WOKESTAR games makes WOMAN OF COLOR protagonist 
they nailed contemporary florida btw; the energy is very correct
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The energy feels very much like every American stereotype I've seen or heard about, as a non American.
Florida is the Trump of America. Basically unfiltered and decadent
Texas is the John Wayne / Chuck Norris of America. Basically an idealized version of individualism and frontier but in reality it’s just an act
Christ, this is accurate af.
I'm from Texas. This is too accurate. Everyone here is a poseur (I'm sure I am too). I have Family from the Northern part of Florida, so while different, it is still insane. When I went to the beach by Peninsula, every house had Trump flags flying. Any hurricane would wipe those houses out instantly.
I'm in the panhandle and there is this bizarre disconnect where these people just love their "rugged individualism" but then Sunday rolls around and they are all about church unity and outreach, but in a superficial sort of way. I hate how many people here are fake nice and fake smiles.
"I'm not from Texas but I got here as soon as I could", I'm gonna go puke now.
And don't get me started on all the fucking lifted trucks that never make it outside city limits...
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Florida is just everything wrong the rest of Amerikkka on steroids, and no snow or basements
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I get what they're going for here. Show the city, the vibe, the graphical and animation differences over the first one. Not too much, but teased enough to make it abundantly clear that this is a leap forwards over 5. (which it should be, it's been 10 years)
Get the tastebuds going and leave them wanting more by giving no payoff to the trailer, the moment of climax is literally a cliffhangar. Will the robbery go ok? Will they trust each other? Will they betray each other? Who knows. Wait for the next trailer which will be on a totally different topic.
I think one thing I did notice in this trailer is that there is significantly more difference in the body diversity of character models, you've got larrrrrrge big bodied people, you've got height differences, you've got skinny women, you've got thiccccc women, there are huge muscle building men, gaunt guys, short guys, tall guys, overweight guys and more. At least I'm pretty sure I see different heights here:
Diversity of bodies is very difficult to do and stands out when games do it instead of using a 3 or 4 models over and over. I hope there's a huge range, it always irks me when every single character in a game is the same height.
Red dead 2 also had a good variety of body shapes, but even this looks to be more diverse than that.
It's one of the most valuable ways these world simulation style games can go to completely change the feel of them. One thing however that I think it will also do is highlight the absence of children. Not that I'm advocating for children in these games because they'll only be murder fantasies for people but when walking a city and seeing things like skateparks or children's equipment you also expect to see the occupants that would typically be at them. The closer we get to simulating cities and places the more certain things being absent will feel very uncanny.
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Needs to include Gusano's and insane old retirees.
there was definitely an insane retiree near the end of the trailer
Based on the woman who smashed a car with two hammers i think
After playing RDR2, I was hoping GTA 6 would have missions where you end up being roped into a CIA-backed Gusano plan to invade Cuba and get BTFO’d by not-Castro
There’s still hope it’ll happen, especially if the company still values controversy
There’s still hope it’ll happen, especially if the company still values controversy
but that's not the kind of controversy they value. Politically they've always done the south park libertarian nihilist schtick of "isn't all sides just equally crazy?!?!?!" RDR 2 might be a slight exception to that rule, because they set it 124 years ago
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Really lazy for rockstar to pack this trailer with tons of footage of actual Florida instead of finishing their game
Im not hyped for it but I will admit im very curious how it will turn out.
Yeah, same story here. Never really cared for GTA beyond/before 4 (which is apparently the black sheep lol), but I have to admit the Bonnie and Clyde theme is an interesting turn. I guess, in my case, it's also because it seems like the protagonist isn't boring and unsympthetic (cough 5).
My thoughts exactly. I had no hype at first since I didn’t like 5 very much, but now I’m interested at the very least. Could easily be shitty, but I’m hoping not.
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Fully expecting this to be yet another Rockstar Special, i.e. a technical marvel rendering a painstakingly crafted world, full of boring gameplay, underdeveloped systems, and dull, unlikable characters.
