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I hope Rockstar allows us to play as a female protagonist in GTAVI.
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FWIW, you can already play a female protagonist in GTA Online.
In terms of the SP, Rockstar games are always highly derivative of film. When there are crime/gangster films featuring interesting female characters, I'd expect them to show up in GTA. I think it's Hollywood that needs to take the lead there.
In terms of the SP, Rockstar games are always highly derivative of film. When there are crime/gangster films featuring interesting female characters, I'd expect them to show up in GTA. I think it's Hollywood that needs to take the lead there.
There was an interview where someone asked the Housers that exact question ("female when?") and they shrugged it off saying they have 40 years+ of GTA story ideas and none involve any female protags because their stories are more or less mimicking the oldschool type flicks with male protags.
They also said they'd never do another GTA outside of america again in that same interview but people still request it so there's that.
They also said they'd never do another GTA outside of america again in that same interview but people still request it so there's that.
The concept art of GTAV really fooled me, i really hoped there would be one.
I thing the series of interviews you mention is here:
The one where he talks about female lead:
He only spoke about GTAV... i think
or
The one about USA:
Or rather have them make another GTA spin-off based on life of Akihabara.
Maybe they can pull it off with MCFem.
Maybe they can pull it off with MCFem.
Because including a woman would risk fucking the franchise? Bollocks to that noise.
Totally 100% disagree. White men can have shitty tropey characters all the time. Why can't I? Not every character can be perfect and to not have representation because of it is pretty terrible.
A lot of it was GTA Online concept art. They still show it on GTA Online loading screens.
We will probably see female protagonists at the same time as SP Story DLC in current and next-gen games.
You want them to make a GTA game that's the size of a small city block?
Whatever their promotion scheme was, they still fooled me ;)
There was no separation with online back then over here.
Said GTAV not GTA Online.
Without Michael, i am not sure i would have enjoyed that game. But that' another thing ;)
I hope i get to play a strong and cunning woman on GTAVI . I wouldn't mind if i could play a Fed ;)
I could see a female protagonist if she was one of multiple options, or if Rockstar did an Assassin's Creed: Odyssey kind-of-a-thing where you could play as a single protagonist, but could select either a male or female variant.
My ideal version would be that a female protagonist was but one of the multiple protagonists in the game.
My ideal version would be that a female protagonist was but one of the multiple protagonists in the game.
I'm pretty confident we will get a female protagonist in the next GTA if they use the several protagonists approach again.
Kill Bill has such a focused and driving narrative in comparison to a game like GTA though. GTA games are more about portraying 'the life' rather than specific events. There are always revenge elements in the GTA games, but those plots take a back seat for huge portions of the game. I'm not sure how that would work in the context of a story like Kill Bill.
I honestly can't think of any major female characters in the genre of movies that serve as the inspiration for GTA games. To me, that's the underlying problem that needs to be addressed, since the Housers lift so much of their GTA stuff directly from movies. On the big screen we see lots of female spies, but so few hardened female criminals.
What about GTAs visual style stops a female protagonist from being used? I don't get it.
The GTA games have often deliberately courted controversy. Personally, I don't think they'd be particularly bothered by that criticism, since they're no stranger to criticism (and outrage in general).
Agreed, but the criticism is much louder with the advent of social media and the issues more polarizing with the "SJWS ruining everything" rhetoric all over the internet. Not to mention, most game companies have tried do a better job in that regard than in the past, due to having a decent understanding to issues they never even considered before.
Haha it doesn't. Just a personal preference of mine. I'm sure if rockstar put their mind to it, they could write a cool female character.
I could see how they could use again the 'three protagonists' formula and have one of them be a woman.
I'd like them to do a fully customisable character and a few voice actors regarding ethnicity and gender, it'd be expensive, but this is GTA we're talking about it's a franchise that makes literally all the money in the world, and more to boot. It's also a franchise known for its ridiculously large budgets so they could totally pay several voice actors to record the lines and pay for the budget of a character creator.
The Housers hold us, all of us, Americans especially, in contempt. It's obvious.
The point of GTA is to be a massive fuck you to players, to places like LA, and to America. When you play and take GTA's story at face value and sympathize with the characters unironically, the joke is on you. The whole online aspect, the economic, the whale spending of MTX, that's the Houser's biggest joke on Hollywood culture, on players who enjoy that shit, on the pointless stupidity of American capitalism. It's satire.
American masculinity is part of that joke. If the protagonist was female, she would be the embodiment of everything wrong with Hollywood's depiction of women and the surrounding sociopolitical culture of trying to live up to that "ideal", in the same way the male characters are the product and victims of a society gone wrong. Whatever your orientation, do you really want a female protagonist to be the butt of that joke?
GTA 6 hasn't even been announced, They may will have a female protagonist, No one knows anything about the game yet.
