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I'm not likely to buy this game, but I'm still more likely to buy it than willingly visit Florida (I'll only go if I get sent to the concentration camp)
Hell yea. Playing a woman means I can look at a woman all the time I play.
Why would I want to stare at a man the entire game long.
This is the oldest excuse in the book. Just admit you want to be a girl this time. There's no shame in it. Or any reason at all to say "hur hur I want look at lady, boys gross"
Who even looks at the models? Enjoy the works around the character
I play female characters without any desire to be a woman. I don’t identify with the characters I play just as a ventriloquist doesn’t identify with his puppet.
Having met a number of ventriloquists, they often identify with their puppets an unhealthy amount.
Sorry, but guy asses aren't as pretty as girl asses. Im a bi girl though, so probably not representative of the population.
I mean, girl asses are much prettier than guy asses. I'm a straight guy, though, so probably an even worse representative of the population.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
I am legit one of the men who likes to play as a woman in games from time to time without any excuse. I have always been a maverick. I always like to go against the perceived norm and I enjoy doing something different. Playing as a woman for me is always spicing things up and a break from the usual man things, whatever that is.
That said, FemShep is the only Shep!
I always play female if I can and you are right, for the longest time i wish I were a girl. Not so sure today but I wouldn't mind clothing to be less restrictive. Women can wear all kind of nice clothes and men just... Jeans and a t-shirt it is.
I agree with you on the clothing, but it isn't a strict requirement. I've been wanting to get a kilt for the longest time, but I haven't committed. I've never had issues with my gender as a man, but I do want more clothing options easily available and more socially acceptable.
To be fair, that is basically describing the beginning few missions of San Andreas anyway.
The best GTA imo. I love how you can change your character by doing things, binge eating/hitting the gym/etc.
That's an amazing RPG mechanic that I'm amazed that didn't become the norm in RPGs (wonder if they patented it or something).
The more you run the faster you get, the more you fight the stronger you get.
You get progress in an intuitive, and rewarding way. No menus.
The more you run the faster you get, the more you fight the stronger you get.
That's how final fantasy 2 and every elder acrolls game works
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (also known as "Skyrim but it's Totally Not Warhammer Fantasy with a little bit of Scorn sprinkled on top") has that mechanic too.
The more you run the faster you get
The Elder Scrolls
the more you fight the stronger you get
literally every RPG ever made
Not really.
In most RPGs, you get skill points you can then allocate in a menu.
In San Andreas, it was automatic, you run a lot, your running/stamina increases, you punch a lot, your strength goes up...
No menus
I'm well aware of how it worked in San Andreas. Fable 3 tried to eliminate menus and it was by far the worst game in the series because of it.
The Elder Scrolls does this too. You increase skills through use which increases their effectiveness (damage for melee skills). Even when leveling up has a menu for attribute allocations, the skills are mostly automatic.
They mean that GTA:SA did not have visual indicators like menus and stat system showing your progress.
Kingdom Come Deliverance does this pretty well.
No mana either!
I CAST UZI
a few years ago I've heard this straight guy give the advice of "of course I'm picking the girl in a third person view game. i'm not gonna stare at a man's behind for hours of playing"
I alternate between "play the guy because more relatable" and "play the girl because ass"
Then again, my friend also used the "I don't wanna watch a guy all day" reasoning when I asked him and well, now we all know she wanted to be a girl all along.
The real gender was the one she made along the way.
Another one that irks me for some reason is that a LOT of games get the MOST boring, cookie-cutter action hero voice actor for the dude. I just can't get invested when "me" in the game sounds so unenthusiastic. I tend to pick the female character/voice option just bc they seem to put more effort into it. See: CP2077, most bioware games.
I picked the female character on cp2077 on a whim and thank God for that. The story is so much better with a female protagonist (at least until now, I haven't finished yet) and V Friendship with Jackie is much more sweet like an unlikely duo. The voice actor is also great. I saw some clips of male V and it not even comparable how different the game feels.
I've played through as male and female, they did such an amazing job making the writing and delivery different for Johnny when talking to V.
You can tell he's a misogynist.
I have played through Cyberpunk just once so far, as female V. I've rarely felt so comfortable in a character's shoes. It felt fresh
This is 100% the case in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Male player character voice sounds absolutely ridiculous, like Christopher Nolan's Batman but even worse.
Oh man yeah, I didn't even bother playing the male protag since I heard Kassandra was the canonical or intended choice. Then I heard Alex or whoever and was so glad I didn't have to listen much longer.
I used that excuse when I was younger and more insecure. Now I just own it and say I do it because I like to play as women more than men. I'm a man IRL, but sometimes I wanna try on the other sex
I coped like this when I was younger too. Now I say I play the character that I would most want to be. I'd love to be a super fucking hot girl who commits crimes. Unironically, it appeals to the male fantasy lmao
If one transitions, she can be a super hot girl who commits crimes in numerous countries by simply existing
Florida be swimming with the fishes soon dear, very soon.
Never pay ownership money to rent a game someone else owns and can steal from you at any time. The only games that exist are those you can play in 50 years on a whim because you fucking bought them.
My plan is to play gta 6 in 50 years so I can visit Miami when it no longer exists 😁
When GTA6 becomes a period piece:
"Oh! Remember when cars used to look like that?"
"Remember when cars used to be above water?"
"It's so dry here!"
The weather is going to continue to get worse but I keep seeing people perpetuating the idea that sea levels rising will be significant enough to put Florida "underwater". Orlando is 112 ft over sea level. Sea level is estimated to rise 10-12 inches over the next 25 years. The Everglades and the Keys will be in trouble but the majority of the state have been built up off sea level because of storm surge. In the grand scheme of things I would be more worried to live in tornado alley or the arid areas like Arizona.
I plan to move to the Canadian border one day to hopefully put some roots in the future green zone.
I'm at 35ft above sea level at the moment and wish I could go a day without seeing something hateful about my state. It's frustrating enough that I have to live around all these conservative geezers. It would be really nice if some aging millennials would start a demographic shift. It's not so long ago that Florida was a swing state.
You picked the only real landlocked city in Florida to mention sea level? 2,400,000 Florida residents live less than 4 feet above high tide. 75% of the state lives on the coast. I'm here too, and half the roads have drainage problems when it rains. Planes couldn't land at the ft Lauderdale Airport in 2023 because the runways flooded. It's gonna be a mess man
Just manly man things :3
BEING NICE TO WOMEN IS THE MOST BAD*SS THING YOU CAN DO
Doing girly things us the most sigma male thing one can do. Wearing Neal polish, skirts etc shows you're not insecure about your masculinity.
Or something idk :3
Hype is real but GTAs usually set the standard for open world games and alway advance the genre. We'll see but excited to see what they got going.
Idk. They haven’t advanced their shooting mechanics in over 20 years. They have advanced predatory anti-consumer practices though.
The narratives are generally good but I’m of the mind that I don’t want satire when living in such a shitty and insane time.
If I get a chance to play for free, I’ll take it but I’m not giving rstar or take2 any money.
games and alway advance the genre
what was groundbreaking in gta v from a gameplay perspective? Switching characters?
I was playing as the flash in the saints row series at this point.