@nodima: Yeah, I disagree. I think it's leaps and bounds above most games. Most of the stuff that you didn't like I appreciated. I liked the bickering about nothing because that seems to be everyone's favorite hobby these days, including myself. Everything about it seemed necessary to me and the game seemed to be filled with an avalanche of ideas and self assurance. I'm still peeling apart layers in that game. You don't often get clear cut messages in games but I think GTA V is an almost perfect dissection of the american dream and the superficial nature of our current world. It's brilliantly written.
I wouldn't even put The Walking Dead in the same boat. GTA V wipes the floor with that. For every emotional beat there's three hamfisted and stilted conversations in TWD.
100% agree with you here @spraynardtatum. Living in pretty much the heart of LA, it's jarring how well Rockstar North nailed the culture of various things here. Everything from the Hollywood/celebrity worship/gossip culture, weed, hipsters, the desert...even the fucking traffic is so spot on and I feel so many things go over a lot of peoples heads. It's the little intricacies. Listen to the commercials on the radio. Watch television and the different cartoons they have playing. The dialogue during car rides on missions. I feel like everything the game does makes a statement about something. Rather it be political, sociological, racial...the game is literally mirroring our society. When you are playing you are sort of dissecting it as spraynardtatum put it.
@nodima I feel the relationship between Franklin's and Lamar's relationship is great because it seems authentic. What I love about GTA and what Rockstar does is when they dive into different lifestyles, they respect it. They do the research, they grab real people that live these lives to make sure it transfers over true to its source. The type of bond they have may not be understood or by those who don't live the lifestyle, or that haven't been around it enough to fully understand it. A lot of the binkering between these characters are about very real subject matters in their world. Family, loyality, "making it out the hood". It's all about perspective. Crazy to think that people disliked the dialogue because I thought it was some of the best.
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