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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

And this is the problem that I have with Rockstars new direction of toning things down because now they open a whole new can of worms of... Where is the line? Lets say some tragedy happens in real life where a bunch of sex workers gets killed or something, well now does Rockstar no longer allow you to kill hooker cause someone makes a twitter tag of #HookersLivesMatter? Where does racism jokes stop? Etc.

It's all subjective to the tolerance level the person or group of people that will decide this. If someone tells me a yo mama so fat joke, I can take it and laugh it off. If someone tells the same joke to a person who's mom died... Well they may not be able to take it.

It's why I don't like this particular direction because it really opens up this can of worms of what's appropriate vs what isn't and that will probably be left to some focus groups or committees they hire who have zero idea of what GTA even is. It wouldn't surprise me if one day, Rockstar does prevent you from killing hookers.

Heck, we had GTA SA, where Samuel jackson played a black cop treating CJ, another black guy like gutter trash and no one batted an eye back then, why does it have to be different now?.

What I don't get is why the cops & Robbers mode had to go away because of one police event in the USA. What about all the other police events that happened around the world, does the rest of the world suddenly not matter to R* or something?.

Also the focus on a latina protag, why can't we have a male Latin protag, or a Japanese guy?, why does it have to be only female?. It all just feels like a shitty narritive being pushed to get a few good boy points with the Twittersphere (who end up showing us that they hardly even played GTA).

What ultimately gets me, is that not only is R* pulling this with GTA, but Saints Row is getting the same sort of treatment/approach as well (killing the comedy, focusing on zoomers, pandering, etc). So now we don't have a third person action GTA-type game that has the same level of comedy and freedom to do what you want the way the previous games in the genre did.

It's just weird how these corps think we're the minority and that zoomers/JW's are the majority when it's further from that.

What I dislike about the recent trend of female protags is how game devs and hollywood is general feels like they forgot how to make female protags. Like we had this era of great female protags that weren't just sexist Mary Sues. Like you look at Tomb Raider reboot back in 2013. That game felt insane because it really made the Lara feel vulnerable. These days it's like, I need no man cause I got plot armour types of nonsense.

Now Rockstar has had well written female characters but I really hope they don't go down the usual dumb route of "I hate all men" nonsense. But we will see. Personally I don't care if it's a female or a male as long as the character is written well. But it feels like game devs forgot how to produce a well written female character in the fear of SJWs. I just hope Rockstar doesn't fall into that trend but I wouldn't be surprised if they do considering their new direction.