Whats /v/ think of this games story?

It felt meandering to me and the satire wasn’t really all that clever, i think 4 is funnier and more engaging narratively even if its side content is unfortunately non existent.

Also one of the TV channels in the game had a parody ad for cod, mocking pay to win games, and once they added shark cards they patched that cutscene out kek

>>735126757
It's a Sopranos wannabe.

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>You KILL PEOPLE and then you sit in the sun feeling guilty about it. That is NOT NORMAL !

>>735126757
The story itself is trying to be a heist film mixed with old man trying to live out the glory days again
I think the one with the worst story is Franklin as he just lets things happen or learns nothing from what he does

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>>735126757
Its not like a engaging narrative with layers of meaning but its kinda cool how they all get tangled up working for the cia/fbi and then find out they are bigger criminals than any small time shit they ever did. Like its not an amazing story but the presentation is good, it contextualizes each mission well, cutscenes are fun to watch. Tho the more serious it tries to play Franklin and Michael the less kind of sense it makes. Ultimately they should stick more to the tone of San Andreas/Vice City cus leaning into realism when youu kill 200+ people in the canon narrative events will never make sense no matter how hard you push it.

>>735126871
>>735126825
Both of these definitely reflect how i felt about the story yea, i like the sopranos alot, but gta 5 just doesn’t have the intelligence, nor can it make genuinely reprehensible people likable like Paulie and Christopher in the sopranos.

And ya franklin just witnesses awful shit goes “oh man thats crazy ahhh shit”
And the enables it all to continue genuinely bad character, he barely has a personality, hes just a errand boy, i feel like san adreas gets to wacky half way through but atleast CJ has a personality

>>735126871
Franklins story doesnt work because his friends are 100% right about him lol he thinks hes better than everyone for moving onto bank heists and government ops but hes every bit a thug they are. So on a story level it doesnt seem to be making any kind of coherent point, his friends are mad at him and they should be, they are right to be. He doesnt really develop or prove them wrong.

>>735126757
I have 100% every 3D GTA multiple times but this one.
I have tried many times but I always ended up quitting. It's just so boring and uninspired, I have beaten the story only once.

>>735126945
I like the narrative best when its just being objectively gratuitous and cruel, i enjoyed seeing just how far they pushed the gore scenes and suffering of the characters who fall into the protagonist’s
paths, but like even then the tone isn’t silly or serious enough to do anything very memorable with it.

Also Micheal’s family sucks so much, they are such shit characters.

>>735127002
Also i meant to say make genuinely reprehensible people likable likable, like paulie and christopher from the sopranos

>>735127147
….the missions also have fail states and linearity straight out of a COD game, like people meme on the “follow the damn train” type scripting, but atleast you get multiple points of contact from multiple jumps scattered along the train track to choose your moment, thats more diversity than say, driving slowly next to a towed yacht while waiting for the scripted ai to jump on, or sniping people while rappelling from a helicopter within a time limit with no choice of target, 5 isnt fun

>>735127191
I guess I like those parts lol but like you said its not over the topp enough it tries to have a lot of realistic parts to contrast that.

>>735127389
If 5 fully leaned into being over the top like vice city it would definitely work more for me, san andreas is great in its own way, but i feel like its two games striking two very different tones, still a good story i just wish it picked one and stuck with it, the jet pack missions specifically feel just to out of left field for the rest of the narrative, especially after all the emotional shit it try’s to do in the beginning with CJs mothers funeral and the generally sad lives of everyone he left behind, it just seems to drop all that around the time big smoke betrays you and becomes a weird grind house revenge story

>>735126757
I don't see why they had to involve the FIB and that billionaire guy, the whole Trevor wanting to kill Michael thing was already engaging enough. it was also disappointing how quickly the heists became over the top movie scenes because the jewelry store in the beginning felt like something that could actually happen.

>>735126757
>Whats /v/ think of this games story?
5 is the first gta i have never replayed.

>>735126825
Isn't that GTA 4?

