latina (cuban?? am I racist for being unsure…) mommy
WOKESTAR games makes WOMAN OF COLOR protagonist
they nailed contemporary florida btw; the energy is very correct
The energy feels very much like every American stereotype I’ve seen or heard about, as a non American.
Florida is the Trump of America. Basically unfiltered and decadent
Texas is the John Wayne / Chuck Norris of America. Basically an idealized version of individualism and frontier but in reality it’s just an act
I get what they’re going for here. Show the city, the vibe, the graphical and animation differences over the first one. Not too much, but teased enough to make it abundantly clear that this is a leap forwards over 5. (which it should be, it’s been 10 years)
Get the tastebuds going and leave them wanting more by giving no payoff to the trailer, the moment of climax is literally a cliffhangar. Will the robbery go ok? Will they trust each other? Will they betray each other? Who knows. Wait for the next trailer which will be on a totally different topic.
I think one thing I did notice in this trailer is that there is significantly more difference in the body diversity of character models, you’ve got larrrrrrge big bodied people, you’ve got height differences, you’ve got skinny women, you’ve got thiccccc women, there are huge muscle building men, gaunt guys, short guys, tall guys, overweight guys and more. At least I’m pretty sure I see different heights here:
Diversity of bodies is very difficult to do and stands out when games do it instead of using a 3 or 4 models over and over. I hope there’s a huge range, it always irks me when every single character in a game is the same height.
Red dead 2 also had a good variety of body shapes, but even this looks to be more diverse than that.
It’s one of the most valuable ways these world simulation style games can go to completely change the feel of them. One thing however that I think it will also do is highlight the absence of children. Not that I’m advocating for children in these games because they’ll only be murder fantasies for people but when walking a city and seeing things like skateparks or children’s equipment you also expect to see the occupants that would typically be at them. The closer we get to simulating cities and places the more certain things being absent will feel very uncanny.
Open ended question to anyone - in terms of problematics, how much difference does being able to kill a child in a game make?
If the argument is that it’ll make people more likely to do it in real life, couldn’t that be extrapolated to the game in general, and the murders of countless virtual civilians? If people want to make that happen, couldn’t they pretty easily mod it in anyway?
Thinking about it, in my head I think shooting/knifing a GTA child would feel make me feel uneasy.
More comically evil options like a monster truck or a rocket launcher wouldn’t bother me though.
Skyrim had those killable children mods, complete with killmoves for decimating a child with a giant hammer, but I think Skyrim’s children are so weird and obviously video game looking that it wasn’t really big news. I’ll clarify I never owned the mod, so I don’t know how it would make me feel in practice.
2025 means 2027 for PC lol 💀
I’m still hyped tho
Needs to include Gusano’s and insane old retirees.
After playing RDR2, I was hoping GTA 6 would have missions where you end up being roped into a CIA-backed Gusano plan to invade Cuba and get BTFO’d by not-Castro
There’s still hope it’ll happen, especially if the company still values controversy
There’s still hope it’ll happen, especially if the company still values controversy
but that’s not the kind of controversy they value. Politically they’ve always done the south park libertarian nihilist schtick of “isn’t all sides just equally crazy?!?!?!” RDR 2 might be a slight exception to that rule, because they set it 124 years ago
RDR2 is very sympathetic to native Americans and pretty anti-capitalist. I wouldn’t go as far as calling it an explicitly left wing game, because there is no political solution proposed to the problems presented, but its definitely critical of the right.
Also, from what I’ve played of GTA, they only seem to shit on republicans and democrats, without falling into the “blue hair SJW” trope
Im not hyped for it but I will admit im very curious how it will turn out.
Yeah, same story here. Never really cared for GTA beyond/before 4 (which is apparently the black sheep lol), but I have to admit the Bonnie and Clyde theme is an interesting turn. I guess, in my case, it’s also because it seems like the protagonist isn’t boring and unsympthetic (cough 5).
My thoughts exactly. I had no hype at first since I didn’t like 5 very much, but now I’m interested at the very least. Could easily be shitty, but I’m hoping not.
Yeah I hope its a great game for all the people that really care about GTA. Im not even huge into GTA but the Florida setting + sandbox might win me over.
I know absolutely nothing about Florida culture other than gators and the beach. I didn’t even really like vice city because even when I was younger it was already too old of a game. I was also not really into the Miami vice feel they were going for. This game however looks like it’s gonna be some kind of Bonnie and Clyde type game which is more interesting I think.
The protagonist seem pretty stale. But honestly I hated the first RDR2 trailer because it just sounded like a basic story about getting money. But it ended up being my favorite game. I think Rockstar is just bad at creating a first impression at least for me.
What really interests me is the events and characters shown in the trailer. Cyberpunk 2077 did the same thing and promised dynamic events in the city, but look how that panned out. But Rockstar is usually pretty good with adding details so it might actually be pretty diverse
