[GTA 6 MEGATHREAD]

[marvelvscapcom2]

The topic at hand seems so ridiculous, it's not worth getting into, IMO.

Agreed.  And it is a silly thing to have titled the "GTA Megathread."

I wouldn't pay $20, let alone $100, to license this slop.

That said, locking content behind the Deluxe Edition sucks, and the lack of a true physical release is anti-consumer and anti-ownership.  But those are decisions that came from the corporate suits, not the actual people making the game.

The topic at hand seems so ridiculous, it's not worth getting into, IMO.

Agreed.  And it is a silly thing to have titled the "GTA Megathread."

I wouldn't pay $20, let alone $100, to license this slop.

The game, whether ends up being good or bad, isn't slop.  It's obviously a crazy technical achievement that was probably achieved via crunch, hard work, and real sweat and tears for something people believed in.  Agree with the direction of the franchise or not, lets not minimize the work of those people by calling it slop.  The amount of work put into the game is the main reason I think the price is mostly justified.

That said, locking content behind the Deluxe Edition sucks, and the lack of a true physical release is anti-consumer and anti-ownership.  But those are decisions that came from the corporate suits, not the actual people making the game.

I prefaced in the main topic itself that the title was a place holder to discuss the recent initial news and once we were done discussing the dating stuff id edit the main title to reflect basically what has happened now which is general discussion of the game itself.  The dating topic was never designed to be a permanent anchor.   



The content that is hidden by the deluxe edition is heavily exaggerated.  You get a specific subset of donk cars, luxury interiors in a alternate car shop. 1 tattoo shop that offers art from a special real life artist (not the only rodeo in town as there will be other tattoo and car shops) and 1 alt clothing store/salon. A hiest mission that may or may not be for online currency at a later date.  I get it. Not ideal.  But we also got a lot of people pretending the 100 dollar copy is the manditory way to experience the full game. Im buying the 80 dollar version. I dont think the extra content really wows me.  Now if they have mention of it in the standard copy like "hey Lucia loves getting her nails done but she cant becase you're a brokie" then i'll be pissed.  As of now Its almost entirely cosmetics.  I do think its scummy though. Just not game breaking scummy. I also believe that price comes with a month of rockstar plus. What I will say on that topic is take two also makes NBA 2k. So the fact they are double dipping their chip at this price point doesnt surprise me.  I have 50 percent faith this will be what I want it to be. But with GTA. That's enough for me to give it a hail Mary shot.   


I assume rockstar lost its ability to defend itself from Take Two's board room suits running muck which is why Dan Houser dipped. They mutilated his baby.  And that scares me.




As for the wider discussions of feminism and wokeness. I feel I see tons of sexually clad women in the trailers. Provocative potrayals of sex. Lucia herself, a main protagonist has got the entire bakery lol.  Werent all gamers crying that women characters were being made desexual for pandering? Seems the team hasnt entirely forgotten its historical consumer base. So its clearly still being designed for a male consumer in mind at least in the asthetic department. I dont get what's the problem.. i personally also want Lucia to be badass. Bonnie and Clyde inspired the plot afterall. I have seen about as much proof of it being not woke as I have it being woke. So I am just.not understanding that assumption. The only evidence I have been given of why it will be "woke" is that it has female developers on its team with the circulated image.  Rockstar development team is still widely predominantly male.  The photo going around isolated the females of the roster it didnt represent all the workers.   Not sure I subscribe to how pointed and partisan the reception to the game is.   I just hope they use that to their advantage and rock our worlds with satire lol.  The satire tsar bomba if you will. 


Make Dan the man Houser proud.

[sworddude]

The topic at hand seems so ridiculous, it's not worth getting into, IMO.

Agreed.  And it is a silly thing to have titled the "GTA Megathread."

I wouldn't pay $20, let alone $100, to license this slop.

That said, locking content behind the Deluxe Edition sucks, and the lack of a true physical release is anti-consumer and anti-ownership.  But those are decisions that came from the corporate suits, not the actual people making the game.

The topic at hand seems so ridiculous, it's not worth getting into, IMO.

Agreed.  And it is a silly thing to have titled the "GTA Megathread."

I wouldn't pay $20, let alone $100, to license this slop.

The game, whether ends up being good or bad, isn't slop.  It's obviously a crazy technical achievement that was probably achieved via crunch, hard work, and real sweat and tears for something people believed in.  Agree with the direction of the franchise or not, lets not minimize the work of those people by calling it slop.  The amount of work put into the game is the main reason I think the price is mostly justified.

That said, locking content behind the Deluxe Edition sucks, and the lack of a true physical release is anti-consumer and anti-ownership.  But those are decisions that came from the corporate suits, not the actual people making the game.

