Finally official.

I was just about to throw myself off a roof but now I have something to look forward to. Ill be around for another 6 or 7 years everyone!!!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rockstar removed transphobic jokes from the most recent re-release of GTAV and quietly canceled an online mode called Cops 'n' Crooks after the George Floyd protests. Grand Theft Auto VI will have a female Latina protagonist — the first playable woman in modern Rockstar history</p>&mdash; Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1552278150192693248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'm sure the gamer™ reaction to this news will be calm and restrained.

I look forward to the "Get woke, go broke" line being trotted out whilst GTA rakes in another couple billion dollars worth of sales.

If gta gets woke it literally will go broke. Like when midway made a T rated mortal kombat. Literally put them out of business

Look who’s an idiot now.

God I hope the female character is a she/they.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rockstar Games has spent the last four years overhauling its culture and working to become a kinder, more progressive company. But what does that actually look like? And what does it mean for the company's next game, Grand Theft Auto VI? My latest feature: <a href="https://t.co/8VlTh63uNm">https://t.co/8VlTh63uNm</a></p>&mdash; Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1552277826669248514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

dont worry I'll always have you to skew the curve

thats what they should do. Well in the sense it should just be a silent user created protagonist. Its what has worked so well for their gta:o. Having a main line character driven story seems pretty pointless. Just let people make what ever they want.


That said if the game doesnt relentlessly mock everyone it will fail. A GTA with no teeth isnt GTA. Would be like if south park became PC. Wont work.

Shouldve been gta: o not gta:o lol

6 years later and i still feel this way. Replayed san adreas recently though. Holds up.

Right now the only ones it mocking Is a bunch of cry baby snowflakes who always groan whenever something challenges their puritanical sensibilities. I can’t wait for it to become the biggest selling game in the history of games after it’s released, quickly proving the white wrong. I mean right.

I hope there’s missions where you have to acknowledge someone’s pronouns or you fail.

Use a non gendered bathroom.

What was Cops n Crooks?

I’m not sure. Maybe you’re the cops murdering blacks?

The Crooks team have an objective they have to reach across the map and the Cops team have to stop them and kill them before they get there.

Honestly it was a fun mode and you could easily just call it something else and make it two rival gangs instead of cops and it'd be fine.

Gtav is loaded with incentive and racey humor. And its the best selling game in history.

why would they soften coo killing? Antipolice sentiment is pretty popular right now and taking down crooked police has been a central theme in every game

I’m sure the actual game play has nothing to do with it. Can’t wait until a woke video game is the best selling video game in history.

Youve got the weirdest religion

Which religion is that?

Many games have had GTAs gameplay. None have replicated its tone, style and sense of humor. Try as they might. True Crime, Saints Row, Watchdogs hell simpsons road rage.true crime mechanically was better than GTA in every gameplay aspect by a country mile. Didnt matter of course. It lacked the spirit. And thats always been the draw. GTA 3 and vice city very legitimately played like shit. Even for the time. Didnt matter. Biggest games of their time.

GTA has never been about the gameplay. Ever. GTA 4 was a decent cover shooter but the cover shooters of its day were way better. GTA polished its self up pretty good with 5. You atleast werent fighting the game anymore. Plays the smoothest for sure.

Not to hearken back to a previous analog but its like watching south park for the animation

I wonder if the popularly of the brand itself has anything to do with it being more popular to than all all those games. Or the fact practically everyone bought a copy when it came out so it was easy to get your friends together for online play. But I’m sure it’s a racism and what have you.

Or playing MK for the balanced mechanics.

Thing that is adversarial to your opinion is racist or some other ism. Really stretching your intellectual parameters arent you.

About as nuanced as a brick to the face

Can’t wait for “gee gollies” instead of “holy shit”.

I slapped a load on your mother’s face like a brick. Think she has a concussion. You should call and check on her pal.

Nuanced enough for ya?

Thats exactly the level of discussion id expect from you. Its on me for engaging.

You’re a baby who gets upset and starts with the personal attacks whenever someone disagrees or challenges you.

IC really misses Nark.

Hey now, I would never ever speak to Nark like that.

Saints row 2-4 were good.

I love all the games i listed there save watchdogs. They arent staples of the medium though. If the gameplay was the draw they would be. Saints row 2, 3 and 4 play way better than gta 3 and vc.

