act as if this is some kind of progressive move.
Rockstar can get away with pretty much anything.But we all know they aren't going to make her stupid or depraved. You can't portray women like that in this day and age, that would get you in trouble much easier than not having a female lead at all. You can only portray women as Mary Sues.
Outside RDR most females in GTA have been exactly this.But we all know they aren't going to make her stupid or depraved.
It worked in Saint's Row though.I hope she plays as a female character instead of just playing as a dude with a female model. As in, she shouldn't believably be knocking out dudes left and right in the story cutscenes and strong-arming herself through things. It'd be cool if she used underhanded tactics to get through the story instead of brute force. I think Rockstar have the capability to do that type of thing right. In gameplay, it can be whatever.
I get its a different era regarding PC culture but Rockstar has made their fortune pissing mass media off. Like its part of their grand marketing at some point. GTA has no role for Mary sues and Rockstar won't jeopardize their narrative that way.But we all know they aren't going to make her stupid or depraved. You can't portray women like that in this day and age, that would get you in trouble much easier than not having a female lead at all. You can only portray women as Mary Sues.
It worked in Saint's Row though.
They could make a serial killer like Countess Bathory. That would be dope as fuck.Saints Row is kinda sorta less grounded than GTA has been for a while though.
It is *sort of* hard to write a Female Protagonist in a gang culture where men’s status depends on how tough they are and girls status depends on who they are fucking.
Obviously you can kind of go the Ubisoft route and say Victorian London street gangs were majority female but that does come with a bit of a cost in verisimilitude.
Is kind of interesting what they will do.
The cynic in me agrees with you, but if anyone could do it, it would be Rockstar.But we all know they aren't going to make her stupid or depraved. You can't portray women like that in this day and age, that would get you in trouble much easier than not having a female lead at all. You can only portray women as Mary Sues.
Saints Row is kinda sorta less grounded than GTA has been for a while though.
It is *sort of* hard to write a Female Protagonist in a gang culture where men’s status depends on how tough they are and girls status depends on who they are fucking.
Obviously you can kind of go the Ubisoft route and say Victorian London street gangs were majority female but that does come with a bit of a cost in verisimilitude.
Is kind of interesting what they will do.
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You mean this Saint's Row?Outside RDR most females in GTA have been exactly this.
It worked in Saint's Row though.
It depends on who the new head writer is now after Dan Houser left Rockstar. I think only Michael Unsworth is left from the main GTAV writing team as I think Lazlow is gone now too so I'll reserve judgement until we can check if they have pronouns listed in their twitter bioHave Rockstar ever bowed down to the PC culture. They have made their business doing the opposite of what is acceptable.
I think a female protagonist written by Rockstar is going to be FIRE
2 was far more grounded and it also had a female boss. Either way SR>GTA IMO.You mean this Saint's Row?
It's not exactly based in reality. I haven't played all the games, but don't you literally become basically superman in one of them? And you can run around and beat people with a dildo.
Anyways, my point was if they wanted to make the story make sense with a female lead, it'd be better if they treated it with nuance instead of the usual stuff. Based on the quality of the story in RDR2, I think they're up to the task.
She may become a pink attack helicopter too.She may become a man over the course of the game though
...but there will be some of that and people will say 'you couldn't tell that story with a male protagonist'.I'm comfortable rockstar won't make her some woke bitch who claims harassment everytime a guy goes near her.
Cause it's hard to believe. Say what you will about Abby in TLOU2 but she was far more believable than little teeny, tiny Ellie going around brawling three or four men at a time and not getting knocked five feet back by one of them stumbling on her. I don't expect them to copy paste a mans body on the protagonist here if they intend her to be jacking cars by force or gitting into fist fights with pedestrians but make it work in some way. Make her fit for one, realistically and proportionally but also add some consequences that the male character wouldn't have to contend with like having to jack cars with a gun in hand or people just shoving her randomly if she's not armed and saying fuck you and buffs too such as being able to infiltrate gang hideouts by ripping off some clothes and then going full on gone girl on the men who invite her in along. I think Rockstar are too outdated in their systems to end up with anything else than shootouts and way points but I can hope. I just don't want to see a woman have three men on her, while taking full blows to the head and managing to over power them all at the base level of combat.Last GTA game I played was ChinaTownWars so I could really care less.
Why is this a thing if the story is generally well written ?
Its a video game dude not real life.Cause it's hard to believe. Say what you will about Abby in TLOU2 but she was far more believable than little teeny, tiny Ellie going around brawling three or four men at a time and not getting knocked five feet back by one of them stumbling on her. I don't expect them to copy paste a mans body on the protagonist here if they intend her to be jacking cars by force or gitting into fist fights with pedestrians but make it work in some way. Make her fit for one, realistically and proportionally but also add some consequences that the male character wouldn't have to contend with like having to jack cars with a gun in hand or people just shoving her randomly if she's not armed and saying fuck you and buffs too such as being able to infiltrate gang hideouts by ripping off some clothes and then going full on gone girl on the men who invite her in along. I think Rockstar are too outdated in their systems to end up with anything else than shootouts and way points but I can hope. I just don't want to see a woman have three men on her, while taking full blows to the head and managing to over power them all at the base level of combat.
Unless you're making a game that is themed to be grounded in reality... yes, it very much does. It's not as if it's Dragon age, skyrim or souls and who can shoot magic out of your hand in a world of magical beasts. Tlou2 goes for pure grounded realism so Ellie killing dozens of people often with her bare hands is jarring, Asscreed is a history simulator (I know they turned a little mythical) but they're still trying for realism and it's jarring. Having to control a woman in GTA and pull a big old fat man out of a car is going to feel jarring. Now, they go the arcade route and making it like a JRPG where the citizens are magical beings of light and you aren't asked to suspend disbelief so heavily then I can't give a fuck.Its a video game dude not real life.
Not everything has to be grounded In reality .
You can expect a fair share of misandry (men are pigs, kill all men, etc...).Oh ok?
As long as the game and story are good who gives a shit?
Like I get it, lately all devs have been trying to do is gain twitter brownie points from people who don't buy these games by making the main character a woman like that hasn't happened in hundreds of games before, and the "gaming media" will eat that up, but it never really reflect in sales. But if the game is good, who cares? Ignore those assholes and just have fun.