So, just because it's been done, means it's okay to keep doing it?
I was mainly turned off, in the beginning, with the shooting of all of those cops. I know it's not real, but I've been tapped into something lately, and I found it- this game just wasn't congruent with what I wanted to resonate with.
Then the crazy use of the N-word, and right at the beginning, an example reflecting how Black people might (some, that use it) get offended and all crazy if a White person uses the word. Stereotypes.
You're right, it's "GTA". I guess... I don't resonate with it. I just loved stunts, crashing (and/or landing) in cool ways, flying around, multiplayer stuff. But "acting it out" as happens in the story mode, is another thing, that I just can't enjoy. I need to be able to get into a game. I need to be able to believe that it's something I might do, if it's going to simulate such real looking things.
I don't like that they paid gang members just so that they could be authentic, either. This almost turned me off from giving the game a chance... Like they're encouraging them.
But I don't know. I still may enjoy multi-player on 4, some of it, so I may enjoy this mp. No matter what it seems I'm going to be buying into some form of blood and corruption in this world, anyways, unless I just shut it all off and move to the desert and eat scorpions and lizards. I try to justify... But I might just leave this behind.
But as for movies... Most movies I see have more character than I saw in this. Still, I see a reflection that might be made positive, from the game. So I might give it another chance/suffer through for a second, before I make a final judgment on it, for myself. But I haven't been playing much of anything lately, anyways. I may decide I like it.
But... Still... I don't know how many times I'm going to be able to switch the channel on the radio to avoid hearing the bit about crushing a girl's sternum ("because they love that!"), during sex, and I don't feel like hearing it. Reading about it was enough/too much, and had the thought then that that was the final nail in the coffin for me, for this game. Not something I wished I threw money at. I doubt all of the developers/designers would disagree with me.
Edit: Tried playing again. I didn't even leave the house. Pain in sternum.