I’m not likely to buy this game, but I’m still more likely to buy it than willingly visit Florida (I’ll only go if I get sent to the concentration camp)
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Hell yea. Playing a woman means I can look at a woman all the time I play.
Why would I want to stare at a man the entire game long.
This is the oldest excuse in the book. Just admit you want to be a girl this time. There’s no shame in it. Or any reason at all to say “hur hur I want look at lady, boys gross”
Who even looks at the models? Enjoy the works around the character
I play female characters without any desire to be a woman. I don’t identify with the characters I play just as a ventriloquist doesn’t identify with his puppet.
Having met a number of ventriloquists, they often identify with their puppets an unhealthy amount.
Right but the fact that you marked it as unhealthy is a key point. It’s not something we should expect!
Sorry, but guy asses aren’t as pretty as girl asses. Im a bi girl though, so probably not representative of the population.
I mean, girl asses are much prettier than guy asses. I’m a straight guy, though, so probably an even worse representative of the population.
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At least men get better walking and running animations. With women it’s that weird boobs first knees together -waddle
idk, I would legit undress botw link sometimes just to admire
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar…
I am legit one of the men who likes to play as a woman in games from time to time without any excuse. I have always been a maverick. I always like to go against the perceived norm and I enjoy doing something different. Playing as a woman for me is always spicing things up and a break from the usual man things, whatever that is.
That said, FemShep is the only Shep!
That said, FemShep is the only Shep!
It really not even a fair fight, Jennifer Hale is one of the best VAs in the business. Mark Meer, whose name I had to look up, just doesn’t compare.
I always play female if I can and you are right, for the longest time i wish I were a girl. Not so sure today but I wouldn’t mind clothing to be less restrictive. Women can wear all kind of nice clothes and men just… Jeans and a t-shirt it is.
Wear what you want sug, I support you.
Since forever I have been wearing a blanket wrapped around as a sarong when I am at home. Friends never said much about it and girlfriend is supportive so there is that :)
I agree with you on the clothing, but it isn’t a strict requirement. I’ve been wanting to get a kilt for the longest time, but I haven’t committed. I’ve never had issues with my gender as a man, but I do want more clothing options easily available and more socially acceptable.
Do it, men in kilts are fucking hot!
Word. Male fashion fucking sucks!
Tbh what is even the difference between wanting to look at the character and wanting to be the character. Just pick the character you want to play for whatever reason
Lol. You seem to project your personal insecurities a lot here dude.
If I’d want to be feeling like a woman I wouldn’t see that as something I would have to hide. Lol. Even less on an anonymous random internet thread.
Weirdo!
I personally pretend to be that man
I personally pretend to be the woman
To be fair, that is basically describing the beginning few missions of San Andreas anyway.
The best GTA imo. I love how you can change your character by doing things, binge eating/hitting the gym/etc.
That’s an amazing RPG mechanic that I’m amazed that didn’t become the norm in RPGs (wonder if they patented it or something).
The more you run the faster you get, the more you fight the stronger you get.
You get progress in an intuitive, and rewarding way. No menus.
The more you run the faster you get, the more you fight the stronger you get.
That’s how final fantasy 2 and every elder acrolls game works
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (also known as “Skyrim but it’s Totally Not Warhammer Fantasy with a little bit of Scorn sprinkled on top”) has that mechanic too.
The more you run the faster you get
The Elder Scrolls
the more you fight the stronger you get
literally every RPG ever made
Not really.
In most RPGs, you get skill points you can then allocate in a menu.
In San Andreas, it was automatic, you run a lot, your running/stamina increases, you punch a lot, your strength goes up…
No menus
I’m well aware of how it worked in San Andreas. Fable 3 tried to eliminate menus and it was by far the worst game in the series because of it.
I’m well aware of how it worked in San Andreas
So, why did you say “literally every RPG ever made” if there’s, like, 2% of cRPGs that have that mechanic?
The Elder Scrolls does this too. You increase skills through use which increases their effectiveness (damage for melee skills). Even when leveling up has a menu for attribute allocations, the skills are mostly automatic.
They mean that GTA:SA did not have visual indicators like menus and stat system showing your progress.
Kingdom Come Deliverance does this pretty well.
No mana either!
I CAST UZI
The thing is, there’s a lot of RPG players who want to see number go up, and enjoy getting into the weeds on how number go up. The San Andreas system is great for a super grounded real-world crime game where the focus is almost entirely on the story, but for a sci-fi/fantasy numbers-focused RPG people want the dopamine hit of a new skill point.
a few years ago I’ve heard this straight guy give the advice of “of course I’m picking the girl in a third person view game. i’m not gonna stare at a man’s behind for hours of playing”
I alternate between “play the guy because more relatable” and “play the girl because ass”
Then again, my friend also used the “I don’t wanna watch a guy all day” reasoning when I asked him and well, now we all know she wanted to be a girl all along.
The real gender was the one she made along the way.