>>735127583
Very true, at first Its trying so hard to feel like a crime Series, but eventually gets so high on its own supply it starts pulling shit straight out of Some B list crime film

>>735126493
>They double down on multiple playable character bullshit
Wtf? Why? No one even remember V's story because of how cluttered it is while most successful GTA games San Andreas and GTA online, only have one playable character each. People still remember big smoke orders while no one remember a single thing about V's story other than Trevor being reddit incarnate.

>>735127724
4 is weird because its entirely about a broke war vet, and explicitly makes you feel like someone committing crimes in a PTSD fueled hazed, grasping at “opportunity” but all the opportunity is just fucking people over for chump change.
I cant think of a film or TV parallel but an anon more versed in these sorts of stories probably could.

The therapy shit in 5 and the daughter and son are straight out of sopranos, as is the rivalry with a former crime partner, and even the up and coming criminal (franklin) parallels Christopher from the sopranos

>>735126757
All GTA story are your typical coming of age story for young males with betrayal and revenge here and there. It's well constructed and executed for the most part which makes it better than most video game stories.

>>735127004
Franklin did prove he was better though, he owned a business and had a wife and kid while Lamar was still doing the gangsta dude weed thing in his 40s.

>>735128206
Most are, 3, san andreas, china town wars, lost and the damned, VCS, definitely are coming of age storys, self made man type narratives.

But the rest idk, all the other protags are pushing 40s or even 50s

>>735128282
Is this gta online stuff though? Because i dont recall these beats being in the main narrative

>>735127724
In terms of being a mob story, sure.
But the therapy dynamic, Michael's whole schlubby fat middle aged criminal who cheats on his wife schtick, the dynamic with his kids, (and, much more minorly, they reuse the "T" nickname albeit on the character who is not the analoge of Tony), is all very Sopranos.

>>735128331
Yeah, they have a bunch of missions in online.

>>735128732
Well thats cool im glad they did the characters justice in the end, i really wish we got a single player dlc tho.

But considering the only dlc they were working on was “secret agent trevor” maybe its best we didn’t

>>735126757
4 is funnier because everyone around Niko blindly believes the American dream and he feels like an outsider. Everyone in V is fucking nuts and Franklin is too boring as the every day man.

>>735126757
Its shit like every gta

>>735128282
right I guess in material wealth he proved he was better than them but like hes still a killer and thief and criminal lol thats why theyre all right and theres that one girl he likes that doesnt like him back even after he gets rich. So yes in a material sense hes superior. But really theyre all the same.

>>735128865
Brucie Kibbutz and Roman are honestly some of the funniest GTA characters

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>>735126493
>that massive difference between the left and right eye
Am I looking at AI in an instance where it's not needed what the actual fuck is this??

>>735127724
It's LCS, actually.
The protagonist is literally named Toni. Livia is in the game and gives you missions and tries to kill you and the Shah of Iran is your boss.

>>735129014
Definitive edition fucks the lighting, hair textures and car damage models and its the version everyone currently plays

>>735126757
On first playthrough I thought the story was okay. I've played through the game a minimum of at least 4-5 times now. I plan to eventually record one last playthrough so that whenever I get to urge to play it I can just watch it instead, that being said after multiple playthroughs you kinda realize how weak the story actually is in this game. The jokes and characters feel forced as fuck and aren't anywhere near as funny as San Andreas or IV. I know the retards on this board chimp out about it but I still think SA is the best game overall and probably the best story, with IV being the 2nd best. Vice City is fine but it's literally just Scarface: The Game rip off. Same thing with GTA III and Goodfellas or any other Mafioso movie. While San Andreas does borrow from some hood movies I think for the most part it mostly stands on it own.
>>735127147
This era of games are considered HD. 3D GTA games were the original trilogy of 3, VC, and SA. HD era starting with IV, V and eventually VI. Also you are bat shit insane if you 100% GTA IV, the bullshit pigeon shit alone was enough for me to never bother with the platinum in that game. GTA V is pretty awful too especially with all the GTAO bullshit they want you to do.

