So GTA VI is rumored to have a trans girl as a main character

On the one had, ok I don’t mind. On the other, I have a strong suspicion that shit’s going to hit the fan.

I am concerned specifically about the state of modern gaming as a whole and how it can cripple any potential Lucia has.

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    1 year ago

    Why did this comment get downvoted? I thought games are supposed to be fun. Representation doesn’t make up for bad game design.

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      The GTA games allow gamers to choose who they want to be in the game. Sometimes they can’t do that in real life so it is enjoyable to have that persona in the game world.

      To use terms/phrases like bloat and too many wickets, downplays this as a fundamental feature of the games. And it treats this feature as something that should be de-prioritized because it’s not “fun” for the chuds and it’s even taking the fun away.

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      I donvoted cuz representation isn’t a thing. It isnt ‘making up’ for anything. It doesn’t take time away from programming “fun” in. Everything op said was such an insipid, cataclysmically bad take that my finger hit the down arrow in self-defense, lest i be infected by his brainworm.

      the very idea that it could is such a ridiculous assumption, it needs lots and lots of downvotes to help future posters understand just how bad a take it is. This could even help insure better posts can be made in the future by better people.

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      Representation doesn’t make up for bad game design.

      It’s getting downvoted because the two are completely unrelated, making one of the main characters a woman has no impact on how the gameplay is designed, it’s certainly not a case where you can “prioritize” one over the other because it’s not like representation takes time away from the rest of development

      Also, we have no idea what the gameplay is like, so the comment just sounds like it’s assuming that the gameplay must be bad because it has representation which is utter nonsense

      • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]
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        Also, we have no idea what the gameplay is like

        Come on, how different could it be compared to the previous GTAs? (especially 5)

        At the end of the day it’s fundamentally gonna be the same: Stealing cars, shooting people, etc. I guess they’ll add new minigames and a new way to clear your wanted level, but yeah.

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          Obviously the basic formula is gonna be the same, but we don’t know nearly as much about the specifics to just assume that there’s bad game design in it this early