Another one that irks me for some reason is that a LOT of games get the MOST boring, cookie-cutter action hero voice actor for the dude. I just can’t get invested when “me” in the game sounds so unenthusiastic. I tend to pick the female character/voice option just bc they seem to put more effort into it. See: CP2077, most bioware games.
I picked the female character on cp2077 on a whim and thank God for that. The story is so much better with a female protagonist (at least until now, I haven’t finished yet) and V Friendship with Jackie is much more sweet like an unlikely duo. The voice actor is also great. I saw some clips of male V and it not even comparable how different the game feels.
I’ve played through as male and female, they did such an amazing job making the writing and delivery different for Johnny when talking to V.
You can tell he’s a misogynist.
Oh now THAT is interesting, I played male V then female V but they were so far apart time-wise that I honestly didn’t even think about how his dialogue may have changed.
Yeah there is some of the same dialogue of course but there’s definitely changes. It was pretty cool to see.
I have played through Cyberpunk just once so far, as female V. I’ve rarely felt so comfortable in a character’s shoes. It felt fresh
This is 100% the case in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Male player character voice sounds absolutely ridiculous, like Christopher Nolan’s Batman but even worse.
Oh man yeah, I didn’t even bother playing the male protag since I heard Kassandra was the canonical or intended choice. Then I heard Alex or whoever and was so glad I didn’t have to listen much longer.
I used that excuse when I was younger and more insecure. Now I just own it and say I do it because I like to play as women more than men. I’m a man IRL, but sometimes I wanna try on the other sex
I coped like this when I was younger too. Now I say I play the character that I would most want to be. I’d love to be a super fucking hot girl who commits crimes. Unironically, it appeals to the male fantasy lmao
If one transitions, she can be a super hot girl who commits crimes in numerous countries by simply existing
Florida be swimming with the fishes soon dear, very soon.
Never pay ownership money to rent a game someone else owns and can steal from you at any time. The only games that exist are those you can play in 50 years on a whim because you fucking bought them.
My plan is to play gta 6 in 50 years so I can visit Miami when it no longer exists 😁
When GTA6 becomes a period piece:
“Oh! Remember when cars used to look like that?”
“Remember when cars used to be above water?”
“It’s so dry here!”
The weather is going to continue to get worse but I keep seeing people perpetuating the idea that sea levels rising will be significant enough to put Florida “underwater”. Orlando is 112 ft over sea level. Sea level is estimated to rise 10-12 inches over the next 25 years. The Everglades and the Keys will be in trouble but the majority of the state have been built up off sea level because of storm surge. In the grand scheme of things I would be more worried to live in tornado alley or the arid areas like Arizona.
I plan to move to the Canadian border one day to hopefully put some roots in the future green zone.
I’m at 35ft above sea level at the moment and wish I could go a day without seeing something hateful about my state. It’s frustrating enough that I have to live around all these conservative geezers. It would be really nice if some aging millennials would start a demographic shift. It’s not so long ago that Florida was a swing state.
You picked the only real landlocked city in Florida to mention sea level? 2,400,000 Florida residents live less than 4 feet above high tide. 75% of the state lives on the coast. I’m here too, and half the roads have drainage problems when it rains. Planes couldn’t land at the ft Lauderdale Airport in 2023 because the runways flooded. It’s gonna be a mess man
I picked a central point at random to illustrate that the whole peninsula isnt at risk. 2.4 million people is only about 10% of the state. Most of the coastal areas are built up off the waterline because of persistent storm surge. My first sentence was that the weather is going to get worse and that is absolutely going to be a big fucking problem. The 12 inches in sea level isn’t going to flood the state on its own, thats all I’m saying. Whether or not the government steps in to help people proactively move out of the compromised areas is the real ask.
No offense was intended and I know it can be draining. Sorry for that. I don't mean to be a negative influence on anyone in real life.
The models of stable sea level rise make a lot of assumptions that are handwaving some large looming problems. They are mostly based on the past where it is presumed that no events are large enough to be significantly greater than average.
I just woke up and cannot recall off the top of my head the name of the ice sheet in question, but there is an enormous body of ice grounded under the sea in Antarctica that is eroding at the grounding edge in an exponential way. If the sea makes its way under the foot of that ice, the sheet or holds back is in a position to raise sea levels at a rate far greater than anything since the last ice age.
I like to follow some content creators that cover scientific papers, have academic credentials and maintain a credible reputation. These are my general entertainment. It keeps me somewhat up to date on the edge of research and what is happening without the filter of emo corporate narratives. If I recall correctly, when this info from Antarctica was published, shortly after that is when insurance in Florida was cut off. Regardless of anyone’s narrative, the insurance aspect is a truth sayer I pay attention to. The party of exploitation would force insurance to change if they actually believed climate change was not real and were not the party of halfwits eating their own tail. Likewise if the only significant potential threat is a logarithmic curve, I expect insurance would have been pulled in stages. The way insurance regulation was handled, no one could make arguments for stable decline that could override the significance of variables of uncertainty. All the narratives about this are hollow words to me. I care about the actions taken and what that implies on a systems level. I look at this about like I how I did inventory planning and buying for a chain of bike shops. There is a ton of hype to deal with from all different directions but I only care about the sales history of my shops and interpreting meaning based upon this data alone.