>>735126757
>Whats /v/ think of this games story?
it's serviceable, I don't like any of the 3 MCs.
they made Franklin the voice of reason of the 3 but forgot to actually give him something to do until the the end.

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>>735126757
>Whats /v/ think of this games story?
what story, it's just a Mel Brooks parody take on Sopranos w/ Boys in da Hood no fun nig,
bunch of (((satire))) that current years have eclipsed many times over
LAMAR should have been the MC

>>735128980
Anon, that one girl is a stupid hoe that got beaten up by her doctor boyfriend who is a douchebag on social media. And she came crawling back to him at the end in Online

>>735126757
Does not hold up at all, especially after multiple playthroughs. It's a novel idea to have three protags but rockstar couldn't pull it off properly. Should of axed the three protagonist idea and just have Michael or maybe Franklin as the main. That way you can actually follow a character arc instead of splitting the difference and making three characters that end up just how they started out. I think they learnt their lesson because 6 is only Jason and Lucia which seems much more manageable

>>735127004
Nah Franklin was 100% right about his acquaintances, they all wanted to keep him down

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>>735126757
Garbage, but does not affect the quality of the game.

>>735126757
I like all 3 GTA 4 protagonists way more.

>>735126757
it's fun i guess, but hugely disappointed by the heists in general and how over-the-top it was. I think it could have been better with a more grounded, serious tone and more focus on the heists themselves.

>>735133525
to be fair, he didn't want to improve himself, he just wanted to get rich being a more successful criminal

>>735133628
just play online
There are a dozen heists/min-heists that the single player game sorely needed

GTA V feels extremely dated, despite being released in 2013. Somehow, GTA IV still feels more relevant.

>>735129014
>turdworld brownoid doesn’t understand shadows
I think even my dog would understand this image.

>>735133690
GTA4 looks like shit w/o mods
Everyone looks like zombies and the boat-cars are FUCKING stupid
Fixed with mods, yes, I agree.
Only reason GTA5 is still popular is Online, most zoomshits don't even bother with single player.

>>735126757
Trevor was the loledgy meme character and he ended up being the best protagonist of the three by an extreme margin. All that really needs to be said.

>>735134228
Trevor is annoying and unfunny as fuck unless you are a junior high student and think him being le crazy wacky and loud archetype is good characterisation

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>>735134228
>he likes the redidt cannibal
tr0,0nie, pls

>>735134489
And yet he's STILL the best. Michael is a whiny fat bitch and Franklin is a boring doormat.

>>735134576
Micheal is a cuck
Franklin is a killjoy nog
Trevor is Canadian, thus clearly the worst

Funny how both Lamar and Trevor are into milfs and shit

>>735134228
>I am a cannibal and a homicidal fucking maniac but woah buddy... I'm NOT racist. Now that would be too far!
Fuck Davidstar and fuck reddit

>>735126757
michael and franklin has a nice story going, the classic old man teaching a young whippersnapper the ropes story but trevors story is such a downer, he kills everyone around him for no real reason

>>735134937
TO BE FAIR, he's Canadian.
They are like that.

>>735133628
Well going from petty theft to big time criminal was his only choice considering what is he good for, the hood people wanted him to keep gangbanging
Kinda like how some steel worker wanted to be the CEO of said steel company but their teamates dragged him down.

>>735133690
I think people irl act the exact same in V, even worse.

>>735133690
It’s because the vibe and humor was very of its time whereas gta 4 is just a generic gritty crime story in which all of its characters, jokes and plots could exist in any time period in the 1900’s or 2000’s pretty much. And I don’t say that as a negative it’s actually a compliment to gta4

>>735136263
it's true
V's story just become more cringe, it's "humor" got dated very fast

>>735126493
There isn't a single likable character in this game, apart from maybe Lamar, whereas in every other GTA there are so many great characters I struggle to choose my favourite

Enough said

>>735126757
GTA IV engine remake with fixed up storyline when?

