The new installment of a franchise based on gang warfare and crime is going woke!
The next installment of the "Grand Theft Auto" video-game series will have series' first ever female protagonist and aims to scale back its use of offensive humor — particularly jokes aimed at minority groups, according to a report.
Phew. I was worried for a sec that they'd stop making fun of white people.
The female, Latina protagonist of Grand Theft Auto VI will be part of a duo of main characters inspired by "Bonnie and Clyde," Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
That's very intersectional! Bonus points if she's part of the LGBT crowd.
The game will take place in a fictionalized version of Miami and South Florida, according to the report. The last Grand Theft Auto game to take place in a fictionalized Miami was 2002's "Vice City."
Grand Theft Auto VI's developers, Rockstar Games, are also reportedly abandoning the series' record of making crude, potentially offensive jokes about minority groups. The developers are being "cautious" to not "punch down" at the expense of such groups, according to the report.
Once again, this is a game franchise about stealing cars, beating people with baseball bats in front of their children, sleeping with hookers, and shooting cops.
But yes, tell me how important it is that players don't hear racial slurs.
Previous Grand Theft Auto games stoked controversy both for their violent content and use of humor that critics said was racist, sexist and homophobic.
Because real-life criminals are definitely concerned about racist, sexist, and homophobic behavior.
The critic class is just the worst. They get paid to whine.
Grand Theft Auto VI's release is at least two years away — and two Rockstar Games employees quit the company's Edinburgh office due to frustrations about the game's slow development, according to Bloomberg.
The game's slow progress is partially due to changes that Rockstar Games implemented to improve employees' working conditions after reports emerged of excessively long working hours and a "frat boy" culture, according to Bloomberg.
The last Grand Theft Auto game (2013) is the second-best selling game of all time after Minecraft.
And yet the studio behind is a hot mess of HR policies and woke pandering.
RIP, Grand Theft Auto! The world is gonna be a better place without you anyway!
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