@matrix can someone remind me how having a black protag in a ghetto environment wasn't woke but having a female protag (despite most games with female protags usually being literal sex like bayonetta) is?
@matrix@Ace66062 Black protag in a ghetto was something that made sense for GTA though and the people who buy GTA fall in that demographic. It was also released during the gangsta rap boom of the 2000s.
It also was something more relatable than playing as a crime boss as in the previous GTA titles. Instead of playing as thrift store Tony Montana you're playing a character who for much of America was "literally me".
Now compare that to what focus groups think gamers could relate to. I'm sure if they made the main character an immigrant thug based on the Latin Kings or similar Hispanic gangs, the game would sell fuckloads. But the Rockstar of old is probably dead and trooned out if this is anything to go by, as this article says they're having issues shipping a game with the scope they have now. It would also paint the Shark Card shit in a new light as they'd be incapable of making a new game. https://archive.ph/OoQch
It also was something more relatable than playing as a crime boss as in the previous GTA titles. Instead of playing as thrift store Tony Montana you're playing a character who for much of America was "literally me".
Now compare that to what focus groups think gamers could relate to. I'm sure if they made the main character an immigrant thug based on the Latin Kings or similar Hispanic gangs, the game would sell fuckloads. But the Rockstar of old is probably dead and trooned out if this is anything to go by, as this article says they're having issues shipping a game with the scope they have now. It would also paint the Shark Card shit in a new light as they'd be incapable of making a new game.
https://archive.ph/OoQch