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[–] fprawn 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Been following this series since the 90s, but I have a sinking suspicion that GTA 5 will be the last I want to play. I love 5, I keep replaying it, it's totally my jam. This is despite it checking off all the boxes of things I don't want games to do: requires its own launcher, requires periodic re-activation, pushes microtransactions and begs me to play an online mode that at this point I clearly am not going to.

Rockstar doesn't care about its games anymore, they exist solely as money making vehicles, I'm not expecting much from 6.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't really put much thought into it, but yeah.

Chances are the story is going to be heavily compromised. There will probably be a lot of comparison to GTA V and a lot of people will say "this was an out of touch, stupid story with lame characters" or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This one has a female protagonist, so I look forward to not being able to differentiate between legitimate criticism about the game, and reviews from man-children that are mad that women exist.

And then if the single player experience bombs, I also look forward to Rockstar pointing to the female protagonist as the reason, and not because they're pouring all their resources into micro transactions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I personally feel like it will be pretty easy to recognize whether different pieces of criticism are outright misogynistic, borderline, or not misogynistic.

I do think that if the story is getting called "too woke" and resembles Veilguard or Concord in tone, that's actually legitimate criticism, separate from outright misogyny.