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[ButchCat]

GTA has always fancied itself as a franchise that likes to comment on America's most current events especially in the political realm. It's been over seven years since their last release and a lot has changed in the western world. So the question is, with GTAVI being R*'s next release, do you think R* will stay true to their identity and comment on cancel culture or do you think Take Two will be scared of being cancelled? Or seeing how a big portion of the gaming industry is left leaning perhaps their own staff will take offense to their own game.


Edit: I've noticed that some of the posts have veered off beyond GTA to talk about American politics, there is nothing with that as long as it's in the frame of R*, their games and the industry. Also let's keep it civil people.

 

[The_Mike]

No. Its a different time we live in. It's a hideous dark sjw world we live in.

 

[Rudius]

I would like to believe, but I'm not expecting much in that regard.

 

[Kittehkraken]

Wouldn't count on it. The head writer isn't even at Rockstar anymore.

 

[AGRacing]

They've crapped on the "right" and the "left" before ... I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove me to be the naive idiot that I am.

 

[LordBlodgett]

I would really hope so, but I wouldn't be willing to bet on it. I hope there will come a time when we mock this shit.

 

[TexMex]

Zero chance.

 

[KyoZz]

Dan Houser has left, I really hope R* can still produce great games but... it's not smelling good

 

[MrS]

No chance. Too much money to be made and "woke" cunts buy video games too.

 

[The_Mike]

They've crapped on the "right" and the "left" before ... I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove me to be the naive idiot that I am.

Difference today is, that while the same persons can still take a joke, the leftism only talks with violence.

 

[ACESHIGH]

Yeah, GTA games are larger than life. And by the time GTA VI is released (say in 2022 at the earliest) people will be truly fed up of the SJWs. It is showing right now. If they satire the left, I will buy the game on PC when its available by 2024.

 

[lem0n]

I think of Rockstar like the studio behind South Park. They're such leviathans in their medium that any amount of bullshit cancel culture thrown their way will only fuel their fire. I'm not sure Dan Houser was the only one at Rockstar with a set of balls. At least, I like to hope so. I honestly think they'll take their digs at modern culture as they always do.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

So the question is, with GTAVI being R*'s next release

No...I'm pretty sure GTA5 is Rockstar's next release...yet again...
By the time GTA6 is actually out the current climate won't be.

 

[octiny]

They aren't scared of shit. Not after what GTA V continues to do.

If something were to affect the GTA franchise, it would've already happened by now.

The only thing I'm worried about is when the next installment is going to get release

 

[Ferdinandthecowfish]

No.

In fact, I'm willing to bet that GTA V will contain some level of "woke" garbage.

 

[FStubbs]

Difference today is, that while the same persons can still take a joke, the leftism only talks with violence.

Pretty sure the guys with guns and Confederate flags on 1/6 weren't the guys on the left.

 

[Trogdor1123]

They aren't scared of shit. Not after what GTA V continues to do.

If something were to affect the GTA franchise, it would've already happened by now.

The only thing I'm worried about is when the next installment is going to get release

I bet this makes them less likely to take chances. The shareholders won't like lower sales or anything that takes away from their money.

I'm hope I'm wrong though and they keep taking shots at EVERYONE! We could all use a bit of humbling.

 

[jakdex]

Nah, they won't:

 

[Imru’ al-Qays]

GTA is far too big to be cancelled, and a woke panic in the media would probably just amount to free publicity.

The important thing to note about woke deference in the corporate context is that it's not being driven by fear of pissing off their audience or customers, which by and large don't give a shit. It's driven by the fact that companies have been hiring liberal arts grad millennial idiots because you can pay them nothing, and those idiots bring their liberal arts grad sensibilities with them.

 

[wordslaughter]

If they won't and if they have gone woke, then Rockstar are dead to me.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

No chance. Too much money to be made and "woke" cunts buy video games too.

I'll bet you ResetERA buys that Harry Potter game at crazy levels. They'll find a way to rationalize their purchase. They won't openly talk about their purchase. But they'll all buy the game.

Virtue signaling and actual virtue seem to be mutually exclusive. The woke aren't actually virtuous.

 

[Raven117]

Nah, they won't:

Cowards. There is so much silliness in the U.S. right now. Grow a pair and be a Rockstar. Make a piece of art that edgy, thoughtful, funny, smart, and absurd.

 

[The_Mike]

Pretty sure the guys with guns and Confederate flags on 1/6 weren't the guys on the left.

Sounds like the type of people you describe in gta alright.

And I don't hear them cry about it like the blue haired whales.

 

[BigBooper]

Didn't the writer brother leave? I feel like R* is pretty untouchable as far as canceling goes, but would the staff quit in protest if they go after a sacred cow? Don't know enough about the studio to say.

 

[Golgo 13]

Hard to say what Rockstar games look like after Dan Houser left. What would Kojima Productions make without Kojima? Or what would Konami make if Kojima left? Oh wait, we already know the answer to that one; fucking trash. I don't think it'll be as bad at Rockstar because at least Sam Houser is still there.

Bottom line: Rockstar may be a different company now, we'll have to wait and see how all the chips fall. At least Sam Houser is still there, but it was Dan who did most of the writing and creative leadership.

 

[Cherry Sonoshee]

They will make fun of both sides with a more left leaning bent.

