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We are literally having a conversation on preferences of game styles to each individual. Also we have already been down the road of “are video games too violent?” .. let’s keep that debate in the box where we left it years ago

Come on, it's not THAT realistic

I won’t lie, that’s part of the reason I keep coming back to San Andreas. The ugly, blocky polygons aren’t *people*. The hyper-realism makes it uncomfortable for me, I game to relax, not desensitize my humanity.

Can you tell the difference between fiction and reality?

Trailers always make the game look at its best, I don't think the "realism" will hold much water once a player is given control.

Most people have empathy.

Running someone over in a car would realistically kill them.

Not if they run a payday loans place

If anything, this is a case of mistaking the ability to do something in a game for encouragement to do it. There's a difference between a rampage that only tallies rival gang eliminations and a player independently choosing to drive on the sidewalk.

Yeah but did you consider that the targets in GTA are poor innocent working class Americans and the targets in CoD are *vaguely gestures at the current empire boogeyman, most likely someone brown*

Folks in Vice City shouldn’t go to the beach on Nov. 19, especially when I get the car keys

Yea but cops aren't people

Will it be realistic enough to make me hesitant to drag random people out of their car and drive off in it? ..nahhh 🚗 💨

Are there kids? Can you walk into a daycare and beat each toddler to death one by one? Or will a SWAT team blast down your door and shoot you before you get your pants on, end of? No? Huh.

No. It won't.

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I mean, we're talking about an IP that used to be good until it began aggressively pandering to the lowest common denominators in its user base who wouldn't stfu (which is why GTA4 was the last good one). Those LCDs are still gonna rampage because there's not a thought going through those brains.

Emotionally, maybe. Physically, it's going to be very easy.

Counter-point, have you encountered “people” lately?

Thanks for giving words to what I couldn't quite verbalize as to why I felt uncomfortable seeing some of the leaks.

but it doesn't look real it all. It's the most gta looking ass game yet.

hot take: actually not killing people and driving properly requires a skill level that most gamers just simply aren't at. They aren't good enough. prove me wrong

Good

The problem they’re building is players that increasingly won’t find it hard.