• Mugita Sokio@discuss.online
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      8 hours ago

      GTA is a disgusting franchise, and the content in the games is just awful. Maybe the stories are good, but do you really need to insert heavy esex and substance use into a game like that? That’s called desensitization, and I’m sensitive to quite a few things (not this fake sensitivity that’s floating around… legit sensitivity).

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          8 hours ago

          I pulled an Am I The Genius? here, which explains it. I might have to modify that a bit, since I don’t remember how they did it.

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        So that’s why you don’t play GTA. I don’t agree, but you do you.

        To get back on topic, why don’t you play older games as you said. That’s specifically what the other user asked.

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          4 hours ago

          Maybe I should’ve clarified something, as the older games were included due to the fact that GTA’s writing, content and mechanics were just disgusting. On top of that, I wouldn’t do any of that stuff in real life, let alone in something like GTA.

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            On top of that, I wouldn’t do any of that stuff in real life, let alone in something like GTA.

            So you wouldn’t do anything in a video game that you wouldn’t do in real life?

            I think you need to see a therapist if you have that much trouble differentiating fact from fiction

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        20 hours ago

        GTA is a disgusting franchise

        Because of this nobody noticed how woke GTA:SA was. If you depicted the CIA smuggling cocaine and weapons into black communities while the justice system imprisons young black men with wildly disparate sentencing 2025, the game would be canceled, by the kind of chuds who just see “cool violence!”

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          San Andreas was the wokest of them all, but GTA V is pretty woke too. Your main enemies are three letter agencies, the in-universe equivalent of Blackwater/Academi/XE (legit their GTA name has been consistent for longer than their real names at this point, might as well call them real life Merriweather) and you pull a hit on an asshole tech CEO, a tobacco company CEO, etc. But then, GTA V has also been out for over a decade now.

          I hope they keep the theme going with the next one. Show it all as a bunch of “cool violence” while beneath the surface it’s critique of consumerism, government overreach and society in general.