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So much material for new cutting American satire I can't wait to see what they do with it.

One of the defining features of GTA: Vice City was that it was set in the 80s, so the satire was through a retro/nostalgia/pop-culture lens that made it seem a little more lighthearted. If GTA VI is set there again as is rumored, I could see them setting a significant part of the game as a flashback and taking advantage of that again.

The problem with the current iteration of America is that satire is not obvious. Many things that would previously have been considered satire have actually happened in real life (the four seasons lawn and garden incident could have come directly out of an SNL skit).

Or Joe going on about leg hair glowing golden in the sun and kids stroking it so it lays down.

Truth is much stranger than fiction these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-A4VrEUyyI

GTA 5 came before everyone felt the need to be offended though. It’s almost like we live in a satire reality already.

That claim about GTA n-1 is almost as old as GTA

Not really, GTA5 came out in 2013, PC culture was culminating in 2010, but peaked in 2016.

Before, it was mainly concerned parents (think of the children!)

Now, it's PC babies (South Park ref. that concerns the same phenomenon) complaining / cancelling

Isn't that hindsight speaking? When it comes to cultural trends, we percieve only the now and it's gradient from the past and don't really do much extrapolation or prophecy.

I don't see why it matters if it's hindsight, of course it's hindsight, I'm talking about recent history.

And I'm talking about people that were taking about recent history at the points in time when those earlier GTA were being announced/released/reviewed.

Rockstar Games track record shows couldn't give less of a shit about who they offend with the satire in their GTA series. I wouldn't worry about that.

Like the guy from gta 3 not giving a middle finger anymore in the definitive edition?

You'll get downvoted but it's true. CC is out of control and has gotten far, far worse over the past decade. It's one thing to call people out for stupid stuff and racism, it's quite another to dox them on the internet and call for their total destruction of their worth as a human being who was stupid but can probably change or be educated.

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