The data points to certain plateaus of climate. That meshes well with what you see in geological rock formations. Those layers are sharp in transition. They don’t record the turbulent times; only the times of stability. Still rock layers usually have strong stratigraphic differentiation where the change was not gradual. A thousand years is like a second on geological time scales, so it doesn’t align perfectly. However, the atmospheric rate of change is unparalleled on these time scales. I expect an equally unparalleled rate of change from peripheral and linked systems. Just looking at the forecast in SoCal and how often the ocean is overtopping a bike trail now compared to daily riding from 15 years ago to now, things are changing far faster than models predict. The forecast is always too cool by nearly 5 degrees on a high end bike computer that is consistent. The temp in the past was usually within a degree or two of forecast. Terrible 5G radio emissions regulations that ruin the hydrogen line may be slightly to blame for bad forecasting, but the error rate is consistently one sided and I think that indicates a bad model. Weather forecasting models are also tied to climate change models now IIRC.
Again I don’t mean to be chicken little here. It probably won’t be catastrophic change. I would not buy property in Florida, and I tell my family there to leave.
The 10-12 in over the next 25 years is a lot. Historically it’s 3mm a year. Without digging too deeply I believe these estimates are accommodating for the deterioration of sea ice.
Large sections will remain above sea level, but Miami is fucked, and arguably before it ever becomes underwater. Sea water creep ruins fresh water sources far further inland than it submerges them, while the Peninsula shape causes most of the state within 50 miles of the ocean. On top of that, hurricanes have already caused neighborhoods to become abandoned, as there isn’t the money or will to rebuild something that’ll just end up destroyed again. As infrastructure gets ruined and people flee, the state will not have the ability to maintain itself. Florida will go from one of the most populus states to an Oklahoma sized one.
I agree with you about most of that but people will continue to live in Florida and likely it will become even more corpo. Hopefully our building standards shift since home insurance availability is becoming a crisis.
It won’t be an intentional exodus; just an economically inevitable one. The cost for even the corpos won’t outweigh the benefits, with the only property that’ll be financed is the property that is more temporary.
People are stubborn. I anticipate a more RV and condominium centric development. Many of these investments will be sure to fail after 50 years but by then the decision makers will be retired. But I expect the livability of Florida to remain on par with other areas until 2070. We are going to see an increase in natural hazards all over the world. With these we will hopefully see advancements in material science and construction. People are stubborn and adversity breeds progress.
Just manly man things :3
BEING NICE TO WOMEN IS THE MOST BAD*SS THING YOU CAN DO
Doing girly things us the most sigma male thing one can do. Wearing Neal polish, skirts etc shows you’re not insecure about your masculinity.
Or something idk :3
Hype is real but GTAs usually set the standard for open world games and alway advance the genre. We’ll see but excited to see what they got going.
Idk. They haven’t advanced their shooting mechanics in over 20 years. They have advanced predatory anti-consumer practices though.
The narratives are generally good but I’m of the mind that I don’t want satire when living in such a shitty and insane time.
If I get a chance to play for free, I’ll take it but I’m not giving rstar or take2 any money.
Uh, what do you want them to do for the shooting mechanics in an arcadey 3rd person shooter?
Smooth it out, look at other games that do it better, make the various weapons feel different, etc
Besides the whole “various weapons feel different” there’s not a single actionable item there. That last one is valid though. At the very least they need some guns to have more recoil, etc.
games and alway advance the genre
what was groundbreaking in gta v from a gameplay perspective? Switching characters?
I was playing as the flash in the saints row series at this point.
Open world in general really. In 2013 you had big titles like black flag and saints row 4 like you mentioned and bioshock infinite lets say.
Go back and play Black Flag. While the game was a masterpiece and my favorite AC, it just lacked fluid movement.
Saints Row IV was awesome. It reminded me of what Enter the Matrix should have been, but it didnt have the alive world GTV 5 had.
Bioshock was beauty and grand but not true freedom or NPC interaction.
This is all opinion, as art goes. You might love something that I dont and we can disagree. But we still love the space. Rockstar puts together a great package with every title though. I mean you can’t argue with results. GTA V is the most double dipped and succesful title ever. Maybe CoD could rival but that’s just recycled trash. Let’s see what happens, if it sucks, it sucks. Plenty of games out there.
GTA V is the most double dipped and succesful title ever.
After Minecraft, but yeah, you’re right that it’s hugely popular.
BioShock Infinite was a linear shooter that was closer in level design to Half-life, while 1 and 2 were immersive sims which aren’t comparable to open world games like GTA.
Skyrim giving it a run for its money?
