Grand Theft Auto Online. It's a thing.

[Rebel_Raven]

Closest thing to a female protagonist we're gunna get out of Rockstar since Oni, I figure, so I'm on board.

Sorry, this is a bit off topic, but do you only play games with a female protagonist? I can understand preferring a game to have it, but from your posts I would think you outright deny them. Which is a bit unfair...

I don't outright deny games with male protagonists, but if I do get a game with a male protagonist, it's going to be something extraordinary, or something/someone I respect these days.
My gaming library stretching back to the NES is full of male protagonist only games, and I have noticed a lack of female protagonists, so I hope you can understand why I'm a bit jaded towards playing as a male protagonist in favor of playing as my own gender.
Truth be told, with learning that the gaming industry's been so against female protagonists, nevermind their agency, I'm even more jaded towards games with male protagonists.

I've bought and enjoyed Red Dead Redemption through and through, including Undead Nightmare, minus them not adding a character I wanted as DLC.
I have Arkham Asylum only dissapointed in that there's no Joker side campaign.
I have Arkham City only dissapointed in the game messing up while playing as Catwoman and her plot and burglary bits being so brief. I'm a fan of Mark Hamil's Joker and Kevin Conroy's Batman, too.
I'm wanting the Deadpool game despite the flaws it's got. I like Deadpool.
TTG's Walking Dead is a very welcome addition to my library.
I bought Marvel Ultimate Alliance to play as Venom, and Dedadpool. I like the Lethal Protector era Venom. And Ghost Rider. And a few other characters. 'm a decent fan of comics in general, both Marvel, and DC.

That's just the short list.

It might be unfair that I demand so much from male protagonist games, but I like the rare luxury of gaming in my own comfort zone, and would rather spend money on that. Especially because it's rare that said games are good.

 

[Korten12]

Closest thing to a female protagonist we're gunna get out of Rockstar since Oni, I figure, so I'm on board.

Sorry, this is a bit off topic, but do you only play games with a female protagonist? I can understand preferring a game to have it, but from your posts I would think you outright deny them. Which is a bit unfair...

I don't outright deny games with male protagonists, but if I do get a game with a male protagonist, it's going to be something extraordinary, or something/someone I respect these days.
My gaming library stretching back to the NES is full of male protagonist only games, and I have noticed a lack of female protagonists, so I hope you can understand why I'm a bit jaded towards playing as a male protagonist in favor of playing as my own gender.
Truth be told, with learning that the gaming industry's been so against female protagonists, nevermind their agency, I'm even more jaded towards games with male protagonists.

I've bought and enjoyed Red Dead Redemption through and through, including Undead Nightmare, minus them not adding a character I wanted as DLC.
I have Arkham Asylum only dissapointed in that there's no Joker side campaign.
I have Arkham City only dissapointed in the game messing up while playing as Catwoman and her plot and burglary bits being so brief. I'm a fan of Mark Hamil's Joker and Kevin Conroy's Batman, too.
I'm wanting the Deadpool game despite the flaws it's got. I like Deadpool.
TTG's Walking Dead is a very welcome addition to my library.
I bought Marvel Ultimate Alliance to play as Venom, and Dedadpool. I like the Lethal Protector era Venom. And Ghost Rider. And a few other characters. 'm a decent fan of comics in general, both Marvel, and DC.

That's just the short list.

It might be unfair that I demand so much from male protagonist games, but I like the rare luxury of gaming in my own comfort zone, and would rather spend money on that. Especially because it's rare that said games are good.

But while I do think more games should have female protags (actually two recent games I just played, AC3: Lib, and Gravity Rush both have female protagonists), I think it's still unfair. I mean since when it comes to gaming, or more so in general when it comes to making a story. You don't write it with the sole knowledge of trying to exclude people.

Like in GTA5. I don't think the reason all three protagonist are male because they wanted to exclude the female player base. When they sat down and made the story, odds are they designed them with an idea first rather than their gender and naturally they made the story from there.

It's kind of a sticky issue, but that's a given. Not saying there isn't misogyny in the gaming industry (to think so is foolish), but I think it's kind of wrong to sort of damn a game for it's gender on the pretense that it maybe misogyny. However I will say, as a guy it's harder for me to understand. I typically don't mind what gender I play in games (just beat DA:O with a female elf), but since I am not a female it's harder for me to understand.

But lastly, I rather not continue this, if just for the fact that this is a thread about GTA: Online, and well this is a topic for another place and time. I rather not derail this thread.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Closest thing to a female protagonist we're gunna get out of Rockstar since Oni, I figure, so I'm on board.

Bungie did Oni actually.

OT: looks fucking awesome. This may just be the greatest multiplayer game ever.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

Closest thing to a female protagonist we're gunna get out of Rockstar since Oni, I figure, so I'm on board.

Bungie did Oni actually.

OT: looks fucking awesome. This may just be the greatest multiplayer game ever.

Bungie developed Oni, yes, but Rockstar published Oni which is close enough, IMO.

OT: I agree, this is likely one of the greatest Multiplayer games ever. It has the depth I've long pined for outside of MMORPGs. Likely not perfect though. Can you listen to the radio while on foot, or import your own music, for instance? 'm kinda thinking, No, at least for now.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Closest thing to a female protagonist we're gunna get out of Rockstar since Oni, I figure, so I'm on board.

Bungie did Oni actually.

OT: looks fucking awesome. This may just be the greatest multiplayer game ever.

Bungie developed Oni, yes, but Rockstar published Oni which is close enough, IMO.

OT: I agree, this is likely the greatest Multiplayer game ever. It has the depth I've long pined for outside of MMORPGs. Likely not perfect though. Can you listen to the radio while on foot, or import your own music, for instance? 'm kinda thinking, No, at least for now.

Ah right you are. Never realized they published it.

 

[SillyBear]

So, Rockstar finally brings it into the online realm.

What do you mean by finally? San Andreas had an incredibly fun and popular online mod and GTA IV had an online mode built in to it that sounds incredibly similar.

 

[Smeatza]

If I imagine they got their inspiration from the Multi-Theft-Auto CIT server.
The CIT server is a GTA MMO. Thousands of players, playing as police, criminals and civillians. You can buy property, join clans, take part in events.

GTA online sounds very similar but on a smaller scale.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Ya time for the stick of truth, this thing is actually just 16 people multiplayer mode for GTA 5 (that is half the players you could have in GTA 4), but hey it seems re-branding the plain old has people all hyped so I guess their plan worked.

 

[frobalt]

So, Rockstar finally brings it into the online realm.

What do you mean by finally? San Andreas had an incredibly fun and popular online mod and GTA IV had an online mode built in to it that sounds incredibly similar.

From the sounds of it though, GTA Online will be more extensive than GTAIV's multiplayer. GTAIV's multiplayer was just a stripped down version of single player mode (playing free roam I mean).

GTA Online looks like it'll be like an MMO world, but with less players.

The biggest thing I'm wondering is, how will individual player progress be maintained? Will you stick to 1 server and have everything you do saved to it?