you mean good cops?
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In the South Park game the "difficulty" setting is a slider that changes your skin tone.
And Jew is a character class that starts rich, but everyone hates you.
Either or both of stick of truth and fractured but whole. I can't remember off the top of my head which, but it's definitely there.
Quick googling tells me they don't affect gameplay at all. Being said, I really liked both games and wouldn't ever tell anyone not to get another run in
Check the sub you're in
Me when I dom (I'm blind)
Racism is an Easter egg in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Grand Theft Auto V.
https://gta-myths.fandom.com/wiki/Racism
Sounds like this will be the first for racial profiling by police, well if the denial of it happening in V is true.
And Vice City, and San Andreas.
Yeah I'm pretty sure this is nothing new for the series
That's actually kinda awesome imo. GTA has always been a parody of real life; parodying police brutality against minorities might actually help people to stop and notice when it happens irl (assuming they handle it well).
That said, and I might be misremembering this, didn't postal 2 do this? You never saw it happen to you since the Postal Dude's white, but I swear I remember cops would occasionally randomly arrest people who weren't white. That's not to say that Postal 2 is """woke""", it's about as far from it as you can be; nor do I think that a lot of the jokes would land nowadays because some of the edgier ones were satirizing the politics of the time. However, I vaguely remember it having some really potent satire about society hiding under the crackhead edgy humor (the Postal Dude is literally a crackhead).
evil cops is redundant.
They could have just said COPS.
Realistic cops.
They could have just left out the word “evil” there.
Anyway, never mind that - when are they doing a modern take on GTA London?
A GTA game without guns or cuss words would be pretty bland
They are referring to the standalone expansion set in London in the 1960s for GTA 1 (the top down one), if I'm not mistaken
Maybe referring to The Getaway- https://youtu.be/2CA8c-4jyQQ?si=oQFnKyP2R7RxU5ZO
Like far too many people, OP appears to not understand the definition of woke.
Are people not aware that this is gaming circle jerk?
Also, as far as I'm aware, highlighting police brutality and racial injustice IS woke
Woke - Anything right wing politicians and media has decided to rile their base against. Defining "woke" any more specifically than that today will mean that the definition is wrong tomorrow because what is or is not "woke" changes almost daily.
someone who is overly worried about issues like discrimination to the point they create their own problems would be one definition.
A bad definition, to be sure.
How's that onion taste?
Name me one person or company that has gone broke after "going woke"
So you can't name one, got it.
Just like GTA IV and V have right? ( neither game has that programed dispite that people insist it's in those games)
Have cops pulled over NPC citizens in GTA before? Or is this hinting at a similar multi-character storyline like GTA5?
I think I've seen it before, but admittedly I think my actions lead to the interaction.
Ie: I was driving as one does hit a car which hit a police car leading to the civilian getting shot
Yeah I think I've seen stuff like that, but I don't think I've seen an actual pull-over. Like a car on the side of the road and the cop walking up to it and issuing a ticket. NPC interactions have definitely advanced over the generations of the game, this might actually be interesting to see.
What does woke mean?
The recognition that there are entrenched systematic inequalities based on bigotry in American society, and the belief that action should be taken to break them down.
Source : Ron DeSantis's lawyers (not joking)
To be "woke" is to be aware that things are not all butterflies and puppy dogs, and to acknowledge that fact.
In other words, to be anti-woke is to willingly chose to remain ignorant about all the awful things that are happing in the world, such as racial inequality, for example.
It's a good thing to stay woke.
Alternatively, and one adopted by the alt medicine movement, new age and fringe groups, is to be aware of chakras, crystals aliens (Pleiadians, the Grays, etc) and other conspiracies. Basically to buy into the quack. I used to lurk those communities on FB for years often back in the day and was incredibly confused when people meant the other type of woke when the term gained traction.
Smh, everyone knows cops famously love black people. We can't openly say the n word most of the time now, so we basically solved racism.
GTA worlds have always been about reflecting what goes on in the real world, either played straight or as a parody. Something like this is not off-brand for Rockstar North at all, and certainly isn't them going woke.
In the remaster trilogy they removed a southern flag from some inbred redneck because they said it's no longer culturally sensitive. I seriously doubt they would do something like this with the next game.
Oh I know that they were the ones who actually did the work. But Rockstar had to sign off on this stuff in some way. They definitely had a say in what was removed from the game.
They in no way had to sign off anything about that game. The GTA franchise is controlled by Take Two Interactive, not Rockstar North.
It was very evident that Rockstar North had no input into these games, or they simply weren't listened to, considering the game launched with obvious errors that clashed with the intended designs for the original games.
Edit: also, do you really think that Rockstar North of all people, the developers of the original Manhunt game and the same people that put a graphic torture minigame in the GTA5 mission By the Book, would somehow draw the line at the Confederate flag?
GTAV already has this for Franklin
Evil cops Guys!!
Meanwhile San Andreas: 😎
@lemmy.world
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Rules
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@lemmy.world
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Rules
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You mean cops?
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