The internet’s GTA 6 takes are so bad they brought Shitty Gamer Takes back from death
The rumor of a female protagonist set off a round of particularly bad opinions.
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Rumor has it thatGrand Theft Auto 6will let youplay as a woman. And a man. According to a report published byBloomberg, the protagonists will be “a pair of leading characters in a story influenced by bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde” and the woman will be “Latina”. The internet responded to this in its usual calm and considered manner. Ha ha, no, people lost their damn minds.
The Twitter accountShitty Gamer Takesused to bless/curse us by uncovering the and highlighting videogame discourse at its worst—speedrunning demonstrates a lacking work ethicbeing just one memorable example. After six months of dormancy, it was revived for this special occasion because there are people out there convinced that if the next Grand Theft Auto does include a playable woman it will be “GTA 6, The Woke Edition” and that Rockstar has “ruined gta with this woke stuff”. Which seems like a heck of a reach based on what is, again, merely a rumor.
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While there’s terrible discourse in every online community (writer Twitter is a sewer), there is something special about the leap a classic Gamer take delivers. Take theresponsethat begins, “I’m expecting there won’t be any female prostitutes or strip clubs, and the story will say that vehicles are not privately owned so technically you are not committing GTA.” The gigantic stretch from “ifGTA 6lets you be a woman it won’t have strip clubs” to “also cars won’t be private property” is what transforms an ordinary bad opinion into the ideal Shitty Gamer Take.
You can play a woman in GTA Online and last time I checked it hadn’t gone full communism with regards to vehicle ownership, and was as crass as ever. And let’s not forget Katie, Mikki, Divine, and Ulrika, the four women among the portraits you could select in the very first Grand Theft Auto. If anything, a new GTA having both male and female protagonists would be bringing the series back to its roots.
Given that therewon’t be any more major updates for Red Dead Online, andover 220 job listings went up on Rockstar’s careers page last month, it does seem like work on GTA 6 is ramping up in earnest. Those extra staff will be needed if the other part of Bloomberg’s report is true, which suggested that GTA 6 will be released in a live-service fashion like Destiny. That seems like a far more concerning idea to me than the possibility you might have to briefly play a woman in some of the story missions.
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