>>735126871
The game is more specifically just Heat, especially since Michael and Trevor are just Neil and Waingro.

>>735139287
that's just that one heist
Heat would have been good as basis for teh game tho, instead of the clown show that was the story instead

>>735126757
I never understood people that shit on the story in GTA:V and then praise slop like San Andreas.

Honestly playing as a piece of shit in a game is fun, even something as silly as my summer car you can turn into a criminal alcoholic bum and it's just great

>>735139420
SA looks like a cartoon, they give it a pass since they played it as kids

I tried playing GTAV for the visuals but the driving and radio turned me off, it felt like a waste to delete over 100gb of a game just because of that.

>>735139420
San Andreas isn't a perfectly written game by any means but it has a fitting tone, likable characters and a sense of fun. Both SA and V suffer from Rockstar's patented messy ass story structure where things are just happening for some reason and just roll with it because who cares about a good story structure bro it's an open world game, but GTAV is so nihilistic and the characters are so unlikable that there's nothing to enjoy. It's the worst traits of the GTA writers made worse by coming across as incredibly bleak and angry.

>>735126493
that's the difference between you and me, boomer. I don't even have any opportunities to take.

>>735140027
he sold drugs, guns and pimped out girls, you can do the same anon

>>735140157
I... I... live in europe.

>>735140220
You can do the same but you have to pay taxes

>>735126493
Survivorship bias. Just because someone takes opportunities doesn't mean it works out for them.

>>735126757
I think it was fun and worked well with the gameplay. Its a good parody of America's 2010s imo, and believe it or not, GTAV is the only entertainment product I have come across that encapsulates the soulless 2010 decade.
I also prefer GTA IV because its has a very balsy scenario, but I gotta admit that the plot and its gameplay get very monotonous after a while

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>>735140265
>you have to pay taxes

>>735127724
The Pegorino arc was the Sopranos ripoff. Jimmy P was such an annoying selfish dick and I'm glad I murdered him.

>>735126757
You go through hours of the game hammering home how much of a loser micheal is and how badass he was back in his bankrobbing days, then when you finally feel like micheal is starting to get his stride back, the game just fucking ends

There are times when I was playing GTA V where I was like "what the hell am I doing with my life?" and I think this feeling is a good testament to the game's story

>>735140523
sorry you were enjoing a crime game anon, libshit devs just wanted to make statements about Bush era Middle East wars and how rich people are le evil

>>735126757
I didn't fucking care, GTA was never a series known for creating masterpieces of storytelling

rockstar has been overdoing the self-conscious hypocritical cynics, i hope the GTA 6 guy will be a regular trailer trash scummaxxer

>>735126757
Its lame & gay

>>735126757
The character arcs were interesting. Whatever point they were trying to make at the end was totally lost on me though.

I guess it was supposed to be like, you can't run from who you are type of thing? But they also have Franklin get out of the hood for some bitch that don't even like him. What was the point of that?

>>735140852
Affirmative Action.
It's impossible for libtards to treat nigs honestly as equals.

>>735140993
it is true that blacks are all trying to escape the hood even if they don't know what it means.
>You can take the nigger out the hood but u can't take the hood out the nigger
type thing.

>>735126493
Did he have the makings of a varsity athlete?

>>735141097
No, but he had a pimp hand and was willing to steal and kill.

>>735141062
All Blacks want to be the only black in a rich white neighborhood.
It's their dream.

>>735128832
I remember back at launch they promised a whole bunch more single player content, extra heists etc. to be added post-launch.
Then they realized people were actually retarded enough to pay real money for their dumb fucking shark cards and threw that shit out the window to milk GTAO for everything they could get.

>>735141235
I live in a 95% white area and what's hilarious is how hard those little nigs try to the perfect stereotype of their race. They lived in 500k houses and sold weed and fought people cause that's what blacks do.