Gta's success isnt exactly a mystery after all. Kids telling other kids about fucking prostitutes and killing them to get their money back did more for the sales of 3 than anything. GTA is a franchise literally built on being edgey, crass and often taboo. Especially with 3 as it hadnt really been a game that went that hard on console ever.

Pushing against neo-puritans is intrinsic to the fiber of its being. Because without its just watchdogs.

Grown men crying about video games.

Really hope it’s strictly water guns in this version.

I hope instead of banging hookers you have to do outreach and help get them off of the street and into a safe, healthy home. Later on you need to help her find gainful employment. And to quench the bloodthirsty individuals of the former non woke franchise, you get to rough her former pump up after you’ve called the cops of course.

And on the topic of social justice censorship the thing about comedy that makes edgey humor good is its equal opportunity shit stirring. Its inclusive. Everyone gets ragged on. VC had a talk radio show of a husband and wife radio team. One was liberal one was conservative. Mocked them both. Some jokes the red tie got it some jokes the blue tie got it. There were bits mocking italians, gays, jews, women, soccor moms, cops, rappers, country music it didnt matter. We all could laugh at one another. If you say X is off limits what you're really saying is X isnt part of the club. You single them out as a literal other and you make bringing people together impossible.


Its the oedipal mother running wild.

Are you okay? Do you have someone you can talk to?

#DestorDecrees

Tell me, are the social justice warriors in the room with you now?

Dont know where else to post this but my phone spies on me and the youtube algorithm picked up this conversation and it recommended this:


https://youtu.be/9EZGciae8aw


Amazing video here. Some guy is remastering Simpsons hit and run and going as far as reanimating the cutscenes by hand in traditional animation. Its imperfect but crazy impressive. Hit and Run was always very underrated. I think it was slept on because of the licensing. Real shame.

OH GOD THEY'RE WAGGING THEIR FINGERS AT ME HALP!!!!

Was checking out the new saints row and it reminded me of this topic. Its exactly the toothless "comedy" im hoping GTA doesnt become. It has no edge whatsoever. None in its writing or missions. Its like twitter made a saints row game. It fails to be funny or interesting. Hopefully the folks at TakeTwo/Rock Star are much more talented. Hard to say since most the writing staff has moved on in the very nearly 10 years since making gta 5 but with the money TakeTwo has surely they can bring in some people to do at least a bit better than the objective failure that Saints Row clearly is.

My hope is that they see themselves as untouchable, the same way Trey Parker and Matt Stone do, and just dont give a fuck.

Also, yeah new saints row sounds awful. Very bland, lifeless world, in addition to a plethora of bugs.

Rockstar got hacked and over an hour of very early development GTA 6 footage was put out there along with source code.

I'd imagine it's a rough day for their IT security department.

Eh. some employee on Slack. Given the craziness of Slack, my guess is this dude was most likely "let right in" via a Slackbot channel that acts as a doorkeeper for new users. problem is, this method will circumvent any SSO methods currently deployed. The proper method would be to set up a user account, grant access to Slack via a security group or role-based function, and then access it behind SSO.


This is part of my daily duties for an org with about 10k + employees. I get bitched at constantly.

Now the REAL kick in the dick is the source code leak. Mainly, it will have to be re-built if they plan on continuing with Shark Cards, and they will. Otherwise, it can be reverse engineered in it's current state to just give infinite shark cards on-demand. That type of infrastructure is not built in a day, and has to be compliant on the customer-facing end to be allowed to take credit cards. For a machine to take credit card payments, it has to be compliant with PCI rules. It's a fucking mess.


That's the shittiest of the shitty. The EE who got wreck'd will also be let go...... that poor sod will be dragged through the mud 100 different ways. Hopefully, there's no legal recourse for what is presumably, a silly mistake.

The hacker also fucked up by threatening, as I'm now reading. He has threatened to "spill more".


Now, beyond the passive-maliciousness, he is acting aggressive. That will net him an entirely new set of players in a different ballgame I don't think he wants to play.


It's one thing to get creds by spoofing, or social engineering. A completely different ball game with the actual data scientists are set out on you and making custom shit to track/locate/break most things you try to do online.

Highlights from a video, that has since been taken down:





comments are not mine, but the summary thread on reddit.

Gonna be a shitstorm for a while. Even before all of this most people were estimating late 2024/early 2025 before this game ever got released and if they now have to scrap and re-write source code it could be considerably longer.