As for the wider discussions of feminism and wokeness. I feel I see tons of sexually clad women in the trailers. Provocative potrayals of sex. Lucia herself, a main protagonist has got the entire bakery lol.  Werent all gamers crying that women characters were being made desexual for pandering? Seems the team hasnt entirely forgotten its historical consumer base. So its clearly still being designed for a male consumer in mind at least in the asthetic department. I dont get what's the problem.. i personally also want Lucia to be badass. Bonnie and Clyde inspired the plot afterall. I have seen about as much proof of it being not woke as I have it being woke. So I am just.not understanding that assumption. The only evidence I have been given of why it will be "woke" is that it has female developers on its team with the circulated image.  Rockstar development team is still widely predominantly male.  The photo going around isolated the females of the roster it didnt represent all the workers.   Not sure I subscribe to how pointed and partisan the reception to the game is.   I just hope they use that to their advantage and rock our worlds with satire lol.  The satire tsar bomba if you will. 


Make Dan the man Houser proud.

people argue it's woke cause jason the main male protag is kinda a simp and super passive. seems like he has less of a role or is arguably made later on in terms of the development not meant to be in the game cause his interractions with npc's seems like it would be almost the same withouth the guy.

you ain't wrong though the girls be sexy so they ain't nerfing that at least, that would have been too obvious of a move in a game like GTA

[Cartagia]

The game, whether ends up being good or bad, isn't slop.  It's obviously a crazy technical achievement that was probably achieved via crunch, hard work, and real sweat and tears for something people believed in.  Agree with the direction of the franchise or not, lets not minimize the work of those people by calling it slop.  The amount of work put into the game is the main reason I think the price is mostly justified.The content that is hidden by the deluxe edition is heavily exaggerated.  You get a specific subset of donk cars, luxury interiors in a alternate car shop. 1 tattoo shop that offers art from a special real life artist (not the only rodeo in town as there will be other tattoo and car shops) and 1 alt clothing store/salon. A hiest mission that may or may not be for online currency at a later date.  I get it. Not ideal.  But we also got a lot of people pretending the 100 dollar copy is the manditory way to experience the full game. Im buying the 80 dollar version. I dont think the extra content really wows me.  Now if they have mention of it in the standard copy like "hey Lucia loves getting her nails done but she cant becase you're a brokie" then i'll be pissed.  As of now Its almost entirely cosmetics.  I do think its scummy though. Just not game breaking scummy. I also believe that price comes with a month of rockstar plus. What I will say on that topic is take two also makes NBA 2k. So the fact they are double dipping their chip at this price point doesnt surprise me.  I have 50 percent faith this will be what I want it to be. But with GTA. That's enough for me to give it a hail Mary shot.

Right.  There's not a ton locked behind it, but I just don't like it on principle.  If you are releasing the game, release the game.  Deluxe Editions should be for statues and boxes, etc IMO.

people argue it's woke cause jason the main male protag is kinda a simp and super passive. seems like he has less of a role or is arguably made later on in terms of the development not meant to be in the game cause his interractions with npc's seems like it would be almost the same withouth the guy.

I feel like there are lot of assumptions (not necessarily here) going on about the content of a 30+ hour game based on what?  2 short trailer and a 30 minute preview?  You could cut up Michael's story from 5 and make him look like a henpecked house husband.  Outrage culture has become so, so tiring.  Just choosing the next big thing that they know next to nothing about and manufacturing something to be mad about.  Just like Elliot Page and Lupita in The Odyssey and their combined what?  Maybe 10 minutes of screentime?

[sworddude]

People will speculate with the footage given is what it is

[courtlyhades296]

I wonder if this is the game that causes the death of PS5 emulation due to people trying to play the game on PC prior to the ports release, just as Tears of the Kingdom killed Yuzu.

[marvelvscapcom2]

People will speculate with the footage given is what it is

Tbh my measuring stick and the way i'll know if the line was pulled back in production will be if you can't have sex.  Call me a simp, call me wierd, let the redditverse cry, if the first couple protagonists in GTA history don't have a full spectrum of sex activities. Adultery potential. Flirts. i'll know the cackling hens got to the seed pile and the well water is tainted.  It's almost that clean cut for me.   Because you can dress up a a pig in a suit and call it a lawyer but you cant hide its hooves. Rockstar has always been a dirty dog with sex. The game can cuss. Explode stuff. Be political. But if the game truly is being itself.  As 5, IV, damn even san Andreas did.  It'll push that envelope further than cyberpunk did.  These concerns of the sensitive class of the consumer base should be fuel.  Not saying AO, VR Adult content level.  But just the minimum.  And I fear its gonna be a hands off couple.


And it'll anger me because we dont desexualize our films. We dont desexualize tv.  Euphoria, Even Bridgerton.  Sex everywhere. But with video games we gotta endure the KIDDS act, every game protagonist is suddenly celebit and Ned Flanders. 


Idk how they'll tackle this. But imo everyone has to get it. That's the rockstar way.   Imo the trailer seems pretty but subdued.  It feels very on the nose. I cant put a finger on it.  But I guess we gotta wait and see what we get. Maybe a lot of this is planned because tbh they know the woke or not debate is only gonna add sales. Maybe they're holding off showing the full heat.

I wonder if this is the game that causes the death of PS5 emulation due to people trying to play the game on PC prior to the ports release, just as Tears of the Kingdom killed Yuzu.

If any game is to cause that it'll certainly be this one.  Rockstar is like the Mafia with their IP.