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GTA V is just a stupid game no matter what platform it's on

ibtimes: Using the video editor mode available in the recent PC release of Grand Theft Auto V, PC Gamer recently captured and posted this video of Franklin, one of the game's characters, kicking a cat to death.

It professes to be punkish, rebellious and attacking of "the system" but ultimately attacks women, gay people and people of colour – like a man stomping a cat to death, Grand Theft Auto V uses its might to kick down at people whom society has already made vulnerable.

But Grand Theft Auto V is such a thick game, such an idiotic game, a game of such total classlessness or care that when thinking about it, I can't help but have my prose lowered to a single, emphatic statement: it's just stupid.

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WESKER20153297d ago

whoa!, look at you, somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.......prepare to be verbally abused! Lol

nugget273297d ago

Don't look at me, I didn't write this one. Opinions and all that

spacedelete3297d ago

article says its been submitted by you meaning you thought it was a good idea to post it. articles like this is what is ruining gaming. people stating their opinions as facts with stupid claims to rile people up.

Army_of_Darkness3297d ago

This article is stupid no matter who reads it.

subtenko3297d ago

Definitely not clicking on the article, I know its BS.

Just posting a comment as usual,how's everyone doin?

annoyedgamer3297d ago

Why did you post it then? This stuff is what is messing up the entertainment industry. It creates animosity.

Khajiit863297d ago

Booo! BOOOOO!!!

Dont post this junk.

omarcomingyo3297d ago

That makes you worse imo as you're doing the writers dirty work for them!! Well done!!

DragonKnight3297d ago

Just because skipper27 submitted it is no reason to go on attacking him/her for that. Lots of people submit stupid list articles, they're the problem. Them and the Kotaku articles. Anyway, people submit articles they come across that's about a game or gaming and doesn't violate N4Gs submission guidelines, no more thought is put into it than that.

As for this article, it was immediately made tripe by this...

"It professes to be punkish, rebellious and attacking of "the system" but ultimately attacks women, gay people and people of colour – like a man stomping a cat to death, Grand Theft Auto V uses its might to kick down at people whom society has already made vulnerable."

GTA games don't discriminate. Everything just said in that quote applies to straight white men as much as it does any other gender or sexual orientation. Besides, THEY ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE! The people in games are not real. They don't have an actual gender or an actual sexual orientation. They have simulated genders and simulated orientations. They are not real thus Rockstar is not "attacking" anyone. Rockstar allows for you to be as good or as bad a person as you want to be in these games. Short of story missions that have specific cutscenes and interactions necessary for the plot to move forward or for a specific personality to be developed, you don't have to beat up on that cat, you don't have to murder that prostitute, and you don't have to run over that black guy. Those are all things you CAN do if you WANT to do them, but you're not encouraged to do so.

Hell, if you do those things then you are going to be chased and killed by the cops. Why? Because just like in the real world, in this fictional world of GTA games it's illegal to do those things.

I seriously have to question the actual intelligence of these SJW/representation/MuhFeels type people and/or the standards of whatever educational institute they attended. I have to question it because I don't think I could stand a world in which people literally can't separate fiction from reality in this way and not have some kind of mental problem or seriously subpar education.

N0TaB0T3296d ago (Edited 3296d ago )

Never write again you hack. Your avatar fits your horrible personality.

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3-4-53297d ago (Edited 3297d ago )

Media is trying to separate and split us all before elections.

It's easier to manipulate that way.

It bleeds over into video games as there is "potential voters in video gamers".

Get it?

Your being used as a pawn by the media for clicks, for control, for money.

Articles like this do nothing good for truth telling anywhere.

Person who wrote this.

Never write anything again please.

Your not good at it.

* And yes GTA5 is kind of a stupid game that isn't nearly as good as people think. It's still kid of fun though.

Article is still trash though.

So is worthless headline.

madjedi3296d ago (Edited 3296d ago )

@wesker2015 So why did you iamnsuperman, mrmarvel29 and archangelmike all approve of the article, if it is as you believe it is a big fat load of bs?

If you guys get a paycheck out of these articles approved or submitted, I guess that makes sense.

You approve of the article to be posted, then go on to mock it or disagree with it, make up your mind already.

Who goes to play a gta or saints row game, expecting to play as a hero or good guy.

You murder people in those games regardless of race, gender, orientation or any other identification/label imaginable.

Either this person was totally ignorant on this series or this is a troll article.

mrmarvel293297d ago

Nothing to see here folks, just someone begging for clicks.

