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[ckaneo]

Should I get out the popcorn or nah?

 

[FoundryMusic]

"I hope this provides comfort to anyone who felt these NPCs depicted harmful stereotypes"


Gaming these days....

 

[lh032]

GTA6 All women protagonist confirmed

 

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GTA6 All women protagonist confirmed

Define woman.

 

[Davevil]

 

[Jennings]

It's a 9-year-old game. No big deal. People have had 9 years to play with them.

 

[Graciaus]

Rockstar are a joke these days.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

If they're busy with this bullshit, anyone think GTA6 will be what Pachter described? No lol. It will be the worst game in the series is what I'm expecting.

 

[sol_bad]

Does this mean I should care even less about GTA6? Do Rockstar still know how to do comedy?

 

[ckaneo]

Does this mean I should care even less about GTA6? Do Rockstar still know how to do comedy?

GTA V is one of the most unfunny, worst written games ever to be fair. So its not like this helped

 

[ParaSeoul]

I've seen people complain about those npcs before but I've never actually seen them in game.

 

[jigglet]

Transphobic or something that someone had interpreted to be transphobic? Two very different things.

 

[Eimran]

Allright retro it is. Cuckstar was my last hope

 

[Hoppa]

no I didn’t notice this before and I would never have noticed it now

 

[Despiralman69]

For some who hasnt finished a single gta game and finds them boring af, only redeeming factor of the games was the writing imo, satire in all the games were funny af, this to me confirms gta6 is going to be as serious as red dead 2 which is ashame, no wonder sam left probs got restricted on what jokes could be said.

 

[dotnotbot]

Anything else they removed? I remember controversies surrounding trailers where they removed some pictures on the walls or something, is it like that in final version as well?

 

[DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy]

I wasn’t ever really a fan of GTA, but something tells me 6 is going to go in a very milquetoast direction, and appeal less to its core fanbase. Can’t wait for the part where their PR department smears/insults them as -phobes, have fun with that guys.

 

[Kuranghi]

Are the 79 billion other "harmful" stereotypes intact?

 

[Randall365]

First no whores in red dead and now this goddamnit

 

[KuraiShidosha]

The nuts are running the nut house.

 

[Tommi84]

Just wait for the GTA 6 then . I'm fully convinced, some of the older games would NOT be possible in the current state of affairs.

 

[winjer]

Rockstar are a joke these days.

The people that built Rockstar have left the company.
Like many other AAA studios, talent and creativity has been replaced by propaganda.

 

[Goalus]

"I hope this provides comfort to anyone who felt these NPCs depicted harmful stereotypes"

I love this sentence

 

[Urban]

If twitter bio was a person

 

[The_Mike]

I've got an insider who showed me what the next gen edition will include due to it might offend someone.

 

[NeoGiffer]

Spoiler

inspired by someone who posted this in text form in another thread yesterday. i see you and thank you. but.....

 

[nominedomine]

GTA 5 was too offensive.

 

[Yui's Empire]

I consider myself very progressive, but isn't one of the main points of games like GTA to make fun of everything and everyone, nobody's sacred? They mock rich Republicans, poor folks in rural areas, black youth that ends up in gang wars, the excessively brutal police, the fake shit on TV, the sexual freedom and so on. That's been GTA for the longest time: a hyper-exaggerated view of the USA where all problems, social issues, political themes and such are taken to the extreme, with the player that can be anyone and do anything with very minor consequences, in a world where everyone hates everything. If these jokes offend you, clearly GTA isn't the game for you. Why fight for the game to remove that one specific joke, then turn the other way when they mock other people?

 

[FingerBang]

Thank God. I feel much safer now! I hope they remove all the jokes about blacks, browns, Asians, LGBT and basically everybody who isn't a straight white man.

They should also make Franklin a journalist writing for the NYT and every time he murders someone it should be an instant game over with a long lecture on how harmful stereotypes hurt his community.

 

[Saber]

The whole point of GTA is being all wrong and not be an example to anyone.
The more they took away, the less iconic the game will be. At some point it will no longer be a GTA game. Actually, the term "theft" could be removed for sensibilities.

For those hoping for GTA6, put those dreams to rest. GTA is long dead at this point.

 

[Kokoloko85]

It's a 9-year-old game. No big deal. People have had 9 years to play with them.

…. Why go through the effort of removing something from a 9 year old game then.
GTA is meant to be gamings South Park

 

[Revolutionary]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: GTA6 is going to be lame as fuck

 

[makaveli60]

There was a time I was depressed by clown world ruining gaming as well. Now I’m glad I have to spend less money on it.

 

[K2D]

People are professionaly offended these days, and kids are growing up so soft skinned. Soft-skins and degenerates.

 

[SJRB]

I hope this provides comfort to anyone who felt these NPCs depicted harmful stereotypes

 

[Larxia]

I remember seeing these NPCs, in front of a specific night club.

I'm really confused though, these people always beg for representation everywhere, but here they want to censor the type of content they try to get representation for, it really doesn't make sense to me.
They talk about "caricature" NPC, but seriously when you see all these twitter profiles, it doesn't seem like much of a caricature, I don't understand what they want.

 

[DispatchNinja]

This would be like Eminem going back and and editing out all of the shocking things he's said on his early records.

 

[s-bojan]

So, it took more than a month to notice these changes.
It is so funny that people here and on era are crying over this. Noone is satisfied.

 

[Zeroing]

So, it took more than a month to notice these changes.
It is so funny that people here and on era are crying over this. Noone is satisfied.

Yeah nowadays everyone is angry and fighting each other. It is a video game...I wasn't offended back then or now. All this pseudo American "movement" or whatever people wanna call it... is just creating 2 groups with radical and extreme point of views.

 

[tommib]

So, it took more than a month to notice these changes.
It is so funny that people here and on era are crying over this. Noone is satisfied.

They’re meaningless details but the meltdown above is hilarious. I hope they keep cutting stuff no one ever noticed so that we can watch the snowflake reactions. “NOT ONE CENT MORE TO R*”. Got love pearl-clutching.

 

[BaneIsPain]

That’s why I’ll keep my expectation really low for gta6.

 

[Davevil]

I'm worried about Manhunt's ultra violence...can we have a patch? please

 

[Fake]

And you freaks still want GTAVI
lmao

 

[arvfab]

I hope Rockstar removes heterosexuals too next, they are clearly stereotyped in this game and I feel offended by it.

 

[Y0ssarian]

Wasn't gonna buy it or 6 anyway. I haven't had fun going on a rampage and killing civilians in these games since gta4. And the story in 5 was ass.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I consider myself very progressive, but isn't one of the main points of games like GTA to make fun of everything and everyone, nobody's sacred? They mock rich Republicans, poor folks in rural areas, black youth that ends up in gang wars, the excessively brutal police, the fake shit on TV, the sexual freedom and so on. That's been GTA for the longest time: a hyper-exaggerated view of the USA where all problems, social issues, political themes and such are taken to the extreme, with the player that can be anyone and do anything with very minor consequences, in a world where everyone hates everything. If these jokes offend you, clearly GTA isn't the game for you. Why fight for the game to remove that one specific joke, then turn the other way when they mock other people?

The usual justification is “those other people’s lives are not endangered by these jokes and representations”.

This would be like Eminem going back and and editing out all of the shocking things he's said on his early records.

Make a fake trailer about an upcoming Eminem game and people will be asking for that before the day is done.

 

[Honey Bunny]

Because when I think GTA, I think making sure its inoffensive. What a joke.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[The Shepard]

I never thought I'd see the day when GTA was running scared from men in dresses.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Wokestar confirmed.