 

[NahaNago]

They wouldn't at least not for both sides anyways. Times have changed a lot since gta5 originally released. Most likely I could see them satirizing mainly the right which is pretty safe to do.

 

[Woggleman]

This is why I think they will go back in time again. It will give them an easy out.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

My dream GTA:
Trans + LGBTEGYJBFDXWAEFHQMPEGA1345T324+-@*&×÷()#$=! Satire

 

[MrS]

I'll bet you ResetERA buys that Harry Potter game at crazy levels. They'll find a way to rationalize their purchase. They won't openly talk about their purchase. But they'll all buy the game.

Virtue signaling and actual virtue seem to be mutually exclusive. The woke aren't actually virtuous.

I agree with you 100%. CyberPunk situation all over again for those clowns.

 

[Cherry Sonoshee]

Yeah I expect a lot of Trump parody.

 

[RPSleon]

If they dont commit to their usual rockstar attitude then they will be downgraded to Popstar games.

 

[20cent]

Yeah don't worry, they'll make fun of hillbillies and story will involve a mayor looking/acting like Trump.

 

[KyoZz]

My dream GTA:
Trans + LGBTEGYJBFDXWAEFHQMPEGA1345T324+-@*&×÷()#$=! Satire

As someone who identifies as an exclamation point, I take offense at your comment.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

I think they'll tone it down.
No topless strippers and no laughing at trannies, for starters.

 

[Green_Eyes]

Nope. No way.

 

[Valonquar]

I feel like the real world is a satired version of itself these days. Not a lot R* could do to make it less bizarre at this reate.

 

[Represent.]

They 100% will. Controversey sells.

 

[Shmunter]

Good thread. Any decent person true to themselves can see the cliffs edge with the woke cult being more infectious to weak minds than covid.

If GTA doesn’t lampoon such a critical issue, we know all hope is lost.

And if they embrace wokeness - game over.

 

[Reality Czar]

Lol i love the responses from people who think Trump is the only thing you can make fun of.

Rent free.

 

[BennyBlanco]

They 100% will. Controversey sells.

yea, they will make fun of drumpf and his supporters and that's it.

 

[Reality Czar]

Yes I can't wait for this game that comes out in a few years to make fun of a president from years and years before. Careful you don't cut yourself on that edge with your 2017 jokes in 2023.

 

[Hugare]

R* can satirize Jesus Christ and still get away with it

Did you pay attention to dialogue in GTA V? The story in that game sucks, and dialogue is a mess.

People who play GTA, especialy those who bring the money by playing GTA Online to this day, doesnt give a rat's ass about story or dialogue.

They can do whatever they want.

 

[Dorohedoro]

I hope R* keeps doing what they always have with the series, a sanitized "woke" GTA would probably be something like Watchdogs minus the hacking stuff.

 

[Kumomeme]

 

[Durask]

I think a realistic default is to expect every Western game from now on to be sanitized and woke.
All media that you now consume is, why would games be any different?

 

[EDMIX]

GTA has always fancied itself as a franchise that likes to comment on America's most current events especially in the political realm. It's been over seven years since their last release and a lot has changed in the western world. So the question is, with GTAVI being R*'s next release, do you think R* will stay true to their identity and comment on cancel culture or do you think Take Two will be scared of being cancelled? Or seeing how a big portion of the gaming industry is left leaning perhaps their own staff will take offense to their own game.

Oh they will and many will just get triggered over it anyway so....

be like "leAvE dA poLitIcS oUt oF Da gaMez"

 

[01011001]

yea, they will make fun of drumpf and his supporters and that's it.

they always made fun of that type of person tho... in every GTA

 

[kingpotato]

GTA has always lampooned wokeness/liberals way more than meth smoking hillbillies. I don't see them changing that anytime soon, but time will tell.

Difference today is, that while the same persons can still take a joke, the leftism only talks with violence.

 

[SlimySnake]

This is what they had to say:

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is glad the studio's next game is Red Dead Redemption 2, because he wouldn't want to release GTA 6 in the era of Donald Trump. In an interview with GQ, Houser said the current political environment in the US has made it "really unclear what we would even do with it, let alone how upset people would get with whatever we did."

"Both intense liberal progression and intense conservatism are both very militant, and very angry. It is scary but it’s also strange, and yet both of them seem occasionally to veer towards the absurd," Houser said. "It’s hard to satirize for those reasons. Some of the stuff you see is straightforwardly beyond satire. It would be out of date within two minutes, everything is changing so fast."

You basically cant. Both sides have lost their minds and have turned into butthurt snowflakes.

The sad thing is that there is so much to make fun of. Trump becoming president is something you wont even see in a bad hollywood comedy. People committing treason for him is absolutely fucking hilarious. The left has gone absolutely mental with cancel culture and the whole trans stuff forcing women to compete with ex-men. Some of this shit is satire itself and we need someone to make fun of it all.

I was watching Bill Maher last week and he pointed out how 80% of americans dont care for the politically correct culture. I think it's just a bunch of sad miserable losers on the internet who get outraged at everything while the rest of us are just too scared to get cancelled and lose our jobs for speaking up. No one is gonna cancel the next GTA, it will sell a 100 million units regardless. so go crazy.