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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    7 months ago

    Can’t work in GTA because the story is clearly defined and can’t work for any character like, say, Skyrim or Fallout.

    GTA SA can only work with a black protagonist, 4 with a slav, etc

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      7 months ago

      They could write the game like that and define the story for any character, it wouldn’t suddenly stop being GTA.

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        7 months ago

        The gameplay would still be GTA but the type of story would be totally different

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            7 months ago

            I think their point is that you’re giving up a lot of story potential by having to work around the player being a customizable character with no characteristics set in stone, they can’t really be characters as much as they’re just player stand-ins, which is a problem for a game like GTA where the player character is a well-defined, fleshed out character where various things about them matter a lot in the story, like Niko Bellic in GTA IV being from Eastern Europe and having fought in a war for example

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              7 months ago

              Yeah i know that they mean that, but i still do not see how it is a problem outside of small formula change.