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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

That's the thing I hate about the trailer. It feels more like saints row, but one actually based on reality.

What made GTA great was it's parody of Hollywood tropes of the eighties/nineties. A parody that was a hyper statement of normality.

This GTA is taking actual Florida men/women notheonion stories and aggrandizing them in fiction.

Saints row used to be the over the top 'Murica Fuck yeah', trashy culture glorifying spin off.

I hate how the parody is slipping and saints row and real life are more and more indistinguishable. That's not fun to me, it's deeply disconcerting and I will not partake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Sometimes when you stare at a mirror, the mirror stares back at you…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate how the parody is slipping and saints row and real life are more and more indistinguishable.

I think that's the fault of real life, more than the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm not assigning guilt here. I am personally more apt to indulge in a lovely corney 80's storyline with moustaches and such, rather than reality.

But yeah i think parody ihas disappeared, reality is weirder.