• Venus [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Hogwarts Legacy was conservatives’ Hogwarts Legacy. GTA is a series for apolitical centrist types who like le sexy lady, make fun of current trend, and shooty shoot

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      I think OP means that GTA 6 is getting some negative attention from a few different chud leaders, but the vast majority of people that are interested in playing the game are definitely not gonna care about ideological reasons not to play it. Much like how some people called for no one to buy Hogwarts Legacy in solidarity with trans people, but G*mers didn’t care and played it anyway.

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    I mean GTA has been surprisingly decent on social issues, so ofc conservatives will cry about it now that they know they can get money from being a whiny baby.

    San Andreas had a black protagonist and the main antagonists were cops (and to an extent a CIA operative coercing CJ to do domestic terrorism). One of the major supporting characters is a blind Chinese man. Can you imagine Shapino et al’s reaction if it came out in 2023?

    Woke Rockstar virtue signals to communists by forcing a black protagonist allied with disabled Chinese NPC to kill white people! The most prominent white person that’s not an antagonist is a liberal anti government pro drug hippie!

    GTA 6 could be half as subversive as GTA SA and get ten times the reactionary outcry.

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        This is pretty funny because a white CJ might make sense in a rural, southern setting (especially Appalachia), but it takes place in a hood in LA, so the story is just about a white guy who hangs out with black gangsters

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          At the time I thought, ”sure, you can make CJ white, but what about….everything else in the game? I don’t think someone who doesn’t want to play as black man is going to like the rap radio stations, black main characters, outright references to the LA riots, etc.”

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      4 was about an ex-Yugoslav soldier trying to start over with the American dream and realizing it’s full of shit and he has to go back to his old ways to survive

      5 was more goofy, but still about infighting between intelligence agencies. There’s also the whole Illuminati thing, but again, just largely goofy.

      Vice City I don’t remember all too much

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        Vice City was just Scarface. I think there was some stuff that made fun of yuppie excess 80s capitalism.

        GTA was so much more fun when it was riffing on past decades and not trying to be a serious crime drama or whatever.

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      There’s an extremely high chance that it’ll be worse and lean into the multiplayer modes much harder because that’s where the money is.