You have 5 games with a male protagonist.
Were people this unhinged about CJ being black?
I will never understand people like this. Some video games you don't even play as a human, if I can empathise with a pink blob like Kirby then cis dudes can handle putting themselves in the shoes of a female character. Like holy shit, when has the protag of GTA ever mattered?
I give it five minutes before losers mod her to have big anime tits or something. Gamers are pathetic.
Were people this unhinged about CJ being black?
I remember seeing a mod to make CJ white and the Grove Street Families a neonazi gang featured prominently on some modding site (I think it was what later became/is now Nexus) in 2010 or thereabouts, so I'm gonna say the answer is that there have always been weirdo reactionary nerds and a broader reactionary undercurrent to American counter culture in general, which just came to a head and crystalized into the modern reactionary nerd movement with Gamergate.
damn i was just downloading like gta III stunt park and editing some .ini file to make the smg blow up a car in three shots
five minutes before losers mod her to have big anime tits or something
Maybe Take Two's ridiculous crusade against mods will do something good for once.
Her being non-anglo on top of being a woman is almost certainly making reactionaries mald even harder. I hope there's a line in the game where she gives her pronouns because the sheer amount of dunk-worthy takes it would generate would be a sight to behold.
"HI I'm the Grand Thief Auto, my pronouns are she/her and I'm here to kill whitey."
When GTA6 is good and popular : "How GTA6 DESTROYS the WOKE agenda!"
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