Biggest complaint of RDR2 - seemingly never ending tutorials. Every fucking mission had a new gameplay piece that wasn't used for fucking anything else and required you to use buttons in a totally different way than the last one.
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Just stop it
Stop injecting woke politics in my vidja
No one needs to see a het couple in a game
I just want the Red Dead thing of disappearing into the wilderness (swamps in this case) and emerging back into civilization covered in blood and dirt and like 5 extra inches of hair. If they pulled that off it would be GOTY for me.
Really want Florida Man style cryptid events
I cant wait to run over gusanos and rich people in this hyperrealistic game
Theres no way this doesnt end badly, it kinda feels irresponsible to make a game like this
Ten bucks says the main character is a gusano. Probably some reference about their family fleeing the great evil for beautiful America and now she has to turn to crime to survive. Rockstar isn't clever, and they love their right wing views.
Rockstar isn't clever, and they love their right wing views.
RDR2 was far from right wing. Though Dan Houser said he never cared for GTA and only like RDR, so perhaps the writing direction will be different.
Probably some reference about their family fleeing the great evil for beautiful America and now she has to turn to crime to survive.
… did you play GTA 4? It was an ex-Yugoslav veteran coming to America to achieve the American dream only to realize it’s all fake and the people are stupid for believing it.
San Andres was literally about CRASH harassing black people and forcing you to be involved with crime. At worst they’re libertarian but they seem to lean on the “wow the government is really shitty and we have to resort to crime” angle.
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I don’t understand why conservatives were automatically angry with this game just because of a female character. Couple gangs exist in real life. Aside from Bonnie and Clyde, there are several spree/serial killers with a couple dynamic. Did they forget that Natural Born Killers is a controversial movie that people tried to censor? Shouldn’t they be celebrating the game for taking that path?
Because there's a segment of gamer reactionary culture that hates the idea of females entering the gaming space, i.e. gamergate never ended for these fucking "people" and they are eternally angry.
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Yes but have you not considered woman bad and 
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You're giving them too much credit if you think the thought process was anything more than "women in my vidya, bad!!" Because that's what they've been told to think for a decade.
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looks actually cool as fuck
all the youtube comments are in spanish nice lol
i wonder how many hours of crunch went into realistic sweat animations or some shit
Biggest media thing in the world and you deliver such a weak ass fucking trailer? There's no oomph to it at all, random ass shots just thrown together, like something someone would throw together for a demo reel for internal use at some project meeting
take a deep breath comrade
It's trailer one, so I guess it's the trailer for the trailer lmao.
I hate modern media sometimes.
That’s how they present the previous games. It’s obviously working because everyone is talking about it and anticipating the next trailers.
The trailers are usually in this order:
Game environment -> Story -> Gameplay -> Feature Showcase -> A little bit more serious trailer -> Multiplayer
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Yeah compared to the Gta 4 trailers it's pretty weak, even V's trailer was better though the game itself wasn't very good.
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You're gonna need 250 gigabytes and an RTX 5090 to play this game
Add like 2 years to whatever the release date is for the PC version that my modest machine will surely be too outdated to run
I'd be interested if not for their history of gutting content in favor of their scam online services 🫤
I'm curious how they'll handle the crime aspect with it taking place in modern times. I was thinking again how this woman in the 2020 George Floyd protests was identified and arrested via an Etsy purchased shirt. Maybe the game takes place over the course like 72 hours before they get caught? I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but something that forces Rockstar to have a different story architecture than having the entire map open for you to hop from mission location to mission location would be a nice change.
this woman in the 2020 George Floyd protests was identified and arrested via an Etsy purchased shirt
Most crimes aren't investigated this thoroughly. Half of murders go unsolved.
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Goddamn.
I'm not laying any GTA game thst doesn't feature Big Smoke. I won't compromise this principle.
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