>>735141352
Becasue of GTAO, GTA5 has never left the top 10 played/selling games since 2013.

>>735126757
The only real issue to the story is Franklin who I think just exists to remind people about San Andreas. It's the only reason I can think on why you go to cjs house and just happens to start the game as a grove street gangmember even though he doesn't live on grove, you can't even assist the gang.
The story is about 2 bank robbers working together after one betrayed the other before, without him knowing.
But than theirs 10 missions where it's about a black dude shooting other black dudes before being forgotten.
Franklin only has 1 personal villain in stretch who gets forgotten about for 50 missions until he's randomly handled in a 3 min roundup by trevor at the end.
Genuinely why does Franklin even care about stretch? That nigga wasn't even brought up for like 15-20 hours at this point

>>735127724
The Alderney/Pegorino story line specifically was a Sopranos knock off.
There are quite a few references to the TV show in the game, internally the one strip club in alderney is called 'bada', the interior to pegorino's residence is called 'sopranos'.
Rockstar had such a hard on for the TV show at that time they even hired actors from it, Jimmy's voice actor was some side character in one episode, his wife is played by Rosalie Aprile's actress, his bodyguard's name is 'Anthony Corrado', a combination of both Tony's and Junior's first name, and he's played by Eugene Pontecorvo's actor, fucking Ray Bulgarin is played by the Russian interior decorator from the Pine Barrens episode.

>>735136549
I played through the story at least twice and I can't actually remember anything from it to this day aside from
>get some bitches on yo dick nyiggaaaah
>falling out of the sky during the drug trip mission with Michael
>the small town bank job setup mission where you just drive across the whole map, watch a cutscene, then drive back
>switching to Franklin after he gets the house and he's just folding clothes or doing his ironing
It was just so fucking boring. Nothing had any real consequence until the very end and that was just one big asspull.

>>735141460
Franklin is the wheelman. Historically, (You) in GTA play the wheelman.

>>735128832
Maybe the Trevor DLC wouldn't have been that good but I'm still interested to see what it looked like, especially considering it was "half completed" according to Dan Houser. I'm particularly interested to hear the voice lines that Steven Ogg recorded for the DLC since he apparently actually did some work on it before it was cancelled

>>735141542
Carmak was right when he said stories were not necessary in games.
Everything you said is true and GTA is still one of the greatest games ever made.

>>735141460
Yeah, GTAV's structure is awful like that.

Every character in all GTA games are douchebag pieces of shit. These games create sympathy for those degenerates.

The only issue with 4 is how every missions really is drive to a place and get into a gunfight. Gta missions since 3 had gimmick missions up the ass to break it up which 5 returned too.
Also couldn't customize niko, 5 is still a step down from Sa not being able to make them fat or jacked but least you can give them different hair cuts again.
4s plot is better than 5 just objectively and red dead 1 has a better story/cast of characters than 5 too and that game really was just gta4 reskinned

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>>735141624
>Trevor DLC
That was supposed to be 007 parody where he becomes a spy agent with SciFi weapons fighting a supervillan.
They recycled that to the Online Doomsday Heist.

>>735141638
It really isn't. It's the McDonalds of video games, everyone playing it is only playing it because they know someone else who's playing it (because they're only playing GTAO).

>>735141704
Yes, they are criminals, that's the point.

>>735141736
Yeah it is. But still a lot of the content for the DLC such as the acting done by Steven Ogg will probably never be released.

>>735141754
you're a fucking retard. What does that have to do with everyone playing this game on the fuckgin PS2 you dumb shitter

>>735141791
>that's the point

Sure, but I saw somebody asking why Franklin's ex gf or whoever wouldn't take him back. Its because he's a fucking psychopath and a lot of young people actually buy into the fact that GTA characters are sympathetic due to how well written and acted the games are.

>>735141803
It's cool, he got paid.

