Anyone else not really excited for GTA VI?
I'm not dreading it's release and this isn’t about the quality of GTA VI itself I’m sure it’s going to be at the very least a solid experience it has less to do with the quality of the game and more to do with the world of GTA itself.
I'm not the biggest fan of American culture and pop culture. While there are aspects I like about American culture there is a lot more I dislike about Americana than like and the GTA Games are a parody and satire of America and American culture that amplifies the stereotypes of Americana. I get it's a lot of it is in critique and mockery but to me such world mostly has that and little warmth as a result an ugly reflection of America.
I'm just really fatigued of this Hollywood satire as that's all there is and little appeal to the human condition and heart and re watching The LOTR made me realize how much of that was missing in modern media and boy is GTA IV a big offender in this it's not a bad game but I don't think I'm gonna play it again for the foreseeable future.
I also just know that the release of GTA VI is going to spawn some of the most insufferable culture wars when it comes out and while the game itself can’t really be blamed for that it still doesn’t make it any less annoying. You’re going to see some Jim Crow era cartoon level of a stereotypical depiction of some minority demographic (probably homosexuals) and you’re going to get the most annoying culture war out of it with both sides acting like it’s progressive and woke (look at some of the new discourse about Florian for example to show how “woke” gta iv was)