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.