>>735141704
Most rockstar protags even jimmy from bully does the exact same stupid face most GTA protags do like "get a load of this stupid cunt" before he shakes his head and does the thing they asked him to do anyways

>>735141869
Hey, what can you say, criminals still have wives and GFs.
Girls don't mind dating psychos as long as he can pay.

Lamar waking up to the fact that gangs are not some "4 lyfe" 80s shit but rather just cartels but black people and gangstas die very young, is a more interesting story than anything to do with franklin

>>735141870
Lol I don't care, I'm just curious about what things he actually said in the DLC and what it was like

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>>735141704
>douchebag pieces of shit.
so are gamers

Not GTA related but I been playing red dead revolver on my ps2, it's pretty fun, I wish rockstar was allowed to make more varied games again. The studio clearly has talent, I was playing midnight club 3 last year and remember thinking damn I wish non sim racing games existed again

>>735141980
That was Capcom, R* bought the IP from them to make Red Dead Redemption.

>>735142049
Oh I got tricked. Rockstars logo is the only one on launch. capcom is pretty cool

>>735126757
Goes downhill massively after the jewellery heist. Feels like they had no idea where to take it after that and pad it out with endless silly alphabet agency work that takes up too much of the story. Just let me be a crook

>>735141736
I HAD TO DO THIS SHIT THREE TIMES
I HAD TO USE DISCORD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE AND LEARN HOW TO CONVINCE AND TARD-WRANGLE 3 OTHER RETARDS TO DO THIS WITH ME
JUST HAVING FOUR PEOPLE STICK TOGETHER FOR ALL THE MISSIONS IN ORDER IS A HERCULEAN TASK, GTA PLAYERS ARE BARELY SENTIENT NOW IMAGINE HAVING TO DO THIS WITHOUT ANY OF THEM DYING

It is genuinely evil to lock one of the gta 5 trophies behind a gta online challenge, i became an expert in leadership, team coordination, and strategy just to finally get platinum for gta 5

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>>735126493
Gta v sucked
Should've killed off Franklin and replaced him with Lamar as planned

>>735126757
Was GTA satire ever clever?

>>735142585
no, they were always juvenile, but even as they worship films like Druckmann, they never took themselves seriously enough to become insufferable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GDjStgyWA

>>735142461
APACHE BLOODLUST NIGGER

Tommy was the best character fight me

>>735142585
No, it's just boomber jokes like 69 and penis and tits and the Houser brothers have a thing for male rape jokes since they put them in every GTA.

>>735126757
It's more fun than IV simply because GTA does not work a serious crime drama, when you murder bystanders by the thousands and do hours of goofy bullshit in-between cutscenes where your stoic retard main character is supposed to have his development.

>>735127004
Does Franklyn have any more story after Lester buys him the mansion? I don't remember Lamarr, Franklyn's GF nor her aunt ever appearing again after the first heist

>>735143113
they highjack some cars for the trailer truck up to Paleto Bay, Franklin has to rescue Lamar in the lumber mill when he gets kidnapped by other gang... I think that's about it

>>735142585
No, it's always been rather vulgar. V's satire just ends up coming across as worse because of how badly the game is written.

presentation of story is good, dialogue and dynamics between characters are great, but overall structure is complete mess
Ending A and B are stupid and unsatisfying, but whatever they are clearly not meant as canon ending.
But, the core of story is conflict between Trevor and Michael, and not even mentioning Davey, who was main fucking reason why those two fell apart, is cream de la cream of shit writing.

I hated everyone in the game. probably the first time I played a game where I could give zero fucks about anyone involved.

>>735126493
why didn't he beat his kid into shape?

>>735126757
>the satire wasn’t really all that clever
this.
It felt less like satire and more like just the writers explicitly stating their supposed problems with society. It almost feels like a satire of a satire

>>735134228
Trevor is one of the worst parts about GTAV. They could’ve made him a serious character who was the antithesis to Michael and would’ve made a great “best friend who eventually turns into a villain” but instead they went full “WOW SO WHACKY AND CRAZY HAHA LOOK AT HOW UNHINGED THIS CHARACTER IS HAHA *holds up spork*”

>>735139420
GTA San Andreas actually had funny and likable characters. All GTAV had was Lamar

>>735126757
It felt empty and soulless. I couldn't bring myself to finish it. Played it on launch for several hours and never opened it since.

