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so long for this game to come out and the cover looks the same as one they did 20 years ago, way to go guys, amazing work truly
At this point, no matter what they do, people are going to complain. A lot. Case in point being your comment.
fair enough I suppose, it is a pretty lose lose situation that way, anyways I guess it lets you know what you are getting
It's also the same general style of cover Rockstar has used for literally every GTA game they've ever made, so...
Why would it change now?
Yeah, I dunno. To be perfectly honest I don't really think we need an updated version of this gangster simulator, it's outdated, but that's just my lame ass take :P
I mean it hasn't really been a gangster simulator since San Andreas. And even then, CJ was never part of a gang during the time you played as him.
Alright crime simulator anyways, I dunno, I know it's just a game and all but the glorification of all of that business just seems like not a super great thing right now considering we have a crime syndicate in charge of our country. It feels like a relic to me but maybe I'm just an optimist.
GTA doesn't really glorify that lifestyle though? At least in 5 it's made clear that none of the protagonists are particularly happy with their lives even though they're career criminals. In fact they even get blackmailed by a government agency into doing more illegal shit just so they don't get disappeared to a black site and never heard from again.
Yeah, I get that, none of those games or movies really glorify that life because what's to glorify really, but it's just the constant exposure to the wanton violence of the game and people's worst instincts kicking in. I don't really have anything against the game or whatever, I will just be interested to see if it's ever studied about how those games affect peoples attitude towards violence and might erode their ethics in some ways such as turning a blind eye to violence going on around them. Just thoughts anyways. I feel the same way about the Battlefield/Modern Warfare games and horror movies that are basically just torture porn with no redeeming social messages or anything. Anyways, I'm probably being way too serious for a game people use to blow off steam but it's worth a discussion probably, for someone, sometime :P
Well, except GTA 1, both GTA Londons and GTA2
So, except for half the games.
Either way this is the current style. I thought GTA2 was a neat cover.
It's been the style of cover since GTA3
So for 3, VC, SA, LCS, VCS, 4, Episodes, and 5.
That's about 8-ish games that had this style of cover art. That's more than half.
So literally not all of them then?
5 without, 8 with.
I apologize my “half” statement was imprecise . . .
my point was that they LITERALLY have not always used this style, and that’s all.
I'd also argue that any GTA made before 3 hasn't been relevant in probably 30 years or so.
Also, it's only 4 games before GTA3 and the art style change. Not sure hey you said 5.
Edit: I also forgot about Advance and Chinatown Wars, which both had the same modern cover.
Do us both a solid and go look up the box art, I am positive there will be fandom sites dedicated just to this.
It’s easy, you can count them. It’s 5. Advance had grey box art but included art like the GTA 3.
5 is more than 0 which is what it would take for literally all of them to be one way.
Sorry you believe the games that defined the series are irrelevant, that’s irrelevant to the impetus of my statement.