An old mans take on GTA 6

[YoursTruly]

This is my take on the GTA6.

I'm deeply addicted to RDR2. To me, it's a masterpiece. And probably a lifetime game, unless Rockstar can somehow manages to outdo themselves with RDR3.
I may be the only one who simply doesn't care about GTA. Especially the new one coming out next year. I'm sure it'll be exciting, great graphics. And probably a good story.
But my thing is all the crime that's going on in the world today, GTA just seems like it's always glorified all that.
GTA6, being with the times sort of speak, is probably going to have a lot of todays crimes going on. And since I "back the blue," I just can't see myself getting into all that. Especially as a high honor RDR2 player. (always)
RDR2, takes me away from a lot of the bad things going on in the world today. An escape, if you will. Even if I do some dishonorable stuff, it's still 1899. And nothing like today.
I realize GTA just a game. And it's not going to make me want me want to break the law in real life. But I do think video games do influence younger folks.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Back in the day I did not allow my son to have this game for the same reason. I don't support anything that glorifies criminality. Like you, I realize it is a game. It isn't real life. But we are not talking about adults, we are talking about highly-highly impressionable children. They don't think like we do, and can't distinguish the obvious like we can.
So - same here. I have no interest in the entire genre.

 

[YoursTruly]

Back in the day I did not allow my son to have this game for the same reason. I don't support anything that glorifies criminality. Like you, I realize it is a game. It isn't real life. But we are not talking about adults, we are talking about highly-highly impressionable children. They don't think like we do, and can't distinguish the obvious like we can.
So - same here. I have no interest in the entire genre.

I totally get that. 100%. I let my kids play it, but only because I could see how they didn't take any of it literally. If they'd have said something like "Hey, lets go out and do some GTA stuff, that would've been the end of GTA or any other game, right then & there.
I guess I did something right. They're both in the mid 20s, got good jobs. And no criminal records.
But some kids.... They take things like this way too far, trying to mimic a video game, something they heard in music or movies.
Remember than movie "The Program?" Where the college kids would lay down in the middle of the highway, after dark, to see if they could fit under a moving vehicle? This was back in the 80's, I think. Within a few weeks or so, they had to cut that scene out of the movie, because kids were doing it, and dying.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I totally get that. 100%. I let my kids play it, but only because I could see how they didn't take any of it literally. If they'd have said something like "Hey, lets go out and do some GTA stuff, that would've been the end of GTA or any other game, right then & there.
I guess I did something right. They're both in the mid 20s, got good jobs. And no criminal records.
But some kids.... They take things like this way too far, trying to mimic a video game, something they heard in music or movies.
Remember than movie "The Program?" Where the college kids would lay down in the middle of the highway, after dark, to see if they could fit under a moving vehicle? This was back in the 80's, I think. Within a few weeks or so, they had to cut that scene out of the movie, because kids were doing it, and dying.

My 1st cousin Scotty was killed by his best friend in playing a similar game in 1977. This was one day after he graduated high school. He was ran over by his own father's truck with his best friend driving playing a game to dodge the on coming truck before it hits you. He lost the game.

 

[YoursTruly]

My 1st cousin Scotty was killed by his best friend in playing a similar game in 1977. This was one day after he graduated high school. He was ran over by his own father's truck with his best friend driving playing a game to dodge the on coming truck before it hits you. He lost the game.

Growing up, there was 1,000 things I could've gotten killed over. Stupid things that only seemed funny because we dodged the mishap. Even as........ Well especially as a young adult.
But I never did anything ridiculous that I seen in a movie or a song.

In fact, Lynyrd Skynyrd's songs about drugs, is probably one reason I never did anything more than smoke a little pot.

"7 doctors couldn't help my head. They said you'd better quit son before your dead." That got me to thinking "Drugs are so bad that even 7 doctors couldn't help him? Screw that."

But yeah, the timeline disconnect from today's GTA 6 and 1899 (RDR2), Even with all the violence in the game, is enough to differentiate todays crimes. Especially since they give you the option to be high honor or low honor, through out the game with each interaction.
I'm so high honor, when I go into momma Watsons cabin, I go straight to the cellar, get the shotgun and leave. And never go back (now). And there's 4 or 5 different ways to do this encounter. But almost all of them cause you to get into a gun fight and kill them. Even if you don't kill the old lady, she still ends up dying. But in her own way.