How's Gears of war being recieved since switching to female protagonist? Haven't played those games since 360 era. I'm not calling it Gears like I don't call Pro Evo... PES
How's Gears of war being recieved since switching to female protagonist? Haven't played those games since 360 era. I'm not calling it Gears like I don't call Pro Evo... PES
I doubt many of those who wish for a female protag would be fine with a protagonist full of negative female stereotypes and tropes, seeing how the men protags are portrayed. But, you never know. I'd for one welcome it, it would be interesting.
I hope whatever they do, they ditch the multiple protagonist route and stick with only one.
I hope whatever they do, they ditch the multiple protagonist route and stick with only one.
RDR2's Sadie showed that Rockstar can absolutely create interesting and powerful ladies without any fan service etc. I doubt they'll have a female character as the only main protagonist in GTA6 though, but maybe they let us choose like with AC Odyssey or make a character swap midgame.
Personally i dont care about optional woman as playable character. If i have the choice i will stick with a guy anyway.
I only hope its in Vice city again.
I only hope its in Vice city again.
From a representation standpoint wouldn't it be far more insulting if they were to make a female lead and then treated her differently from the male characters? In the sense that they tried to make her likable while the male characters are always scum. They can still do storytelling that factors in that she's a woman. Like how little respect women tend to have in the criminal underworld. But that wouldn't necessarily make her out to be "good". She'd still ultimately be taking missions that involved murdering people, pushing drugs, extortion, bank robberies etc.
Have you played RDR2?
They absolutely know how to write one.
GTA never copies the movies it apes 1:1 like you're mentioning here. Them copying Kill Bill would be copying the spine of the story. Protag is in a crew, life's good, then all of a sudden, left for dead. The end goal would be of course making due with where she was wronged (most GTA endings involve settling the score with someone who wronged you) but the guts of the game is where the Houser writing comes into play. They fill in the gaps and make a GTA game of you trying to get to the people who wronged you. Seeing as there's a time skip between the "left for dead" and the actual start of the main game, this creates the unknown for the PC
I want a GTA game starring the actress who played Snoop from The Wire.
Basically just let me play as Snoop.
Basically just let me play as Snoop.
This would be really cool.
The only possible counterpoint I can think of is how GTA is an extremely violent franchise and how a female protagonist getting beaten up etc. could parallel domestic violence (against women) or just more generally violence against women and misogyny. I can especially see Rockstar having some scenes allude to sexual assault in gratuitous and harmful ways in a game with a female protagonist.
That said, I'm of the personal opinion that treating a male and female possible protagonist more or less equally in terms of violence would be a valid path to take so I'd be interested in seeing how Rockstar did it.
That said, I'm of the personal opinion that treating a male and female possible protagonist more or less equally in terms of violence would be a valid path to take so I'd be interested in seeing how Rockstar did it.
The amount of problems they would get by including a female protagonist in a game such like GTA, we would never hear the end of it.
Woman committing crime, getting beaten up, insulted by bystanders, doing ANYTHING sex related... Parents associations and social media would get that shit banned before it's even released. Not agreeing with it, but I know that's what would eventually happen.
Nah, you won't see this, not in this politic climate. And if they dare to do it, expect headlines coming non stop for the next freaking decade.
But I would like a gangster woman in GTA, sure why not.
Woman committing crime, getting beaten up, insulted by bystanders, doing ANYTHING sex related... Parents associations and social media would get that shit banned before it's even released. Not agreeing with it, but I know that's what would eventually happen.
Nah, you won't see this, not in this politic climate. And if they dare to do it, expect headlines coming non stop for the next freaking decade.
But I would like a gangster woman in GTA, sure why not.
What's the problem with a prostitute protagonist?
Have her be at the wrong place at the right time so the mob hunts her down and then she turns the tables and kills them then takes over their empire. Done.
won't sell that great so can't see them doing it. at this point i doubt rockstar will want to change their formula. V is one of the best selling games of all time. they'll want VI to sell more than V.
Fucking Saints Row showed how it can be done in an open-world crime game. So I think it is waaayyyyy over due for Rockstar to do a GTA with a female protagonist.
And to the people saying "they make too much money to fuck with the formula" That is exactly what they did with RDR2 and look how that game sold. If anything the fact that GTA 5 made/is making money hand over fist means it is the perfect opportunity to mess with the formula and experiment.
And to the people saying "they make too much money to fuck with the formula" That is exactly what they did with RDR2 and look how that game sold. If anything the fact that GTA 5 made/is making money hand over fist means it is the perfect opportunity to mess with the formula and experiment.
GTA isn't going to lose sales because it has a female protagonist lmao. Who in the actual fuck would be like "Oh cool a new GTA. Oh I have to play as a girl ewwwww I'm not buying it now"?
