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Seriously though, I thought GTA's tone was feeling a decade out of date even in 2013. It just stinks of the late 90s and early 2000s, specifically of early South Park

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[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You could say it's unnecessary, but Gay bars at the time of release, and to an extent even to this day have this shit written on them, often as a reclamation of the term. Same goes for f*g - queer is now just part of the lingo, when it was a slur before. It's 'in your face', it's provocative, and I've seen people of such groups take pictures with those exact signs as a 'haha, that's us, we're f-gs/tr-nnies, fuck what ya heard' sort of thing.

Of course, there are different flavours of queer bar, some are much softer and strive for more of a safe space feel, but there are certainly a lot that lean more into being sleazy, punky, and even intimidating.

Perhaps I'm being too generous. I could accept that I am.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is the franchise whose FedEx parody is called PostOp

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

GTA writers subliminally transing gamers???!!

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry, but that's still fucking hilarious

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I’d go to the place above looks fun.

[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

Siri, generate what a cishet person would design when forced to create an inclusive queer bar.

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

These games have always sucked. I don't know in what possible world I would possibly want to play a videogame and listen and watch fake ads. Not to mention what terribly uninterested these games are in the cities they are actually set in besides their bare physical construction.

The only reason to ever play these games is to drive around on a motorcycle, which is arguably pretty damn fun.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I just remembered the game Driver. GTA is pretty garbage in comparison considering Driver has more actual grand theft auto in it.

Getting out of the garage was one of the hardest video game challenges that I have ever attempted.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Driver is great but you are coping hard if you think GTA doesn't do everything driver does an more (apart from car 'shifting'). I've probably put more hours into Driver than GTA overall but that's just because it has split screen so I could play it with my friends as a kid as a GTA replacement.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

If Atari didn't fuck Driver 3 (driv3r) we could have had more really great open games for the PS2/Xbox and the PS3/360.

Driver 2 you could drive and walk in both Havana and Rio de Janeiro (i think they use european portuguese VAs which is pretty funny). I remember there being a blog online that compared the game cities to RL version. Really cool.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago
[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

GTA has always been total shit and anyone who likes it is simply wrong. Play a different game GTA players there's a world of actual decent games out there