>>735126493
I never got though this game. I just couldn't get into it. Mechanically it's the best GTA though.

Why was gta 5 so fucking boring, bros?

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>>735141460
Franklin was always an afterthought. The writers said themselves, literally Dan Houser himself I think, that Michael was the first character to be conceptualized. The story was always about a retired bank robber who gets called back into action by corrupt politicians and his bitter and brash former crewmate who thought he was dead for years. Then some fucking retard decided
>lol let’s just make the game have three playable characters xd
Then they turned Trevor into an additional playable character and shat out Franklin to be the third. The story was supposed to be about Michael versus Trevor, but in their infinite wisdom they decided to make it about Michael and Trevor and Franklin versus nobody. It’s the reason why the Kill Michael ending feels so rushed and out of place whereas the Kill Trevor ending feels so fleshed out and organic and why Franklin doesn’t even have a death scene at all. Franklin was an afterthought, Trevor was supposed to be a villain, and Michael is just the character that had to suffer because of Rockstar’s stupidity

>>735126757
>Also one of the TV channels in the game had a parody ad for cod, mocking pay to win games, and once they added shark cards they patched that cutscene out kek
Is there any sauce for this whatsoever

>>735141542
True, the ending was such an asspull. They build up to all this tension and put all the characters on edge and then the game literally ends with you going around killing all the major villains in random drive bys, and the story just magically resolves itself. No chasing down the guy who killed your girlfriend/cousin across Liberty City all the way to the Statue of Liberty. No storming your former friend’s crackhouse empire, killing him in some epic (and a bit awkward) boss battle, then chasing down the corrupt cop who’s been fucking you over and driving him off the road. No cool set pieces of any kind, instead, you just drive around San Andreas and pop random dudes then watch a cutscene of the final villain dying in the most anticlimactic way ever.

>>735141704
>what is an antihero

>>735141736
>>735142179
Not sure if based or cringe. Doomsday Heist Act 3 Finale was the final nail on the coffin that convinced me that the majority of the playerbase are braindead retards that would’ve been euthanized at birth in a utopian society. I have zero intention to ever bother 100%ing this game and I have zero idea why somebody else would. I hope the stomach ulcers you got from the stress were worth it

>>735126757
GTA5 has some missions and scenes that use the large cast particularly well but overall I'd agree the writing is generally a step back from what they did before.

I don't really care though, it may not be the most dramtic or funny GTA but GTA was never really about high quality super poignant writing.

>>735141939
NTA but you could probably find some video on youtube that goes into the scrapped content. I recall watching a video showing unused lines from Lester that seem to be about a canceled heist or something

>>735134228
Inshallah Trevor will burn for killing Johnny halamdulilah

>>735148531
kids who buy GTA now just want to make money fast as possible to buy the flying bike and don't even touch the single player

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>>735147581
three dogshit main characters and the only motivation is money

if they only had trevor no matter how cringe the character is you got

>tweaker retired robber tracks down his former partner in crime who turns out to be a goverment spook

would in itself be a great chance at a story

michael the literal cuck and franklin get out da hood type shit are just boring

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>>735126757
Honestly, it needed to be WAY longer. It feels so compressed and hectic.

>>735133690
because everything sucks again. we're in another recession and the cartoony sunny shit doesn't stick. it's an ugly city...

How about, you suck my cock?

>>735147581
They cut literally all the side missions
GTA felt the most GTA when you had more than one way forward

You can tell they cut whole arcs from the story between when Michael's family leaves and when they come back. Trevor's business is on autopilot after he leaves for LS, Franklin's interaction with Stretch/the Grove Street Families is completely missing
We got little more than a shell for GTAO in the end