HammadTheBeast3297d ago

"ultimately attacks women, gay people and people of colour"

Yeah Ok.

Last I checked, I could deck out any of those people, or a white, middle-aged man.

Last I checked, they had a black man for one of their main protagonists.

Last I checked they had gay characters present. Isn't this what all the people wanted? Diversity in gaming?

Last I checked, GTA Online let you have any type of character you wanted, man, woman, and anything in between.

Now the writing of the article itself is complete garbage. "Like a man stomping a cat" 10/10 use of similes and analogies.

"GTA is stupid" He uses the word stupid like 20 times, if people get paid to write this shit, I should've become a writer at 8 years old.

iamnsuperman3297d ago (Edited 3297d ago )

This is a lot of the problems I had with the campaign. It doesn't make sense and suffers from lack of depth, poor pacing and decent characters which are hidden by a thin disguise of apparent satiricalness (which is does not have).

I think Rockstar needs to find out what GTA is. It tries to do all this serious, social commentary, soap style of story but fails to deliver as it also tries to also do the crazy wacky side of things. Saint Row is not a perfect game but at least it knows it is ridiculous and they go in that direction (I am not talking about having a dildo/dubstep gun in GTA but GTA's story should loose the seriousness/attempt at being a competent story). In future I think they should abandon the story entirely and just give you activities to do (like heists that have their own mini stories and events. GTA is a fun sandbox game but its story doesn't reflect that)

Dee_913297d ago

well maybe you should not play the game instead of hoping the core of the game would change.. just a thought.

reallyNow3297d ago

GTA is a lot like The Onion. At times, its so close to being a real story, that its believable. At other times, its off the wall crazy but you still understand what they're making fun of. The thought of someone not understanding the simple genius of GTA makes me sad.

ArchangelMike3297d ago

Unlike the author of the article, I am feeling articulate today, so I will point out the obvious, becasue obviouslyt the author maybe too stupid to come to the realisation himself.

Grand Theft Auto is just a medium.

What people choose to do in that medium is their perogative.

What people choose to do in GTA reflects their own ethics, and that is their perogative.

It is precisely becasue GTA allows for this level of personal expression that makes it sucha FUN game.

GTA is Fun.

That is all.

The_Sage3297d ago

Well said... When I play, I try to cause as little mayhem as possible. I don't hurt people or animals, and I try to not ever crash into anything. It's the way I like to play. Then you hand the controller to my friend and watch the chaos ensue. Everything in sight is hit with molotovs, grenades, rockets, and bullets. Once out of ammo, the beatings begin, until he's eventually taken out. I don't think he's ever done a story mission.

That's the fun of GTA... You can play the way you want.

Nyxus3297d ago

"It's just stupid. It's just a stupid game, made by stupid people about stupid people. The things it wants you to enjoy are stupid. The way it presents them is stupid. The missions are stupid, the writing is stupid, the whole tone is stupid."

Quality writing. If you are 8 years old.

SmokingMonkey3297d ago

LOL, wait till he finds a thesaurus and learns another word for "stupid"

Pulitzer prize right there!

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GTA 5’s cut “James Bond Trevor” DLC was already part-shot, actor says

The GTA 5 Agent Trevor DLC episode could have been a real treat for fans on PlayStation and Xbox, before it was scrubbed sometime before 2017.

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Killer2020UK2d ago

More interested in money than giving fans what they want. Such a shame

CrimsonWing692d ago

With the amount of money they generated, I just don’t understand the scrubbing of this. It would’ve been fantastic for fans.

Profchaos2d ago

I really want to know who drove the decision to focus on multiplayer was it Rockstar or take two.

Because when online started taking off many of the studio leads began having falling outs and leading including a founder

Demetrius1d 20h ago

Ikr mfs that greedy it's ridiculous

andy852d ago

This makes me sad. Trevor was one of my favourite characters in gaming

Demetrius1d 20h ago

One of the reason I believe once gta 6 release, most of us thoroughly play it, enjoy the world they crafted then after that no offline support, no dlc at all

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Grand Theft Auto V was released on PC on the 14th of April 2015. That means the game will be nine years old in four days, and it’s still among the most-played titles on Steam. With a 24-hour peak of 145K players, it’s as popular as Baldur’s Gate 3, Apex: Legends, and Destiny 2.

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The Best Open World Adventures In Gaming History

The freedom to explore large areas, approach objectives in multiple ways, and stumble across amusing distractions will always be an excellent format for video games, but some do it better than others. To celebrate the formula and parse the best from the best, have a look at the best open-world games of all time so far.

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