Hacker is dumb as fuck if he keeps up with the threats though. This isn't some terrorist/hostage situation, this is a video game. It's not like he can extort them for millions.

Dude's gonna eventually get caught and end up in a legal maelstrom over a video game.

lol, he's only asking for 5 figures for GTA V source code, and VI is not for sale right now.


Nonetheless, R* better start finding a way to patch their shit.

hmmm...at least we now know there won't be SA and LC locations :(

wanted to be able to fly between all the main territories (outside of London) asset reuse.

No more fucking flying cars.

kid was caught

Well, if the “Liberty City, it’s over!” thing from the Grand Theft Auto IV manual is anything to go by, they may never go back to LC, and going back to SA after Grand Theft Auto V was set there would just be silly. Also, I’m not even really sure how well received a game in the series that has bits of story in every location used since the PS2 era would even be. Just saying.

could have been epic and the largest geographical video game ever. they've been milking 5 for so long it could last the next few generations of consoles. then add London. bam

I kind of think fictionalized versions of different cities is the way to go moving forward. Yes, everyone who has played the games remembers London, LC, VC, SA and the world's of the portable titles fondly, but I’m curious how a fictional Detroit or Chicago, heck even Mexico City if they ever wanted to do a game set outside the USA again.

Fuck it, I hope they add space travel.

"All you had to do was follow the damn meteorite, CJ!"

They kinda did UFO stuff in V....... so why not?

Would be funny if they DID do some space stuff and did it better than Starfield before it even releases.

Reddit going off saying there will be a trailer before the end of the year.

Rockstar themselves tweeted out that a trailer is coming early december.

Sounds like reddit knows whats up

So. Next Tuesday.

Tomorrow

Trailer got leaked ahead of tomorrow's scheduled release and instead of trying to take it down from those who leaked it, Rockstar ended up officially releasing it early.

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Looks amazing. Skyline is gorgeous. Also, holy shit if the npc density is that high.

Not just the amount but how it looks like they're all doing their own thing and not all just walking aimlessly.

*long low pitched whistle*

That looks purdy.

Incels mad one of the protagonists is officially female because of course.

We will see if that many NPCs (and flamingos) end up being that dense but Rockstar typically what you see is what you get. I love all the Florida Man stuff.

I wonder if there will still be radio stations or if it'll be Spotify stand in playlists/podcasts/Tiktok esque? Hoping for DJs...always so funny.

Can't wait to twerk on cars.

Holy shit!

I'll hold my breath with the trailer vs reality.... been burned a TON on that the past few years. But if so..... JESUS TF CHRISTOS!

I wonder how much of the ocean (and underwater) there will be? Sea monster sightings anyone?

Can I see one of these threads? Need a good laugh.

Stand in cities for Tampa, Daytona, etc? There's gotta be for the Orlando area (theme parks!). Havana stand in?

FB groups. Probably can find some in IGN's comments....if only Metroid Prime could have waited for this time line to reveal a female protagonist lol

A tennis court and jet skis were shown. There's a moving barge.

Deep sea fishing? Scuba diving? Dump bodies for the fishes? Crabbing? Parasailing? I hope to get a game of pickleball in lol

How will they address vehicle key fobs? Some kind of FlipperZero like device?

100% going to create some Dexter looking mutherfucker in online and dump bodies in the ocean :shifty::shifty::shifty:

Can't wait for the inevitable "GTA gone woke!?" videos.

Really hope GTA 6 has a mission that is just titled "Florida Man" and it ends up being one of the craziest missions ever in GTA history.

:yes:

This is the whole mission

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Did you see the FLORIBAMA MUDDIN' BOY?!?!!?

It's gonna get crazy.

Tim Pool looks to have started rolling this ball.

Musk started rolling another ball on why he couldn't play GTA5 because he couldn't morally kill the cops.

God this looks so fucking fun

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">�� All the real life, viral Florida references you might have missed in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GTA6?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GTA6</a> trailer. <a href="https://t.co/unQvKiav6z">pic.twitter.com/unQvKiav6z</a></p>&mdash; GameSpot (@GameSpot) <a href="https://twitter.com/GameSpot/status/1732166042015691253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Boner

I could see them doing like San Andreas and expanding beyond just knock off Florida. Considering the rumors of this map being far larger than the previous maps, I could possibly see an Atlanta or New Orleans based city being part of the map.

Man GTA lampooning New Orleans would actually be pretty awesome now that I think about it.